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OF THE
AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY EDITOR
ERNEST BENDER University of Pennsylvania
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
WILLIAM W. HALLO GEORGE F. HOURANI Yale University University of Michigan
EDWARD H. SCHAFER University of California
VOLUME 86 NUMBER 1 JANUARY-MARCH, 1966 March 15, 1966
CONTENTS
DANIEL H. H. INGALLS, The CAnakya HARRY A. HOFFNER, JR., A Native Ak- Collections and Ndrdyana's Hitopa- des'a . ...-..--- 1 kadian Cognate to West Semitic
L. M. KENNY, Al-Afghini on Types of *GBN "Cheese"? . . 27
Despotic Government .19
REVIEW ARTICLES
GERD FRAENKEL, A Structural Approach to Israeli Hebrew. . . 32
TURRELL WYLIE, A Propos of Tibetan Religious Observances . . 39
REVIEWS OF BOOKS
Arautakoia, Encyclopedia of Vedic Sacrificial; Ritual, Hoenerbach: Spanish-islamnische Urkunde aus der comprising the two complementary Sections, zeit der Nasriden und Moriscos (Joseph namely, the Sanskrit Section and the English Schacht) .... . . . . . . . . . . 52 Section. Vol. I. English Section, Pt. II (P.-E. Polk: The United States and the Arab World Dumont) ............ . 46 (Malcolm H. Kerr). 53
Narasimhan: The Mahdbhirata. An English ver- Macuch: Handbook of Classical and Modern Man-
sion based on selected verses (L. Sternbach) . 47 daic (Franz Rosenthal) . . . . . . . . 54
Oppenberg: Quellenstudien zu Friedrich Schlegels Hibbett and Itasaka: Modern Japanese: A Basic
Ubersetzungen aus den Sanskrit (L. Stern- Reader (D. E. Mills) .... . . . . . . 58
bach).48 . . . (L. Stern- Chang: The Archaeology of Ancient China (Charles MacSherry) .59
Bastin and Roolvink (ed's): Malayan and Indo- Jansen (ed.): Changing Japanese Attitudes toward nesian Studies: Essays presented to Sir Richard Modernization (Conrad Totman) . . . . . 61 Winstedt on his eighty-fifth birthday (Robert Crump: Intrigues: Studies of the Chan-kuo Ts'e Van Niel) .................................. 49 (David Hawkes) .6
Tregonning: The British in Malaya: The First Inoue: The Counterfeiter and Other Stories (trans.
Forty Years, 1786-1826 (L. A. Mills) . . . 50 by Leon Picon) (Edward Seidensticker) . 64
NOTES OF THE SOCIETY . 65
NOTES OF OTHER SOCIETIES. .65
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OFFICERS FOR 1965-66 President-Professor IGNACE J. GELB
(Address: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, fli., 60637) Vice-President-Professor ISIDORE DYEN
(Address: Hall of Graduate Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520) Secretary- Treasurer-Professor FERRIS J. STEPHENS
(Address: 329 Sterling Memorial Library, Yale Station, New Haven, Connecticut 06520) Editor-Professor ERNEST BENDER (Traditional India, South and Southeast Asia)
(Address: Box 17, Bennett Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104) Associate Editors-Professor WILLIAM WV. HALLO (Ancient Near East)
(Address: Babylonian Collection, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 06520) Professor GEORGE F. HOURANI (Islamic Near East)
(Address: Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104) Professor EDWARD H. SCHAFER (Far East)
(Address: Department of Oriental Languages, Durant Hall, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. 94720)
Librarian-Mr. JAMES TANIS (Address: Yale University, Yale Station, New Haven, Connecticut 06520)
Executive Committee-Professors IGNACE J. GELB, I. DYEN, F. J. STEPHENS, E. BENDER, R. J. WIrLIwAms, G. VON GRtNEBAUM, (ex-officio), R. A. PARKER (term expires 1966), C. H. GORDON (term expires 1967), E. A. KRACKE (term expires 1968)
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SACHS (term expires 1966) Committee Nominations-Professor PETER A. BOODBERG, Chairman, Professors G. V. BOBRINSKOY, P. A. BOODBERG,
W. WINTER (term expires 1966), Professors W. BINGHAM, M. A. JAZAYERY, H. A. PAPER (terms expiring 1967)
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