Origin of the Lotus-Capital

Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy

Origin of the Lotus-Capital

Vol. 7 · No. 4December - 1931pp. 747–750English

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629–634Mahanitakam – Our Text 635–650Notes on the Nagarjunakonda Inscriptions 651–654Kulasekhara Alvar and His DateK. G. Sesha Aiyar 655–679Early Visnuism and Narayaniya WorshipMrinal Das Gupta 679–689King Nanyadeva of MithilaRamesh Chandra Majumdar 683–702The Sea and Land Travels of a Buddhist Sadhu in the Sixteenth CenturyGiuseppe Tucci 689–702The Coins and Weights in Ancient IndiaA. K. Sarkar 703–708Fire-Arms in Ancient IndiaJogesh Chandra Roy 703–709Finger-posts of Bengal HistoryBijoy Nath Sarkar 709–715Studies in the KautilyaNarendra Nath Law 716–726On Some Castes and Caste-origins in SylhetK. M. Gupta 727–734The Chando-Vedanga of PingalaMano Mohan Ghosh 735–737On the origin of the Aryan word IstakaJean Przyluski 737–740An Inscription of Asoka discovered at YerragudiDineshchandra Sircar 740–741Bodhichitta-vivarna of NagarjunaP. C. Bagchi 741–742On the antiquity of the name "Kasthamandapa" or "Kathmandu"P. C. Bagchi 743–746Identification of BrahmaputraK. M. Gupta 746–747MeradaLakshmi Narayan Harichandan Jagadeb 747–750Origin of the Lotus-CapitalAnanda Kentish CoomaraswamyCurrent article 750The Gudimallam LingamAnanda Kentish Coomaraswamy 751–753GopalaJogendra Chandra Ghosh 753–756Early Capital of the Gurjara Pratiharas of MahodayaJogendra Chandra Ghosh 757–759The St. Thomas Tradition and a Recent Discovery in TravancoreC. S. Srinivasachari 760–768ReviewsSushil Kumar De, Batakrishna Ghosh, D. Bhattacharya 769–775Select Contents of Oriental Journals 776–778Obituary Notice: Pandit R. D. BanerjiRamaprasad Chanda 779–782Bibliographical Notes

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