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A Study, Srinivasan Ayya Srinivasan's elaborate critical edition or Vācaspati. miśra's Sāṁkbyalattvakaumudi, Anne-Marie Esaoul's French translation of the Samkhyakārikā together with the Bbāşya of Gaudapāda, Anima Sen Gupta's Classical Samkhya-A Critical Study, and Karl H. Potter's Encyclopaedia of Indian Philosophies, Volume I, entitled "Bibliography of lodian Philosophies" are noticed in detail and evaluated with reference to the objective of the work. In this same appendix Larson has surveyed the material treating the relationship between Purānic Samkhya and classical Samkhya. He concludes on the basis of this material that in the Purānic texts the proto-Samkhya speculation functions more as a heuristic cluster of symbols, utilized for purposes of cosmogony, mythology and religious devotion, and he warns that it is an intriguing chapter in the history of religions and that it must be used with great caution in interpreting classical philosophical Sāmkbya. His bibliography is also uptodate and highly indispensable for future researchers in the field.
Here we have at long last got a clear-headed, critical analysis of the classical Samkhya, both with a highly rewarding insight into its historical development and meaningful interpretation based upon a masterly grasp of the text proper. Larson has thus presented to us a classical specimen of a methodical study of the highly popular and celebrated work of Išva. rekrsna, and provides a reliable tool for a similar study of the development of renaissance or later Samkhya.
-N. M. Kansara
SĀMA VEDA : With original text io Devanāgari, English translation with occasional explanation, an Introduction and appendixes by S V. Ganapati; pages XXXIV and 491, Delhi, 1982; Price Rs. 75.
The Sama-veda has attracted relatively less attention from serious students of Vedas in India and outside because of its secondary Dature in the context of the Rgveda, its accents and mode of recitation and its gånas. This is rather distressing because we have missed the investigation of a number of important problems related with the Veda.
The work under review presents the complete text of the Sacaveda including the Pūrvárcika, the mahādāmnyārcika and the Uttarārcika with 640, 10, and 1225 verses respectively, in all 1875 verses.
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