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The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society (New Series) January 1934

1934

The community as a whole represented by the village elders constitute the priesthood for the propitiation of the deities and spirits although the headman conducts the rites. [...] In most of the hymns of the Rig-Veda which are of the nature of dialogues or monologues —and there are over a score of them--a good many of these scholars read a type akin to the mystery-plays of the Greeks and thereby formulate their theories of the origin of the Sanskrit drama. [...] The natural caverns which have been discovered sometimes with a few inscriptions in brahmi script are connected with the Jains and form the earliest stone-monuments of the Tamil land and are perhaps the precursors of the Hindu rock-cut cave temples—diva and Visnu—of the days of the Pallavas. [...] The plate of the Twenty-four Tirthankaras was found some years back imbedded along with a number of other Jaina bronze idols in the compound of the Raja's College Pudukotah situated on the southern side of the capital of the State and it is now preserved in the State Museum. [...] We have no epigraphical evidence to fix the age of this metal but considering the simple cut and the natural features215 of the figures and of the objects of the attendant spirits we may infer that the bronze plate might have been cast about the end of the tenth century A. D. The names of the twenty-four Tirthankaras their colour their cognizance their attendant spirits and their places of bir
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The Religion of the Primitive Tribes of Travancore
193-201 L. A. Iyer view
On the Origin of the Sanskrit Drama
202-210 K. Krisiinamacharya view
Jain Vestiges in the Pudukotah State
211-217 S.R. Balasubrahmanyan, K. Raju view
Sri-Gupta
218-223 C . S. K. Rao Sahib view
Studies in the Indus Scripts
224-230 S. Sastri view
Fire-Ordeals
231-235 Sarat Mitra view
Chakkiyar-Kuttu of Kerala
236-244 K. Raja view
Two Centuries of Wadeyar Rule in Mysore (1565-1761)
245-251 N. Rau view
Is the Advaita of Sankara Buddhism in Disguise ?
252-265 G. A. Budhakar view
A New Hymn of Jnana-Sambandha
266-275 T. G. Aravamuthan view
Date of “ Ishtasiddhi ”—I
276-283 C. Rao view
Studies in Bird-Myths No. XLV
284-287 Sarat Mitra view
Studies in Plant-Myths No. XXIII
288-291 Sarat Mitra view
Correspondence
292-294 unknown view
Reviews
295-303 unknown view
Editorial
304-306 unknown view
Books Received During the Quarter ending 31st December 1933
307-308 unknown view

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