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Kumārila on Truth, Omniscience and Killing. A Critical Edition of Mīmāṃsā-Ślokavārttika ad 1.1.2 (Codanāsūtra). By Kei Kataoka. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2011. Pp. xlvi + 97 (Part 1); 627 (Part 2). ISBN 10: 3700170017; 13: 9783700170013.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2013

Elisa Freschi*
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Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Austrian Academy of Sciences E-mail [email protected]

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