Indian Antiquary Vol 18

SR No.: 032510
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: John Faithfull Fleet, Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 454
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[AUGUST, 1889.
The sketch map of F&-Hien's travels is very that it is now found that Kullaka's commentary, good as it stands, and shows the whole course of which until recent times was always thought to be the journey in a way which is indispensable to the most authoritative exegesis of the Code, following the text. It would have added to the and was always associated with it, does not value of the book, however, had this map been possess the claims to special consideration with supplemented by others, on a larger scale, of por. which it was invested by the early editors and tions of the countries he visited. Such detail is, translators of Manu, but, belonging apparently of course, impossible when one has to show half to the fifteenth century, is most substantially Asia and Polynesia on a quarto page.
indebted to the preceding commentaries, and in
particular to that by Govindaraja. Copious notes MANAVA-DHARMA-SASTRA, THE CODE OF MANU; THE
on the various readings of the Text are given in ORIGINAL SANSKRIT TEXT, critically edited accord
pages 287 to 335; and these are followed by a ing to the standard Sanskrit Commentaries, with Critical Notes, by J. JOLLY, Ph.D., Professor of
special feature, viz. a synopsis of the more import. Sanskrit in the University of Würzburg; late Tagore ant discrepancies between the present edition and Professor of Law in the University of Caloutta.
the text as rendered in the four principal trans. TRUBNER'S ORIENTAL SERIES; London ; Trübner & Co. 1887. Post 8vo; PP. ix., 3.46.
lations, by Houghton, Deslongchamps, Burneli, Professor Jolly's edition of the text of
and Bühler. The last two translations, of which the Manava-Dharma-Bastra or Manu-Bmriti,
Burnell's was completed and brought out by popularly known as the Code of Manu, is a very
Hopkins, are of recent date. To them the present useful addition to the list of reliable texts of edition of the Text, beautifully printed by W. important Sanskrit works of this book " the Drugulin, Oriental and Old Style Printer, Leipzig, two European editions, Sir G. C. Houghton's
will be a most valuable accompaniment. published in 1825, and Loiseleur Deslongchamps' published in 1830, though very creditable pro.
THE COINS OF THE DUBRANIS, by M. LONGWORTH ductions in their own time, belong to a bygone DAMES.Reprinted from the Numismatie Chronicle, period of Sanskrit studies, and have long been out Vol. VIII. Third Series, Pp. 326-363. London, 1888. of print, while the numerous Indian editions are This is a learned and very useful pamphlet on on the whole nothing but reprints from the two the coins of the successors of Ahmad Shah earliest Calcutta editions, published in 1813 and Durrant, who stamped his mark literally on all 1830." These remarks, in his Preface, by the editor the coinage of the Pañjab, excepting that of of the present Text, will be fully understood and Lahor and Amritsar and of Kasmir. appreciated by anyone familiar with the usual This paper, however, only deals with the coinage quality of the Hindu "editions," 80-called, ofl of his successors on the throne he established from Sanskrit works, prepared otherwise than under 1773 to 1842. The history of the Durranis is, as European superintendence, or by those who have Mr. Dames very rightly remarks, "an almost studied under European teachers and have ac- unparalleled series of treasons, rebellions, plots quired the Western method of critical editing, and and murders," and as their coins very fairly will serve to indicate the special importance of the represent the various fluctuations of power which present version of this ancient book. In addition so rapidly succeeded each other, Mr. Dames has to the previous printed editions, and to manu. done good service in recording them. scripts of the text only, the preparation of the pre- | Ahmad Shah was succeeded by Taimur Shah, sent Text has been facilitated by the recovery of his son,who reigned 20 years, and between his early Commentaries, by Medhatithi, belonging death in 1793, and the extinction of the dynasty probably to the ninth century, - of which nine in 1842, there were 11 reigns over the whole or a copies have been consulted, - and by Govindaraja, part of the kingdom. In this interval, too, one composed apparently in the twelfth or thirteenth ruler, Shuja'u'l-Mulk ShAh, reigned three times, century, and somewhat later ones by Sarvajña. and another, Mahmûd Shah twice. Of the sons of Narayana, Raghavananda, and Nandana, includ. Taimar Shah that came to the throne, there were ing also an anonymous commentary from Zaman Shah, Shujá'u'l-Mulk Shah, Mahmad Shah, Kasmir "contained in an ancient carefully written Sultán Ali Shah, and Ayyab Shah. Of his grand. and corrected birch-bark MS. in the Sarada Bons there were Kamrân, Qaisar Shah and Fath character," which is now in the Deccan College Jang. Library; selections from all of which are being The varying fortunes of these princes can all published by Professor Jolly in the Bibliotheca be noted in the 156 carefully described coins to be Indica Series, and will of course form a useful found in Mr. Dames' pamphlet as issued from 15 and indispensable aid in any detailed study of mint-towns in the Pañjab, Kaśmir, Afghanistan, the original precepts. And a curious result is, and Turkistán.