Book Title: Indian Antiquary Vol 35
Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications

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________________ AUGU87, 1906.7 BOOK-NOTICES. 286 Througbout the book references are sparse, and 8. Baden Powell's Handbook of the Man we find little or no acquaintance with the literature factures and Arts of the Panjab (1872), pp. 260-61, of the subject. Dr. W. Hunter's account and gives a list of instruments. Brennand's 'Hindu Astronomy' appear to be the only works distinctly referred to, and these 9. E. Burgess on the Origin of the Lunar are very insufficient guides for anyone taking in division of the zodiac represented as the Nakshatra hand to deal with the instruments of a man of system of the Hindus,' in Jour. of the American Raja Jayasingh's astronomical knowledge and Oriental Soc., Vol. VIII. pp. 309-334. This skill. paper does not treat of the nature of the Professor J. Riem, an astronomer interested instruments. in Indian astronomy, remarks on this work that 10. J. Call on a zodiac carved on the roof of he is very much astonished to observe how completely Hindu Pandits of to-day have lost temple in S. India. Philos. Trans, 1772, touch with the astronomical knowledge of their pp. 353-54 forefathers, so that they no longer understand 11. W. Brennand, Hindu Astronomy (1896), the use of instruments which are only 200 years pp. 106-111. old. The author's account of the Rasivalaya he thinks 'forced, and without a close examination 12. W. del Mar's India of To-day, p. 129. of the instruments as they were, it would hardly be possible to form an accurate opinion of them, J. B. all the more as the description given is clearly adapted to the writer's theory.' In the Journal of the R. Asiatic Society, 1893 (p. 737, note ), a bibliographical list of papers on PABIJATAMANJARI OR VIJAYABRI, A NATIXA Composed Hindu astronomical instruments was given, which about A. D. 1913 by Madada, the preceptor of the it may be useful for students to repeat here in Paramare king Arjunavarman, and engraved on an extended form: stone at Dhara. Edited by E. HULTZSCW, PE.D. 1. Sir Robert Barker's Account of the Leipsig; Otto Harassowitz ; 1903. Solo Agents for Observatory at Benares,' with 3 plates : Philosoph. India, Bombay Education Society's Prose, Byoulla, Transactions, Vol. 67 (1779), pp. 598-607. Bombay. 2. Further particulars respecting the THE PÅrijatamañjart is a Naţikå of the same Observatory at Benares.' Phil. Trans., Vol. 83, pattern as other Naţikas, and, as such, it m PP. 45-49, have contained foar acts. Only the two first 3. Tieffenthaler's Description de l'Inde, ed. acts, however, have as yet been recovered. Bernoulli, tome I, pp. 316 f., and 347 f., has short Tbey are engraved on a slab of black stone which notices of those at Jaypur and Ujjain. has been found at Dhar, the old capital of the 4. W. Hunter's Account of the Astronomical Paramâra kinge. The Naţika was composed in Labours of Jayasinha,' in Asiatic Researches, honour of the Paramára king Arjunavarman, Vol. V. (1799), pp. 190—211, gives some account of whom we possess copper-plate grants from the of the observatories at Dehli, Ujjain, Mathura, years 1211, 1213, and 1215 A. D. 'The Parijataand Benares. mañjart can accordingly be dated at about A. D. 5. J. J. Middleton's Description of an 1215. It has already been published by Professor Astronomical Instrument presented to the Hultzach in the Epigraphia Indica, Vol. VI. Government of India by Raja Ramsing of Kota,' pp. 96 ff., and it is now republished in handy Journal Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Vol. VIII. pp. 831-838 book-form by the same scholar. 6. Pandit Bapa Deva Sastre, in the Trar The Parijatamasijart is not the first Sanskrit sactions, Benares Institute (1865), pp. 191-196, play which has been found engraved on stone. described the Mânmandra at Benares. Fragments of two other plays, the Lalitavigraba. To these Dr. Riem now adds: rájanataka and the Harakblin&taka, have already 7. William Daniell's Twelve Views from been found on some basalt slabe in Ajmere and drawings, fol. London, 1800 (2 plates from published by Professor Kielhorn (Göttingen, Dehli). 1901, in the Festschrift für Feier des 150 jährigen

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