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The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society (Second Series) April 1930

1930

This place seems to be identical with the Kumara-Ramana-Kummata of the maps the latter name being strictly applicable to the hill-fort while Hosa Kummata is the name applied to the town below. [...] If this be so it was here that the greatest slaughter of the Delhi forces took place the garrison offering267 it the stoutest resistance at the time of the last siege of the fort.* Front this place the regular ascent to the hill begins. [...] This was the Rai's last place of refuge where according to the Hindu Mussalman and Portuguese accounts the royal household spent some of its last anxious hours as the tide of battle ebbed and flowed at the bottom of the hill. [...] From this position looking towards the south and the east we see in the distance amidst the opening of the hills sheets of water of the Tungabhadra and its green cultivated banks. [...] Historians attaching greater value to the dicovery of the coins state that Gudnaphar and Gondophares are metathetical forms of one and the same name : that Gondophares of the coin was Gudnaphar of the Christian tradition : that Gudnaphar was a non-Indian king of the N.-W.: that Mazdai was probably a N. Indiap monarch : that the Saint did not visit S. India and that the Church of San Thome there
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Frontmatter
i-iv F. R. Sell, K. Devanathachariar view
Vestiges of Kummata
261-v M. H. Sharma view
The Apostle Thomas and India
271-283 M. S. Aiyar view
The Influence of the Religious School of Sri Madhwa on the History of Vijayanagara
284-287 S. Rao view
Svetasvataropanishad
288-294 D. Venkatramiah view
Studies in Dravidic Linguistics
295-306 L.V. Aiyar view
Studies. in Bird-Myths No. XXX—On an Ancient Indian Aetiological Myth About the Enmity between the Crows and the Owls
307-308 Sarat Mitra view
Studies in Plant-Myths No. VIII—On an Angami Naga Aetiological Myth About the Acridity of the Tubers of the Taro Plant
309-310 Sarat Mitra view
Notes
311-316 unknown view
Reviews
317-324 unknown view
Correspondence
325-326 unknown view
Subscriptions and Donations received during the Quarter ending 31st March 1930
327-331 unknown view
Books Received during the Quarter ending 31st March 1930
332-334 unknown view
Exchanges
335-338 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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