The Journal of the American Oriental Society articles from January 1999

The Journal of the American Oriental Society archives from January 1999

A critique of A.C. Graham's reconstruction of the "neo-Mohist canons.".
January 1, 1999... The Neo-Mohist Canons are commonly thought to be the closest thing to logic in ancient China. A. C. Graham's reconstruction of this almost unintelligible text has been hailed as "the single most important study on Chinese logic ever...

The linguistic ideas of Edward Harper Parker.(British historian)
January 1, 1999... INTRODUCTION Edward Harper Parker (1849-1926) was a remarkable scholar whose work is now quite forgotten. He is best known as a British historian of China from the era of Herbert Giles (1845-1935), that is to say, from the last third of...

Why did the Qumran community write in Hebrew?
January 1, 1999... The discovery of Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Nabatean texts among the Dead Sea Scrolls is often cited as evidence that the Qumran sect was multilingual.(1) There is even more impressive evidence, however, that the sect preferred Hebrew as its...

Young Svetaketu: a literary study of an upanisadic story.
January 1, 1999... Of the many interesting individuals we encounter in the vedic literature, Svetaketu, the son of Uddalaka Aruni,(1) comes across as one of the most colorful and true-to-life characters, not least because he is frequently depicted as the vedic...

The Roman Empire as known to Han China.
January 1, 1999... In the centuries on either side of the beginning of the Common Era two great empires dominated opposite ends of the Eurasian continent, Rome in the west and Han in the east. They knew little of one another and had no direct interaction....

In the shadow of the muses: a view of Akkadian literature.
January 1, 1999... I do not know what "poetical" is. Is it honest in deed and word? Is it a true thing? (As You Like It, III. iii. 17) The muses personified the highest aspirations of the artistic and intellectual mind. The daughters of Zeus and...

Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By SUSAN MANN. Stanford: STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1997. Pp. 326 + tables, maps, illustrations. $49.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). In Precious Records, Susan Mann places women at the center of High Qing (c. 1683-1839) history in order to...

Privatization in the Ancient Near East and Classical World.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by MICHAEL HUDSON and BARUCH A. LEVINE. Peabody Museum Bulletin, no. 5; The International Scholars Conference on Ancient Near Eastern Economics, no. 1. Cambridge, Mass.: PEABODY MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND EXTNOLOGY, 1996. Pp. 308. $25...

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: International trade and the Late Bronze Age Aegean.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By ERIC H. CLINE. British Archaeological Reports, International Series, vol. 591. Oxford: TEMPUS REPARATUM, 1994. Pp. xxii + 316, 10 plates. [pounds]34. The subject of the relations between the Aegean world and the East, including Egypt,...

Neo-Assyrian Geography.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by MARIO LIVERANI. Quaderni di Geografia Storica, vol. 5. Rome: HERDER, 1995. Pp. 282, 45 figs., 30 plates. LIt 50,000. The volume under review presents papers read at the international conference on Neo-Assyrian Geography. The...

A Grammar of the Ugaritic Language.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By DANIEL SIVAN. Translated by A. E RAINEY. Handbuch der Orientalistik, vol. 1, no. 28. Leiden: E. J. BRILL, 1997. Pp. xxi + 327. HFl 154, $96.25. Daniel Sivan of Ben-Gurion University wrote this grammar for advanced students and scholars...

Diccionario de la Lengua Ugaritica: vol. 1.(Review)
January 1, 1999... volume 1. By G. DEL OLMO LETE and J. SANMARTIN. Aula Orientalis, Supplement, vol. 7. Sabadell: EDITORIAL AUSA, 1996. Pp. xxvii + 250. Pt 4,904. The growth of Ugaritic lexicography was initially marked by the successive editions of C. H....

Uruk: Die Graber.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By R. M. BOEHMER, F. PEDDE, and B. SALJE. Ausgrabungen in Uruk-Warka, Endberichte, vol. 10. Mainz am Rhein: VERLAG PHILIPP VON ZABERN, 1995. Pp. xx + 236, maps, 271 plates. DM 300. This volume in the series of final reports on the German...

Astral Magic in Babylonia.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By ERICA REINER. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 85, no. 4. Philadelphia: THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 1995. Pp. xiii + 150. $20 (paper). It is a pleasure to observe that an author who has given so much of...

Die mittelassyrischen Briefe aus Tall Seh Hamad.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By EVA CHRISTIANE CANCIK-KIRSCHBAUM. Berichte der Ausgrabung Tall Seh Hamad-Dur-Katlimmu (BATSH), vol. 4; texts, 1. Berlin: DIETRICH REIMER VERLAG, 1996. Pp. x1 + 245, 46 plates. DM 128. The excavation of Tell Sheykh Hamad on the middle...

The Myth of Cosmic Rebellion: A Study of its Reflexes in Ugaritic and Biblical Literature.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By HUGH ROWLAND PAGE, JR. Vetus Testamentum, Supplement, vol. 65. Leiden: E. J. BRILL, 1996. Pp. xiii + 232. HFl 130.50; $82.50. The present study is a revised version of a doctoral dissertation carried out under the direction of F. M....

In Those Distant Days: Anthropology of Mesopotamian Literature in Hebrew.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By SHIN SHIFRA and JACOB KLEIN. Tel Aviv: AM OVED PUBLISHERS, 1996. Pp. 744, 8 color plates. IS 103. For readers of modern Hebrew, the close ethnic and political ties between the ancient Mesopotamian and Hebrew peoples have always...

Palmyrene Aramaic Texts.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By DELBERT R. HILLERS and ELEONORA CUSSINI. The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project. Baltimore: THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1996. Pp. xvii + 458, 3 maps. $65. As stated in the introduction, this book had its origin in the files...

Discourse Analysis of Biblical Literature: What It Is and What It Offers.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by WALTER R. BOVINE. Society of Biblical Literature Semeia Studies. Atlanta: SCHOLARS PRESS, 1995. Pp. x + 264. $44.95 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). The studies in this volume seek to show how the linguistic discipline of discourse...

Divine Service and Its Rewards: Ideology and Poetics in the Hinke Kudurru.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By VICTOR AVIGDOR HUROWITZ. Beer-Sheva, Studies by the Department of Bible and Ancient Near East, vol. 10, Beer-Sheva, Israel: BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1997. Pp. 106, illustrations. $33.50. In this volume Hurowitz offers a detailed...

The Jewish Temple: A Non-Biblical Sourcebook.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By C. T. R. HAYWARD. New York: ROUTLEDGE, 1996. Pp. xvi + 211. $18.95. The enhanced availability of non-biblical Jewish texts from the Second Temple period and other resources has prompted considerable rethinking of the Wellhausenian...

Scholastic Magic: Ritual and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By MICHAEL D. SWARTZ. Princeton: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1996. Pp. xi + 263. $35. It is not easy to review a book on a subject about which you yourself have earlier written extensively. You are bound to keep asking how the author's...

Herrschaft, Konigtum und Staat: Skizzen zur soziokulturellen Entwicklung im monarchischen Israel.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By HERMANN MICHAEL NIEMANN. Forschungen zum Alten Testament, vol. 6. Tubingen: J. C. B. MOHR, 1993. Pp. x + 318. Books on the character of the Israelite monarchy have emerged hot and heavy from the presses in the last decade. Yet the nature...

Das althebraische Verbalsystem aus aramaischer Sicht: Masoretischer Text, Targume und Peschitta.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By STEFAN BOMBECK. Europaische Hochschulschriften, Series XXIII, no. 591. Frankfurt am Main: PETER LANG, 1997. Pp. 251. DM 51.95. This is a slightly reworked dissertation originally supervised by A. Denz and presented in 1995 at the...

The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew: Vol. 3.(Review)
January 1, 1999... [Hebrew Text Omitted]. Edited by DAVID J. A. CLINES. Sheffield: SHEFFIELD ACADEMIC PRESS, 1996. Pp. 242. [pounds]65, $100. This projected eight-volume dictionary of "classical" Hebrew continues to be published at a regular pace. The third...

Studies in Ancient Hebrew Semantics.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by TAKAMITSU MURAOKA. Abr-Nahrain Supplement Series, vol. 4. Louvain: PEETERS PRESS, 1995. Pp. 107. FB 1400 (paper). This work is a collection of studies on the semantics and lexicography of ancient Hebrew, most of which were...

Qumran Cave 4, XIII: The Damascus Document (4Q266-73).(Review)
January 1, 1999... By JOSEPH M. BAUMGARTEN. Discoveries in the Judaean Desert, vol. 18. Oxford: CLARENDON PRESS, 1996. Pp. xix + 236, 42 plates. $135. The first "Qumran" text to have been discovered in modern times was the Damascus Document or Zadokite...

The Use of Scripture in the Damascus Document 1-8, 19-20.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By JONATHAN G. CAMPBELL. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, vol. 228. Berlin and New York: WALTER DE GRUYTER, 1995. Pp. xii + 218. DM 124. This monograph, a reworking of an Oxford D. Phil. dissertation (1991)...

The Five Fragments of the Apocryphon of Ezekiel: A Critical Study.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By JAMES R. MUELLER. Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series, vol. 5. Sheffield: SHEFFIELD ACADEMIC PRESS, 1994. Pp. 196. [pounds]27.50, $41. "Scholars who wish to describe the past . . . must investigate the totality...

The Chronology of the Kings of Israel and Judah.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By GERSHON GALIL. Studies in the History of Culture of the Ancient Near East, vol. 9. Leiden: E. J. BRILL, 1996. Pp. 200 + 35 tables. HF1 102, $66 (cloth). The chronological data for the kings of Israel and Judah embedded in 1-2 Kings are...

Heralds of that Good Realm: Syro-Mesopotamian Gnosis and Jewish Traditions.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By JOHN C. REEVES. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, vol. 41. Leiden: E. J. BRILL, 1996. Pp. xii + 251. HF1 145, $93.75. According to Reeves, his monograph "offers a systematic examination, from a comparative perspective, of the extant...

pour un Oriens Christianus Novus: Repertoire des dioceses syriaques orientaux et occidentaux.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By JEAN MAURICE FIEY. Beiruter Texte und Studien, vol. 49. Beirut: FRANZ STEINER VERLAG, 1993. Pp. 286. DM 98, OS 765 (paper). More than two and a half centuries ago. Michel Le Quien published his monumental Oriens Christianus, in which he...

The Philistines in Transition: A History from ca. 1000-730 b.c.e.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By CARL S. EHRLICH. Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East, vol. 10. Leiden: E. J. BRILL, 1996. Pp. xii + 235. The focus of historical research has shifted recently to local history and to the study of minorities and...

The Complete Valley of the Kings: Tombs and Treasures of Egypt's Greatest Pharaohs.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By NICHOLAS REEVES and RICHARD H. WILKINSON. London: THAMES AND HUDSON, 1995. Pp. 224, 532 illustrations, 76 in color. $29.95. Here is a study on the burial places of the rulers of Egypt from the New Kingdom, and what a handsome volume it...

La Poesie amoureuse de l'Egypte ancienne: Recherches sur un genre litteraire au Nouvel Empire.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By BERNARD MATHIEU. Bibliotheque d'etude, vol. 115. Cairo: INSTITUT FRANCAIS D'ARCHEOLOGIE ORIENTALE, 1996. Pp. viii + 267, 21 illustrations, 29 plates. Bernard Mathieu began his investigation of ancient Egyptian love poetry with an...

The Nile Mosaic of Palestrina: Early Evidence of Egyptian Religion in Italy.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By P. G. P. MEYBOOM. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, vol. 121. Leiden: E. J. BRILL, 1995. Pp. ix + 411, plates. HFl 215, $123. One of the more intriguing phenomena of antiquity is how the image of Egypt impressed itself upon the...

Der Vertrag zwischen Ramses II. von Agypten und Hattusili III. von Hatti.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By ELMAR EDEL. Wissenschaftliche Veroffentlichung der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, vol. 95. Berlin: GEBR. MANN VERLAG, 1997. Pp. xvi + 109, 75 plates. This wonderful work is, in many ways, the culmination of the late Elmar Edel's...

Die Inschriften der 3. Dynastie: Eine Bestandsaufnahme.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By JOCHEM KAHL, NICOLE KLOTH, and URSULA ZIMMERMANN. Agyptologische Abhandlungen, vol. 56. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ VERLAG, 1995. Pp. vii + 262, drawings. DM 88. The formative period of the pharaonic state constitutes a particularly...

Ancient Egyptian Literature: History and Forms.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by ANTONIO LOPRIENO. Probleme der Agyptologie, vol. 10. Leiden: E. J. BRILL, 1996. Pp. xvi + 721. HFl 305, $197. In this volume, more than twenty scholars approach the phenomenon of ancient Egyptian literature, covering not just the...

The Animal World of the Pharaohs.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By PATRICK F. HOULIHAN. New York: THAMES AND HUDSON, 1996. Pp. xv + 245, map, 153 figures. $39.95. Animals figured in almost every aspect of ancient Egyptian life. Practically, they provided food and transport, served various roles in...

Choice Cuts: Meat Production in Ancient Egypt.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By SALIMA IKRAM. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, vol. 69. Leuven: PEETERS PRESS and DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL STUDIES, 1995. Pp. xvii + 326. Animals figured in almost every aspect of ancient Egyptian life. Practically, they provided food and...

Environmental Research in Support of Archaeological Investigations in the Yemen Arab Republic: 1985-1987.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By MAURICE J. GROLIER, ROBERT BRINKMANN, and JEFFREY A. BLAKELY. The Wadi al-Jubah Archaeological Project, vol. 5. Washington: AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE STUDY OF MAN, 1996. Pp. xxxix + 469 (cloth). $85. The final chapter of this massive...

Dharmottaras kurze Untersuchung der Gultigkeit einer Erkenntnis: Laghupramanyapariksa, vol. 1: Tibetischer text und Sanskritmaterialien: vol. 2: Ubersetzung.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By HELMUT KRASSER. Vienna: VERLAG DER OSTERREICHISCHEN AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN, 1991. Pp. 162 + 150. DM 50 (paper). In recent years remarkable progress has been made in the studies of Dharmottara's works. Some Sanskrit fragments of his...

The Bodhisattvapitaka: Its Doctrines, Practices, and their Position in Mahayana Literature.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By ULRICH PAGEL. Buddhica Brittanica, series continua, vol. 5. Tring. Herts.: THE INSTITUTE OF BUDDHIST STUDIES, 1995. Pp. xvi + 478. The volume under review is a revised version of Ulrich Pagel's doctoral dissertation, supervised by Dr....

The Verses on the Precious Jewel Prosody Composed by Amitacakarar, with the Commentary by Kunacakarar (Amitacakarar iyarriya Yapparunkalakkarikai, kunacakarar iyarriya uraiyutan).(Review)
January 1, 1999... Text, translation, and notes by ULRIKE NIKLAS. Publications du Departement d'Indologie, vol. 79. Pondichery: INSTITUT FRANCAIS DE PONDICHERY, 1993. Pp. xvii + 467. This fine volume is a translation and reprint with careful, if rather...

Arts and Crafts of Tamilnadu.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by NANDITHA KRISHNA, with photographs by V. K. RAJAMANI. Ahmedabad: MAPIN PUBLISHING, 1992. Pp. 179, color plates. $45. Another in Mapin's "Living Traditions of India" series, this beautifully produced multi-authored volume...

The Fruits of Our Desiring: An Inquiry Into the Ethics of the Bhagavadgita for Our Times.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by JULIUS LIPNER. Essays from the Inaugural Conference of the Dharam Hinduja Institute of Indic Research. Calgary, Alberta: BAYEUX ARTS, 1997. Pp. 121. The Fruits of our Desiring consists of "Prolegomena" by the editor Julius Lipner...

Devi: Goddesses of India.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by JOHN STRATTON HAWLEY and DONNA MARIE WULFF. Berkeley and Los Angeles: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 1996. Pp. 352. $17.95 (paper). When I sat down to review Devi: Goddesses of India, I assumed that I would simply be reading a...

The Pravargya Brahmana of the Taittiriya Aranyaka: An Ancient Commentary on the Pravargya Ritual.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By JAN E. M. HOUBEN. Delhi: MOTILAL BANARSIDASS, 1991. Pp. xv + 146. Rs 125. This work, which is based on the author's dissertation at the University of Utrecht, is an extensively annotated translation of Taittiriya Aranyaka 5 (Andhra)...

Verba Indoarica: Die Primaren und dekundaren Wurzeln der Sanskrit-Sprache, pt. I: Radices Primariae.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By CHLODWIG H. WERBA. Vienna: VERLAG DER OSTERREICHISCHEN AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN, 1997. Pp. viii + 590. OS 698 (paper). This work is unlike any of its obvious predecessors - Westergaard's Radices . . ., Whitney's Roots, Verb-Forms .... .

Squatters in Moab: A Study in Iconography, History, Epigraphy, Orthography, Ethnography, Religion and Linguistic of the ANE.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By KOOT VAN WYK. Berrien Springs, Mich.: Louis HESTER, 1993. Pp. 208. As the subtitle of the volume makes explicit, this is a study that attempts to cross disciplines in the analysis of ancient Moab. The point of departure is the...

Targumic Toseftot to the Prophets.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By RIMON KASHER. Sources for the Study of Jewish Culture, vol. 2. Jerusalem: WORLD UNION OF JEWISH STUDIES, 1996. Pp. 314. $28. [Hebrew.] The author has compiled one hundred and fifty targum toseftot passages from over one hundred...

Solar Omens of Enuma Anu Enlil: Tablets 23 (24)-29 (30).(Review)
January 1, 1999... By WILFRED H. VAN SOLDT. Uitgaven van het Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te Istanbul, vol. 73. Leiden: NEDERLANDS HISTORISCH-ARCHAEOLOGISCH INSTITUUT TE ISTANBUL, 1995. Pp. [xi] + 151 + 15 plates. HFl 58 (paper). For a long...

Mesopotamian Civilization: The Material Foundations.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By D. T. POTTS. Ithaca: CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1997. Pp. xx + 366, illustrations. $67.50. At a time when Near Eastern archaeologists are looking into the "construction" of the discipline and its discursive practices and are turning away...

Essays on Ancient Anatolia and its Surrounding Civilizations.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by H. I. H. PRINCE TAHAKITO MIKASA. Bulletin of the Middle Eastern Culture Center in Japan, vol. 8. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ VERLAG, 1995. Pp. vii + 243. DM 118. The present volume consists of twelve articles, including a lengthy...

Taoism: Growth of a Religion.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By ISABELLE ROBINET. Translated by PHYLLIS BROOKS. Stanford: STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1997. Pp. xx + 296. $39.50 (cloth); $13.95 (paper). No one has done more than Isabelle Robinet, both in scholarly and popular venues, to illuminate the...

To Establish Peace: Being the Chronicle of Later Han for the Years 189 to 220 a.d. as Recorded in Chapters 59 to 69 of the Zizhi tongjian of Sima Guang.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Translated and annotated by RAFE DE CRESPIGNY. Two volumes. Asian Studies Monographs, new series, no. 21. Canberra: FACULTY OF ASIAN STUDIES, AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, 1996. Pp. 635 + maps, tables. $60 (paper). [Distributed by University...

Zoroastrians in Britain.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By JOHN R. HINNELLS. Oxford: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1996. Pp. xiv + 336. $70. In a series of publications dating back to 1978 Professor Hinnells has studied various aspects of the history of Zoroastrianism and Zoroastrians in the...

The Devimahatmya Paintings Preserved at the National Archives, Kathmandu.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By MASAHIDE MORI and YOSHIKO MORI. Translated by ROLF W. GIEBEL. Bibliotheca Codicum Asiaticorum, vol. 9. Tokyo: THE CENTRE FOR EAST ASIAN CULTURAL STUDIES, FOR UNESCO, 1995. Pp. 125, 124 pl. 6300. The 124 paintings illustrated in this...

Subaltern Studies: Vol. 9.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by AMIN SHAHID and DIPESH CHAKRABARTY. New York: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1996. Pp. 284. $29.95. This volume, far more than any previous one, explores the varieties of dominance by means of which one group exploits another in the...

Semiosis in Hindustani Music.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By JOSE LUIZ MARTINEZ. Acta Semiotica Fennica, vol. 5. Imatra, Finland: INTERNATIONAL SEMIOTICS INSTITUTE, 1997. Pp. xix + 396. In this study, which was presented in May 1997 as a doctoral dissertation in musicology at the University of...

The Cilappatikaram of Ilanko Atikal, An Epic of South India.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Translated, with an introduction and postscript, by R. PARTHASARATHY. New York: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1993. Pp. xix + 426. $17.50 (paper). The Cilappatikaram of Ilanko Atikal ("the Young Prince") is the earliest, major Tamil example...

Untying the Knots in Buddhism: Selected Essays.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By ALEX WAYMAN. Buddhist Tradition Series, vol. 2g. Delhi: MOTILAL BANARSIDASS, 1997. Pp. xiv + 617. Rs 495. Together with his earlier collection of essays, edited by George E. Elder, Buddhist Insight: Essays by Alex Wayman (Delhi: Motilal...

The Debate of King Milinda: An Abridgement of the Milinda Panha.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by BHIKKHU PESALA. Buddhist Tradition Series, vol. 14. Delhi: MOTILAL BANARSIDASS, 1991. Pp. xx + 125. Rs 125. The Milinda Panha, a highly authoritative, extracanonical Buddhist Pali text dating from perhaps the first or second...

Buddha in the Crown: Avalokitesvara in the Buddhist Traditions of Sri Lanka.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By JOHN CLIFFORD HOLT. New York and Oxford: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1991. Pp. xvi + 269, two line maps, 38 plates. Sri Lanka is typically identified as a Theravada Buddhist country. Although dominated by Theravada, Sri Lanka's culture is...

The Udana Commentary (Paramatthadipani nama Udanatthakatha): By Dhammapala.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By DHAMMAPALA. Translated by PETER MASEFIELD. Two volumes. Sacred Books of the Buddhists, vols. 43, 45. Oxford: THE PALI TEXT SOCIETY, 1994-95. Pp. xvi + 1171. The Udanatthakatha is an exhaustive commentary explaining the terminology of...

Religions of India in Practice.(Review)
January 1, 1999... Edited by DONALD S. LOPEZ, JR. Princeton Readings in Religion. Princeton, N.J.: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1995. Pp. 655. Although I am a historian, I was asked to review this book because of my efforts to record the experience of Hinduism...

Praises to a Formless God.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By DAVID N. LORENZEN. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 1996. Pp. xiii + 303. $16.95 (paper). In this book Lorenzen again displays his remarkable quality of combining rigorous text-editing - a rare commodity in Indian studies...

Falconry in the Valley of the Indus.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By RICHARD E BURTON. Third edition. Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints. Karachi: DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE, GOVERNMENT OF SINDH and OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1997. Pp. xxiv + 83; 4 plates. $21.95. In 1849 Richard Francis Burton (1821-90)...

The Little Clay Cart.(Review)
January 1, 1999... An English translation of the Mrcchakatika of Sudraka, as adapted for the stage by A. L. BASHAM. Edited by Arvind Sharma. Introduced by Robert E. Goodwin. SUNY Series in Hindu Literature. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 1994. Pp. xi...

The Bhagavata-purana Miniature Paintings from the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute Manuscript Dated 1648.(Review)
January 1, 1999... With an Introduction and Synopses by TADASHI SHIMIZU. Translated by ROLF W. GIEBEL. Bibliotheca Codicum Asiaticorum, vol. 7. Tokyo: THE CENTRE FOR EAST ASIAN CULTURAL STUDIES, FOR UNESCO, 1993. Pp. 46, 128 plates. $63.10. The initiative to...

Indische Handschriften, pt. 12: Die Sammlung der Niedersachsischen Staats- und Universitatsbibliothek Gottingen.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By GERHARD EHLERS. Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, vol. II.12. Pp. 269. Stuttgart: FRANZ STEINER VERLAG, 1995. DM 124. The first volume of the Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, VOHD...

Reflections on the Mahabharata War.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By M. A. MEHENDALE. Simla: INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDY, 1995. Pp. 65. Rs 75. This small but cleverly argued volume consists of three chapters. The title of the first chapter raises the question: "The Mahabharata War - A...

Yaksagana.(Review)
January 1, 1999... By K. SHIVARAMA KARANTH. Second edition. New Delhi: INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE ARTS; ABHINAV PUBLICATIONS, 1997. Pp. 252. Rs 450. This is a largely unchanged republication of the 1975 English edition, which appeared then with a...

APPROACHING THE VAKYAPADIYA.
January 1, 1999... In connection with a recent work on the Sambandhasamudde[acute{s}]a of the v[bar{a}]kyapad[bar{i}]ya, I consider some major issues concerning Bhartrhari, the tradition he represents, and how a modern scholar might approach the...