Indian Antiquary Vol 52

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

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passionate devotion, charity and compassion : In his long account of this precious finl. Mr. works in the form of full Mahâyâ a ritual: sacri. Narasimhachâr is enabled to make many useful fice by self-discipline and martyrdom carried to observations on the chronology of the Gangas and any necessary extent of torture at one's own or their contemporaries, and to set much straight in other hands -all for the benefit of others. Would the old controversy on the subject between Dr. that Mahåyåniam could have been induced to stay Fleet and Mr. Rice. where Santideva carried it.
A matter of another kind is the realing of the However, the importance of Santicleva's great inscription on a typical Saktio image of the Vajrawork for the student of Buddhisme, is obvious, and yana School of Mahayana Buddhism acquired by we must congratulate ourselves that the translation Monsieur Clemenceau during his Eastern tour, thareof should have fallen into such competent obviously in or from Nepal. It is dated 1517 A.D hands, though it has been long in the preparation. and was handed over to the Department for ax&. It is more than thirty years ago since Professor mination by the Maharaja of Mysore. Bendall got possession of the MS. : more than Among the coins described are somo ll Virs. twenty-five since he edited it for the St. Petersburg råya parame, and with reference to them Mr. Nara. Bibliotheca Buddhica, and almost that period since simhachår has a remark to make worth recording he and Professor Cowell started to translate it. here: "Now with regard to the symbol on the Then Dr. Rouse took it up as a labour of duty at reverse, I venture to make A noir suggestion. Professor Bendall's request on his deathbed, with Besides the twelve dots the reverse shows an the active assistance of Professor de la Vallée animal, evidently A crocodile, moving to the left. Poussin and Dr. F. W. Thomas. The mere enume. ! In the Plates in my Report for 1911 and in Elliot's ration of these names is enough to show th, quality Coins of Southern India, the coins are figured up of the translation and that Cambridge has been side down, showing the dots below and the animal fortunate in being able to claim them for teachors ! above lying on ite back. If they are figured tha of Sanskrit.
R. C. TEMPLE. other way about, the crocodile 3an be clearly see
moving to the left with its bent tail, and bearing ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MYSORE ARCHEOLO
the twelve dots on its back. I think the animal GICAL DEPARTMENT, 1921. Government Press,
represents Sisumara, or the heavenly poepina Bangalore.
supporting on its back the collection of she stara Gazetteer work during 1921 has prevented
and planets." Mr. R, Narasimhachar and his staff from report.
Altogether this is an admirable Report, although ing in such detail as usual, but they have suc.
the year has heen largely taken up with other work. ceeded nevertheless in putting together information
R. C. TEMPLE. of much interest and value and the illustrations! AN ACCOUNT or THUS OTTOMAN CONQUEST of ara excellent.
Eaert in A. H. 922, A.D. 1516: translated from The points that strike ono on perusing its pages volume III of the Arabic Chronicle of Muhemare that Mr. Narasimhachar has again reason to mod Ibn Ahmed Ibn Ilyas. By Lieut.-Colonel point to & stone with a Tamil Inscription of W. H. Salmon. With introduction by PrologKulottunga Chola, dated 1084 A.D., having been! sor D. S. Margoliouth. Royal Asiatic Sopsed for carving an image, this time of Hanumân. ciety: Oriental Translation Fund : New Series; Here is one source of the disappearance of ins. vol. XXV. pp. xiii and 117. oriptions. H y fortunate are others, even of great This little volume deals with a very important value, in being accidentally preserved, the follow. period in the history of Egypt and is instructiva ing outline of the story of one of them is a proof. withal, as it gives an account by an eye-witness A farmer, Kempananjappa of Kudlar, ploughed of the manner of the passing of the Mamluk rulers, up two sets of copper-plato grante of the Gangas or rather of the sudden extinction of the last of and then reburied them in a field of his in another them. It is therefore well worth the while of the village, Aldûr. There they remained six years, Royal Asiatic Society to print an authentic trang when he shewed them to a friend, a banker, Naganna lation, though of course the gubject has ofton bson of Mysore, who showed them to Pandit Sama dealt with before. chArys of the Mysore Oriental Library, for many! It is for this reason, perhaps, that both Colonol years in the Archaeological Department. Hence Salmon and Professor Margoliouth have contentheir publication in this Report. One of them ted themselves respectively with a bare translais of great value, being the only grant of the Ganga tion and an introduction assuming a condiderable king Marasimha as yet unearthed. It is dated knowledge of Arabic literature and history. The 963 A.D. and is a fine work of art. Not only that, book is in fact practically for students only and it is a rary long inscription of some 200 lines, and those well equipped for its apprehension. Given owing to its late date, it givea practically the entire this qualification in the reader, the book is bs. Ganga genealogy. It is fortunato indeert that the yond reproach, well up to the standard of tho farmer happened to show it to the right people. Society's work and most useful.