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Vol. XXV, 2002
REVIEW
215 MAKARANDA, (Madhukar Anant Mehendale Festschrift), Editors M. A. DHAKY, J. B. SHAH, Sharadaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre, Ahmedabad, 2000, pages VIII + 270; Rs. 600.
This felicitation volume dedicated to Prof. (Dr.) M. A. Mehendale, the distinguished and internationally renowned scholar is a collection of twenty-five erudite essays in Sanskrit, Prakrit and Avestan studies written in Sanskrit, English and Gujarati. Twenty-five scholars, most of whom know him personally and intimately for many years, have contributed learned papers to this volume. The first essaly by P. D. Nawathe studies 'Kampa pronunciation in Tema 7 T: RV 10.78.4." Kampa, which means tremor, is a peculiar kirid of pronunciation that frequently occurs in the traditional recitation of the Rgveda. The second essay deals with the 'Emendation to the text of the Maitrāyani Samhitā" by T. N. Dharmadhikari. The Maitrāyani Saṁhitā no longer figures in the oral tradition and is limited to a few manuscripts only. However this text has been critically edited and brought out by Schroeder in Leipzig in 1881-1886 and later by Satavalekar in Aundha (Maharashtra) in 1942. Similies abound in literature and the Brāhmaṇas are no exception. While the similies in the Aitareya and Taittiriya Brāhmaṇas have been studied before, the third essay in this volume, 'On some Similies in the Jaiminiya Brāhmana" by Madhavi Kolhatkar is a pioneering work. Hanns-Peter Schmidt looks into the description of animal sacrifice in the Satapatha-Brāhmana in his essay "How to Kill a Sacrificial Victim”. Vārāha Srautasútra, A further textual study" is a well researched essay by C. G. Kashikar who came across parts of the Vārāha Śrautasūtra in the middle of an old manuscript of Maitrāyaniya Sūtra text which he retrieved quite by chance. G. U. Thite"s Vedisms in Daivarāta"s Chandodarśana" is most interesting. Daivarāta was a modern rsi, to whom 448 mantras are supposed to have been revealed. A collection of hymns thus revealed to him is called Chandodarśana.
S. J. Noel Sheth in The Justification of Krsna"s Annihilation of his own Clan" looks into an episode that occurs in the Mausala Parvan (Book 16) of the Mahābhārata where the Yādavas are decimated, Kršņa and Balarāma leave this world and the city of Dvārakā is submerged by the ocean. 'A note on Sabara's India" by Shripad Bhat is thought-provoking. Sabara was a Bhāsyakāra whose work, Śābarabhāsya formed the basis for all later Mimāṁsā works. This essay
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