Reviews Of Different Books

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62 REVIEWS separately catalogued. The texts are numbered from 496 to 1000. Many manuscripts are from Nepal and Kashmir. Some are important for the study of Buddhism and Kashmirian Sivaism. In many cases it is not easy to determine exactly the title and the author of a work. The authors have taken great pains to solve these problems as far as possible. Of great value are the detailed references to catalogues of manuscripts and to other works. For editions of texts, the authors generally refer to the catalogues of the India Office Library and the British Museum. The following references may be added: 644-646 Kumaratantra, cf. J. Filliozat, "Le Kumaratantra de Ravana", JA, 1935, I, pp. 1-66; id., Le Kumaratantra de Ravana et les textes paralleles indiens, tibetains, chinois, cambodgien et arabe (Paris, 1937)(cf. F. Weller, OLZ, 1939, pp. 181-187); 661 Amoghapasahrdaya, cf. R.O. Meisezahl, The Amoghapasahsdaya-dharani", Monumenta Nipponica, XVII (1962), pp. 265-328;id., "The Amoghapasahsdaya Manuscripts formerly kept in the Reiunji temple and its collateral texts in Tibetan transliteration", Studies of Esoteric Buddhism and Tantrism (Koyasan, 1965), pp. 179-216 (Seiren Matsunami's A Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Tokyo University Library, Tokyo, 1965, p. 187 refers to an article by Meisezahl in volume 3 of the Proceedings of the Okurayama Oriental Research Institute, but Meisezahl's article appeared in the Monumenta Nipponica); 685-686 Mahimnahstava, cf. W. Norman Brown, The Mahimnastava or Praise of Shiva's Greatness (Poona, 1965). Janert's preface announces a fourth volume and comprehensive indices to the four volumes. One cannot but admire the energy and the scholarship of Janert and his co-workers, to whom all Indologists are greatly indebted. The Franz Steiner Verlag deserves high praise for the beautiful production of this volume. Australian National University J. W. de Jong Journal of Indian Philosophy, Editor: Bimal K. Matilal, Volume 1, No. 1. (October 1970). Dordrecht, D. Reidel Publishing Company, 110 p. The first issue of the Journal of Indian Philosophy announces its program in an editorial, from which I quote the following paragraph: "The field of our contributions will be bound by the limits of rational inquiry; we will avoid questions that lie in the fields of theology and mystical experience. Our method will be, in a very general sense, analytical and comparative, and we will aim at a rigorous precision in the translation of terms and statements." One may query the possibility of tracing the limits of rational enquiry without excluding what is perhaps the most valuable part of Indian thought. However, although the editors underline the importance of Indian analytical philosophy, they do not seem to be too exclusive, for the text on the flap of the journal declares that philosophy includes such subjects as the philosophy of language, ethics, religion and aesthetics as well as logic. Moreover, contributions in such fields as Jainism, Tantrism and Kashmir Saivism are invited. The issue contains three papers read at a symposium which discussed the problem of 'empty' subject terms in logic: Karl H. Potter, "Realism, Speech-Acts, and Truth-Gaps in Indian and Western Philosophy", pp. 13-21; A. C. S. McDermott, "Empty Subject Terms in Late Buddhist Logic", pp. 22-29; B. K. Matilal, "Reference and Existence in Nyaya and Buddhist Logic", pp. 83-110. The last article gives a penetrating analysis of the controversy on this point between Udayana and his Buddhist opponent Jnanasrimitra. George Cardona has contributed an article on "Some Principles of Panini's Grammar" (pp. 40-74) in which he studies four basic principles applied by Panini. Although this article cannot be said to fall within the field of the philosophy of language, one must be glad to see it included in this journal. It is much more important to understand how Panini proceeded than to make philosophical statements about his grammar.