Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c9.s5.18

c9.s5.18

¹¹ देशे मालव नामकेऽत्र नगरे भूपालनाम्नी शुभा तस्या अंति शिहुर नामक पुरी यस्यामजंठा-ग्रणीः विल्किन्सन्निति साहिब ॊ विजयते तस्याश्रितानां सभामध्येऽभूल्लघुट्टङ्क एष विदुषां तोषाय दोषापहः | This is printed as prose in the text of *Vajrasūcyopaniṣad* produced by Ramesh Bharadwaj in his *Vajrasūcī of Aśvaghoṣa and the Concept of Varṇa-Jāti Through the Ages*. It is actually a verse in Śārdūlavikrīḍita meter and the second foot of which is to be corrected as तस्यां भाति शिहूर (सिहोर)-नामकपुरी यस्यामजण्ठाग्रणीः The text was composed in 1759 Śālīvāhana year, which should CE 1837. Wilkinson’s experiments in education are being discussed in the last chapter of this work.