Select Contents of Oriental Journals

Summary

This section summarises articles from recent Oriental journals. In the Annals of Oriental Research, K. Ramakrishnaiya studies Dravidian phonetics; C. Kunhan Raja publishes extracts from Sarvanukramani‑padya‑vivriti and notes a lost Niruktavritti; he also argues that the second half of Kalidasa’s Raghuvamsha is a later interpolation based on thematic and genealogical discrepancies. V. Raghavan clarifies ancient south Indian geographical names: he identifies ‘Prebara’ as a river near Aparanta, argues that the Asmaka‑vamsa poem dealt with kings of the Asmaka region contiguous to Vidarbha, and defines ‘Pallava’ as the land ruled by Pallava kings, explaining Trairajya‑Pallava as the Pallava kingdom comprising three unitsfile:///home/oai/share/split_articles/Select_Contents_of_Oriental_Journals_409-413.pdf#:~:text=Jaina%20Vidya%2C%20vol,parts%20of%20Northern%20India%20during. The Jaina Vidya journal reports on the collective title Mulasutras for four Ardha‑Magadhi Jain canonical texts, presents evidence of Jain patronage during the Gupta age, and translates four farmans issued by Emperor Akbar instructing officials to respect Jain monks and forbid animal slaughter during festivalsfile:///home/oai/share/split_articles/Select_Contents_of_Oriental_Journals_409-413.pdf#:~:text=Jaina%20Vidya%2C%20vol,of%20animals%20during%20Jain%20festivals. P. K. Gode dates Ramacandra’s dramaturgical treatise Natyadarpana to 1150–1170 CEfile:///home/oai/share/split_articles/Select_Contents_of_Oriental_Journals_409-413.pdf#:~:text=P,3%20%281941. The Journal of the Benares Hindu University features papers on the history of the Saka satraps, arguing from inscriptions and coins that the successors of Castana withdrew from Malwa and Gujarat but retained power in Kathiawar until displaced by Candragupta Vikramadityafile:///home/oai/share/split_articles/Select_Contents_of_Oriental_Journals_409-413.pdf#:~:text=Journal%20of%20the%20Benares%20Hindu,until%20they%20were%20finally%20%E0%AA%AA%E0%AA%AA. The Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society contains research on ancient Indian colonisation in Malaya. The United Provinces Historical Society Journal highlights V. S. Agrawala’s study of Gupta‑period terracotta figurines from Rajghat, noting their variety of hairstyles and preserved painting, and B. S. Upadhyaya’s argument that the battle in Kalidasa’s Malavikagnimitra occurred on the Indus rather than the Kali Sindhfile:///home/oai/share/split_articles/Select_Contents_of_Oriental_Journals_409-413.pdf#:~:text=Journal%20of%20the%20United%20Provinoes,Incidentally%2C%20the%20north. Other articles examine the extent of the Sunga empire, iconography of the goddess Lakshmi, Mughal‑era nobles and an unpublished work on the Nawabs of Oudh. The Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society publishes translations from Lassen’s Indische Alterthumskunde, a biography of Nawab Munir‑ud‑Daula and a Tibetan account of Bengal. Together these summaries illustrate the diversity of current research across linguistics, literature, history, epigraphy and numismatics.