...Samuel Wright Abstract This paper examines the values that informed the actions of two polities in seventeenth-century Bengal, the Nadia Raj and the Malla dynasty, through a close analysis of their temple inscriptions—a form of royal laudation or praśasti . Focusing on this inscriptional record...

...Ronald M. Bernier Newar Art: Nepalese Art during the Malla Period . By A. W. MacDonald and Anne Vergati Stahl . Warminster : Aris & Phillips, Ltd. , 1979 . xiv, 154 pp. Seven plates, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $32.50. (Distributed in N. America by International Scholarly Book...

...Dennis Dalton Nepal. The Discovery of the Malla . By Giuseppe Tucci . New York : E. P. Dutton & Co. , 1962 . 96 . $5.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 BOOK REVIEWS 253 using Sanskrit terminology wherever possible. At the end of the text these terms...

... colloquial, even if correct. But these are minor criticisms of a study as useful as it is unpretentious. University of Michigan WALTER SPINK Nepal. The Discovery of the Malla. By GIUSEPPE TUCCI. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1962. 96. $5.00. Perhaps no other nation of Asia presents such a dearth...

... monarchs (pp. 2, 20). The rise of the Mallas, a local Hindu dynasty, and their extensive patronage of the terra cotta faced Ratna temples at Vishnupur in the seventeenth century were both linked to the ascendance of Chaitanyacharya s (1486 1533) Vrindavan-based Gaudiya Vaishnava sect of Krishna worship...

... as it is unpretentious. University of Michigan WALTER SPINK Nepal. The Discovery of the Malla. By GIUSEPPE TUCCI. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1962. 96. $5.00. Perhaps no other nation of Asia presents such a dearth of information on its history and contemporary culture as does the kingdom of Nepal. For a century after...

.... A "transitional" stage of the sixth-tenth centuries spans the Licchavi and Malla reigns. The next stage is the early Malla period (eleventhfourteenth centuries) to which several paintings and sculptures can be firmly assigned. At this time there appears a clear preference for delicately-featured figures, richly...

... and statements that have little evidence to support them. Thus, to give one example, he writes (p. 37) with reference to Yaksa Malla: "11 pousse ses conquetes en dehors du Nepal, et annexe le Mithila, Gaya, Morang ainsi qu'une partie du Bengale." Yaksa Malla's supposed victories in the plains of India have...

... Personae: The Mortals," gives in detail an historical account of the Licchavi Period, A.D. 300-899; what the author characterizes as the Transition, A.D. 879-1200; and the period of the Mallas and Shahs, A.D. 1200 to the present. In Part 2, "Settlement and Structures," the author covers the genesis...

... with Gupta India. A "transitional" stage of the sixth-tenth centuries spans the Licchavi and Malla reigns. The next stage is the early Malla period (eleventhfourteenth centuries) to which several paintings and sculptures can be firmly assigned. At this time there appears a clear preference for delicately...

..., the Kirantis. This interesting people, with numerous tribal divisions and subdivisions and a Tibeto-Burmese language with a large number of dialects, inhabited the valley up to the middle of the fourteenth century, when they were expelled by the Newari dynasty of the Malla Rajas. Under later dynasties...

... as the nation's patriarch and the subjects as his extended family. Mocko shows that these rituals, once central for Malla kings, were later appropriated and reshaped by the Shah dynasty. They reinforced Gyanendra's critical succession in 2001, but became sites for contesting and dismantling the monarchy...

.... MALLA, P. S. Economic development of Nepal. Royal Nepal economist 5/6 (Oct./Nov. 1963), 25-29. MALLMANN, MARIE-THERESE DE. Les bronzes Nepalais de la collection Sylvain Levi. AA 27 (1964), 134-150. illus. MISHRA, INDRA RAJ. The role of the creative artists in developing countries. Pakistan review 13...