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Jaimini's and not Vaisampayana's. (8) Janamajaya seems to have 

 incarrerl the wrath of a Rishi, who cursed him, and the curse produced 

 leprosy. The king in distress sent for Vyasa, who ordered the king 

 to hear from his pupil, Jaimini, the story of the Mahabharata. The 

 interlocutors are Janamajaya and Jaimini. It is curious that the 

 Jaimini Bhfirata is not to be found in its entirety in Sanskrit. (■'') The 

 only Parra, that is extant, is the A^vammJlia Parva. But the Bengali 

 version contains the whole of the Jaimini Bharata. From this it 

 appears certain that 400 years ago, in HiTsain Shah's time, the Jaimini 

 Bharata was procurable in its entirety. I have procured a copy of 

 Paragol's Mahabharata, very neai-ly complete, at Komilla, from a shop- 

 keeper Avho came from Chittagong. 



At the end of the ArvampcIJia Parva of this work which runs 

 through 12 leaves only, there is a curious passage (^) to the effect that 

 Paragol's son, Chuti Khan, had ordered ^'rikar ISTandi, another poet, to 

 give a full account of the wars described in that Parva. This stimu- 

 lated my travelling Pundit Binod Vihari Kavyatirtha to see if Chuti 

 Khan's A9vamedha Parva was procurable. After a diligent search in 

 Tripura during the last rainy season his exertions were rewarded with 

 marked success. He found in the collection of Babu Anukul Chandra 

 Ray, a landlu:)lder in the vicinity of Komilla, a copy of Chuti Khan's 

 work, complete in 87 leaves. He has brought a complete notice of the 

 work, from which it appears that Chuti Khan was as great a pati^on of 



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