John Brough: Collected Papers.

• Author: Gerow, Edwin

Edited by MINORU HARA and J. C. WRIGHT. London: SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, 1996. Pp. xxii + 533. [pounds]25.

This selection of Brough's voluminous output eschews only his major books, The Early Brahmanical System of Gotra and Pravara (1947 [thesis], 1953) and The Gandhari Dharmapada (1962), his contributions to various encyclopedias and dictionaries, an obituary or two (notably Louis Renou's), and some published lectures (one in Japanese). Otherwise, it provides a complete picture of Brough's many interests and always incisive commentary. The editors have appended also a selection of Brough's reviews of others' books (pp. 474-97) and two documents that, in their way, suggest the range of Brough's engagement with Sanskrit: a prasasti (in Sanskrit, of course) of Ralph Turner (with commentary, also in Sanskrit), and his proposal to the I.A.S.S. that it patronize his long-cherished project of a Chinese-Sanskrit Buddhist dictionary. The volume closes with several indices - one of...