Deyadharma : Studies in Memory of Dr. D.C. Sircar/edited by Gouriswar Bhattacharya

Deyadharma : Studies in Memory of Dr. D.C. Sircar/edited by Gouriswar
Bhattacharya. Delhi, Satguru, 1986, xv, 264 p., figs., ISBN
81-7030-021-5.

Contents: Introduction. Preface. 1. Preliminaries to a textual
criticism of the minor rock edits of Asoka/Paul Kent Andersen. 2.
Three Indic notes/Harold W. Bailey. 3. Sanchi-Kakanada and the
Hellenistic and Buddhist sources/Pierre H.L. Eggermont. 4. Two
inscribed Buddhist images from the Museum of Indian Art, Berlin/
Gouriswar Bhattacharya. 5. A contemporary and inscribed equestrian
portrait of Jagat Singh of Kota/Joachim Bautze. 6. Names of Visnu in
the inscriptions from Bihar and Bengal : 9 to 13 centuries/Claudine
Bautze-Picron. 7. Kanakesvara temple at Kualo, district Dhenkanal/
Debala Mitra. 8. An early coping stone inscription from Mathura/
Herbert Hartel. 9. Dating South East Asia's earliest coins/Joe E.
Cribb. 10. Sarnami verbs in - I (Y) A--Theo Damsteegt. 11. Ancient
Indian thought/Heinz Mode. 12. Mind and moon/Jan Gonda. 13. Two small
inscriptions from Hampi/Vasundhara Filliozat. 14. Another fragment of
the Sanskrit Sumukhadharani/Ronald E. Emmerick. 15. A curious Buddhist
seal from the Ashmolean Museum/Simon Lawson. 16. Tha Acarya Motif at
Deogarh/Klaus Bruhn. 17. Menal inscription of [Cahamana] Chief Queen
Suhavadevi, Vikrama 1225/Ram Sharma. 18. An unpublished document of
Nepal and its bearing on the coinage of Sikkim/Pranab Kumar
Bhattacharyya. 19. Date of Dignaga--fresh light/S. Sankaranarayanan.
20. A grant of Sriranga-Raya I dated 10 September 1585 A.D. Jean
Filliozat/Vasundhara and Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat. 21. Beginning of
sculptural art under the Guptas : an inscribed image from Baraipur,
near Sarnath/Haribishnu Sarkar. 22. Date of inscriptions from
Pulankurchchi/K.G. Krishnan. 23. Mangala-symbols in Buddhist Sanskrit
manuscripts and inscriptions/Gustav Roth. 24. Om or Siddham--remarks on
opening of Buddhist manuscripts and inscriptions from Gilgit and
Central Asia/Lore Sander.

"The present book is a commemoration volume to the memory of Dr. D.C.
Sircar, the great Indian epigraphist and historian.

"In this volume, articles, on epigraphy, history, Indian art,
iconography and philology, have been included. The first article
selected for the volume is on the textual criticism of the minor rock
edicts of Asoka by P.K. Andersen. In the second article the veteran
Professor H.W. Bailey deals with the interpretation of three indic
words. This is followed by a long article of Professor P.H.L.
Eggermont on the identification of Sanchi with Kakanada from the
Hellenistic and Buddhist sources. The fourth article is on two
inscribed Buddhist images from the museum of Indian art Berlin by G.
Bhattacharya. J. Bautze discusses on the contemporaneity of a portrait
of Jagat Singh of Kota with the ruler and compares two similar
portraits of him. The next article is from Claudine Bautze-Picron on
the different names of Visnu collected from various inscriptions of
Bihar-Bengal from 9 - 13 century. T. Damsteegt writes on the Sarnami
verbs in-I (Y) A-. Sarnami is the language spoken by the Surinam
(South America) Hindustanis. The eminent scholar J. Gonda writes in an
exhaustive article on the interpretation of mind (manas) and moon
(candramas). S. Lawson identifies a curious seal from the Ashmolean
Museum (Oxford) with the story narrated by Huien-Tsang. R. Sharma
edits an inscription of the Cahamana Chief Queen Suhavadevi belonging
to 1225 Vikrama era. In his article on the Mangala-symbols in the
Buddhist manuscripts and inscriptions G. Roth accepts the
identification of Dr. Sircar of the Siddham symbol and identifies the
floral designs appearing at the end of inscriptions and manuscripts as
auspicious symbols. He finds the earliest representation of the
Siddham symbol in the Srivatsa design. Professor H. Hartel, Director
of the Museum of Indian Art Berlin, deals with ten so far found cross-
bar records from Mathura containing the exactly same text of a gift
made by a Pithamarda of King Suryavarman. This Suryavarman appears to
him to be a Pancala Pitra king on palaeographic and other
considerations. Vasundhara Fillozat writes two articles, one on two
small inscriptions from Hampi and the other with late Professor J.
Filliozat and her husband P.S. Fillozat on a Grant of Sriranga-Raya I
dated 10 September, 1558. Professor H. Mode, the well-known scholar,
while writing a review on the philosophical work of his student,
Johannes Mehlig, discusses the philosophical thoughts and the
connection with the linguistic concepts. After a comparative estimate
of Indian and other civilizations he gives a summary of Indian
philosophy. Professor S. Sankaranarayanan throws a fresh light on the
damaged inscription on a memorial pillar from Nagarjunikonda. He reads
the name Diganaga in the record and identifies him with the famous
Buddhist philosopher, Dignaga. Professor R.E. Emmerick, the reputed
scholar for Iranistic studies, identifies the two fragments of the
Sanskrit manuscript of Sumukhadharani found in Chinese Turkestan.
Professor P.K. Bhattacharyya discusses the modern coinage of Sikkim
with reference to an unpublished document of Nepal. Professor Kl.
Bruhn, the noted scholar on Jainism, describes and discusses
meticulously the Acarya-motif from Deogarh and its vicinity. The
article, as its title shows, is a befitting contribution to the
respectful memory of Professor D.C. Sircar. J. Cribb, numismatist of
the British Museum, analyses in detail the chronology of the coins
from the kingdom of Dvaravati and Harikela in Bangladesh of today. He
classifies the coins according to the symbols on them and allots a
ruling period to each of the rulers. Lore Sander writes on a subject
which surely would have been appreciated very much by D.C. Sircar. She
refers to the Om and Siddham symbols occurring in the beginning of the
Buddhist manuscripts and inscriptions from Gilgit and Central Asia.
Dr. (Mrs.) Debala Mitra, retired Director General of the
Archaeological Survey of India, makes a detailed study of the
Kankesvara temple at Kualo, Distt. Dhenkanal, Orissa. H. Sarkar, Joint
Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India, postulates the
view that the Gupta sculptural art started perhaps already at the time
of Samudragupta and not in the 370s as proposed by Joanna Wiliams. In
support of his contention Sarkar refers to a fragmentary inscription
on a mutilated sculpture from Baraipur, near Sarnath."

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