Indian Antiquary Vol 59

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Charles E A W Oldham, S Krishnaswami Aiyangar, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarka
Publisher: Swati Publications

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In another fragment of a Nydyc treatise, which was kindly shown to me by His Holiness Sri Hemaraja Sarma, guru of His Highness the Maharaja of Nepal, meríion of him is also found :
......cânayati tattvat. para......vity abhiprayeneśvarasena evåparo 'bhipretaḥ.
These documents are few and quite inadequate to give an idea of the main features of the system of Isvarasena ; but considering that they are the only thing that time has left.33 thoy are not without value. They also belong to that period of great philosophical elaboration which took place between Dinnaga and Dharmakirti, and of which Bhâmaha also has preserved some not insignificant traces.
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CEYLON JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, Section G. Archæology. The present part of the Epigraphia Zeylanica
Ethnology, etc., vol. I, pts. 1 to 4; vol. II, pt, | contains readings of the texts, with translations and 1 : edited by A. M. HOCART, Archeological Commis- annotations, of the (1) Oruvala sannasa c.p. inscripsioner, Ceylon. London, Dulau & Co., 1925-28. tion, probably of the time of Parakrama Bahu VIII,
(2) the Badulla pillar inscription of about 942 A.D., EPIGRAPHIA ZEYLANICA, vol. III, pt. 2 : edited by
and the Mannar Kacceri pillar inscription of about H. W. CODRINGTON and S. PARANAVITANA.
900 A.D., the second of which contains matter of Oxford University Press, 1929.
special interest in connexion with village organi. Scientific research in Ceylon has made a note.
ization, trading, fines and tolls, etc. The interworthy advance in the last few years, thanks
pretation of many words and phrases in the latter chiefly to the work of Messrs. H. W. Codrington.
inscriptions are admittedly yet doubtful. E. R. Ayrton and A. M. Hocart. The results are
C.E.A.W.O. contained in a series of publications, including the above, the Memoirs of the Archäological Depart.
DU KUMARAPALAPRATIBODHA: Ein ment, Mr. Codrington's Coins and Coinage of Ceylon
Beitrag zur
Kenntnis der Apabhransa rend der Erzählungsand his valuable Short History of Ceylon. The parts of the Journal of Science before us, besides the
Literatur der Jainas. Von Ludwig Alsdorf. (Aut.
und Neu-Indische archæological summaries, contain some striking
Struien herausgegeben vom
Seminar für Kultur und Geschichte Indiens an! articles by Mr. Hocart, e.g., on the Origin of the
der Hamburgischen Universitat. 2.) xii +227 pp. Stapa, India and the Pacific, and tho Indo-European
Hamburg : Frieclorichsen, De Gruyter and Co., Kinship System ; but perhaps the work of greatest
1928. value to which he has devoted his attention in the attempt to establish criteria by which the archæolo. Regione visited long ago remain alluring to the gical remains of Ceylon can be dated. Chronological memory; and even ho who will probably never be data are peculiarly scanty in the epigraphical re- able to revisit them will sometimes think of them cords of Ceylon, and the extant chronicles are also with a molancholic pleasure. Being some twenty defective in this respect. By patient, methodical yonrs ago a pupil of Professor Jacobi the present examination of the monuments, the materials writer made some little progress in the study of employed and the methods of construction, the
Jain narrative literature. And, though he will sculpture, balustrades, guardstones, 'moonstones,' probably never find a real opportunity for resuming etc., Mr. Hocart has been able to differentiate three those researches, it is with a special pleasure that main periode, which he calls (1) archaic, (9) classical
he studies the researches of other scholars upon And (3) Archaistic. Though this nomenclature this and cognato subjects. may not meet with universal approval, we must Dr. Alsdorf, 2 pupil of Professor Sehubring, ono congratulate him upon the perseverance with which of the leading authorities on Jainism, has produced he has tackled this dimicult subject and laid a ro, an extensive and solid work on the Kumarapaliable foundation, at least, for future work. He is lapratibodha of Somaprabha, or rather on those being ably reconded on the epigraphical sido by parts of it which are written in Apabhrains. Mr. Paranavitana, who has alco contributed a very Literary Apabhrainéa-apart from smaller interesting note on Mahâyânism in Ceylon. | contributions chiefly by Pischel-has become
38 References to him are to be found in the commentary to Pramdnavárttika by Devendra hodhi,