Indian Antiquary Vol 54

SR No.: 032546
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple, Stephen Meredyth Edwardes, Krishnaswami Aiyangar
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1985
Total Pages: 376
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 18 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[OCTOBER, 1925
This journey to Tibet vid Bhutan and home Desideri, an Italian (1684-1733). Boooming A vid Nepal was as adventurous and valuable as Jesuit in 1700, he left Rome with Manoel Freyre any and we cannot be too grateful to Father Wessels for India in 1712. In 1714 he set out from Delhi for reconstructing it from original manuscripts. for Tibet, vid, Srinagar (in Kashmir) and Leh,
Noxt come Johann Grue ber and Albert d'Orville, and arrived at Lhasa in 1716, whence Freyre
German and a Belgian, with a tremendous journey. returned to India. Dosideri wandered about Tibet Grue ber (1623-1680) became a Jesuit in 1641 till 1721, when he was back in Lhasa, whence he and set out for China in 1656, vid Surat and Macao. returned to India via Kulti and Khatmandu, reach. From 1659 to 1661 he was employed in the Obser. ing Agra in 1722. Finally he returned to Rome, vatory at Pekin. Albert d'Orville (1621-1662) where he arrived in 1728 and died in 1733. There became a Jesuit in 1646 and set out for China has been much controversy over Desideri's travels vid Goa, Macassar, Macao and Shansi. In 1660 and one is thankful to Father Wessels for ho joined Grueber at the Observatory at Pekin. In "reinstating him from original documenta. 1661 they started across the Asiatio continent These, old Jesuits were wonderful men and we on their wonderful journey to India. They went cannot be too grateful to the editor of their corres. vid Hsi-ning and the Great Wall to Lhasa, thence pondence for thus placing before us the work they vid Khatmandu to Agra, which they reached the did and the difficulties they overcame in their following year (1662). Hore d'Orville died soon simple, unassuming way. after arrival from the effects of the journey.
R. C. TEMPLE. At Agrs Grue ber found another companion in Heinrich Roth (1620--1668). He became a Jesuit
THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA, by in 1639, was in Smyrna in 1651 and proceeded to
SANTOSH KUMAR DAB. Calcutta, 1925. Goa vid Ispahan, and finally went to Agra where
This little book contains a series of lectures he joined Grueber. In the end, after much wander.
delivered to the defunct Kalikata Vidyd pith in ing, he died in Agra. With Roth, the indefatigable
1922-23 by the author, who is now Profonsor of Grueber started for Rome vid Delhi and Lahore History and Economics at the Tribhuban Chandra and down the Indus to Tatta. Thence through
College of Nepal and formerly at the Bagerhat Mehran and Kirman to Ormuz,' and thence by College, Khulna, Bengal. road through Mesopotamia to Smyrna by & route
As the Institution before which the lectures known to Roth. They reached Rome in 1664.
were delivered is dead. Prof. S. K. Das has thought Three months later Grue ber started with Roth
it best to publish them with additions, and he has back towards China, but he only got as far 88 done his best to cover his sertions by quoting Constantinople, where he became seriously ill his authorities of which there seems to be about and had to return by sea to Leghorn and thence to
150 of all sorts and ages, judging by his list. Florence, Roth went on alone to India. There
His lectures cover the whole ancient period after little is known of Grueber except that he did
of Indian History from the Paleolithic, Neolithic, not return to China and died at Barospatak in
Copper and Rig Vodic Agos, through the Brahmana, Hungary in 1680.
Buddhist, Mauryan, Kushån and Gupta Periods All these men, Grueber, d'Orville and Roth were to Harsha. And he appears to take a sensible view wonderful travellers, especially when we consider
of his subject in the ancient times, avoiding "on the conditions under which they travelled and the
principle all theoretical disquisitions, and aiming abeence of maps and predecessors' accounts and also at presenting the facts in a connected manner the ill-will that many high personages among Muham.
with a view to illustrate, as far as possible, the madans and others evinced to them en route. The
gradual development of the economic conditions pity is that they were not men with a roadly pen. from the earliest times." Altogether, it is a good
The last Jesuit traveller of the 17th century book to place in the hands of young studenta. to come under Father Wessel's notice is Hippolyte !
R. C. TEMPLE NOTES AND QUERIES. NORTH INDIAN PROVERBS.
printed in the Indian Antiquary of November, 1924, In reference to the North Indian Proverbs, will be found in Bihar Peasant Life, including two collected by the late Dr. W. Crooke, which appeared different vorsions of the first paying in the list. in the issue of this Journal for November 1924.
The wording of these sayings variee, as I havo Bir Gloorye Grierson writes es follows:
remarked, but the substance is always preserved. "These sayings are very common all over North
In North India agricultural operations are datod India in slightly varying forms. Collections of by the position of the Sun in the Lunar astoriams them have more than once been made, and will be 6.e., according to the Solar year. The Lunar Solar found in my Bihar Peasant Life, pp. 274 fl. and in year current in N. India is manifestly unsuitablo Patrick Carnegy's Kachahri Technicalities, Allaha - for dating Agricultural operations." bad, 1877, pp. 217 ff. Probably all those
EDITOR.