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...Richard Salomon Epigraphical Hybrid Sanskrit: Its Rise, Spread, Characteristics and Relationship to Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit . By Th. Damsteegt . Leiden : E. J. Brill (Orientalia Rheno-Traiectina Vol. 23), 1978 . xiv, 345 pp. Abbreviations, Notes, Index. D.Glds. 96. Copyright ©...

...Robert P. Goldman Ideology and Status of Sanskrit: Contributions to the History of the Sanskrit Language . Edited by Jan E. M. Houben . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1996 . x, 501 pp. $158.25 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 1126 THE JOURNAL...

..., anthropologists talk about language, and classical Indologists about culture. A recent example is the concept of Sanskritization, introduced by anthropologists with obvious reference to Sanskrit, the language to which the main attention of classical Indologists has always been directed. As a student of Sanskrit...

...Robert A. Hueckstedt Poétique du théâtre indien: Lectures du Nāṭyaśāstra . By Lyne Bansat-Boudon . Publications de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient, Vol. 169. Paris : École française d'Extrême-Orient , 1992 . 521 pp. £42.72 (paper). Sanskrit Play Production in Ancient India...

... and assessment. MARTHA A N N SELBY University of Chicago The Style of Bana: An Introduction to Sanskrit Prose Poetry. By ROBERT A. HUECKSTEDT. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1985. xvi, 212 pp. $29.00 (cloth); $13.50 (paper). Robert Hueckstedt's analysis of Bana's prose style joins the work of other...

...Martha Ann Selby Sanskrit Criticism . By V. K. Chari . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1990 . xiv, 302 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 1288 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES a fine translation of a commentary by the guru-scholar...

...Dorothy Figueira The Modernity of Sanskrit . By Simona Sawhney . Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press , 2009 . xi, 213 pp. $22.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Contrary to the claims of Clinton Seely on the jacket cover...

...Frederick M. Smith This useful volume deserves to be consulted by classicists and scholars of modern Hinduism alike. The impact of the Sanskrit epics on modern India cannot be understated, and these studies assist greatly in our understanding of how this came about. Paolo Magnone writes...

...Aditya Adarkar The Sanskrit Hero: Karn.a in Epic Mahabharata . By Kevin McGrath . Leiden and Boston : Brill , 2004 . xii , 260 pp. $87.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H A S I A 783 in depth on the hereditary...

...Stella Kramrisch Silpa Prakāśa: Medieval Orissan Sanskrit Text on Temple Architecture . By Rāmacandra Kaulācāra . Translated and annotated by Alice Boner and Sadāśiva Rath Śārmā . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1966 . lvii , 166 , 102 pp. Plates, Illustrations, Sanskrit Text. 150 Guilders...

...Donald K. Swearer Buddhist Monastic Discipline: The Sanskrit Prātimokṣa Sūtras of the Mahāsāṃghikas and Mūlasarvāstivādins . By Charles S. Prebish . University Park and London : The Pennsylvania State University Press , 1975 . 156 PP. Notes, Appendix, Bibliography. $ 13.00. Copyright...

...Kenneth E. Bryant Classical Hindu Mythology: A Reader in the Sanskrit Purānas . Edited and translated by Cornelia Dimmitt and J. A. B. van Buitenen . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 1978 . xiii, 373 pp. Glossary, Notes on Sources, Index. $17.50 (cloth); $9.95 (paper...

...Richard A. Williams Sanskrit Love Poetry . Translated by W. S. Merwin and J. Moussaieff Masson . Introduction by J. Moussaieff Masson . New York : Columbia University Press , 1977 . xii, 204 pp. Notes to Introduction, Bibliography, Index of Texts. $15.00. Copyright ©...

...Kathryn Hansen Sanskrit Drama in Performance . Edited by Rachel Van M. Baumer and James R. Brandon . Honolulu : The University Press of Hawaii , 1981 . xiv , 318 pp. Photographs, Notes, Glossary, Index. N.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Guy Richard Welbon A Concise Elementary Grammar of the Sanskrit Language . By Jan Gonda . Translated by Gordon B. Ford Jr. , University, Alabama : University of Alabama Press , 1966 . viii, 152 pp. Glossary. $5.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969...

...Walter G. Neevel, Jr. The Smith Āgama Collection: Sanskrit Books and Manuscripts Relating to Pāñcarātra Studies: A Descriptive Catalog . By H. Daniel Smith . Foreword by Agehananda Bharati. Syracuse, N.Y. : Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (Foreign and Comparative Studies...

...Padmanabh S. Jaini Sanskrit Plays from Epic Sources . By H. W. Wells . Baroda, India : University of Baroda Press , 1968 . xi, 258 pp. £ 3.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 BOOK REVIEWS 469 nasals. The principle of biuniqueness is not followed, [n...

...David Kopf Alexander Hamilton (1762–1824), A Chapter in the Early History of Sanskrit Philology . By Rosane Rocher . New Haven : American Oriental Society , 1969 . xii , 128 pp. Index, np. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 464 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Wayne Howard Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 Saṅgīta-Ratnākara of Śārṅgadeva: Sanskrit Text and English Translation with Comments and Notes. Vol. 1: Treatment of Svara . Translated by R. K. Shringy . Supervised by Prem Lata Sharma . Delhi-Varanasi-Patna...

... not only a worthy ode to Professor Pingree, but a worthy step toward providing significant further material to stimulate advancement of Sanskritic mathematical and medical texts. It is worth the read. Finally, Tsutomu Yamashita provides a short series of notes on the Bheḍa(la)saṃhitā , wherein...