2^ Annual Aihhrss. [Feb. 



Satyuviaia Sarua^iaini. This edition will meet a real want, as Prof. 

 Weber's edition of the same text is now entirely out of print ; it will 

 moreover contain the whole of the Commentary, and not merely extracts 

 from it. A further want hitherto has been a good Translation of 

 t^n^ruta, the standard woik on Hindu Medicine This work now h^s 

 been taken in hand by Dr. Hoernle, and the first fasciculus of his tians- 

 latiou has already appeared. 



A more modern Avork, the edition of which has been entrusted to 

 the Society's Joint Philological Secretary, Mahamahopadhy.'iya Hara 

 Prasad Shustri, is the GaTjgavakijavaU. It belongs to the well-known 

 class of Mahafmyas, dealing with holy places of pilgrimage, but it is con- 

 sidered to be of value for the history and geography of Ancient India. 

 To the same class of literature belongs the paper by liabu M. M. Chakra- 

 vartti on Sanskrit Literature in Orism. The modern Sanskrit Literature 

 of that -country consists principally of Mahatnn'as and Commentaries or 

 Nystematic Treatises on Hindu Law. To Hara Prasad Shasti i the Society 

 also owes short notices of two new Sanskrit works discovered by him. 

 The iirst is the Pavanadvta, written by Dhoyi, a poet who lived at the 

 court of Laksmanasena, the last king of Bengal in tlie J 2th century 

 A.D. It is an imitation of Kalidasa's " Cloud-messenger" (Meyhaduta), 

 the fiction being that a fair damsel of the South happened to see 

 Laksmanasena on his '" conquest of the four quarters " and at once fell 

 in love with him. She afterwards deputed a cloud to carry the message 

 of her love to the king, who in the mean time had returned to his 

 capital at Nuddia, and the poem describes the route hy which the cloud 

 travellecl to '' the garden on earth," as Bengal was natuially called by a 

 local courtier. The second work is by Aryadeva, a famous teacher of 

 Buddhism. It was discovered by Hara Prasad Shastri during his stay 

 ut Khatmandu. 



Intimately connected with Buddhism was Jainism. Of the holy 

 Bci iptures of this creed, the edition of the sixth Anga, the Jhatndhanna' 

 hitLasUtra, has been entrusted to the Society's Philological Secretai-y, 

 Dr. Bloch, Avho hopes soon to complete it. 



In the Arabic-Persian branch, most of the works uudert;tken by the 

 Society deal with the history of Muhammedan rule in India, and those 

 l^ublished last year, are concerned more especially with the history of the 

 ]un])eior Akbar. Mr. Beveridge, a former President of the Society, 

 has jmblished three fasciculi of his translation of Ahu-1-Fazl's Akbar- 

 nama and Avhile the fourth is nearly ready for issue. The same learned 

 gentleman has also furnished the Society with an account of the Memoirs 

 of liaijazld Bhjut, a Stcwaid of the Kitchen under Humayun and Akbar, 

 who \\as abkcd l>y the latter king iv cummit to writing the hi.slor}' of 



