Chāgaleya Upaniṣad by Louis RenouReview by: E. B.Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 82, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1962), p. 280Published by: American Oriental SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/597958 .
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La Lune; mythes et rites; tgypte, Srumer, Babylone, Hittites, Canaan, Israel, Islam, Iran, Inde, Cam- bodge, Japon, Chine, Sib6rie. (Sources Orientales V.) Pp. 374. Paris: ADITIONS DU SEUmI, 1962. Articles of a "semi-popular" nature by various specialists. Index. (E. H. S.)
American Stutdies in Altaic Linguistics. Edited by NIcHoLAs POPPE. Indian University Publications, Uralic and Altaic Series, Vol. 13. Pp. viii + 351. Bloomington: INDIANA UNIVE1SITY, and The Hague: MOUTON & Co., 1962. Contains Nicholas Poppe, " Altaic Studies in the United States "; William M. Austin, "The Phonemics and Morphophonemes of Manchu"; James Bosson and B. Unensecen, " Some Notes on the Dialect of the Klihorchin Mongols "; Jlnos Eckmann, " The Turkish Dialect of Edirne "; Gerd Fraenkel, "Mutual Intelligibility Between Turkish of Turkey and Azerbaijani "; Raymond J. Herbert, "Karacay Phonology"; Fred W. House- holder, Jr., "Azerbaijani Onomatopes "; Lawrence Krader, "Ethnonymy of Kazakh "; John R. Krue- ger, " Morphophonemic Change in Chuvash Verb Stems "; R. B. Lees, "A Compact Analysis for the Turkish Personal Morphemes "; John Lotz, " Thoughts on Phonology as Applied to the Turkish Vowels "; Samuel E. Martin, " Phonetic Symbolism in Korean "; Antoine Mostaert, "A propos d'une priere au feu"; Hidehiro Okada, "Color-Names in Manchu"; Denis Sinor, "Tayar Tavar Tonap
Tar Tara"; Andree F. Sjoberg, "The Pho- nology of Standard Uzbek "; John C. Street, "Kalmyk Shwa "; Morris Swadesh, " Archaic Doublets in Altaic "; Lloyd B. Swift, " Some As- pects of Stress and Pitch in Turkish Syntactic Patterns." (E. H. S.)
Grammaire Sanscrite. By Louis RENOU. Pp. xviii + 570 + 19. Paris: ADRIEN-MAISONNEUVE, 1961. A reprint of the work which first appeared in 1930 in two volumes-now bound in one volume, with a reduction of page size from 61" X 911" to 5HB" x 7k". Misprints in the text have been corrected and references listed in the Addenda to noteworthy studies which have been published in the years intervening. One need only refer to Professor Franklin Edgerton's review of the first edition (Language, Vol. VII, No. 2, June 1931, pp. 151- 154) in which he wrote: "The appearance of a genuinely new and scholarly Sanskrit grammar is a rare event. The author of this book, a compara- tively young man, has already shown himself worthy of the great traditions of the French school of Indologists." (E. B.)
The Hindu View of Life. By S. RADHAKRISHNAN. Pp. 92. New York: THE MACMILLAN CO., 1962. A paper-back reprint of the Upton lectures delivered by the present President of India in 1926 at Man- chester College, Oxford. They were first published in 1927 and went through a succession of impres- sions, the sixth of which appeared in 1941. The author, an acknowledged scholar of Indian philoso- phy, intends to convey through this brief survey an idea of the spirit of Hinduism to the general reader.
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Chagaleya Upanisad. Translated and annotated by Louis RENOU. (Les Upanishad XVII). Pp. 15. Paris: ADRIEN-MAISONNEUVE, 1959. There may be a touch of intentional humor in this Upani~ad where, during a meeting of reis for a sacrifice on the banks of the sacred river Sarasvati, one of their number is excluded from the rites because of his low birth. He takes his revenge by posing problematic ques- tions for which the others have no answers. Renou suggests that the linguistic deviations in the text may be partly attributed to the author and partly to the imperfections in the mechanism of trans- mission. (E. B.)
The Early Rulers of Khajurd ho. By SISIR KUMAR MisRA. Pp. xiii + 253. Calcutta: FIRMA K. L. MUKHOPADHYAY, 1958. A systematic attempt at a definitive historical study of the Candellas of Bun- delkhand, known to students of history as the most prominent dynasties to hold sway in northern India for several centuries before Islam established its Imperial power; it is famed among students of art and architecture as the builders of Khajuraho, that ancient city of temples, which stands to this day as a monument to their sense of beauty and taste. This work is a happy blend of the archaeological with literary sources, resulting in an important historical document. (E. B.)
A Critical Study of the Nivids. By S. P. NIYOGI. Pp. x + 85. Calcutta: FIRMA K. L. MUKHOPADHYAY,
1961. There is a difference of opinions among Vedic scholars regarding the authenticity of the text of the Nivid mantras. The author claims that, pur- suing traditional Vedic verbal tradition, they have been handed down from teacher to pupil, like other Vedic mantras. Moreover, they are part of the daily recitiation (svddhyaya) of the gakala recension of of the ]Rgveda and, therefore, their authenticity cannot be questioned. The present work is the result of an attempt to organize systematically the various aspects of the mantras in order to sub- stantiate the validity of their position in the Vedic
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