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de Siva', JA (1969), pp. 213-263 (cf. Somasambhupaddhati, vol. II, pp. 266-278) et 'Le sādhaka, personnage oublié du śivaïsme du Sud', JA (1975), pp. 411-443. En outre, elle a donné une analyse détaillée d'un agama du Nord: 'Un tantra du Nord: le Netra', BEFEO 61 (1974), pp. 125-197.
Comme le remarquait Louis Renou dans son compte rendu du premier volume de l'ouvrage de Madame Brunner-Lachaux (JA 1964, pp. 278-282) il s'agit ici d'un domaine de recherches quasiment ignoré et qui est destiné à renouveler notre connaissance de l'hindouisme. Le deuxième et le troisième volume de cet ouvrage sont encore beaucoup plus riches en renseignements que le premier. Madame Brunner-Lachaux a accompli à peu près deux-tiers de la tâche énorme qu'elle s'est imposée. Nous sommes persuadés qu'elle ne manquera pas de mener à bien cet ouvrage dont, probablement, elle ne prévit pas les dimensions en l'entreprenant. Les futures générations d'indianistes pourront se féliciter d'avoir à leur disposition un travail d'une telle envergure sur le Sivaïsme du Sud de l'Inde.
Australian National University
J. W. DE JONG
Ludwik Sternbach, Unknown Verses Attributed to Ksemendra. Lucknow, Akhila Bharatiya Sanskrit Parishad, 1979, 149 pp. Rs 75.00.
In this book Sternbach has collected 415 verses attributed to Kşemendra. They comprise the verses quoted by Kșemendra himself in three of his works (Aucityavicaracarcā, Kavikanthabharana and Suvsttatilaka) and those attributed to him in subhäşitasamgrahas. Of these 415 verses only 170 are found in Kșemendra's extant works. The text of the remaining 245 verses is published by Sternbach in four annexes. The first annex is entitled "Verses attributed to Ksemendra in his not extant works, as recorded in the treatises of anthological character". This heading is not very clear and it is perhaps useful to indicate that this annex contains 57 verses quoted by Kșemendra in the three works mentioned above, these being taken from other works of his own the titles of which are given. The verses quoted in this annex are taken from works which are not extant. The second annex is entitled "Verses attributed generally to Kșemendra in his treatises of anthological character and not identified in his extant works". It contains 37 verses quoted in the Suvrttatilaka and 1 quoted in the Kavikanthabharana. Ksemendra indicates that these verses were written by himself but does not give the titles of the works from which they are taken. The third annex, "Verses actributed to Kșemendra in anthologies and not identified in his known works", contains 91 verses. The fourth annex, "Verses attributed to Ksemendra in anthologies and identified in his known works and verses specifically attributed to his known works", contains 229 verses. Sternbach explains that these are verses quoted in anthologies, either with a general attribution to Kşemendra and identified in his extant works or with an attribution to his individual extant works and identified, or not identified in these works" (p. 30, para. 26). Out of these 229 non-identified verses 7 are attributed to the Kalävilāsa, 48 attributed to the Brhatkathamañjari and 3 attributed to the Bauddhāvadānakalpalatā (by Ksemendra himself in his Aacity avicāracarcā). Sternbach does not explain how he arrives at a total of 245 new verses. The first three annexes contain 186 (57, 37, 1 and 91) verses and the fourth 58 (7,48 and 3) non-identified verses. This makes a total of 244 verses. It is interesting to find that from the 48 verses attributed by the anthologies to the BỊhatkathāmañjari only 10 could be idendfied by Sternbach who remarks that "unlike other Ksemendra's works the Brhatkathāmañjdri was probably not in the majority of cases the source of verses attributed to it in Sūrys Kalingarāja's Sūktiratnahära and Sāyana's Subhasitasudhānidhi" (p. 37, para 28.7.2) Also several of the verses attributed by the anthologies and not identified in his extant works are probably not written by Ksemendra.
