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words. This mean that the sentence is real and parts are unreal abstractions, it may also mean that the parts which are real compose a sentence which is nothing more than parts added together (p. 11). This observation, whether it is traditional or not, is interesting, though it is obvious that it requires additional comment. The term samhita never, as far as this reviewer knows, means sentence, though its reference may happen to be a sentence. In the context of the pritisdkhya literature it mostly means the same as samahitapdtha, i. e., the text of the Veda recited continuously whilst taking all sandhi rules into account. The term padapatha is used for the recitation of separate words resulting from the dissolution of these sandhi junctions. Since the correlation between samhitaand padapatha is among the most important subjects treated in the pratisakehyas, it is obvious that the opening passage of the Mkprat's'akhya should refer to this transition in the first place. It would be unfair to suggest that the quality of these two books is in some way related to the different points of view of their authors. But unless some unexpected and substantial discoveries are made both in semantic theory and in Sanskrit manuscript collections, Pandeya's book will fail to convince any reader that problems of meaning and linguistic analysis, Indian or Western, are irrelevant to the so-called deeper issues. On the other hand Kunjunni Raja's work will continue to demonstrate that Indian theories of meaning are both intrinsically interesting and decidedly relevant to contemporary semantics.