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Opinion.
Praktana vimarsa vichakshana, Karnataka Prachya vidya vaibhava, Rai Bahadur R. NARASIMHACHARYA, M.A., M.R.A.S.
Malleswaram, Bangalore. * Please accept my warm thanks for your kind courtesy in sending me two issues of "Sri Jaina Sidhanta Bhaskara" which I have read with great interest. The articles appearing in the journal are all of very great value and bear testimony to the scholarship and erudition of the contributors. ggfen-, afant-de-FinE, QUATT, 41-antica, among the Hindi articles and "Ancient South Indian Jainism; 'Nayakumarchariu' and Mathematics of Nemichandra among the English articles are very useful. The illustrations, which are charming, enhance
the value of the journal. The publication of unpublished jaina works · is welcome. I wish every success to the Journal and earnestly hope
that it will have a long career of usefulness.
SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS TO ORIENTAL JOURNALS.
1. Annals of the Bhandarkara Oriental Research Institute.-Vol. XVI, pts. I-II :Some Fresh Light on the Dhārāśiva Cavo And The origin of the
Silābära Dynesty :-By Prof. Hiralal Jain, M.A., L. L. B.-It throws new light on the antiquity of Jainism and antiquity
of the Jaina Purăņas. . 2. Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society. Vol. XXV,
No. 4, April 1935 :pp. 236—246. Two centuries of Wadeyar Rule in Mysore :--
By N. Subba Rau, M.A. pp. 261—264. Karuvūror Vanjimānagaram, By S. V. Viswanatha,
M.A.-It is established that “the original Vañji was Kahur
and Tiruvanjikkaļam was only a copy of it. p. 323. Puspadanta-purāņam of Guņavarma, edited by A Venkala
Rao and H. Sesha Yengar reviewed. Can be had from the
Madras University for Rs. 4 only. 3. Bulletin of the Sri Rama Varma Research Institute.
No.3:-Mr. Krishna Menon writing on the Dravidian Culture,
considers that the Dravidians were in India long prior to
