The Kuśa-Jātaka.

A Critical and Comparative Study by Tilak Raj Chopra

Review by: Ernest Bender
Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 90, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1970), p. 413
Published by: American Oriental Society
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/598232 .
Accessed: 13/06/2014 00:28

Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at .
http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp

.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of
content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms
of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.

American Oriental Society is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of
the American Oriental Society.

http://www.jstor.org

This content downloaded from 185.44.79.22 on Fri, 13 Jun 2014 00:29:00 AM

All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
 Brief Reviews of Books
Jambfisdmicariuof Virakavi. By VIMAL PRAKASH JAIN.
(J~Anapitha Martidev! Jaina GranthamAl: Apa-
bhram.a Grantha No. 7) Pp. 16 + 402. Calcutta,
Varanasi, Delhi: BHXRATIYA JRXNAPITHA PRA-
KASAN. 1968. Rs. 15.00.
A critical edition based on 5 mss. of this hitherto un-
published Apabhramia poem composed in 1019 A.D.
which is a biography of the last Kevalin who, according
to Jain tradition, died in 463 B.C. The Ardhamagadhi
canon records JambfisvAm!as passing on to his pupils
the Aftga texts. Dr. Jain has translated the text into
Hindi, with an exhaustive introduction directed to the
literary value of the work, its linguistic features, and
content, and appended an edition of the Sanskrit gloss
to the text, based on three mss. In the glossary are
listed the Apabhramrsowords of the text and their
Sanskrit equivalents. An impressive doctoral disserta-
tion.
ERNEST BENDER
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Vedic Studies. Volume Two. By A. VENKATASUBBIAH.
Pp. 282. Adyar, Madras: THE ADYAR LIBRARY
AND RESEARCH CENTRE. 1968.$3.00 Rs. 15.00, 23 sh.
Volume one of Dr. Venkatasubbiah's Vedic Studies
appeared in 1932.The first five of this collection of seven
studies first appeared in the Adyar Library Bulletin
(vols. 26-30). The arguments are well-structured and
the conclusions persuasive reflecting Dr. Venkatasub-
biah's reputation as one of India's top-ranking Vedic
scholars.
ERNEST BENDER
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
The Kuga-Jataka. A Critical and Comparative Study.
By TILAK RAJ CHOPRA. (Alt- und Neu-Indische
Studien herausgegeben vom Seminar fur Kultur
und Geschichte Indiens an der Universitat Ham-
burg. Bd. 13) Pp. 210. Hamburg: CRAM, DE GRUYTER
AND Co., 1966. DM 25.
An exhaustive study in depth and breadth, of the
three earliest versions (i.e. two in verse and one in prose
of the Mahavastu and that of the Pali JAtaka) of this
Buddhist tale. An impressive example of the thorough
exploitation of a text.
ERNEST BENDER
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Descriptive Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts. Volume
4, Parts I and II. By PANDIT K. PARAMESWARA
AITHAL. xxv + 623 and 404. (The Adyar Library
Pp.
Series, Volume 96) Adyar: THE ADYAR LIBRARY
AND RESEARCH CENTRE. 1968.
This volume, bound in two separate parts, deals with
stotra manuscripts preserved in the Adyar Library
This content downloaded from 185.44.79.22 on Fri, 13 Jun 2014 00:29:00 AM
All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
413
which total 3,244 mss under 1173 titles. The mss. are
distributed under fifteen sections: 1. Ganapati-stotras,
2. Subrahmanya-stotras, 3. Devi-stotras, 4. Siva-
stotras, 5. Visnu-stotras, 6. Lakam!-stotras, 7. Garuda-
stotras, 8. Hanumat-stotras, 9. Navagraha-stotras,
10. Nadi-tirtha-stotras, 11. Gdyatri-stotras, 12. Saras-
vat!-stotras, 13. Acdrya-stotras, 14. Miscellaneous-
stotras, and 15. Jaina-stotras. Each of these sections is
sub-divided into Pra~amns&-stotrasand Ndma-stotras.
The following information wherever possible, is given
for each manuscript under eleven columns: the serial
number, accession number, the title, the author, the
commentator, the writing material, the script, the size,
number of folios and number of lines per leaf and the
number of letters in each line; the extent (i.e. complete/
incomplete); the condition and age; and remarks on
special features (i.e. other titles of a ms.; whether a
printed version is available and its location; variations
in the mss.). Where one ms. has more than one title
an "appropriate (or more popular) title" is assigned to
it and the alternate titles listed in the title-column or
the last column. An Index contains all the different
titles of a ms., with references to the main entry of the
catalogue. The concordance makes it possible to corre-
late the titles of mss. contained in other catalogues
with those of this Catalogue. Part II, the Appendix,
gives the beginning and final lines of each unpublished
ms, along with its colophon. Very short stotras are
printed in their entirety. Published stotras are described
in the first section, but if there is a significant variation
in the ms(s). from the printed edition, these are listed
in column eleven of the descriptive chart of Part I
and relevant extracts printed in the Appendix, Part II.
Some of these rare and important stotras have ap-
peared in the Stotrasammuccayaof the Adyar Library
Series. Others, no doubt, will quickly attract the in-
terest of other researchers. A happy conclusion of a
most worthy undertaking.
ERNEST BENDER
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Stotrasamuccaya.A Collection of Rare and Unpublished
Stotras. I. Edited by PANDIT K. PARAMESWARA
AITHAL. (The Adyar Library Series. Vol. 99) Pp.
xvi + 308. Adyar, Madras: THE ADYAR LIBRARY
AND RESEARCH CENTRE. 1969.
The editor had announced the appearance of this
compilation of stotras (devotional poems) in the Intro-
duction to his Descriptive Catalogue of Sanskrit Manu-
scripts (The Adyar Library Series, Vol. 96), the prepa-
ration of which made possible this collection, comprising
poems dedicated to Saiva deities. Aside from their
central content, the poems provide data relating to
temples and pilgrimmage sites, as well as the names of
authors, many of whom hitherto unknown.
ERNEST BENDER
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA