1901.] Annual Eeport. 35 



came after Kumaiila and Udayana after liira. An English {translation 

 of the ^lokavartika lias been unrlertaken by Babu Gaijganatlia Jhau, 

 Librarian of the Maharaja's Library, Darbhanga, a young graduate 

 of the Allahabad University of great promise. One fasciculus appeared 

 during the year under review. 



The mannei's and customs of the Hindus will for a long time 

 remain an interesting subject of study for scholars and the great 

 repositories of these are the Smrti works, especially the compilations. 

 They exhibit the rituals in a variety of forms in different countries and 

 at different times. Gadadhara, who flourished in the fourteenth century, 

 made a Smrti compilation which, lias peculiar interest from the fact that 

 Orissa had not then succumbed to Muhammadan influence. Pandita 

 Sadafjiva Mi^ra of Puri was tlierefore pei^mitted to living out an edition 

 of Gadadhara's compilation known as Gadadharapaddhati. He has 

 published one fasciculus during the year. 



Piijgala is I'eputed to be the originator of the science of Prosody 

 among the Hindus. His Siitras in Sanskrit were published long ago by 

 the Society and his work in Prakrt appeared from vai'ious places. The 

 edition of the Prakrt work attributed to him, however, did not satisfy 

 the needs of scholars. Tliei-efore Babu Candraraohana Ghosa, who had 

 already distinijuished himself by his excellent work on the Chandas 

 entitled Chandah-sara-samgraha, Avas permitted to bring out an edition 

 of Prakrtapaiij'jfala with several commentaries and with indices and 

 mathematical calculations. He has already published three fasciculi. 



Obituary. 



The Right Hon. Prof. P. Max Miiller. 



The Right Hon. Professor Dr. F. Max Miiller, whose death occurred 

 at Oxford in October, 1900, has been an Honorary Member of our 

 Society since 1860. He was born at Dessau in Anhalt, Germany, on 

 the 6th December 1823. His father Wilhelm Miiller, a teacher and 

 librarian at the Gymnasium, has made himself famous by his lyric 

 poems, some of which are still much admired and often sung in Ger- 

 many. By his mother Miiller was descended from Basedow, the famous 

 philanthropist and friend of Goethe. Miiller was educated at Leipsic, 

 where he also began his University course. Here it was Hermann 

 Brockhaus, the editor of the Katliasaritsagara and the Diwan of Hafiz, 

 wlio turned his mind towards the study of Oriental languages. He 

 coutimied these studies at Berlin under Bopp and Riickert, and also 

 went through a philosophical course under Schelling. Already at the 

 age of twenty, he made himself known by a German translation of the 

 Hitopadcya. After taking hia degree of Ph.D. at Loipsic, he went to 



