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This digest summarises recent articles from Oriental journals. From "Ancient India" it reports K.A. Chowdhury and S.S. Ghosh’s identification of timber remains from the Harappa excavations, suggesting that the Indus valley near Harappa had scrubby forest and marshlandfile:///home/oai/share/563029_compressed-327-430.pdf#:~:text=K,limited%20to%20a%20few%20months. B.B. Lal’s study of copper hoards associates newly discovered implements with a culture linked to Proto‑Australoid tribes and a distinctive pottery type from Hastinapurafile:///home/oai/share/563029_compressed-327-430.pdf#:~:text=of%20the%20year%E2%80%99,Australoid%20group. V.D. Krishnaswami and K.V. Soundararajan survey palaeolithic and microlithic tool industries in the Singrauli basin, while A. Ghosh’s excavation at Rajgir reveals varied pottery and a unique post‑cremation burialfile:///home/oai/share/563029_compressed-327-430.pdf#:~:text=A,C. T.D. Garlola examines weights of punch‑marked coinsfile:///home/oai/share/563029_compressed-327-430.pdf#:~:text=T,Madhya%20Bbarat. Other journals feature N. Aryaswami Sastri’s work on Abhidharma problems and A. Krishna Warrier’s discussion of bhakti and mukti in the Svetasvatara Upanishadfile:///home/oai/share/563029_compressed-327-430.pdf#:~:text=4%E0%AB%A65,36%E0%AB%AB%E0%AB%AF%20of%20avijfiapti. Summaries from the Journal of the Ganganatha Jha Research Institute include P.K. Gode’s chronology of Vedanta commentaries and Ram Shankar Bhattacharya’s argument that Bhartrhari lived no later than the third century CEfile:///home/oai/share/563029_compressed-327-430.pdf#:~:text=Journal%20of%20Lhe%20Ganganatha%20Jha,and%20may%20be%20even%20earlier%E2%80%99. Additional papers investigate Kautilya’s contributions to legal history, Panini’s references to earlier grammarians and editions of minor Puranas. Together, these abstracts provide a cross‑section of current research spanning archaeology, epigraphy, numismatics, philosophy and linguistics.