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Author(s): J W De Jong
Publisher: J W De Jong

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Hueckstedt is careless not only in his translations, even though he remarks that the appendices which comprise texts and translations are addressed primarily to Sanskritists, but also in his criticism of Speijer's interpretation of asti. He writes: "Speijer's interpretation of this use of the word asti as having the sense of a particle meaning "well" is not as attractive as the tenth definition given in the small Petersburg Wörterbuch under the root as: "so ist es, es ist der Fall, es kommt vor, dass". " (p. 26). Hueckstedt refers to Speijer, Sanskrit Syntax, p. 234, para. 311.2 (p. 24, note 1). In that same section Speijer wrote: "Sometimes it has the force of 'it happens that""! The book contains many misprints, especially in the romanised Sanskrit texts. The most troublesome are probably the following ones: P. 113, line 5 from below: sabalīkṛtakā. Read sabalikṛtakayam. P. 118, line 4: savajnanunnamita-. Read sāvajam unnamita-. P. 175, line 9 from below: vaṣatkurvanti. Read vaşaṭkurvati. P. 176, line 2 from below (Sanskrit text): ananyajām uplavāsu. Read ananyajäruplavāsu. P. 188, line 1: caṭakair akriyamaņa-. Read caṭakairakriyamāṇa-.
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1 Cf. Hueckstedt, p. 12.
2 The Kadambari of Bāņa (London, 1896), p. xviii.
3 Studies on Some Concepts of the Alamkāra Šāstra. Revised edition (Adyar, 1973), pp.
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89-90.
4 Cf. Kane p. 121: "The vanquished kings, being deeply engrossed in sad thoughts and having nothing to do, drew lines on the ground with their nails."
5 Whitney renders virkarna by "wide-eared", cf. Atharva-veda Samhitā (H.O.S. 7, 1905), p. 249.
6 A. Scharpé, Bāņa's Kādambarī (Leuven, 1937), pp. 398-446.
7 Cf. M. Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (Oxford, 1899), p. 691a: "deceased, dead, Hcar".
Indo-Iranian Journal 30 (1987).
J. W. DE JONG
Götter und Mythen des indischen Subkontinents. (Wörterbuch der Mythologie. Erste Abteilung: Die alten Kulturvölker, Band V). Unter Mitarbeit von Heinz Bechert, Hermann Berger, Jozef Deleu, Günter Grönbold, Volker Moeller, Martin Pfeiffer, Kamil V. Zvelebil herausgegeben von Hans Wilhelm Haussig. Stuttgart, Klett-Cotta, 1984. XV, 1040 pp., 65 pl., 6 maps. DM 450.-.
The present work is the first to give a comprehensive survey of the gods and myths of the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka in the form of a dictionary. It comprises the following contributions: Volker Moeller, 'Die Mythologie der vedischen Religion