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Volume 111 - April 1979

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Documents Pour Servir à L'Histoire de l'Islam à Java. By H. M. Rasjidi. (Publications de l'École Française d'Extrême-Orient, Tome CXII.) pp. 282. Paris, École Française d'Extrême-Orient, 1977.

Love song of the Dark Lord: Jayadeva's Gītagovinda. Edited and translated by Barbara Stoler Miller. (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. Indian Series.) pp. xx, 125. New York, Columbia University Press, 1977.

The Universe around them: Cosmology and Cosmic Renewal in Indianized South-East Asia. By H. G. Quaritch Wales. London, Arthur Probsthain, 1977. pp. xi, 168. £7.50.

Gods, priests, and warriors: The Bhṛgus of the Mahābhārata. By Robert P. Goldman. (Studies in Oriental Culture, 12.) pp. xii, 195. New York, Columbia University Press, 1977. $15.

The Anthropological Romance of Bali, 1597–1972: Dynamic Perspectives in Marriage and Caste, Politics and Religion. By James A. Boon, pp. xi, 259. Cambridge, etc., 1977. £10.50.

Nyāya-Mañjarī: The compendium of Indian speculative logic. Vol. I. Translated by J. V. Bhattacharyya. pp. xxxvi, 917. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1978. Rs. 150/-.

Le Rāmāyan de Tulsī-Dās: Texte Hindi Traduit et Commenté. Par Charlotte Vaudeville, pp. iv, 211. Paris, Société d'Édition “Les Belles Lettres”, 1977.

From Court to Capital: A Tentative Interpretation of the Origins of the Japanese Urban Tradition. By Paul Wheatley and Thomas See. pp. 242. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1978, £10.50.

Zen and the Ways. By Trevor Leggett. pp. 258. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. £5.95.

A History of Indian Literature, Vol. V, Fasc. 2. Grammatical Literature. By Hartmut Scharfe. pp. 77–216. Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1977. DM 74.

Dharma in Hindu Ethics. By Austin B. Creel, pp. 178. Calcutta, Firma KLM Private Ltd., 1977. Rs. 50/-.

A History of Japan. By George Sansom. 3 vols.: pp. 500, 16 pl.; 442, 21 pl.; 258, 24 pl. Reprint: Folkestone, Wm. Dawson & Sons Ltd., 1978. £10, £10, £7.50.

Obituaries

Professor J. A. Boyle

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God in Advaita. By A. G. Krishna Warrier. pp. x, 234. Simla, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, [1977]. Rs. 37.50.

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William George Archer, O.B.E., M.A., D.Litt.

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The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology. By Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty. (Hermeneutics. Studies in the History of Religions, 6.) pp. xi, 411. Berkeley, etc., University of California Press, 1976.

Meeting Report

Anniversary Meeting

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A dictionary of hinduism: Its mythology, folklore, and development 1500 B.C.–A.D. 1500. By Margaret and James Stutley. pp. xx, 372. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977. £12.50

Index

Index for 1979

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Pali Buddhist Texts Explained to the Beginner. 2nd Edition. By Rune E. A. Johansson. (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, No. 14.) pp. 160. London, Curzon Press, 1977. £4.

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