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things which are necessary for religious purposes only, after examination and (e) Utsarga, i.e, attending to calls of nature in unfrequented places.
REVIEWS OF BOOKS AND
PERIODICALS. 1. A Concise Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Containing an Appendix giving short accounts of mythological persous another on Sanskrit Prosody and a Map of Ancient India by Vidyadhar Vaman Bhide, B.A. Published by the Chitra Shala Press, Poona City. Price Rs. 4 only for 1228 pages.
This is a welcome publication to all students of Sanskrit
re. This supplies to a student of Sanskrit all the information he requires to help him in his study. Explanations of important technical terms in Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Law, Mathematics, Philosophy. Music, Medicine. Astronomy, etc. are also given. Every Sanskrit student and every Sanskrit Library should have a copy of this very useful volume. The price of the book is very little when compared to its bulk and the fund of information it contains.
2. Western Monuments of Wisdom. Compiled by R Chandulal, James Street, Secunderabad (Deccan). This is a nice snall book intended to be a constant companion in the vest pocket of everyone.' It contains the wise sayings of great western scholars like Shakespeare and Spinoza, Bacon and Boileau, Carlyle and Cowper, Johnson and James Allen, Longfellow and Wordsworth, Emerson and Stevenson. The beautiful quotations are on several subjects like Prayer, Patience, Power, Courage, Modesty, Truth, Education, Faith, Envy, etc. The book should find a place in the pocket of every Journalist, student and public-speaker. The get-up of the book is excellent.
3. Extracts from the Holy Quran and sayings af the Holy Prophet Mohammad. Compiled and published by Abdullah Allahdin, Oxford Street, Secunderabad. 300 pages. Price Rs. 1-4-0. This is the fifth edition of the book, printed on very good paper and clock-bound. This is an excellent collection of passages from the Holy Quran and the sayings of Mohammad arranged under topical headings. such as Allah, Polytheism, Fasting, Prayer and Alms, Pilgrimage, Mankind, Charity, Usury, Orphan, women, Repentance and Forgiveness, Death, Divine Help. Slavery, etc. Every sentence of this book conveys some noble and valuable teaching. It is very interesting to read about the Promised Messiah, Ahmed, his teachings and his movement. The book gives us also the Muslim account of Jesus Christ. This is
a book which will be very useful to all English knowing people for Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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