Vol. XXII Part 2 BULLETIN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF LONDON THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES 1959 Price Thirty Shillings Agents: Messrs Luzac &. Co., Ltd., 46 Great Russell Street, W.C. 1 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core} . IP address: 170.106.202.8, on 23 Sep 2021 at 20:25:15, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/termsf 24 JUN195. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00068646? BULLETIN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.8, on 23 Sep 2021 at 20:25:15, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00068646 BULLETIN OF THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF LONDON VOLUME XXII 1959 Published by THE SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES Agents: Messrs. LUZAC & Co., LTD., 46 Great Russell Street, W.C. I. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.8, on 23 Sep 2021 at 20:25:15, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00068646 CONTENTS PAGE ARTICLES AND NOTES AND COMMUNICATIONS F. R. ALLCHIN : Poor men's thcUis : a Deccan potter's technique . 250 F. R. ALLCHIN : Upon the contextual significance of certain groups of ancient Indian signs ........ 548 A. D. H. BIVAR : Arabic documents of Northern Nigeria . 324 JOHN BROUGH : The tripartite ideology of the Indo-Europeans : an experiment in method ........ 69 GEEAED CLAUSON : The hP'ags-pa alphabet' ..... 300 J. DUNCAN M. DEEEETT : Bhu-bharana, bhu-palana, bhu-bhojana : an Indian conundrum . .108 J. DUNCAN M. DEEEETT : Somesvara and the Kadava ; Cincila : three corrections ......... 356 6. B. DOWNER : Derivation by tone-change in Classical Chinese . 258 MAHMUD 'ALI GHUL : New Qatabani inscriptions .... 1 MAHMUD 'ALI GHUL : New Qatabani inscriptions—II . 419 A. C. GRAHAM : The dialogue between Yang Ju fJJ- ^ and Chyntzyy & * 291 A. C. GRAHAM : Observations on a new Classical Chinese grammar . 556 J. E. B. GEAY : An analysis of Rgvedic recitation .... 86 J. E. B. GEAY : An analysis of Nambudiri Rgvedic recitation and the nature of the Vedic accent ....... 499 EEIC P. HAMP : Zuara Berber personals ...... 140 W. B. HENNING : New Pahlavi inscriptions on silver vessels . 132 P. M. HOLT : The exalted lineage of Ridwan Bey : some observations on a seventeenth-century Mamluk genealogy . .221 PADMANABH S. JAINI : The Vaibhasika theory of words ... 95 PADMANABH S. JAINI : The Sautrantika theory of bija . 236 PADMANABH S. JAINI : Origin and development of the theory of vipra- yukta-sarnskaras . .531 J. M. B. JONES : Ibn Ishaq and al-Waqidl: the dream of 'Atika and the raid to Nakhla in relation to the charge of plagiarism . 41 D. M. LANG and G. M. MEREDITH-OWENS : Amiran-Darejaniani: a Georgian romance and its English rendering .... 454 I.M.LEWIS: The names of God in Northern Somali . 134 D. N. MACKENZIE : A standard Pashto ...... 231 D. N. MACKENZIE : ' The language of the Medians ' . 354 B. MATSUKAWA (1890-1959): A 31 syllable poem . .576 D. S. RICE : The oldest illustrated Arabic manuscript . 207 J. B. SEGAL : New Syriac inscriptions from Edessa .... 23 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.8, on 23 Sep 2021 at 20:25:15, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00068646 VI CONTENTS PAGE R. B. SERJEANT : Mihrab 439 R. B. SERJEANT : Ukhdud 572 R. B. SERJEANT : Saint Sergius 574 R. B. SERJEANT and EWALD WAGNER : A sixteenth-century reference to Shahri dialect at Zufar 128 S. M. STERN : The Oxford manuscript of Ibn Taymiyya's anti- Christian polemics . .124 A. S. TRITTON : Siege of Constantinople, A.D. 714-16 . 350 A. S. TRITTON : Ma'arij al-quds 353 R. L. TURNER : Transference of aspiration in European Gypsy . 491 E. YARSHATER: The dialect of Shahrud (Khalkhal) . ... 52 REVIEWS AND SHORT NOTICES 'Abd al-Majid 'Abidin and Ihsan 'Abbas (ed.) : Fasl al-maqal fi shark Kitdb al-amthal. By R. B. SERJEANT . 612 J. Alazard and others : Initiation a VAlgerie. By J. F. P. HOPKINS .... 403 Robert Austerlitz : Ob-Ugric metrics; the metrical structure of Ostyak and Vogul folk- poetry. By D. SWOB ............ 616 H, W. Bailey (ed.) : Indo-Scythian studies ; being Khotanese texts, Vol. III. By M. J. DRESDEN ............. 371 Peter Berton and others : Japanese training and research in the Russian field. By H. SETON-WATSON ............ 175 G. H. Bhatt (ed.) : The Valmiki-Ramayana. Vol.l,Fasc.l 191 Sudhibhushan Bhattacharya : Ollari : a Dravidian speech. By T. BTTRROW . 617 Ugo Bianchi : Zaman i Ohrmazd: lo zoroastrismo nelle sue origini e nella sua essenza. By R. C. ZAEHNBB 366 Bibliography of recent Soviet source material on Soviet Central Asia and the borderlands. No. 1, 1957.—[No. 2, 1957.] By D. M. LANG 190 Eric F. F. Bishop and Mohamed Kaddal (tr.) : Chrestomathia Baidawiana. ' The light of inspiration and secret of interpretation '. By W. 'ABAPAT ..... 402 E. W. Bovill: The golden trade of the Moors. By D. H. JONES 395 W. Norman Brown (ed. and tr.) : The Saundaryalahari or flood of beauty, traditionally ascribed to Sankaracarya. By T. BIJBBOW ........ 617 Werner Burmeister (ed.) : Democratic institutions in the world today. By W. H. MOBBIS- JONES .............. 186 Chao Kuo-chfln : Agrarian policies of mainland China : a documentary study (1949-1956). By JOHN GRAY 410 Suniti Kumar Chatterji and Sukumar Sen : A Middle Indo-Aryan reader. Revised edition 405 Haraprasad Chattopadhyaya : The sepoy mutiny, 1857. By K. A. BALLHATCHET . 620 Sashi Bhusan Chaudhuri: Civil rebellion in the Indian mutinies (1857-1859). By K. A. BALLHATCHET ........ 620 R. D. Choksey (ed.) : Select documents from the Ratnagiri Collector's files (Peshwa Daftar). By KENNETH BALLHATCHET 407 J. Desmond Clark and Sonia Cole (ed.) : Third Pan-African Congress on Prehistory, Livingstone, 1955. By ANTHONY CHBISTIE 400 Bjorn Collinder: Survey of the Uralic languages. ByD. SINOB ..... 590 Edward Conze : Buddhist meditation. By D. FRIEDMAN ...... 374 A. E. Coope : A guide to Malay conversation. Revised and enlarged fourth edition . 197 Henry Corbin and Moh. Mo'in (ed.) : Commentaire de la qasida ismaelienne d'AbU'l- Haitham Jorjdni attribue d Mohammad ibn Sorkh de Nishapour. By S. M. STEBN . 585 Henry Corbin and Moh. Mo'in (ed.) : RHzbehdn Baqli Shlr&zi (522/1128-606/1209): Le jasmin des fideles d'amour. By R. C. ZAEHNER . 588 William S. Cornyn (ed.) : Burmese chrestomathy.—William S. Cornyn and John K. Musgrave : Burmese glossary. By ANNA J. ALLOTT ...... 601 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.8, on 23 Sep 2021 at 20:25:15, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00068646 CONTENTS Vll PAGE Corpus inscriptionum Iranicarum. Part III. By ILYA GEKSHKVITCH .... 188 David Cowan : An introduction to modern literary Arabic. By A. F. L. BEESTON . 147 O. G. S. Crawford (ed.) : Ethiopian itineraries circa 1400-1524 411 Asutos Das (ed.) : Dvij Ramadev : Abhayamangal. By T. W. CLARK .... 594 Charu Chandra Das Gupta : The development of the Kharosthi script. By J. BROCGH . 593 Surendranath Dasgupta : A history of Indian philosophy. Vol. V . 406 K. G. Davies : The Royal African Company. By D. H. JONES 396 Sushil Kumar De (ed.) : The Megha-duta of Kaliddsa 405 Isaac 0. Delano : Atum(> ede Yoruba. By E. C. ROWLANDS 181 Emmanuel-Karim Delly : La theologie d'Mie bar-Se'naya. By J. B. SEGAL . 187 Shantaram Bhalchandra Deo : History ofJaina monachism from inscriptions and literature. By R. WILLIAMS 373 J. Duncan M. Derrett: The Hoysalas. By A. L. BASHAM ...... 165 D. T. Devendra : Classical Sinhalese sculpture, c. 300 B.C. to AD. 1000. By F. K. ALLCHIN 408 Djambatan : A world on the move. By C. D. COWAN ........ 198 J. Duchesne-Guillemin : The Western response to Zoroaster. By ILYA GEKSHEVITCH . 154 Dumbarton Oaks Papers. No. 11. By D. M. LANG 189 Dumbarton Oaks Papers. No. 12. By D. M. LANG 404 C. J. Dunn and S. Yanada : Teach yourself Japanese. By E. B. CEADEL . 385 Otto Eissfeldt: Enno Littmann. By C. J. GADD 402 Mircea Eliade : Patterns in comparative religion. By R. C. ZAEHNER .... 185 Earle Ernst (ed.) : Three Japanese plays from the traditional theatre .... 623 J. D. Fage : An atlas of African history. By G. W. B. HUNTINGFORD .... 180 Gordon H. Fairbanks and Earl W. Stevick : Spoken East Armenian.—Gordon H. Fair- banks : Spoken West Armenian. By C. J. F. DOWSETT ...... 592 Alfonsa Ferrari (ed. and tr.) : mK'yen brtse's guide to the holy places of central Tibet. By D. R. SHACKLETON BAILEY .......... 195 Daniel J. Finn : Archaeological finds on Lamma Island (fafa jg ^|) -near Hong Kong. By W. WATSON 621 Sir Godfrey Fisher : Barbary legend : war, trade and piracy in North Africa, 1415-1830. By V. J. PARRY 404 Hans H. Frankel (comp.) : Catalogue of translations from the Chinese dynastic histories for the period 220-960. By MICHAEL LOEWE ........ 378 Maurice Freedman : Chinese family and marriage in Singapore. By HENRY MOALEAVY 173 Maurice Freedman : Lineage organization in southeastern China. By C. VON FUBER- HAIMENDORF ............. 597 D. C. Ganguly (ed.) : Select documents of the British period of Indian history (in the collection of the Victoria Memorial, Calcutta). By K. A. BALLHATCHET ..... 621 J.-C. Gardin : Ceramiques de Bactres. By F. R. ALLCHIN ...... 594 Karl Friedrich Geldner (tr.) : Der Rig-veda. Vierter Teil 191 H. A. R. Gibb (tr.): The travels of Ibn Battuta, A.D.