Volume 119 - 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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Russia and the Golden Horde: the Mongol Impact on medieval Russian history. By Charles J. Halperin. pp. xii, 180, front 2 maps. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1985. US $22.50. London, I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 1987. £19.50 (cloth), £9.50 (paper).
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Biblographie des Iran: nach den ūchern mit ranistischen Themen in der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. der Bibliothek der Universität Wien und der Bibliothek der Österṛeichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. By Reinhard Pohanka. (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, Sitzungsberichte, 454. Band.) pp. 309, Wien, Verlag der Österreichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1985.
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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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Sraoša in the Zoroastrian tradition. By G. Kreyenbroek. (Orientalia Rheno-Traiectina, Vol. 28) pp. xiii, 200Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1985. Guilders 68.
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The mantle of the prophet: learning and power in modern Iran. By Roy Mottahedeh. pp. 416, London, Chatto and Windus, 1986. £12.95.
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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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Ellipsis and syntactic overlapping: current issues in Pāṇinian syntactic theory. By Madhav M. Deshpande. (Post-graduate and Research Department Series No. 24. Pandit Shripad Shastri Deodhar Memorial Lectures, Second Series.) pp. x, 94. Poona, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 1985.
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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 origin of the young god: Kālidāsa's Kumārasaṃbhava. Translated, with annotation and an introduction, by Hank Heifetz. pp. xii, 178. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1985. £21.25.
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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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The Bridge to the Three Holy Cities. The Sāmānya praghaṭṭaka of Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa's Tristhalisetu. Critically edited and translated by Richard Salomon. pp. lvi, 524, Delhi etc., Motilal Banarsidass, 1985. Rs. 150.
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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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The Hindi oral epic Canaini. (The tale of Lorik and Candā). By Shyam Manohar Pandey. pp. 82 [in Arabic numerals], 627 [in Devanagari numerals], 1 pl. Allahabad, Sahitya Bhavan Pvt. Ltd., 1982. Rs. 150, £12.00.
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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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The King and the Clown in South Indian Myth and Poetry. By David Dean Shulman. pp. xvi, 447, 4 illus. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1985. £40.90.
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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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Commentary on Hindu religious endowments. By N. R. Chakraborty. pp. 321. Calcutta, S. C. Sarkar & Sons (P) Ltd., 1986. Rs. 110.
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