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[SEPTEMBER, 1886.
by Dr. E. Leumann, on the Seven (really Eight) to this branch of theosophic literature. The Schisms of the Jainas, whose curious dialectical latter treatise in particular, which in a series of subtleties frequently remind us of the specious questions and answers, contains an abstract of the reasonings of Plato's Purmenides. The following Védántu Doctrine of the Absolute (niralamba = characteristic story is told of the origin and without a prop or support, independent, absolute"), decay of the second of these heresies, that of and in which Prof. Weber recognises indications of Tisagutta. His teacher Vasu had expounded the a certain antiquity, is remarkable by a decidedly question="Is it allowable to say that a soul- ethico-practical tendency, which in some places atom is a soul"? To which the answer had been, seems to imply a direct protest against the system "No; as little as it is allowable to say the same of caste. "Who is a Brahman” asks the last of two, three or more soul-atoms, which would question, and the answer is" Brahmavit sarva dva lead in the end to the proposition that a soul brdhmang iti; every one (sarva) who knows diminished by one soul-atom is a soul; for the Brahms (the Absolute), and he only (éva), is a soul is a complete totality of atoms comparable Brahman." This clearly leadę up to the conto those of the Ether." This led Tisagutta intoclusion that mere birth-right gives no claim to an erroneous idea that if the atoms of a soul, by the title.
F. S. the loss of one of them, cease to constitute a soul, that one must itself be the soul, since the latter's
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TRIUS BOULGER. Fisher Unwin: London. designation as a soul depends on its existence.
On perusal of the first two numbers, forming A pious layman, named Mittasiri, thereupon the first half-yearly volume of this new Quarterly, undertook to convert him and his followers by a
we must congratulate the Editor, Mr. Boulger, counter-argument very much ad hominem. In on the great success that has attended him at viting him to a rich repast, he offered him a starting. Seldom indeed have two more power. morsel of every dish and nothing more, until the
ful issues of a periodical been laid before the guest exclaimed-"Why am I thus insulted ?"
public, for every contributor up to date has -"How have you been insulted P” inquired the
been previously known to fame. It is needless, hoat in reply: "is it not your theory, that a whole therefore to say that though the scope of the is made up by its odd part I have entertained Journal is exceedingly wide, the various subjects you in accordance with your own teaching; not are handled with that skill which ensures success. venturing to entertain you according to that of The article that will prove perhaps the most our lord Vaddhamâna!”
interesting of all is that by Lady Dufferin on The information regarding Jaina literature,
female medical aid for the women of India, and contained in the above mentioned articles, is sup- that, not merely on account of the position of its plemented by an Essay by Prof. Jacobi, in which authoress, but for the business-like, though withal be proves that the Varnakas or descriptive pas. womanly, manner in which she has dealt with sages of the sacred writings of the Jainas, which her subject. In perusing her pages the reader have hitherto been considered to be written in begins to perceive that it is her capacity for proso, are in reality composed in a metrical form, business which has enabled her to give so grand a similar to the Greek so-called hypermetra, and start to the noble scheme of aid to the suffering another paper by the same author explains the and helpless of her sex that her sympathies have theory of the álóka, or heroic verse of the Indians, compelled her to initiate.-Col. Yule's Hobson. both in its usual and in that more irregular form, Jobsoniana is an amusing and instructive intro. which the native Prosodista call vipulad.
duction to his Glossary of Anglo-Indian Words The remainder of the volume is devoted to Sans now published in full, of which he first printed krit literature proper, and, excepting some Miscel- specimens in this Journal some years ago, when lanies from the pen of Dr. T. Aufrecht, is entirely his collaborateur, Mr. A. O. Burnell, was still alive. supplied by the indefatigable Editor himself. In Our present relations with Burma have called it the translation and explanation of the third forth articles from the Editor and Prof. Douglas book of the Atharvasamhita forms a welcome sequel on the relations between that country and China; to that of the first two books, given in Vol. IV. while Sir Lepel Griffin, to whom rumour ascribes (1858) and XIII. (1873) of Indian Studies. This is the existence of the new Review, supplies charac. followed by a critical and annotated edition of the teristic articles on those other current topics the text of the two Anukramant of the Naigêya School restitution of Gwalior Fort and the Native States. of the Sdmasamhita. Two smaller Upanishads, A subject, too, especially interesting at the present the Garudopanishad, published in the original, time is the political Geography of Asia, entrusted and the Nirdlambopanishad, text and translation to the highly qualified pen of Sir Frederick Goldwith explanatory remarks, are valuable additions smid.
