Indian Antiquary Vol 47

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 319

DECEMBER, 1918)
BOOK-NOTICE
299
The Vishnu has furai in place of ATM., (fellow) will establish (in authority) subjects mainly
It is significant that he is not called king' in non-Brahmanical." I think the Vayu and the the Bhdgavata, nor in the first five lines of the Vishuu have mistaken a-brahma for Brahma. Vayu, that is, the passage quoted by the Vayu from Instead of Panchakas the Bhagavata has Yadrus its first authority, for these alone are known to and Madrakas (1) and the Vishnu, Yadus or Padus. the Bhagavata and Vishnu. Verse 373 which stands He thus generally established in Magadha non. in the air and implies & mere repetition is intro. Brahmanic and distant races in authority. On the duoed only for the information rapinaaa.
whole his rule and policy were regarded as This as well as the succeeding verses might abnormal. have been newly composed by one of the last
His eunuch-like appearance probably refers to authors of the Vayu, who was trying to give an his Mongolian features, sparse of moustaches and abstract of another authority. Thus it is very beard. He was of a gigantic frame (FETECT), and probably in his own version that Vinasphari
a great warrior. He seems to have been a capable is called it and related to have established a lieutenant of Kanishka, extending his dominions new kshattra and to have been orthodox
up to Magadha. It was probably he who dug Vinasphari seems to have suppressed little rulers up Buddhist relics and sent them to his master on of Magadha ( RT ) who had sprung up
the North-Western frontier. there when the sataváhana empire became weak
(2) Yama. (according to the Vayu after Hala, i.e., after c. 56 The abovementionedking of the Mahishis A.D.). It also appears that to the exclusion of the
is called Bakyama in the Vayu. This we can
analyse as Saka +yama. He must have been one Kshatriyas he employed other castes as district
of the Yamas whose coins have been grouped rulers. They were the Kaivartas (= one of the
un der Málava by Mr. V. Smith in his Catalogue Aboriginal tribes of lower Magadha), Páfichakas of Coina in the Indian Museum (Pf. 174, 176), and (Panchamas ), Pulindas and Brahmans. In the very probably the one mentioned at p. 176 whose Bhagavata instead of Brahmans we have i
coin is found in characters of about A.D. 100." RETET: E zra gala: “That wioked
K. P. JAYASWAL.
BOOK-NOTICE. A HISTORY OF THE MARATHA PROPLE, by C. A. nary student who does not know that language.
KINCAID, C.V.O., I.C.S. and RAO BAHADUR The late Mr. Ranade's little volume gives much D. B. PARASNIS. Vol. I. - From the Earliest food for thought and points out an altogether Times to the Death of Shivaji. Pp. 294.
now angle of vision, but the great scholar died
too early to finish his work, and many of the new ALMOST a contury ago, Captain James Grant
doouments now available, were still undiscovered Duff published his monumental work. Since then
in his time. The necessity of a work is has been many new manuscripts illuminating many dark
now undertaken by Messrs. Kincaid and Parasnis corners of Maratha history have been brought to is therefore undeniable. light. The labours of scholars like Rajwade and In dealing with Maratha history, we are con Parasnis have been mainly devoted to the sifting fronted with the double danger of being either led and editing of these documente, but very little astray by the prejudice and bias of earlier Eurohas been done for making the results of their
pean writers, or of being hopelessly entangled in researches available in a handy form to the the thiokots of legends in which the Maraths publio in general. Mr. Sardesai'r Marathi Riasat, chroniclers rovelled. For the first hundred page.
ritten in Marathi, is a closed book to the ordi. the path before our authors lay cloar and straight.