Reviews Of Diffeent Books

Author(s): J W De Jong
Publisher: J W De Jong

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follows: "May this vine of speech, Rising steadily from the root, Everywhere adorned with blossoms", although Ksemarāja explains that krama refers to paśyanti, etc. Sometimes, the translation omits words found in the original. For instance, VI.2:
viyogasāre samsāre priyena prabhuņā tvayā /
aviyuktaḥ sadaiva syām jagatāpi viyojitaḥ // Mrs. Bailly translates: “Even if I am separated - From the world of samsāra – May I not be separated from you, My beloved."
The romanised text transliterates the devanāgari text without separating words which do not form a compound.'
More troublesome are the numerous misprints which cannot all be listed here. For example, the first chapter contains the following misprints: 1.3 labdhatatsampadām read labdhatvatsampadām; 1.6 tādría read tādrśā; I.18 praniyate read praniyate; 1.21 śāntakallolasitaccha- read śitāccha-. Three syllables are omitted in IV.15: bhavatpurārgala- read bhavatpuragopurārgala-. In other instances, the text seems to have been romanised by somebody who had difficulties in reading the devanāgari script, for example: III.10 syādrśā read syād dasā; V.10 kunyāddhatādapi read kudyād ghatād api; X.1.5 'tyantatarasutkanthito read 'tyantataram utkanthito; XVI.7 udyām read rudyām; XIX.17 janaki'tha read janako'tha. In all these cases the translation is based on the text as printed in the Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series.
NOTE
! On the romanisation of Sanskrit texts see F. B. J. Kuiper's remarks, Gopālakelicandrikā Amsterdam, 1987), p. 6.
Australian National University
J. W. DE JONG
Alfred Hillebrandt, Kleine Schriften. Herausgegeben von Rahul Peter Das (Glasenapp-Stiftung, Band 28). Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1987. XXXI, 685 pp. DM 98,-.
The publication of Hillebrandt's Kleine Schriften is extremely welcome. Although he died sixty years ago, his work is still being used by scholars and in recent years several of his books have been reprinted and translated. The bibliography which Rahul Peter Das has compiled with great care
Indo-Iranian Journal 32: 1989.