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patron of letters got a Vaidyaka work similarly compiled in his coui't. 

 That work also was named after himself like this. It has been called 

 Madaua-Binoda-Nighantn. He flourished about the middle of the 

 fourteenth century of the Christian era. 



3. Varaha Purana under the editorship of Pandit Hrishikesa 

 S'astri, one of the Junior Professors of the same College, advanced by 

 one fasciculus No. 829, Fasc. XIV. The work comes to a close in this 

 fasciculus. 



4. Tattva-Chintiimani, the standard work on the Nyaya Philo- 

 sophy in Bengal, composed seven hundred years ago in Mithila by 

 Gar|ge9a Upadhyaya, has advanced by two fasciculi, Nos. 830 and 

 832, Vol. Ill, Fascs. I and II. The third Volume completes the chapter 

 on inference and treats of the inference of the Godhead. The work is 

 accompanied by the commentary of Jayadeva Mi9ra entitled Aloka. 



5. Brhad-Dharma Parana, one of the latest works of the Pau- 

 ranik literature, has advanced by one fasciculus. No. 833, Fasc. IV, under 

 the editorship of Pandit Haraprasad S'astri, M. A. 



6. Nyaya-Varttika, an ancient commentary on the Aphorisms of 

 Gautama by the famous Udyota-kara, has advanced by one fasciculus 

 only, No. 834, Fasc. II, under the editorship of Pandit Vindhye9vari 

 prasad Dube, Librarian, Benares Sanskrit College Library. The work 

 when completed will be a valuable contribution to the Library of Nyaya 

 School of Philosophy. 



C. Tibetan Seeies. 

 1. Avadana-Kalpalata has advanced by one fasciculus only, No. 826, 

 Volume II, Fasc. II, under the joint editorship of Babu S'aratchandra 

 Das, C. I. E., Tibetan Translator to Government, and Pandit Harimohan 

 Vidyabhiishan, Oriental Librarian of the Asiatic Society. The work 

 is so printed that one page contains the Tibetan metrical translation 

 and the other the Sanskrit text. It has been so designed to help the 

 study of Tibetan through the medium of Sanskrit. Tlie work was 

 composed in Kashmir dui'ing the eleventh century by the poet named 

 Kshemendra, and is now the Standard Buddhist work in Tibet, read both 

 in original and in translation. 



