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or a vegetation deity. He is right in treating Krsoa Vāsudeva as one person, the Vrsai chief, but he unnecessarily identifies him with Kệsaa Devakiputra. the scholar mentioned in the Chāndogya Upanishad ..................(F. E. Pargiter).
TAE BOMBAY CHRONICLE, JUNE 19, 1921.--Mr. Hemchandra Ray Chaudhury of the Calcutta University has collected much valuable material from which he has succeeded in tracing the origin and growth of the Vaishnava creed. The Historicity of Srikrishnaor as the author calls him, Krishna Vasudeva, is also handled with remarkable clearness.........
A GOVINDACHARYA SVAMIN.--I pay you a most deserved compliment upon your acquaintance with the Azhvars and Sri Vaishnavism of southern India as evidenced in your learned book the Early History of the Vaishnava Sect.
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PROFESSOR E. J. RAPSON, CAMBRIDGE.-Dr. Raychaudhur's essays on Indian History and Antiquities are always well-informed, thoughtful and suggestive.
E. J. THOMAS (J. R. A. S., OCTOBER, 1933, p. 925).The study which Dr. Raychaudhuri has already devoted to ancient Indian history is well known. In the present book he discusses some of the geographical problems which still face the historians, as well as Vedic, epic, and specially historical questions ... ...He has shown that Indian historical scholarship is proceeding on sound lines of its own and achieving independent results. . 0. C. GANGOLY.-Permit me to thank you for your valuable gift of Studies in Indian Antiquities in which I have read with great profit your article : Vanga Kon Des ? It is an excellent contribution to our knowledge of the little known phase of old Bengal. You do not try to prove too much, yet you have given very much based on solid data. It is a pity many scholars do not know of this article-buried in a series of Essays in English.
