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THE SPEECHES AND WRITINGS OF THE LATE) word index of that text, as part and parcel of his VIRCHAND RAGHAVJI GANDHI, collected by the scheme for an edition designed for the use of Indian late) BHAGU F. KARBHARI, Shree Agamadaya University students. These materials are now Samiti Series, Bombay 1924. I. THE JAIN PHILO. | presented to the public; the text of the inscriptions SOPHY : II. THE YOGA PHILOSOPHY : III. THE has been arranged in such a way as to bring together KARMA PHILOSOPHY.
on a single page the different versions of the same The late Virchand Ragha vji Gandhi was a Barrister Edict, each page being divided into three or four and an enthusiastic writer and speaker on Jainism panels, so that two pages facing each other provide He attended the Parliament of Religions at Chicago, six or eight panels for display of synoptic versions, U.S.A., as Jain delegate in 1893. His speeches the word index has been expanded into a full and writings were carefully collected by the late glossary, which together with the text provides Bhagu F. Kharbari, Editor of The Jain, and were the student of philology with a convenient handsubsequently published by the Jain Pustakodhar book of early Prakrit; while an admirable IntroFund. They are now very cheaply republished duction discloses all relevant facts about the locafor general distribution by the Sri Agamadaya tion, discovery, and contents of the inscriptions, Samiti, & new institution, established at Bhoyani and gives a sketch of the grammar of the language; in the Ahmadabad District, the tirtha of Mallinatha in which they were written. Professor Woolner Tirthankara, for the spread of the Jain Scriptures. Was fortunate enough to secure scrutiny of the
The first of three volumes-Jain Philosophy proof-sheets of Dr. Hultzsch's new edition of the gives a brief story of Virchand Gandhi's full and Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, before the present Vigorous career, from his birth in 1864 to his death work was finally published, and thus was enabled in 1901 at the early age of 37, and a number of to add important variants to the text, footnotes, speeches and papers by him on the Jains and their and glossary. Philosophy, which are well worth the student's The work seems to me to fulfil admirably the attention. In the second volume Virchand intended object. The glossary is succinct and Gandhi performs a similar service for the well- withal exhaustive, though it is to be observed known Yoga Philosophy. But in the third volume that under the words Pitinikanam and Rästikinam we have given us a detailed account of Karma
no reference is made to the theory, advanced in on " the Law of Moral Causation."
1924 by a well-known student of Indian history and All the volumes, despite their many faults of antiquities, that these words primarily signify printing, are worth encouragement, and are calculated
certain definite types of political constitution, to bring about the object to which the author
which gave their name to the peoples who respectively devoted his busy life.
followed them. The theory, however, requires R. C. TEMPLE,
further examination by experts, and is on that SWAMI DAYANAND IN THE LIGHT OF TRUTH. A account perhape wisely omitted for the present
True and Critical Biography of the Founder from work primarily intended for University of the Arya Samaj. Labore, 1925.
students. The two volumes, issued by Professor This is a long and undignified attack on the Woolner, form a valuable addition to Asokan Arya Samaj and its Founder, and shows that literature. the odium theologicum is as rampant now in India as
8. M. EDWARDES it was of old. It is not necessary, as this production
The SUBJECT INDEX TO PERIODICALS Section I. does, to besmirch the birth and private character
Languages and Literature London Library A880of a religious teacher, to prove that the tenets of
ciation, Grafton and Co., 1925. the sect he founder are wrong.
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Here is another issue of this most valuable
publication, giving references to Classical, Oriental ASOKA TEXT AND GLOSSARY, by ALFRED C. WOOL and Primitive Languages in 123 periodicals. Four
NER, M.A. Parts I and II: Panjab University periodicals have been newly added to the list, each Oriental Publications. H. Milford, Oxford of the highest class. A glance through it shows University Press, Calcutta, 1924.
how well and carefully this labour of love has been The stream of literature on the subject of the performed, but even with such an aid as this Asokan Edicts shows no sign of exhaustion. The the path of the explorer is still difficult, as W is full present work. which has been prepared by Professor of references to other" lists." But this cannot be Woolner And publisbpd at the expense of the Panjab helped, and easier though it may be now than it University, represent in large measure the resulte was in the past that I can personally remember, of the lato Dr T. K Laddu's analytical scrutiny to make a profound research, the searcher must of the Mauryan emperor's inscriptions. At the still take trouble. The compilers of the Index time of his death, he had completed a recension of are highly to be congratulated. the text of all the inscriptions, as well as a completo
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