The Indian Review August 1916. A Monthly Periodical devoted to the discussion of all topics of Interest

'531 cession shown to Moslems by the Morley-Minto scheme was regarded with suspicion and while it was apprehended that the novel departure might tend to perpetuate instead of healing the differences between the two great communities; the result of its working during the last six years hiss not only justified the wisdom of the scheme but confirms us in the belief that a cotinuity of the syst [...] Since the beginning of the war the bold of Pan-Germanism on the entire nation has become manifest through the fact that the whole Press of the Fatherland has adopted its peculiar jargon not only papers always more or less aggressive like the " Koelnische Zeitung "and the " Vossische Zeitung " but also Liberal organs like the " Berliner Tageblatt " and a 'Radical like the " Frankfurter &Hung " [...] 541 Instead the commentator Viraraghava and three of the eight manuscripts used for my edition give a prose passage identical with the above stanza in the beginning and the end.* One of these three manuscripts is the oldest extant manuscript of the play being dated Samvat 309 of the Nepal era which corresponds to the year 1196 of the Christian era. [...] Open-air performances given at fairs—such as those of l3havabhuti—would differ from them not only in the theme selected or the nature of its treatment but 'also in the stagconditions by which are to be meant not only the stage-properties but also the make-up of the audience which would have a deciding influence on the character of the drama. [...] Instead of therefore attempting to interpret the line in consonance with the later theory of Manus and Saptarshis as unfolded in the Puranas if we interpret the line on the basis of the Vedic literature contemporaneous or preceding we are easily enabled to interpret the line straightly as meaning the first or primeval seven Rishis and the four Manus from whont were born all the Prajas or human