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unique. Her peculiar vision the mastery and controlled lyricism of her writing, its vivacity and poetry, offer insights and inspiration which will hopefully continue to kindle further research. N.M.K.
JOHN BROUGH COLLECTED PAPERS, edited by Minoru Hara and J. C. Wright. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, 1996. PP. xxii + 533.
John Brough (1917-1984) was Professor of Sanskrit in the University of London from 1948 to 1967, and in the University of Cambridge from 1967 until his death in 1984. He was the most accomplished scholar of Vedic and Buddhist philology and the most sensitive exponent of Sanskrit lyric poetry that Britain has produced. He was also a pioneer of Anglo-Japanese collaboration in Buddhist studies, and this book is appropriately the fruit of such continued collaboration. In anticipation of the eighteenth anniversary of his birth, virtually all his exemplary journal articles and other minor writings in the field of Indology have been brought together in this volume. Thus it contains not only Brough's fundamental contributions to knowledge, in fields such as the history of the organization of Indian society, the nature of Soma, the reconstruction of the transmission of Buddhism from India to China and Japan, the evolution of Buddhist Sanskrit as a literary medium, but also his bequest to the non-specialist reader, including evocative critical appreciations of Sanskrit literature and the evaluation of the basic linguistic theories of classical India.
Those of his book reviews which include original philological material have also been reprinted here, as have two short notices of works by Edgerton and Waldschmidt, since they are referred to in the article The Language of the Buddhist Sanskrit texts'. While efforts have been made to reduce their bulk by judicious selection, the wide range and depth of Brough's scholarship has resulted inevitably in indexes of substantial proportions.
At the outset, just after the Introduction by J. C. Wright, is given John Brough Bibliography and Table of Contents, which lists his 33 books, articles, etc., 13 book reviews, two appendices, list of 59 books reviewed, and 8 obituaries by scholars like T. H. Barrett, Oscar Botto, J. Burton-Page, Minoru Hara, P. S. Jaini, D. MsMullen, K. R. Norman and J. W. Wright. N.M.K. PARAMPARĀGATA PRĀKRTA VYĀKARAŅA KI SAMĪKŞA AURA ARDHAMĀGADHI (Hindi) by Dr. K. R.Chandra, Praksta Jaina Vidyā Vikāsa Fund, Ahmedabad, 1995, pp.4 + 152, Rs. 50/-.
