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MISCELLANEA AND BOOK-NOTICE
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Khandha: a flock of sheep or goats. Kangra Gloss.
Khande di pohal: an initiatory ceremony, in which a two-edged dagger (khandd) is used; performed by Sikhs. Jullundur S. R., p. 51.
Khanevar a decorative wooden frame attached to the ridge of a pent. Sirmûr. Khâni: adv., over and above.
Khanor, Pavia indica: horse chestnut. Simla S. R., 1883, p. 42. Khantu: a small khanda, or box, to hold 2 to 4 mans. Khap a faction. Karnal S. R., p. 79.
Khar leaves of the saccharum sara. Hoshiarpur S. R., p. 16. Khar manure. Of. khát kúra. Karnal S. R., 1880, p. 164. Khar= 20 jún Simla S. R., 1883, p. 44.
Khara any government official. Hârni argot. Ludhiana S. R., 1883, p. 15. Kharangni court-yard. Sirmûr.
Kharashû = 2 khár. Simla S. R., 1883, p. 44.
Kharet hail (Gadi). Cf. an and akhanet. Kharetar a grass or hay preserve.
Kharshu, Kharu: Quercus semecarpifolia. Simla S. R., 1883, p. 43.
Kharelna a coarse sieve, see kadelni. Simla S. R., 1883, p. 46.
Kharen or khin: dues-when a deotd is invited by anyone, the host gives a feast to the people who come with the deotá. This word is used in Sarâj: in Shadhoch the word used is phanel. Simila lills.
Kângra S. R. (Lyall), pp. 8 and 36. (To be continued.)
MISCELLANEA.
SIR WILLIAM H. SLEEMAN.
THE Catalogue of the Indian Court at the Festival of Empire gives the good news that Captain J. L. Sleeman, Royal Sussex Regiment, E fast, is writing a full memoir of his illustrious ancestor, famous for his suppression of thuggee (age) and his well-known books. Captain
Simla S. R., 1883, p. 46.
THE BRAHMANAIC SYSTEMS OF RELIGION AND PHILO
OPHY. By M. T. NARASIMHIENGAR, B.A., M.R.A.S., CENTRAL COLLEGE, BANGALORE. Reprinted from the unarterly Journal of the Mythic Society, Bangalore, for April, 1911. Printed at the S. P. C. K. Press, Church Road, Madras, N.C. 1911.
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BOOK-NOTICE.
MR. NARASIMHIENGAR's well-written pamphlet is intended as a contribution to the study of the Vedanta from the point of view of a Hindu who prefers the school known by the name of Visishṭadvaita or 'qualified monism' as followed by the Sri-Vaishnava Brahmans. According to him most European scholars erroneously identify the Vedanta teaching with the school known by the name of Advaita, or 'monism', as taught by Sankaracharya, and
Sleeman will be grateful to any one who will assist him by the loan of letters or papers.
Several valuable manuscripts written by Sir William Sleeman, and sundry interesting relics connected with him were exhibited in cases 86 to
92. They included two charts showing the relationship of the Thag families.
V. A. S.
generally accepted by the Smârta community among the Brahmans, which recognizes only one entity called Brahman or Atman, and holds the world to be unreal. The third Vedântist school, that called Dvaita, or Dualism', which is followed by the Mâdhva Brahmans, teaches that the three entities-matter, soul, and God -are by nature distinct from one another, so that no two of them can ever be identified.
The author gives numerous classified quotations to prove that the theories of all the three schools can be supported by texts from the Upanishads, and evidently is of opinion that the apparent discrepancies can be reconciled only by adopting the views of the Viálshṭadvaita school, which
