Indian Antiquary Vol 52

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

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[ August, 1923
will be completed in a later issue, is that of Mr. C. | Kisasamkicca and Makkhali Gosala, was probably Hayavadana Rao on the Tribes and Castee of directly responsible for the doctrine of Samma Mysore. He hay collected traces of the matriar. ajivo (right living), which was adopted by the chate, pre-marital communism, the Levirate, etc., Jains and Buddhists; and both Mahavira and which form & useful commentary upon the facta Buddha owed more than appears superficially elicited by the ethnographical survey.
to the teaching of Ajitakesakambali and Sanjaya. It is doubtful whether the statement of Major The chapter on Buddhaghosa's commentaries Jackson, quoted in Mr. Vanea' paper on "Coin Col will well repay perusal, and is one of the best lecting in South India," that “even more com. features of this little book, which provides in a mon are thick copper coins of the Mahratta kings convenient compass some of the salient facts of Satara, known as Chhatrapati pice, especially deducible from an examination of Buddhist literathe issue of the great Sivaji (1674-80)" is correct. ture. It is generally understood that no coins struck in
S. M. EDWARDES. Sivaji's name are now extant, except possibly
LAK ***URI, A DIALECT OF MODERN AWADHI the unique gold coin found at Phaltan in 1919.
B) buram Saksena, M.A. Journal and Pro. The copper coins, locally known as Shivrais, which
A.S.B., (Now Series), Vol. XVIII, have so far been found, are usually ascribed to later
1922, No. 5. members of Sivaji's line. According to Grant Duff,
This is an excellent grammar of the important Sivaji first began issuing coins in his own namo
unliterary dialect of Hindu spoken about Lak in 1664.
himpur of the Kheri District of Oudh,-important S. M. EDWARDES.
because it preserves the language of the Ramdyana
of Tulsidas. Mr. Sakeena says of it, pages 308-9: HISTORICAL GLEANINGS, hy BIMALA CHARAN LAW,
"the language of the Ramdyana of Tulsidas, with a foreword by DR. B. M. BARUA. Calcutta Oriental Series, No. 6. E. 2; Thacker, Spink
which broadly represents forms of Awadhi of the
16th century rosembles generally the dialect of and Co., Calcutta, 1922.
Lakhimpur," and he then proceeds to give the This is a brief collection of essays, most of
chief points of resemblance. which have been published already in the
As above remarked, the grammar is well put Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society
together and easy to follow-a good example of of Bengal. They include such subjects as
how such things should be done. One point about "Taxila as a centre of Sanskrit and Pali literature,"
a "The wandering
it strongly appeals to me. It is necesarily teachers of Buddha's age," "Buddhaghosa's commentaries" and "Buddha
phonological book, in which Professor R. L. Turner and the Niganthas."
has given advice and guidance, and yet the only There is a chapter on the Liechavis in Ancient India, which contains some
peculiarities used are a reversed e to denote" very
short a," and i, w, and above the line) to repreof the information embodied in the first part of
sent very short , and e; also "above a vowel the author's "Kshatriya Clans in Buddhist India," and which, in consideration of the latter publi
denotes nasalisation, as in bhawar." All this is cation, might have been omitted. As pointed
simple, easy to follow and to my mind, pace the out in the foreword, Mr. Law's researches have
phonologists, eminently practical. I wish there
were more like it. been confined to Buddhist literature, especially
R. C. TEMPLE. that in PAli, and his work is mainly compilation of references scattered throughout that literature.
GWALIOR FORT ALBUM. Archeological Dept., It is none the less useful on that account, parti
Gwalior State. cularly in regard to such problems as the influence
This is a useful little brochure for visitors to of the five heretical teachers on the development Gwalior, giving a plan of the Fort and some two of Jainism and Buddhism. Mr. Law is enabled dozen illustrations of the principal buildings in to show that, despite their divergences, these and about it. The doecriptions which accompany teachers belonged to one and the same period of the illustrations are such that the visitor will thought-development in India and prepared the not be led astray. Altogether a creditable little way for the doctrine of Buddha. The Ajivika production. order, for example, founded by Nandavaccha,
R. C. TEMPLE. NOTES AND QUERIES. NOTES FROM OLD FACTORY RECORDS. and Ensigns of this garrison for the good Services 44. Military Rewards, 1703.
dono in our late troubles, which the Paymester
having gott ready, the Govr. did this day invite Fort St. George Diary, 23 December 1703. The them all to dinner when he delivered them their 23 of May last was made an act of Councill for Coats and hatte. (Factory Records, Fort St. George, the Paymaster to gett ready Beaver Hatte and
Beaver Hatte and vol. (12). Coats for the Portugueez Oficers and Lieutenants
R 0. TEMPLE