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Bengal and the Madras religious publications. While in Bengal the 

 "writers are concerned more with the spread of the worship of different 

 superhuman beings like the Satycuuirayana, the Trindtha, Mangalachandi 

 and others, the Madras people are fond of writing short treatises in 

 honour of the deities of different temples, such as the Vishnu of Teru 

 Narayanpura, the S'iva and Durga of Teru Mulainayal, the Natesa 

 of the Chidambara temple, and so on. 



Jaina religious works in prose and verse are to be found in 

 almost every province of India. The most remarkable production of the 

 year is the Jayati Huana Stotra, in Prakrit, by the great commentator 

 Abhaya Deva Suri, who lived about 800 years ago. He discovered an 

 image of Jina on the banks of a river, and consecrated it in Cambay. 

 The work is in honour of this image. The Jaina S'ataka in Sanskrit 

 by Bhudan Das, the Basiha Stavana Hangraha in Gujarati, are also Jaina 

 works of importance published during the year. Chuldmani is a rare 

 classical poem of Jaina origin, published for the first time in Tamil. 

 The Bincard is a very ancient work in Pahlavi. It has been published 

 for the first time, though in a very mutilated form for want, apparently, 

 of good texts, with an English and a Gujarati translation. Dara 

 Shiko, the eldest son of Shah Jahan, was a very enlightened prince. 

 He was a follower of the Ilahi religion of his great-grandfather, and 

 often held conversations on religious matters with professors of different 

 religions, especially with Hindu devotees. A dialogue between him and 

 Baba Lai Das, in Persian, has been translated into Urdu. It is a work of 

 the nature of the Milinda Prasna, between Menander and a Buddhist 

 monk. The ex-Raja of Venkatagiri has written a remarkable work in 

 Telugu, in which he discusses some of the most absh-use doctrines of 

 religion. Books in support of the Brahmo movement have been received 

 from all the southern presidencies. 



A collection of epigraphical songs by Tukaram, Nama Deva, Eka- 

 natha, <ve. ; Kahiraj IJhukhan's short poems on Shivaji and Chhatrasal, 

 the Raja of Panna ; and a collection of ballads in I hree parts devoted to 

 the glorification of the Satara Raj family.the Peshwa family, and the 

 Marhatta Sirdars, are publications of great value to the Marhatta 

 people. 



Among the serial publications of philological interest, BabdPratapa 

 Chandra Raya's English translation of the MahdbMrata is steadily ap- 

 proaching a conclusion. It has advanced to the S'&nti Parvom. Pandit 

 Ramanarayana Tarkaratna is issuing regularly in parts some of the 

 most important works on Chaitanyaisni in Sanskrit and in Bengali. 

 He is now engaged with the Chaitanya Gharit&mfita Mahdkdvya and the 

 Haribhahtivildsa. The Khargavikis Press of Bankipur has issued, 



