Indian Culture (Journal of the Indian Research Institute) April - June 1948

The excellent character of this new Journal and the high standard of articles published in it and the enterprise and devotion of the group of the Bengali scholars seem to make Indian Culture rightly and completely fill the great void created by the unfortunate discontinuance of the great epoch-making Journal the Indian Antiquary. [...] The main item on the agenda is the selection of the heir to the throne to be announced by the Emperor himself. [...] If Devavacakagani who is regarded as the author of the Nandi Sutra be the same person as Devarddhigani the work cannot be dated earlier than the sixth century A. D. The succession of twenty-seven teachers traced from Sudharman the ganadhara who survived the Master is by itself an evidence to prove the lateness of the date of compilation of the Nandi Sutra. [...] Apart from giving the main themes of the different canonical texts the Nandi Sutra resembles the Anuyogadvara in mentioning such secular Indian literature as represented by the two Sanskrit epics and such treatises as the Kautiltiya Arthagastra the Kamasatra of Ghotakamukha the Vaigesika system of philosophy the doctrine of Buddha the Sarilkhya system of Kapila the Lokeiyata doctrine the Y [...] The knowledge which brings about the destrution and cessation of the cause and process of rebirth is of two kinds : that which brings about the destruction and cessation of the cause of rebirth in the state of human beings and that which brings about the destruction and cessation of the cause of rebirth as animals endowed with five senses.