32 Annual Report. [Feb. 



Sanskrit. 



The eighteen fasciculi of the Sanscrit Series comprise portions of eleven 

 different works ; four relating to the Sama Veda, three to the Yajur Veda, 

 two to the Atharva Veda, and one each to the Smriti and Chhandas. 



Professor Mahesachandra Nayayaratna has completed the 4th volume 

 of the Sanhita of the Black Yajur Veda, and is now employed on the iifth. 

 The work comprises eight books, of which the first was edited by the late 

 Dr. Koer, the second by Professor Cowell, and the major portion of the 

 third by the late Pandit Rama Narayana Vidyaratna, on whose death the 

 present editor took the work in hand. The last three books are short, and 

 it is expected that one volume more will complete the undertaking. 



Babu Rajendralala Mitra has brought to a conclusion his edition of 

 the Taittiriya A'ranyaka, on which he had been engaged for the last seven 

 or eight years. It extends to 928 pages of text, 77 pages of Introduction, 

 and 56 pages of a Table of Contents. The Introduction gives a complete 

 analysis of the work in English, and the table of contents notices the subjects 

 of the mantras seriatim. 



The Gropatha Brahmana of the Atharva Veda, which was originally 

 undertaken by the late Pandit Harachandra Vidya Bhushana, and on his 

 death made over to Babu Rijendralala Mitra, has also been completed. Tha 

 editor has added to it an introduction in which the native characters and 

 contents of the treatise have been described at length. The Babu has like- 

 wise completed his edition of the Pratisakhya of the Black Yajur Veda. An 

 English translation of the work by Professor Whitney having already 

 appeared, it has not been deemed expedient to attach to this edition an 

 Analysis in English. 



The Srauta Sutra of Satyayana has likewise been completed, and its 

 editor Pandit Anandachandra Vedanta Vagisa is now engaged on the last 

 fasciculus of the Tandya Brahmana of the Sama Veda, which, it is expected, 

 will be completed in a short time. 



The Society's edition of the Pingila Chanddra Sutra and of the 

 Atharva Upanishad of which one and two fasciculi, respectively, have been 

 published, are also in a forward state, and will be brought to a conclusion 

 during the current year. 



The same cannot, however, be said of the Sama Veda Sanhita and of 

 Chaturvarga Chintamani of Himadri. Of the former, altogether five fasciculi 

 have been published, and this brings up the work to the middle of the 3rd 

 chapter, or about one-fifth of the whole. The task is a difficult and trouble- 

 some one, and several years must elapse before it will be brought to a con- 

 clusion. Of the latter, the first out of its four parts will be completed during 

 the current year. 



