Articles on Sanskrit Text Analysis
Sataranjakutidhalam
By Anantalal Thakur · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1950
This short review, paired with the notice on “Devisataka”, concerns the Sanskrit Sahitya Parishat’s edition of “Sataranjakutūhalam”, a concise Sanskrit treatise on the game of chess. The anonymous work, accompanied by an unidentified commentary, offers a rare…
Devisatakam
By Janaki Nath Sastri · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1950
This notice reviews the Sanskrit Sahitya Parishat’s edition of “Devisataka”, a hymn of 100 verses in praise of the goddess composed by Kṛṣṇanātha Sarvabhauma of Kotwalipara in Faridpur in the sixteenth century. Edited by Janakinātha Śāstrī and issued as part…
Guali
By A. Venkatasubbiah · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1935
The term *gauli* appears in the *Vikrama-carita* (line 3.44) and the *Southern Paicatanatra* (story 4.0), where it refers to the common house-lizard (*Hemiphyllodactylus typicus*), not Siva’s consort or a bird. In the *Vikrama-carita*, a house-lizard’s chirp…
A Note on Kicaka-Vadha
By Sushil Kumar De · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1930
The note addresses a misunderstanding regarding the edition of *Kicakavadha*, clarifying that a marginal gloss from a manuscript was not incorporated into the main text or commentary, contrary to Mr. Chintaharan Chakravarti’s assertion. The gloss, where…