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Bulletin of SOAS
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EISSN: 1474-0699

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Volume 53 - February 1990

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Manfred Mayrhofer: Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen, 1, Lieferungen 1-6. (Indogermanische Bibliothek, II. Reihe: Wörterbücher.) [iii], 1–76; 77–156; 157–236; 237–316; 317–396; 397–476. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1988, 1989, 1989.

Wilfred Madelung: Religious trends in early Islamic Iran. (Bibliotheca Persica. Columbia Lectures on Iranian Studies, edited by Ehsan Yarshater, 4.) x, 128 pp. Albany N.Y.: Persian Heritage Foundation, State University of New York Press, 1988. $32.50 (paper $9.95).

Muhtar Holland (ed. and tr.): Irshad, wisdom of a Sufi master: Sheikh Muzaffer Ozak Al-Jerrahi. xxxiv, 680 pp. front. Albany N.Y.: Amity House, 1988.

Harry Falk: Bruderschaft und Würfelspiel: Untersuchungen zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des vedischen Opfers. 216 pp. Freiburg: Hedwig Falk, 1986.

John Carman and Vasudha Narayanan: The Tamil Veda: Pillaṇ's interpretation of the Tiruvāymoḻi. xviii, 322 pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1989. £39.95, $57.50 (paper £15.95, $22.95).

Thomas Malten: Reduplizierte Verbstämme im Tamil. (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung [Heidelberg], 127.) ix, 283 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH. DM 58.

Gudrun Bühnemann: Pūjā: a study in smārta ritual. (Publications of the de Nobili Research Library, Vol. xv.) 253 pp., 28 plates. Vienna: Institute for Indology, University of Vienna, 1988.

Julia Leslie: The perfect wife: the orthodox Hindu woman according to the Strídharmapaddhati of Tryambakayajvan. (Oxford University South Asian Studies Series.) xiv, 375 pp., 8 plates. Delhi etc.: Oxford University Press, 1989. Rs. 225.

David L. Haberman: Acting as a way of salvation: a study of rāgānugā bhakti sādhana. xiv, 211 pp. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988 [pub. 1989]. £24.

Brian K. Smith: Reflections on resemblance, ritual, and religion, xiv, 265 pp. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. £25.

T. N. Madam: Non-renunciation: themes and interpretations of Hindu culture, xiii, 184 pp. Delhi, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1987 [pub. 1988]. £10.95.

M. J. Hutt: Nepali: a national language and its literature. xii, 252 pp., map. London: School of Oriental and African Studies; New Delhi: Sterling Publishers Private Ltd., 1988. £12.

Sherry B. Ortner: High religion: a cultural and political history of Sherpa Buddhism. (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History.) xxiii, 245 pp., Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989. $35 (paper $12.95)

Gauri Shankar: Śivasvāmin’s Kapphinābhyudaya or Exaltation of King Kapphina. With an appendix and romanized version of cantos i-viii and xix by Michael Hahn. (Revised edition.) lxxxviii, 263, xviii, xxxvi, 100 pp. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan, 1989. Rs. 400.

Yohanan Friedmann: Prophecy continuous: aspects of Ahmadi religious thought and its medieval background. (Comparative Studies on Muslim societies, 8.) xiii, 218 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1989.

Alf Hiltebeitel (ed.): Criminal gods and demon devotees: essays on the guardians of popular Hinduism, xii, 491 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1989. $74.50 (paper $24.50).

Peter Schreiner and Renate Söhnen: Sanskrit indices and text of the Brahmapurāṇa. (Purāṇa Research Publications, Tübingen, Vol. i.) xxiii, 826 pp. Brahmapūraṇa indices on [26] microfiches. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1987. DM 146.

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