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In addition to the Sanskrit Grammar for Beginners, the following volumes are also in preparation:

 

Priyadarśikā, a Hindu Drama ascribed to King Harsha. Translated from the Sanskrit and Prakrit by G K. Nariman and A. V. Williams Jackson, with notes and an introduction by the latter.

This romantic drama on the adventures of a lost princess was supposedly written by Harsha, king of Northern India in the seventh century, and is now to be published for the first time in English translation. Besides giving a detailed account of the life and times of the author, the introduction will deal also with the literary, linguistic, and archaeological aspects of the play.

 

Vāsavadattā, a Sanskrit Novel by Subandhu. Translated for the first time, with introduction, notes, and appendixes, by Louis H. Gray, Ph.D.

This literary composition is one of the best examples of the artificial and ornate style in Sanskrit prose. The introduction will contain an account of the author and an elaborate discussion of the Oriental novel in general; an appendix will furnish a list of mythological, geographical, and other allusions in the text.

 

Daśarūpa, a treatise on Hindu Dramaturgy by Dhanaṃjaya. Translated for the first time, with an introduction, notes, and appendixes, by George C, O. Haas, A.M., sometime Fellow in Indo-Iranian Languages in Columbia University.

This work, composed at the court of King Bhoja in the latter half of the tenth century, is one of the three most important treatises on the canons of dramatic composition in early India, a full discussion of which will be given in the introduction. The appendixes will include, among other things, a table of parallel passages in the other treatises on dramatics and a list of technical terms.

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The following volume, not in the Indo-Iranian series, is also published by the Columbia University Press:

 

Zoroaster, the Prophet of Ancient Iran. By A. V. Williams Jackson. New York, 1899.

Cloth, 8vo, pp. xxiii + 314, with a map and 3 illustrations, $3.00.

This work aims to collect in one volume all that is known about the great Iranian prophet, the Master whose teaching the Parsis today still faithfully follow. The story of the life and ministry of Zoroaster is told in twelve chapters, and these are followed by appendixes on explanations of Zoroaster's name, the date of the Prophet, Zoroastrian chronology, Zoroaster's native place and the scene of his ministry, and classical and other passages mentioning his name.

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