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 118 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [Aran, 1875. certain, is the tree there described. It grows to a moderate size— say 30 or 40 feet in height, has slightly drooping branches, with opposite lanceo- late leaves, and is in full flower at the end of Feb- ruary, when it presents a handsome appearance ; the flowers being largish in size, dull-red and yellowish in colour, and dragon-mouth in form, with three drooping and two erect petals ; the calyx gamoaepalous. F. S. Ghowse. Mafkwd, N. W. P., February 25, 187& Query. Can any reader of the Antiquary fa-roar me with the scientific names of — (1.) The Kine tree. This is a large tree com- mon in the North Konkan. It has a dark heart - wood, sometimes fraudulently substituted for blaekwood. (2,) Kit urdsani. This is a small oilseed belong- ing, I rather fancy, to the order Compositse, much grown upon the lofty plateaux of the Mawals, and also in the Konkan, especially by the forest tribes. W. F. Skcl&is. BOOK NOTICES. Religious and Moral Sentiments freely translated from Indian Writers, by J. Mnir, D.C.L., LL.D., rii.D. Edinburgh, 1874 (,l2mo, pp. viii. and 33.) ThiB pamphlet contains part of a much larger collection of maxims which the gifted author is pre- paring for translation into prose. Of the seventy- two published, fifty-eight have already appeared in these pages {bid. Ant. vol. 111, pp. 182, 241, 335 ff.). In the appendix Dr. Muir ha8 added faithful prose versions of all the passages, " with the view of obviatiug the suspicion, 1 ' he says, "which some may entertain, that in the metrical versions I have embellished the sentiments of the Indian writers, or imparted to them a closer re- semblance to their Biblical counterparts than the tenor of the originals will justify." The following are the additional sentiments : — 28. Narrovj and large lieartedncse. Panchatantra V. 38 (and in other books) ; couf. Luke, x. 2y il". -.— Small souls inquire " Belongs this man To our own race, or class, or clan ?" But larger-hearted men embrace Ab brothers all the human race. The next is analogous to that given (vol. III. p. 183) from the Makdbhdrata, 111. 13445, and will remind the reader of Coleridge*B verse,— "He prayeth well who loveth well," &c. 43. Austerities and rites are unavailing without ■pv.rily. Vriddha Chanakya, XV. 1 : — Those meu alone the secret know Which everlasting bliss will bring Whose hearts with pity overflow, And love to every living thing : — Not those a beggar's garb who wear, With ashes smeared, and matted hair. The following three are closely related in idea : — 49. Tlte gods give wisdom to those whom they favour, and conversely. Mahabh. V. 1222 and II. 2670 1!. :— The gods no club, like cowherds, wield To guard the man they deign to shield : On those to whom they grace will show They understanding Bound bestow ; But rob of sense and insight all Or whom their wrath decrees the fall. These wretched men, their mind deranged, See all they see distorted, changed; For good to them as evil looms, And folly wisdom's form assumes. Vi-! so 2679, as the author remarks, "reminds ns of the well-known Latin adage, ' Quos Dcua vttlt perdere prhis dementat.' The same thought is stated in the following Greek lines, quoted by Grotius in his Annotationes on the Epistle to th> Romans, xi. 8 : — orav yap opyr oaifinvav jSXajrrj rivet, Tovra To iTfiarrav i^iuftatpelrai (pptvwv t6i- vovv rbv (it0X6p, (Is B( tt}V x < H ,u> rpitrti yviiiftrji', tv fifti} fitjStv 2>v Apapravrt. Compare Exod. vii. 1, 3, 4, and 13 ; and Rom. si. 18. Also 1 Sam. ii. 25. The converse is expressed in the MaMbh. V. 1222"— given in the first lines above. 50. A doomed man is hilled by anything. Ma- habh. VII. 42« :— When men are doomed without re Even straws like thunderbolts will smite. 61. The smne. Mahabh. XII. 7607:— A man until his hour arrives, Though pierced by hundred darts, survives ; While ho whose hour of death is nigh Touched only by a straw will die. 61. Men love enjoyment, not virtue, Ac. Subha- ahitarnava, 43 :— In virtue men bavo small delight ; To them her fruits alone are dear ; The fruits of sin they hate and fear, But sin pursue with all their might. 62. Efivls of habitual sin and virtue n tpectiveljfi Mahabh. V. 1242-3. (Conf. Matt. xn. 48 If, 2 iii 13):— Sin practised oft, — experience shows, — Men's understanding steals at lengi h ; And understanding gone, the strength Of sin unchecked resistless grows.