Volume 119 - Issue 2 - April 1987
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Reviews of Books
Mythological and ritual symbolism. A study with reference to the Vedic and Tantric Agni. By Dipak Bhattacharya, with a foreword by Govindagopal Mukhopadhyaya pp. x, 243, Calcutta, Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar, 1984. RS. 80.
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The ritual functions and significance of grasses in the religion of the Veda. By J. Gonda, (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Verhandelingen Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, deel 132.) pp. 260, Amsterdam ect, North Holland Pub. Co., 1985. Dfl. 160.
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Religious healing in the Veda: with translations and annotations of medical hymns from the Ṛgveda and the Atharvaveda and renderings from the corresponding ritual texts. By Kenneth G. Zysk, (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 75, Part 7, 1985.) pp. xvii, 311, 9 illus. Philadelphia, Penn., The American Philosophical Society, 1985. US$30.00.
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Pinnacles of India's past. Selections from the Ṛgveda. Translated and annotated by Walter H. Maurer, (University of Pennsylvania Studies on South Asia, volume 2), pp. xi, 350, Amsterdam and Philadelphia., John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1986. Dfl. 50, US$18.00 (paper), Dfl. 110, US$40.00(cloth).
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Prajāpatis's rise to higher rank. By J. Gonda, (orientalia Rheno-Traictina, Vol. XXIX.) pp. x, 208, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1986. Guilders 145.
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The Purāṇas. By Ludo Rocher, (A History of Indian Literature, Vol. II Fasc. 3.) pp. vii, 282, Wiesbaden, Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, 1986. DM 120.
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Ratnākara's Haravijaya: an introduction to the Sanskrit court epic. By David Smith, (Oxford University South Asian Studies Series) pp. vii, 322, Delhi etc., Oxford University Press, 1985. [1986]. Rs. 200/£19.50.
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Aṅkāḷaparamēcuvari: a goddess of Tamilnadu, her myths and cult. By Eveline Meyer, (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung, Südasien-Institut, Universität Heidellberg, Bd. 107.) pp. xii, 339, illus., 2 maps. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden Gmbh, 1986. DM 56.
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On being mindless: Buddhist meditation and the mind-body problem. By Paul J. Griffiths. pp. xxii, 220. La Salle, Illinois, Open Court, 1986. US$29.95.
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Schattenspiel in Kerala: sakrales Theater in Süd-Indien, mit Summary und einem Anhang: sequence of scenes of Kamba-Rāmāyaṇak-Kuttu. By Friedrich Seltmann. pp. 134, 3 figs., 44 pl. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1986. DM 148.
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Nāgārjuna: the philosophy of the Middle Way. Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. Introduction, Sanskrit text, English translation and annotation. By David J. Kalupahana. (SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies.) pp. xv, 412. Albany, New York, State University of New York Press, 1986. US$49.50 (cloth), US$16.95 (paper).
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The heart of Buddhist wisdom: a translation of the Heart Sūtra with historical introduction and commentary. By Douglas A. Fox. (Studies in Asian Thought and Religion, Volume 3.) pp. 183. Lewiston/Queenstown, The Edwin Mellen press, 1985. US$39.95.
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Ein Glossar zu Aśvaghoṣas Buddhacarita. Von Wilhelm Siegling mit einer biographischen Einleitung von Ernst Waldschmidt. Hrsg. von Heinz Bechert, Jens-Uwe Hartmann, Klaus Wille und Champa T. Zongtse. (Veröffentlichungen des Seminars für Indologie und Buddhismuskunde der Universität Göttingen, Nr. 3). pp. xiv, 89. Göttingen, Seminar für Indologie und Buddhismuskunde der Universität Göttingen, 1985.
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Ayodhyā. By Hans Bakker. Part I: The history of Ayodhyā from the 7th Century BC to the middle of the 18th century, its development into a sacred centre with special reference to the Ayodhyāmāhātmya and to the worship of Rāma according to the Agastyasaṃhitā. pp. xviii, 181, 1 fig., 1 map. Part II:Ayodhyāmātmya, introduction, edition, and annotation. pp. xliii, 471, 18 pl., 6 maps (5 separately enclosed). Part III: appendices, concordances, bibliography, indexes and maps. pp. 114. (Groniengen Oriental Studies, Vol. 1.) Groningen, Egbert Forsten, 1986. Dfl. 215.
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Buddhist studies in honour of Hammalava Saddhātissa. Edited by Gatare Dhammapala, Richard Gombrich and K. R. Norman. pp. xviii, 262, front. Nugegoda, Sri Lanka, Hammalava Saddhatissa Felicitation Volume Committee, University of Sri Jayawardenpura, 1984.
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Karma and creativity. By Christopher Chapple (SUNY Series in Religion) pp. xii, 144. Albany, New York, State University of New York Press, 1986.US$29.50 (cloth), US$9.95 (paper).
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The two traditions of meditation in ancient India. By Johannes Bronkhorst. (Alt-und Neu-Indische Studien, hrsg. vom Seminar für Kultur und Geschichte Indiens an der Universität Hamburg, Bd. 28.) pp. xii, 145. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1986. DM 36.
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Mṛgenrāgama, section des rites et section du comportement. avec la Vṛtti de Bhaṭṭanāyaṇakaṇṭha. Traduction, introdution et notes par Héléne Brunner-Lachaux. (Publications de l'Institut Français d'Indologie No.69.) pp. xlvii, 496. Pondichéry, Institut Français d'Indologie, 1985.
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Das Kāṭhaka-Gṛhya-Sūtra Mit Vivaraṇa des Ādityadarśana, Bhāṣya des Devapāla, Gṛhyapancikā des Brāhmaṇabala. Kritische Edition mit Anmerkungen, Teil I: I. Kaṇḍikā und Sandhyopāsanamantrabhāsya des Devapāla. Von Caren Dreyer. (Alt-und Neu-Indische Studien hrsg. vom Seminar für Kultur und Geschichte Indiens an der Universität Hamburg. 30.) pp. xxxv, 185. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1986. DM 48.
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Peasant history in South India. By David Ludden. pp. xix, 310, 18 maps, 10 figures, 10 tables. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1985. (published March 1986). £32.20.
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