Ian W. Mabbett (ed). Prācyaprajñāpradīpa: Professor Dr Samaresh Bandyopadhyay Felicitation Volume on Early Indian History and Culture. Franklin, Tennessee: NIOS (North American Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies) and International Forum for Felicitating Professor Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay. 2012. xxii+584 pp. ISBN 978-0-9848617-0-1. Rs 2500 / USD$70.
From the Preface
The volume contains (in Part 1 with 3 sections) a compendium of information about the career and scholarly achievements of Professor Dr. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay along with a large number of tributes written by people who have benefited from their association with him, and also (in Part 2) an exceptional collection of learned research articles; these have been written in his honour by many who have been impressed and inspired by his scholarship and personality, and they mirror the great depth and the diversity of his own research interests. […]
Contents
PART II: Research Papers on Early Indian History and Culture
Etymology of Some Prakrit Words (Satyaranjan Banerjee) … 132–136
End of Jain-Gurav And Persistence of Memory in the Śivalīlāmṛta (Jayant Bhalachandra Bapat) … 137–151
A Composite Image of Viṣṇu-Lakṣmī in Jagannātha Temple of Puri (K. S. Behera) … 152–155
Persisting Ignorance in Studying Sanskrit Inscriptions of Cambodia (Kamaleswar Bhattacharyya) … 156–159
Reṇukā: Matricide and the Making of a Devī (Rashmi Desai) … 160–171
Aspects of the Indian Fortune (Angelo Andrea Di Castro) … 172–184
Jhansi Museum Copper-plate Inscription of Paramāra Bhojadeva, Saṃvat 1080 (D. P. Dubev) … 185–192
Dynastic History of the Vākāṭakas—A Fresh Enquiry (D. K. Ganguly) … 193–212
Protest Movements in Indian History—Some Considerations (S. R. Goyal) … 213–221
Vākāṭaka Historiography in the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century (Shankar Goyal) … 222–250
The Bhāgavata Purāṇa and Vaiṣṇava Philosophy (Ravi M. Gupta) 251–262
Epistemology—Bridging Two Cultures (Hanumatpreṣakaswami / H. H. Robinson) … 263–269
Origin and Significance of 108 in Hindu Cosmology … 270–278
A Sense of The Past—The Bhāgavata Purāṇa (E. H. Rich Jarow) … 278–288
Coins of Samācāradeva And Mahāsenagupta of Bengal (Sri Prashant P. Kulkarni) … 289–298
Magic and Rationality in the Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra (Ian W. Mabbett) … 299–306
State Economy in the Vedic Period (Shyammanohar Mishra) … 307–312
Preservation of Ancient Monuments in India—Some Issues (Samirkumar Mukherjee) … 313–316
When Is A Space Not A Space? Problems in Interpreting the Aśokan Pillar Edicts (K. R. Norman) … 317–328
Observations on Some Indo-Foreign Motifs on Coins … 329–339
Glimpses of Social Life in the Poetry of Kālidāsa … 340–344
Social Position and Technological Skill of the Potter (Suniti Pandev) … 345–352
Devakā Copper-Plate Inscription of Bandhurāja of Vikrama Date 1240 (Jai Prakash) … 353–357
Society and Indian Tradition—Some Historiographical Questions (Om Prakash) … 358–373
Nālandā—The First International University in the World (Haraprasad Ray) … 374–379
A New Medieval Silver Coin of Bengal (Nicholas Rhodes) … 380–384
Sūḷe (Shrinivas Ritti) … 385–390
Transmission of The Āyurvedic Tradition in Garhwāl Himālaya (D. P. Saklani and P. P. Badoni) … 391–401
Brāhmī and Megalithic Culture (M. D. Sampath) … 402–406
The Forlorn And Forgotten Ancient Civilisation at Bhaitbari (M. S. Sangma) … 407–413
An Aspect of Early Indian Cultural Contacts with Indonesia (Kalyankumar Sarkar) … 414–418
The Concept of Brahmavihāra in Early Buddhist Literature (Sadhanchandra Sarkar) … 419–425
Coins of Chieftains of the Sangam Period (P. Shanmugam) … 426–434
Aspects of Śaivism in Himachal Pradesh (B. C. Shukla) … 435–441
Seals of Protohistoric India: Some Observations (S. P. Shukla) … 442–447
Some Buddhist Images Donated by Nāgarāja of Guge (Ajaykumar Singh) … 448–456
Two Unpublished Inscriptions of the Time of Ghiās-Ud-Din … 457–461
Traditional Theories of the Origin of Peoples of Ruling Groups—Continuity and Change (Jaiprakash Singh) … 462–470
Symbolic Concept of Weaving (Shravankumar Singh) … 471–475
Materialistic Leanings of Some Upaniṣadic Philosophers (A. K. Sinha) … 476–486
Architectural History in India—A Post Colonial Perspective (Amita Sinha) … 487–508
Reliquary Inscriptions of the Time of Kharosta and Indravarman (Prashant Srivastava) … 509–514
Changing Connotation of the Term Rathakāra (Sushma Srivastava) … 515–524
Development of Urban Architecture in Karnataka (Priya Thakur) … 525–539
Theory of Two Kings Named Narasiṃhagupta (Kirankumar Thaplyal) … 540–545
Agiabir—An Early Township of Middle-Gaṅgā Plain (Virha Tripathi & Prabhakar Upadhyaya) … 546–571
Unique Copper-Plate Charter of Śubhākara II and a Tradition of Virajākṣetra (Sm. Snigdha Tripathy) … 572–584