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The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society (Third Series) April 1932

1932

The Singalovada Sutta of the Digha Nikaya and the Mahamangala Sutta of the Sutta Nipata enumerate just those courses of conduct which Möka was never tired of inculcating on the minds of his people and it is easy to understand how greatly the texts of the Rock Edicts 9 and 11 were inspired by the Mangala Sutta. [...] (2) Dhammaceti the king in repeatedly investigating and considering the rule of the Vinaya as regards the conscration of a sima as interpreted by the authors of the Atthkathas tikas and pakaranas consulted both the spirit and the letter of the following works controlling the Atthakatba by means of the Pali the tika by means of the Atthakathã and the pa.karana by one another and at [...] Other texts are the Patimokkha the Khuddakasikkha the Vimatvinodani the Vinayapali the Vinayatikd called the Sarathadipani the Vinayatikd written by Vajirabuddhithera the Matikatthakatha called the Kankhavitarani together with its tikä the Vinayavinicchayapakarana together with its tika the Vinayasafigahapakarana the Simalankärapakarana the Simalafikarasafigaha and other texts relat [...] The importance of the list of texts lies in the fact that it not only helps us in fixing the chronology of many Pali works but also enables us to form some notion of the point reached by the Sanskrit scholars in Burma in the fifteenth century for the list contains a number of titles of Sanskrit works. [...] Having pointed out the dire consequences of following singly the path of works and of meditation and having commended their combined observance the scripture now emphasizes the desirability of meditation on both the priordial source of creation known as avyäkrta and the first-born Hiranyagarbha the creator of the worlds known as vyäkrta.
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Frontmatter
i-iii F.R. Sell, K. Devanathachariar view
Pali Tracts in Inscriptions
399-413 Bimala Law view
Isavasyopanisad
414-423 D. Venkatramiah view
South Indian Serpent-Lore
424-430 R. Aiyar view
Mandookya Upanishad
431-447 M. Rao view
Aphaeresis and Sound-Displacement in Dravidian
448-480 L.V. Aiyar view
Studies in Bird-Myths. No. xxxviii
481-483 Sarat Mitra view
Studies in Plant-Myths. No. xvi
484-487 Sarat Mitra view
The Mysore Gazetteer
488-513 S. Srikantaya view
Reviews
514-530 unknown view
Editorial
531-534 unknown view
Books received during the Quarter ending 31st March 1932
535-536 unknown view
List of Books on Indian History received from the Library of the Office of the Director of Public Instruction Bangalore
537-538 unknown view
Backmatter
i-6 unknown view

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