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Jalab : the right to cultivate ; Marwat. Bannů S. R., 1879, p. xxxvii. Jalebi: a kind of snake. Cf. khar peti and le aphra. Mgarh. S. R., p. 42. Jamait : a mosque. Peshawar S. R., 1878, p. 86. Jamawal: a rent-collector. D. I. Khan S. R., 1879, p. 165. Jan: a borie, comprising all the clansmen and dependants of a rdt. Chenâb Col. Gr., p. 18. Jandal: a wead noxious to wheat. Mgarh. S. R., p. 80.
Jandra: (i) the amount of water required to work a water-mill; (ii) generally, as much water as, can irrigate a chatti of land in a 12 hours' flow. D. I. Khan S. R., 1879, n. 130.
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KARNATAKAKAVICHARITY vol. 1. By 1. NARA | that there were two writers named Nagavarma; 81MHACHAR, M.A., and S. G. NARASIMHACHAN, My. one belonging to the close of the tenth century, sore: Wesleyan Mission Press : 1907. 8vo; PP. 6, 8,
the other to a period about a hundred and fifty 18,88238.
years later. The authors now show that there We much regret that we have not been able to were also two Gunavarmas and two Mangarasus. introduce this interesting book to our readers at They have adduced evidence that the literary an earlier date. We hope, however, that the activity among the Vira-Saivas or Lingāyats present notice of it, though so late, may not be began in the middle of the twelfth century, at an without its uses.
appreciably earlier time than had previously been The issue of this book, as the first volume of a
supposed. And they have shown that the poet series the title of which means "Lives of Kani Rudrabhatta, who was previously referred to the nada or Kanarese Psets ", inaugurates a scheme sixteenth century, flourised four centuries for exhibiting the history of Kanarese literature
sooner. We hope that future researches by them from the earliest time to which it can be traced
may result in the discovery of works dating from back. Some studies in this line of research have
before the time to which belongs the earliest ben given to us by the Rev. F. Kittel and by
Kanarese literary production that is at present Mr. Rice. The present writers, however, aim at
known. & much more exhaustive treatment; and, basing That the Kanarese language was cultivated their work on various important colleations of from a decidedly early date, is shown by the fact manuscripts and also on the inscriptions of that it is found in a short insoription, outside the Southern India as far as they have been exploited, Vaishnava cave at Bādāmi in the Bijfpur District, they have made an excellent start: they have Bombay, which is of the time of the Chalukya brought the matter in detail down to the end of king Mangalēsa, A. D. 597-608. Kanarese is, the fourteenth century A. D.; and they have in fact, the earliest vernacular of Southern India, given supplementary lists, century by century, of apart from Prakrit, that is met with in the works belonging to the subsequent period, down inscriptional records. Its literary history, howto the present time, which they will hereafter ever, has not been traced back so far: the earliest treat in similar detail. In compiling the present recovered work is a treatise on poetics, entitled volume, they have succeeded in tracing out and Kavirajamarga, which was written in the period bringing to light a variety of authors and works A. D. 814977. That work, indeed, mentions not previously known. In addition to that, and previous writers,-Vimala, Udaya, Nagarjuna, to the inclusion of many new facts about such Jayabandbu, Darvinita, "the supreme" Srivijaya, writers and works we were already known, they Kavisvara (or the supreme Srivijaya, lord of claim to have established the following points. | poets"), and some others : and we may note, in Mr. R. Narasimhachar had already, in the intro- passing, that it classes the writings of Srivijaya duction to his edition of the Kavyāvalochana, as adya-kävya, "initial or prior poetry." Beyond published in 1903, brought out clearly the fact their names, however, little, if anything, was yet
