Reviews Of Different Books

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REVIEWS 81 Thieme. A carefully annotated Russian translation by A. Ja. Syrkin was published in 1965. Syrkin has been able to use W. Morgenroth's thesis: Chandogya-upanisad. Versuch einer kritischen Ausgabe mit einer Ubersetzung und einer Ubersicht uber ihre Lehren, Dissertation, Jena, 1958. According to Syrkin it contains on pp. 539-561 a "Literaturverzeichnis". In "Seit wann gibt es Philosophie in Indien?" Walter Ruben studies the materialism of Uddalaka and the idealism of Yajnavalkya (pp. 295-302). Different topics are studied in the following articles. Heinz Bechert studies "Eine alte Gottheit in Ceylon und Sudindien" (pp. 33-41). The Ceylonese God of Kataragama is identical with the South Indian God Subrahmanya or Murugan. His cult was already popular in South India in a prehistoric period. J. C. Heesterman's "On the origin of the nastika" studies the role of the nastika in the verbal contest (pp. 171-185). Dieter Schlingloff studies the enumeration of the parvans of the Mahabharata in a manuscript from Qyzil: "Fragmente einer Palmblatthandschrift philosophischen Inhalts aus Ostturkistan (MS. Spitzer)" (pp. 323-328). Additional information is to be found in Schlingloff's "The oldest extant Parvan-list of the Mahabharata" (JAOS, 89, 1969, pp. 334-338). In "The cult of the divine name in the Haripath of Dnyandev" Charlotte Vaudeville studies a sequence of 27 stanzas in old Marathi, dedicated to the praise and exaltation of the sacred name of Hari (pp. 395-406). The Haripajh is usually included in collections of Vaispava "abhangas", short poetical utterances of one single stanza on the theme of Vaispava bhakti. Australian National University J. W. de Jong K. L. Janert, R. Sellheim, H. Striedl, Schriften und Bilder: Drei Orientalische Untersuchungen (= W. Voigt, Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Supplementband, 7). Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1967. VIII + 87 pp., 32 plates. The German Society for Research (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) having decided to publish a catalogue comprising all the data about the Oriental manuscripts in Germany, the members of the executive committee met at two conferences held at Marburg in 1961 and 1965 in order to report on their studies and discoveries. The next year the various papers were published under the title Fortschritte und Forschungen bei der Katalogisiering der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Marburger Kolloquium 1965 (= Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Forschungsbericht, 10) (Wiesbaden, 1966). Moreover, the editor W. Voigt selected from these reports three extensive studies which lent themselves very well to their being published in the separate series of Supplements to the List of Oriental Manuscripts in Germany (see "Vorwort", pp. VII-VIII). This collection called Schriften und Bilder (Manuscripts and Illuminations) consists of the next contributions: K. L. Janert, "Studien zur indischen Schriftkunde und Religionsgeschichte: zwei fruhe indische Amulette" (Studies on Indian palaeography and history of religions: two early Indian charms), pp. 1-40, 6 plates; R. Sellheim, "Neue Materialien zur Biographie des Yaqut" (New sources concerning Yaqut's biography), pp. 41-72, 24 plates, 1 map; H. Striedl, "Die Miniaturen in einer Handschrift des judisch-persischen Ardasirbuches von Sahin (The miniatures in a manuscript of the Jewish-Persian Book of Ardashir by Shahin), Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Tubinger Depot, Ms.or.qu. 1680", pp. 73-87, 2 plates. K. L. Janert discusses the purport of a small-sized and oval-shaped rock-crystal intaglio showing an image and a Kharosthi inscription (Museum for Indian Art, Berlin-Dahlem, catalogue-number I.C. 43.640), see pp. 1-35. He compares it with a