Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal The Language of the Mahā-Naya-Prakāsa An Examination of Kāshmiri as Written in the Fifteenth Century

Members of the Asiatic Society of Bengal receive the current numbers of the Memoirs" gratis by virtue of their membership and if ordering back issues directly from the Society have a right to a discount of 25 %. Revised prices of loose numbers of the 4' Memoirs." All previous prices as printed on the issues of back numbers of the Memoirs" of the Asiatic Society of Bengal were cancelled in 192 [...] It is an esoteric treatise belonging to the Trika school of Saiva philosophy and as stated by Pandit Madhuseidatia KauIa in the Short Review" referred to below its theme is " the Maharthaprakaga or the Illumination of the Highest Object in Life " in discussing which the author devotes the greater part of his exposition to a consideration of the mystic properties of the various letters of the S [...] fifteen years afterwards the same man repeated the same stories to Sir Al1rd Stein and the new text was not only verbatim the same as the old but contained the same grammatical slips and the same old words " the meaning of which was unknown to him "76 THE LANGUAGE OF THE MAHA-NAYA-PRAKAA. [...] Barnett and myself the Vytisas of the Lalla-va-kyani it appears that in the case of literary works preserved only by memorial tradition and then after centuries for the first time collected and fixed as to text the text so edited must be in the language of the time of the Vyasa and not in the language in which they were originally composed. [...] nothing written and fixed in writing at abotit the time that the oldest Vedic hymns were composed so that we are unable to gauge the difference between the original form of the hymns and the form given to usf by the Vyasa ; but the parallel case of the alid-naya-prali.la is instructive 'and shows us that the difference must have been great.