Volume 117 - April 1985
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Reviews of Books
Living with the desert: working buildings of the Iranian plateau. By Elisabeth Beazley and Michael Harverson with a contribution by Susan Roaf. pp. xi, 120, illustrated, 2 maps. Warminster, Aris and Phillips Ltd., [1982]. (Distributed by La Haule Books Ltd., La Haule, Jersey, C.I.; Humanities Press Inc., Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey 07716, USA.) £18.00
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Studies in the Rāma story: on the irretrievable loss of Vālmīki's original and the operation of the received text as seen in some versions of the Vālin-Sugrīva episode. By S. A. Srinivasan. (Alt- und Neu-Indische Studien hrsg. vom Seminar für Kultur und Geschichte Indiens an der Universität Hamburg, 25.) 2 vols: pp. xii, 259; pp. 195 (notes, index of references, addenda). Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1984. DM 58.
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The righteous demon: a study of Bali. By Clifford Hospital, pp. ix, 294. Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1984. £24.00.
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Ancient Indian cosmogony. By F. B. J. Kuiper. Essays selected and translated by John Irwin. pp. v, 272 + pp. 3 errata. New Delhi, Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., 1983. Rs. 145
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Reh inscription of menander and the Indo-Greek invasion of the Gaṅgā Valley. By G. R. Sharma. pp. xii, 114, 13 pl. (numbered I–X, XIA, XIB, IXB). Allahabad, Abinash Prakashan for the Centre of Advanced Study, Department of Ancient History, University of Allahabad, 1980. Rs 95.00 or $15.
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Mokṣa in Jainism, according to Umāsvāti. By Robert J. Zydenbos. (Beiträge zur Südasien-forschung, Südasien-Institut Universität Heidelberg, Band 83.) pp. ix, 81. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1983. DM 20.
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A descriptive catalogue of the Sanskrit and other Indian manuscripts of the Chandra Shum Shere collection in the Bodleian Library. Part I: Jyotiḥśāstra. By David Pingree. (General Editor: Jonathan Katz.) pp. xx, 172. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1984. £25.00.
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Fatḥnāmah-i Sind, being the original record of the Arab conquest of Sind: Persian text. Edited, with introduction, notes and commentary by N. A. Baloch. (Original Sources of Indo-Muslim History, Volume I, Pt. 1.) pp. xii, 158 (English), xxv, 284 (Persian), plate, two maps. Islamabad, Institute of Islamic History, Culture and Civilisation, Islamic University, 1403/1983. Rs. 160, U.S. $15.00
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Upāliparipṛcchāsūtra: ein Text zur buddhistischen Ordensdisziplin. Aus dem Chinesischen übersetzt und den Pāli-Parallelen gegenübergestellt von Valentina Stache-Rosen. Edited by Heinz Bechert. (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen. Philologisch-Historische Klasse, Folge 3, Nr. 140) pp. 120. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1984. DM 58.
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Kabīr-Vanī: Recension Occidentale/Western Recension. By Charlotte Vaudeville. (Publications de l'Institut Français d'Indologie, No. 64) pp. xxv, 462. Pondichéry, Institut Français d'Indologie, 1982.
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From Lisbon to Goa, 1500–1750: studies in Portuguese maritime enterprise. By C. R. Boxer. (Collected Studies Series, 194.) pp. ii, [290] 5, illustr. London, Variorum Reprints, 1984. £26.
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Der Buddhistische Kanon: eine Bibliographie. By Günter Grönbold. pp. 70. Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1984. Mahāyāna texts translated into western languages: a bibliographical guide. Compiled by Peter Pfandt on behalf of the Religions-wissenschaftliches Seminar der Universität Bonn. pp. xiii, 167. Cologne, E. J. Brill, 1983. DM 24.
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The Tā'rīkh-I-Bangāla-I-Mahābatjangī (an eyewitness account of Nawāb 'Alīvardī Khān of Bengal and his times) of Yūsuf 'Alī Khān. English translation by Abdus Subhan. (Bibliotheca Indica, unnumbered.) pp. xv, 147. Calcutta, The Asiatic Society, 1982. Rs. 85.00, £5.00
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The Group of Discourses (sutta-nipāta). Vol. I. Translated by K. R. Norman, with alternative translations by I. B. Horner and Walpola Rahula. (Pali Text Society Translation Series, 44) pp. iv, 190. London, Pali Text Society, Distributed by Routledge and Kegan Paul, London. 1984. £15.00.
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Orientalism, poetry, and the millennium: the checkered life of Nathaniel Brassey Halhed 1751–1830. By Rosane Rocher. pp. vii, 354, 10 plates. Delhi etc., Motilal Banarsidass, 1983. (Distributed by Motilal Books (U.K.), Wheatley, Oxford OX9 1UL) £30.00.
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Buddhism in the Tibetan tradition: a guide. By Geshe Kelsang Gyatso with a foreword by H.H. The Dalai Lama. pp. xi, 132, 5 illustrations, glossary. London etc., Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984. £4.95.
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Cheap lives and dear lambs: the British transformation of the Bengal criminal law 1769–1817. By Jörg Fisch. (Beiträge Südasienforschung, Südasien-Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Bd. 79.) pp. vii, 154. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1983. DM 32
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Ashkaya Kumar Maitreya Museum. Catalogue, Part I. (sculptures, terra cotta objects, paintings, folk arts, coins etc.). pp. x, 82, 4 pl. Darjeeling, West Bengal, University of North Bengal, Raja Rammohanpur, 1981. Rs 7.50 (£1.00 or $2.00).
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Subaltern studies II: writings on South Asian history and society. Edited by Ranajit Guha pp. xii, 358 2 maps. New Delhi etc., Oxford University Press, 1984. £14.50.
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Indology and Law: Studies in honour of Professor J. Duncan M. Derrett. Edited by Günther-Dietz Sontheimer and Parameswara Kota Aithal. (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung, Südasien Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Bd. 77.) pp. xi, 463. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1982. DM 72
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