Panels of the 7th World Sanskrit Conference.

• Author: Gerow, Edwin

Five more volumes of proceedings of the Seventh World Sanskrit Conference have now been published by Brill, at prices that continue to amaze. For anyone hardy enough to acquire them all (to date), the montant (as the French say) is 705 Dutch florins - about $375] (See JAOS 112 [1992]: 176.)

The five new ones are: Middle Indo-Aryan and Jaina Studies (ed. Colette Caillat); Sanskrit Outside India (ed. J. G. de Casparis); Medical Literature from India, Sri Lanka and Tibet (ed. G. Jan Meulenbeld); Rules and Remedies in Classical Indian Law (ed. Julia Leslie); and Indian Art and Archaeology (ed. Ellen M. Raven).

Some notable contributions (several, evidently, have been expanded from the original papers) are R. P. Das' 66-page study of the romaraji in kavya and Ayurveda (vol. VIII); K. G. Zysk's 24-page translation of kalpasthana I of Astangahrdaya (also vol. VIII); Claudine Bautze-Picron's "The `Stele' in Bihar and Bengal, 8th to 12th Centuries" (32 pages, vol. X); Ellen M. Raven's and Karel R. van Kooij's "Pala-Sena Stone Sculptures from the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden" (35 pages, vol. X); and P. C. Verhagen's study, with lists, index, and bibliography, of "Sanskrit Grammatical Literature in Tibet" (20 pages, vol. VII). Robert L. Brown's "Indian Art Transformed: The Earliest Sculptural Styles of Southeast Asia" (14 pages, with bibliography) is one paper that would have profited...