Indian Antiquary Vol 52

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Stephen Meredyth Edwardes, Krishnaswami Aiyangar
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
F MAY, 1927
Chhahu : axe : Mandi, 43.
Chhakri : a game played with cowries on a cross figure marked on wood, a stone or the ground : Ch., 211. .
Chhaku: a day labourer: SS. Bilaspur, 15. Cf. Chak. Chhal : - Bakli q. . Chhall : maize, = kukri or makki: Simla, S. R., xxxix. Chhamohani : invitation, Bashahr: Gloss, I, p. 346. Chbanán: rice and dried fruits cooked together := girdhi : B., 108.
(To be continued.)
BOOK NOTICES. HELLENIAM in Ancient India, by Dr. G. N. BAN not afraid of cros-examination and gives his autho
ERJEE, Lecturer on Egyptology and Oriental rities in a series of admirable bibliographies atHistory, Caloutta University. Second Edn. tached to each section of his work. These are BUTTERWORTE AND CO., Caloutta and London not always as complete as they might be, but ab
It says much for Dr. G. N. Banerjee's handling any rate one does know exactly on what he bases of this important subject that his book has gone the faith that is in him. In this way he has to a second edition in the year suoceeding the produced a work that is a credit to him and his appearance of the first. It is wide to a bewilder. University. ing extent and demands for its adequate treatment The results of his detailed study of his subjeot A matured knowledge of many of those studies Dr. Banerjee sums up in a single sentence : " Greece that make up the "humanities." Dr. Banerjee has played & part, but by no means & predo. has shown himself to be not afraid of tackling any minant part, in the civilisation of ancient India." part of it.
One is not disposed to quarrel with him in this Taking Hellenism to be the spread of Greek
general view. It is in the details that the interest culture and the Hellenes to be the people who
lies, and here I would like to quote again and again accepted the Greek mode of life, and contemplating
from his pregnant pages; but obviously in the story of the give-and-take conflict of centuries
"review" one should leave the reader to Dr. Ban. between Greece and the lands intervening between
erjee's paragraphs themselves. I will merely it and India, and also of the lands within their
content myself with remarking that, however respective borders in Ancient times, one cannot
much one may be disposed to disagree with the but say that primd facie the reciprocal influence
individual opinions expressed by Dr. Banerjee, must have been very great. How far that in.
his book is well worth & scholar's examination. fluence can be said to have been actually felt a
R. C. TEMPLE. regards India is the riddle that Dr. Banerjee has set himself to solve, so far as a solution is possible. A GRAMMAR OF THE CHHATTISGARHI DIALECT OF He has not shirked his task and considers it from HINDI, by HIRA LAL KAVYOPADHYAYA, transall points of view-architecture, sculpture, paint- lated by SIR GHORGE GRIEESON, revised and ing, coinage, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, enlarged by PANDIT LOCHAN PRASAD KAVYA. writing, literature, drama, religion, philosophy, VINOD under the supervision of RAL BAHADUR mythology, fables and folklore. The view is HIRA LAL. Calcutta, 1921. oomprehensive enough in all conscience and its A good many competent people have obviously study is history in excelsio. Such A width of had a hand in the production of this Grammar of view demands an enormous amount of varied 225 pp. of a modern dialect of Hindi spoken in reading and what is more, an unusual capacity the Chhattisgarh Division of the Central Provinces. for absorption and assimilation of what is read Chhattisgarhi is the Southern of the three dialects Dr. Banerjee has grasped his nettles with a firm of Eastern Hindi, which is itself the successor of hand and has honestly attempted to crush out of the Ardha-Magadhi Prakrit current in the country them all that they have to give him. He has (Oudh) between the Sauraseni and Magadhi Prakrite his opinions, but he states his grounds fairly, and ! It is nearly allied to the Bagheli dialect of Eastern though exports may find what appear to them to Hindi of Baghelkhand and Bundelkhand. It is be flaws in apprehension and deduction, yet he is known as Lariya to the Uriyas and also as Khal Ho transparently honest and fair that his views tAhi when spoken by the people of the Chatte and offorts cannot but command respect. He is garh plains (Khaloti).