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...Thomas R. Trautmann Cāṇakya-Nīti-Text-Tradition. Volume II, Part II , Cāṇakya's Six Versions of Maxims: An Attempt to Reconstruct the Ur-Text . By Ludwik Sternbach . Hoshiarpur, Punjab : Vishveshvaranand Institute , 1967 . 679 pp. Errata. Rs. 30.00. Vishveshvaranand Indological Series 29...

... with the classical texts, there is the Xuanxue philosophical commentary that “translates” the often anecdotal or aphoristic sagely bequests into explicit political philosophy. The strategies deducted from this philosophy are designed to allow even mediocre rulers, assisted by equally mediocre advisors, to calculate...

... inscribed a long text in the meter of the Three Character Classic , memorized by every schoolboy. “In the southern mountains, the forests were profuse,” the inscription begins. It tells of how Liu's ancestors led their nomadic people into these mountains to hunt during a time when they wore hemp...

...Gerald Figal While biographies are unfashionable in some quarters these days, the biographical vignettes Christy provides at the onset and then sprinkles throughout the book are crucial as context for the complex and nuanced story he tells. Rather than a set of fully formed and disembodied texts...

... The Mahārāshṭa Purāṇa An Eighteenth-Century Bengali Historical Text . Translated and annotated by Edward C. Dimock and P. C. Gupta . Honolulu : East-West Center Press , 1965 . For the Association for Asian Studies, xxii, 86 . Bibliography and Index. $5.00. Copyright ©...

...A. L. Becker Bagus Umabra. Prince of Koripan (Balinese text and an English translation and commentary) . By C. Hooykaas Dr . London : The British Museum , 1968 . 55 pp. £ 2.10.0. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 652 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES standard...

...J. W. Spellman Kauṭilya and the Arthaśāstra: A Statistical Investigation of the Authorship and Evolution of the Text . By Thomas R. Trautmann . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1971 . xviii, 227 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. 42 Du. guilders. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...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...

...John Blofeld The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch: The Text of the Tun-Huang Manuscript . By Philip B. Yampolsky . New York : Columbia University Press , 1967 . xiv, 212 pp. Index, Bibliography, Glossary, Notes to the Text, Abbreviations, Tables. $8.50. Copyright © Association...

...Kenneth Chen The Śatapañcāśatka of Mātrceta : Sanskrit Text, Tibetan translation and commentary, and Chinese translation . Edited by D. R. Shackleton Bailey , with an introduction, English translation and notes. Cambridge : The University Press , 1951 . xi, 237 p. Copyright ©...

... , 2014 . ISBN: 9780824838607 (cloth, also available as e-book). Reading Colonial Japan: Text, Context, and Critique . Edited by Michelle M. Mason and Helen J. S. Lee . Stanford, Calif .: Stanford University Press , 2012 . ISBN: 9780804776967 (cloth, also...

...Arthur E. Link The Jātakastava or Praise of the Buddha's Former Births : Indo-Scythian (Khotanese) Text, English Translation, Grammatical Notes, and Glossaries . By Mark J. Dresden . Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 45 , Part 5, 1955. Philadelphia...

...Andrew Quintam Buddhist Text Translation Society's Buddhism A to Z . Compiled By Ronald B. Epstein . In collaboration with the Editorial Committee of the Buddhist Text Translation Society. Burlingame, Calif. : Buddhist Text Translation Society , 2003 . xxiii , 284 pp. $21.95 (paper...

...Edward Mack Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity . By Maeda Ai . Edited by James A. Fujii . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2004 . xv , 391 pp. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 1138 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S...

...Robert Wessing Killing a Buffalo for the Ancestors: A Zhuang Cosmological Text from Southwest China . By David Holm . Northern Illinois University Monograph Series on Southeast Asia, no. 5. DeKalb : Southeast Asia Publications, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois...

...Tsu-Lin Mei Fifty-Five T'ang Poems: A Text in the Reading and Understanding of T'ang Poetry . By Hugh M. Stimson . New Haven : Yale University , (Far Eastern Publications). 1976 . x, 239 pp. $7.50 T'ang Poetic Vocabulary . By Hugh M. Stimson . New Haven : Yale University...

... OF ASIAN STUDIES FEBRUARY 1979 Shifting Perspectives on Text and History: A Reflection on Shelly Errington's Paper* Tu WEI-MING The purpose of Shelly Errington's "Some Comments on Style in the Meanings of the Past" is to explore the relation between Classical Malay hikayat and the events of the past...