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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[DECEMBER, 1914.
MISCELLANEA. THE DATE OF SARVAJÑATMA. should have himself fallen into a good deal of LAST YEAR if I remember aright there was a inaccuracy in defending the accuracy of the statediscussion on the date of the abovenamed person ment in the list about SurogvarAchArya, who in the pages of this Journal by Mr. D. R according to it sat for a trifle of 800 years Bhandarkar. The dato be arrives at is also borne the 'pontifical throne'.! We might safely mocept out by the succession list of the Sringeri Acharyas A. D. 773 as the date of SuresvarAcharya's death, printed by Mr. B. Suryanarain Row in his His. but there seems to have been an interregaum of tory of Vijayanagar, which list he says he got three years unaccounted for in the list. Sarvajratma from the then Jagadguru. Except for the date of succeeding only in A. D. 768 and ruling for 90 Buro varicharya, the list seems to be quito reliable, years. but it is very surprising that Mr. Suryanarain Row
G. D. NOTES AND QUERIES. BENEFIT OF CLERGY,
The Judge reports that [at] a Generall Sensions Tax following noto from the records of Port St. held on the 10th and 11th Instanta Richard Caswell George, dated 14 June 1697, is of interest as to an Englishman and Adrian van Reed a Dutchman changes in manners.
were found guilty of felony, for being concerned Att a Counsultation Present :' The Hon. Nath. in the running away with the Rt. con. Company's Higginson Esqr.. Lieut. Genl. of India, Mr. John Ketch Josia out of this road and Brigantine Gingerles Styleman, Mr. Wm. Fraser, Mr. Roger Bradyll, from Anjengo. But claiming the benefitt of their Mr. Chas. Barwell, Mr. Thos. Wright, Mr. Clergy did both read, and were burnt in the hand Matthew Empeon.
and returned to the custody of the Marshall
R. C. TEMPLE BOOK NOTICE. QUELLEN DER RELIGIONS GESCHICHTE. (Bources of tradition, and will be oorreoted and brought
the History of Religion). 5 Vols. issued; 2 date, by the experience of men actually working ready: 30 projected. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, in various parts of the world. There will be twelve Göttingen: T. C. HINDICHS, LEIPZIG.
groups, of religious investigation. TX Royal Society of Philosophy at Göttingen 1. Religions of the Indo-GermapRaces in Europe. has issued a very interesting prospectus of a Com
2. Egyptian and ancient Semitic. mission, which has been appointed to investigate 3. Judaigm. the developments and history of the various World 4. Islam. Religions. The Members of this Commission are 5. Religions of the Ural-Altaio and Arctio Racee. all well known scholars, who have made & life 6. Iranian, Armenian, Asia-Minor, Caucasian study of this most fascinating of all human
Religions, problems, and Herr Oldenburg will be the President 7. Indian Religions (Buddhism excepted). of the whole undertaking. The first beginning of a 8. Buddhism. scheme of this kind was due to Julius Boehmer, 9. Eastern Asiatic Religions, under the title of Religions. Urkunden der Volker, 10. African Religions. and this will be associated with the new enterprise 11. American Religions, which is to be called the Quellen der Religions 12. Primitive Religions of Southern Asia and Geschichte," the sources of the History of Re- Oceania. ligion. The task of the Commission will be, to! We wish all success to the gigantio work, proexamine all the religious books of the East, the jooted and begun by this Commission, and we are traditions and dovelopments of the early creeds of sure that our readers will watch the further Oceania, South America and Afrion, to publish
and Africa to publish developments with interest and sympathy. Five critical texts of all available documents; in fact to volumes have already appeared, and another two produoe world-embraoing study and history of are in the Proes, and thirty more volumes have this mont important branch of the slow education been assigned to distinguished scholars, and will of the human race. The scheme will ombrace the appear in due course. entire religious history of the world, illustrated
T. HART DAVIES. by contemporaneous literature, folk-lore, and
1 Benefit of Clergy arose in the 19th century. Psalm LI., Vol. I, was the usual test of literacy and was known as the "neck-verso." Felons who passed the test were only burnt in the hand instead of being hanged. The privilege was abolished by statute of 1827.
* Factory Records, Fort St. George, vol. 9, pp. 152-3.
