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only three, viz. the ones on H. Oldenberg's The Grihya-Sūtras. Pt. 2 (Oxford, 1892), E. Felber's Die indische Musik der vedischen uad der klassischen Zeit. Nach den Platten des Phonogramm-Archives des kais. Akademie. Mit Texten und Ubers. v. B. Geiger (Wien, 1912), and J. Hertel, Das Pañcatantra ... ( Leipzig, Berlin 1914 ) appear in the Volume. Perhaps it would bave been good also to include Kirste's reviews of such books as M. Winternitz, Das altindische Hochzeitsrituell (Wien, 1892), H. Lüders, Die Vyāsa-Śikṣā... (Göttingen, 1894), W. Caland, Die altindischen Todten- und Bestattungsgebräuche ... (Argsterdam, 1896 ) and some others.
At the end the editor has listed obituary notices on J. Kriste and appreciations.
The volume contains three Indexes, all selective : (1) Names and Subjects, (2) Words, and (3) Text-passages,
M. A. Mehendale
Kirste laments the fact that the plates No. 445 and 465 were not ideatified for him although: he had sought help from India. He therefore expressed the hope that an Indian who knew the texts recorded on those plates would some day come to Vienna and identify them. It is not know whether Kirste's hope has been fulfilled
Madhu Vidyā/712
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