In the general part of this issue, R. H. Koch studies the representation of Kārttikeya in Sri Lankan Buddhist monasteries and his supplantation by the iconography of Skandakumāra. In the Archiv für indische Philosophie, V. Eltschinger treats the "kautukamaṅgalavāda" presented and criticized in the "Yogācārabhūmi", with a critical edition of the Sanskrit text, accompanied by the Tibetan and Chinese texts, a translation and a discussion of the arguments against astral determinism. E. Steinkellner unites the text of all fragments of Vṛṣagaṇa/Vārṣagaṇya’s "Ṣaṣṭitantra" on inference and offers a translation of this part of the lost work. In a further contribution, Steinkellner argues that the two formulations of Dharmakīrti’s definition of a valid cognition in the "Pramāṇavārttika" have been misinterpreted so far and clarifies that Dharmakīrti provided only a single definition. Based on two manuscripts, J. Chu presents a first critical edition and synopsis of Jitāri’s "Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi". The third part features twenty-nine reviews of books on a wide range of topics relating to the cultural and intellectual history of South Asia and on the history of the study of pre-modern South Asia.

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