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Volume 70 - Issue 4 - October 1938

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La Civilisation d'Assur et de Babylone. By DrG. Contenau. Bibliothèque Historique. 9 × 5½, pp. 260, pls. 16, figs. 52. Paris: Payot, 1937.

Ein Manichäisches Bet- und Beichtbuch. By DrW. Henning. (Abhandlungen der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1936, Phil. Hist. No. 10). 10½ × 7½, pp. 143. Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1937.

A Santal Dictionary. By P. O. Bodding. 11 × 7¼, vol. iv (L–Ph), pp. 750. Vol. v (R–Y), pp. 704, Kr. 45.00. Oslo: Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 1935–1936. Kr. 47.00.

The Economic Development of India. By Vera Anstey. Third (revised and enlarged) edition. 8¾ × 5½, pp. xii + 582 + xlii, maps and diagrams 10. London: Longmans, 1936. 25s. net.

The Khāṛiās. By Sarat Chandra Roy and Romesh Chandra Roy, with Foreword by R. R. Marett. Vol. I, pp. xiv + 306, map 1, ills. 38; Vol. II, pp. 223 + lv, ills. 23. 5½ × 9. Ranchi: “Man in India” Office, 1937. Rupees 10.

The Pronunciation of Kashmiri: Kashmiri Sounds, how to make them and how to transcribe them. By T. Grahame Bailey. R.A.S., Forlong Fund, Vol. XVI. 9¾ × 6, pp. vi + 70. London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1937. 10s. 6d.

The Mahābhārata. Vol. V. The Virāṭaparvan. Critically edited by Raghu Vira. 11½ × 8½, pp. lxi + 362 + 1. Poona: Bhandarkar Oriental Institute, 1936.

The Travancore Tribes and Castes. Vol. i. By L. A. Krishna Iyer. 8½ × 5, pp. xxi + 277, ills. 59, map 1. Trivandrum, Government Press, 1937. Rs. 7.

Two Lamaistic Pantheons: from materials collected By the late Baron A. von Staël Holstein. (Harvard Yenching Institute—Monograph Series, vols. iii–iv.) 10¼ × 6¾. Vol. i, pp. xxiv + 169; vol. ii, pls. 314. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1937. 2 vols., 42s.

An Eight Hundred Year Old Book of Indian Medicine and Formulas. Tr. by Elizabeth Sharpe. 8½ × 5½, pp. 135. London: Luzac and Co., 1937. 6s.

Concepts of Buddhism. By Bimala Churn Law. With a Foreword by the Most Honourable the Marquess of Zetland. 10 × 8½, pp. xii + 104. Amsterdam: Published for the Kern Institute by H. J. Paris, 1937. 5s. 6d.

Historical Manuscripts Commission, Ceylon. Bulletin No. 3. Tamil Documents in the Government Archives, selected and translated by Mudaliyar C. Rasanayagam. 10 × 7, pp. 59, pls. 1. Colombo: Ceylon Government Press, 1937. Cents 75.

The Early Buddhist Theory of Man Perfected. A Study of the Arahan. By I. B. Horner. 8¾ × 6, pp. 328. London: Williams and Norgate, Ltd., 1936. 12s. 6d.

A History of Brajabuli Literature. Being a study of the Vaisnava Lyric Poetry and Poets of Bengal. By Sukumar Sen. 9¾ × 6¾, pp. xvi + 600, ills. 2. Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 1935.

Harivaṃśapuraṇa: Ein Abschnitt aus der Apabhraṃśa-Welthistorie “Mahāpurāṇa Tisaṭṭhimahāpurisaguṇālaṁkāra” von Puṣpadanta. Herausg. von Ludwig Alsdorf. Alt- u. Neu-Indische Studien, 5. 11½ × 8, pp. xii + 515, pls. 3. Hamburg: Friederichsen, de Gruyter & Co., 1936.

Mahavira: His Life and Teachings. By Bimala Churn Law. 7½ × 5, pp. viii + 114. London: Luzac & Co., 1937.

The Buddhist Conception of Spirits. (Same author and publishers.) Second edition, revised and enlarged. Law's Research Series, Pub. No. 3. 8 × 5½, pp. xii +114. 1936.

La Subordination dans la Prose Védique. Études sur le Śatapatha-Brāhmana, I. By Armand Minard. pp. 214. Annales de I'Université de Lyon. Troisiéme série. Lettres. Fascicule 3. Paris: Société d'Édition Les Belles Lettres.1936.

Shabara-Bhāṣya, Volume III, Adhyāyas IX–XII. Translated by Gangānātha Jhā. Gaekwad's Oriental Series, No. LXXIII. 9½ × 5¾, pp. xxviii + 1417–2429. Baroda: Oriental Institute, 1936. Rs. 16.

Nānārthasaṅgraha of Ajayapāla. Edited by T. R. Chintāmaṇi. Madras University Sanskrit Series No. 10. 10 × 6½, pp. xii + 114 + 28. Madras: University of Madras, 1937. Rs. 1/8.

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