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Picture Showmen

By Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy

Vol. 5 · No. 2June - 1929pp. 182–187English

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  • “Patafijali, in the Mahabhagya, ca. 140 B.0., elucidates the use of the historical presemt hy reference (1) to dramatic representations of the Krepa legend given by a sort of actors called Saubhikas,”
  • “Patafijali’s text provides us with the earliest extant evidence of the publio exhibition of picturea* ; we learn that this dealt with”
  • “In the Prabandkacintimani (trans, Tawney, p. 160), “those who carry pictures” ate pratimadkirins.”

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  1. Sanskrit Drama, pp. 33
  2. W. Thomas, 10 the Cambridge History of India, I,
  3. Hoernle, Uvasagadasic, pp. 108, 121 (notes 253, 273) and Appendix, p. 1.
  4. Das Aupapiitka Stira, Abh. Kunde des Morgenliandes, VIII, 2, 1883, p. 22; L. 2. Barnett, Antagada 20429, p. 2; Coomaraswamy, Yaksas, p. 20.
  5. Trigast:-salakapuruga-caritra, 1, 650ff., written some time between 1057 and 1173 &.

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Vol. 5 · No. 2
173–181The Sacrificial Wheel taught in the BhagavadgitaJ. Otto Schrader182–187Picture ShowmenAnanda Kentish CoomaraswamyCurrent article188–218Fine ArtsP. K. Acharya218–224Some Pandya Kings of the Thirteenth CenturyV. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar224–228The Origin of the Varman Dynasty of East BengalDhirendra Chandra Ganguly229–236The Extent of Harsavardhanas EmpireRamesh Chandra Majumdar236–243YagesvaraA. Venkatasubbiah243–248Further Researches into the Antiquity of the VedasV. H. Vader248–253The so-called Indo-Aryan InvasionEdward J. Thomas253–260Indo-Aryan Invasion of India Not a MythC. V. Vaidya260–273The Date of ZoroasterJainath Pati274–281On some fiscal terms occurring in the Ancient Indian Land grantsU. N. Ghoshal281–299Ravana and his TribesG. Ramadas299–325Indian Society as pictured in the MrcchakatikaRadha Govinda Basak325–332The Candidas-ProblemMrinal Das Gupta333–341Notes on DravidianL. V. Ramaswami Aiyar341–347Mr C U Wills on the Sambalpur AtharangarhL. P. Pandeya Sharma347–348A Mythical Commentary on Saradatanayas BhavaprakasaK. S. Ramaswami Sastri349–354The Sinhalese Etymological DictionaryD. B. Jayatilaka354–355Some notes on the TattvasamgrahaLouis de La Vallée Poussin355–356Ravanas Lanka located in Central IndiaJogendra Chandra Ghosh356–357Was Nahapana a JainaKamta Prasad Jain358–360Meyer on Manu VIII 235-236Batakrishna Ghosh361–383ReviewsSushil Kumar De, U. N. Ghoshal, Batakrishna Ghosh, Giuseppe Tucci384–389Select Contents of Oriental Journals390–391Bibliographical Notes

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