34 Annual Report. [Feb. 



Piajnapararaita, and of this the work published is a Tibelau Irauslation. 

 'J lie work has beau edited by Babu Pratapacandra Ghosa, a gentleman 

 whose connexion with the Society began in tlie eai'ly sixties. He has 

 successfully brought tlie difficult and arduous work he had undertaken 

 to a successful close, and the credit of editing and publishing the largest 

 work in Tibetan belongs to him. This is perhaps the first time that a 

 Tibetan work on Buddhism has been published in its entirety. 



Sanskrit series. 



Tattvacintamani, the great work of the Amalgamated Nyaya- 

 vaifefiika School, Avhich is the property and glory of Eastern India and 

 which has been exercising an immense influence on the brahmanic 

 mind for the last seven or eight centuries, has been practically completed 

 during the year. The last fasciculus containing indices has been 

 printed but not yet published. It is in four parts called Khandas, each 

 ]iai*t treating of one pramana or method of proof. The pramanas, 

 according to this school, arc four, namely, perception, inference, 

 analogy and testimony ; and there are parts treating of eacli of (hese. 

 The second part, that on inference, has a subdivision entitled 

 I^varanumana, i.e., inference of the existence of a Creator. The work 

 has been edited by Pandita Kamakliynatha Tarkavagi^a, the Professor 

 of Hindu Philosophy in the Sanskrit College, Calcutta, on whom an 

 appreciative Government has recently conferred the title of Maharaaho- 

 padhyaya. The work has taken about 18 years to complete. 



woeks that have been commenced. 

 Sanskrit Series. 



The ^atapatha Brahmana was published about forty years ago by 

 Professor Weber of Berlin, but it was without a commentary and 

 Avithnut that system of elaborate indices without which Vedic works are 

 of little value to scholars. It was for this reason that the Council of 

 tlie Asiatic Society of Bengal accorded their permission to the publica- 

 tion of the work with Sayanficfiryya's commentary and indices to 

 Acaryya Satyavrata Samaciaml who had already practically completed 

 his edition of the Aitareya Brahinaua with a commentary and indices. 

 The work has been taken in hand and two fasciculi have already appeared. 



The fiokavartika in vei'se and the Tantravartika in prose complete 

 the great work of Kuniarila on the Mimarpsa School of Hindu Philo- 

 sophy, ■which concerns itscdf with laying down principles and rules for 

 tlie interpi'ctation of the Vedas. This great Avork was written in the 

 seventh century and was the first great polemical work which, by 

 refuting other systemp, established one system of Hindu faith, farjkara 



