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Down here (Kaladgi I have not heard of either, old buildings being generally (and often correctly) referred to "the Jainas."
It may be added that the 13th century, a period of great architectural activity, is just the natural epoch to which to refer the great builders of tradition. I should like to hunt down this Gauli Raj, and I hope that any gentlemen who can afford me help will lend it. It is a disgrace to us to accept as a mystery what cannot be a thousand years old. W. F. S.
DR. HAUG'S ORIENTAL MSS. The collection of Oriental MSS. chiefly in Zend, Pahlavi, Pazend, Persian, and Sanskrit, made by the late Dr. Haug when Professor of Sanskrit at Punâ, has been purchased from his widow for the Royal Library at Munich, for 17,000 marks. It will be remembered that Dr. Haug acknowledged, in a public lecture, that he had obtained many valuable if not unique MSS. from Pârsis, during a tour he made in Gujarât to collect MSS. for Government. His right, as a paid Government servant, to collect on his own account, under any pretext whatever, was strongly protested against in the Bombay newspapers in June 1863, and especially in June and July 1864, when
UEBER DEN URSPRUNG DES LINGAKULTUS IN INDIEN, v. F. KITTEL. (Mangalor, Basel Mission Book and Tract Depository, 1876.)
[SEPTEMBER, 1877.
Government was urged to investigate Dr. Haug's conduct in the matter, but no public notice was taken of it.
In this pamphlet of 48 pages 8vo. the Rev. F. Kittel starts a theory in opposition to that propounded by Lassen, and supported, though with reserve, by Dr. J. Muir, that Linga-worship is of early Dravidian origin. He contends that it formed no part of the Dravidian religion before the influence of Brahmanism in the south, and in proof of this points out that, formerly at least, SaivaLingaïsm counted more famous shrines in Northern India than in the south; that the pretended abstention of Brahmans from its officiating priesthood is to be explained, where it really exists, by local causes alone; that the Brahmanical legends make no allusion to any reception of its worship from another race; that most of the legends relative to the Liga point to the north; and, most important of all, that in the south Linga-worship is not met with except among the populations more or less influenced by Hinduism, while those unaffected by its extraneous influence are quite ignorant of it. The suggestion, however (pp. 46-7), that Lings worship reached India from Greece seems almost entirely without foundation. This little brochure is full of the most interesting information on the actual position of Lingaïsm in
HEMACHANDRA'S PRAKRIT GRAMMAR. The first part of Hemachandra's Prakrit Grammar, edited by Professor Pischel of Kiel, has been published. It is the eighth section of Hemachandra's large work on Sanskrit grammar, and is the most complete treatise on the earlier Aryan Indian dialects as yet published. An edition of the text, but quite uncritical, appeared in Bombay in 1873, edited by Mahabala Krishna.
Prof. Th. Benfey has published under the title Vedica und Verwandtes, a series of papers treating mainly of a number of very nice and subtle questions of verbal criticism and explanation of difficult terms in the Vedas. Most of the papers are reprints from the Göttinger gehlehrte Anzeigen.
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Mr. Murray has in the press-A Discursive Glossary of peculiar Anglo-Indian Colloquial Words and Phrases, Etymological, Historical, and Geographical,' by Col. H. Yule, C.B., and Dr. A. Burnell,-a work the appearance of which will be looked for with considerable interest.
the south, its divisions, the origin of its various sects, and on the archæology, literature, and ethnography of the Canarese portion of the Peninsula. It is to be hoped our able contributor will be induced to give us a second edition of it in an English dress.
TRAVELS IN INDIA in the Seventeenth Century: by Sir Thomas Roe and Dr. John Fryer. (Reprinted from the Calcutta Weekly Englishman.) London: Trübner & Co.
The title of this work fully explains what it is: a good while ago Mr. Talboys Wheeler had The Journal of his Voyage to the East Indies, and Observations there during his residence at the Mogul's Court as Ambassador from England, by Sir Thomas Roe. Knt., and Dr. John Fryer's Account of India, reprinted in the Calcutta Weekly Englishman. At the same time a few copies were struck off in octavo form for separate publication. The impression, however, was overlooked for some time before it was issued. The two works are printed on thin paper and form a volume of 474 pages, but are put forth without note or comment, index or table of contents, and of course without the illustrations of the original editions. From its size this reprint may be found convenient by the general reader, but it will not supersede the earlier editions, copies of which are not scarce.
