Indian Antiquary Vol 12

SR No.: 032504
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 390
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 18 MB

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OCTOBER, 1883.]
BOOK NOTICE.
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as cool and excellent as you could desire, whilst at the gates of the great hall there are carved beautiful figures of the stature of giants, but of art so subtle and exquisite that better could not be wrought in silver; and many other fine things which we omit for brevity.
"And enquiring from this old man about the work, and what his opinion was as to who had made it, he told us that without doubt the work was made by order of the father of St. Josaphat, to bring him up there in seclusion, as the story tells. And as this informs us that he was the son of a great king in India, it may well be, as we have just said, that he (St. Josaphat) was the very Budko of whom they relate such marvels." (Dec. v., liv. vi., cap. ii.)"
H. YULE. London, August 28, 1883.
as the times went, a kindly and impartial man, than of Mulraj, who was mean, grasping, suspicious and vacillating in character.
Sdwan Mall and his son Ramdas. One day a peasant complained to the Diwan that some chief had destroyed his crop by turning his horses loose to graze in the field. Sawan Mall asked the man if he could point out the offender in Darbâr. The peasant pointed to Ramdas, the Diwin's eldest son. He admitted the complaint to be just, and Sawan Mall ordered him to be imprisoned. The injured man begged for his pardon, but for several days Ramdas remained in confinement and his spirit was so broken by this punishment that he fell ill and died shortly after his release.
R. C. TEMPLE
NOTE ON THE STORY OF MÚLRAJ
AND HIS SON. In vol. XI, p. 41 ante, I gave a short story cur. rent all over the Panjâb illustrating the sacred character of the dohai or poetic justice of the celebrated Diwân Mùlraj of Maltan. It purport. ed to say that the Diwan put his favourite son to death for robbing his garden after the gardener had demanded the protection of the Diwan's do. hat. I have since chanced on the real tale in Griffin's Panjab Chiefs, which ought to be told, with modifications, of the greater Diwan Sawan Mall, Malraj's father. The victim was Malraj's elder brother Råmdas, who died in 1831, not his son Harisingh, who survived his father for many years as a Government pensioner on Rs. 360 a month. Sawan Mall was murdered in 1844, and Malraj, as is well known, died in captivity at Calcutta in 1850. From the true version of the tale it appears that the circumstances, which the Panjabis have poeticised into the pretty story of MQlraj and his son, really occurred in 1830.
I give the story in Sir Lepel Griffin's own words, with the additional note that it is much more characteristic of Sawan Mall, who was above all,
KIRTTANA. At pp. 228 ff. above, Professor Bhandarkar has pointed out the true meaning of the two verses contained in lines 14 to 17 of the Baroda grant of the Rashtrakata king Karka II., by explaining the word kérttana as meaning 'a temple, in addi. tion to its usual and etymological sense of praise.' This meaning, which was not known to me when I translated the grant in question, clearly supplies the keynote of the passage. In addition to the authorities quoted by Professor Bhandarkar in support of this meaning of kírttana, I have since found that it is used in the same sense in the five inscriptions of Dôvalabdhi, the grandson of the Chandella king Yasovarmâ, and the son of Krishnapa and Asarvvâ, in the temple of Brahma at
Dudahi' (Archæol. Surv. of India, Vol. X. Plato xxxii.) No. 3 of them, for instance, runs
Maharajadhiraja-Sri-Yasóvarmma-naptra SrtKrishnapa-sutêna mâtsi-Sri-Asarvvå-udar-odbhavêna Chamdell-&nvayêna Sri-Dêvalavdhi(bdhi). [na] kirttanam=idam sarvva[m] karitam
J. F. FLEET, Bo. C. S. Simla, 24th August 1883.
BOOK NOTICE. A CATALOGUE of the BUDDHIST TRIPITAKA. By Bunyiu Beal's catalogue. Mr. Bunyiu Nanjio in 1880 Nanjio, Priest of the Temple, Eastern Hongwanzi, Japan. Oxford, Clarendon Press. 1883.
"thought it his duty to correct this wrong This Catalogue is a rearrangement and expan. arrangement," and we have now before us the sion of that prepared by Mr. Beal in 1876 for the result of his work, viz., the same books classified India Office Labrary. The books were sent from according to the original division by determining Japan, as Mr. Beal explains, in "cases" or characters taken from the Thousand-letter classic. " covers," one hundred and three in number, and Mr. Bunyiu Nanjio has done his work very comas they were sent so they were arranged in Mr. pletely, and with almost "Chinese exactness ; " and
The Academy, Sept. 1, 1883, p. 146.
* Lahore, 1865, pp. 277-278.