1800.] Annual Beport. 23 



doubts as to its genuineness as a bardic composition, and it is also 

 being published privately by a Pandit of Udayapur. 



Maulvi Abdul Rahim having been obliged to resign the editorship 

 of the Ma\isir-id-Umdrd owing to ill health, Maulvi Mirza Ashraf Ali 

 "was appointed to carry on the work. 



Of the following works of which fasciculi had appeared in previous 

 years, no fasciculi were published during the year under review. 



1. Tabaq.\t-i-Nasir.i, (Index of persons and places) ; 2, Prakrita 

 Lakshana (English translation and Notes) ; 3, Katantra (introduc- 

 tion) ; 4, Susrtjta Samhit.( (English translation) ; 5, A'pastamba S'rauta 

 Sutra (Text) ; 6, Manu Tika Sangbaha (Text) ; 7, Lalita Vistara 

 (English translation). 



Of the following works sanctioned in previous years no fasciculi 

 have as yet appeared. 



1. Prakritadhtata (Text and translation) ; 2, Charaka (English 

 translation, with Notes) ; 3, Naqaid-ul-Farazdaq-Jerir (Text with. 

 English translations in prose and verse) ; 4, Kala Viveka (Text) ; 5 

 Vedanta SdxRA, Commentaries on, (Text) ; (two of these viz. Anubhashyam 

 and S'r£bha8HTAM, have been commenced) ; 6, Yogini Tantra (Text) ; 

 7, Karana Grantha (Text) ; 8, Muntakhabu-t-Tawarikh, Vol. I, 

 (English translation) ; 9, Taj-ul-Maas[R (Text) ; 10, Tarikh-i-Wassap 

 (Text) ; 11, Tarikh-i-Yamini (English translation, with Notes) ; 12, 

 Jkatadharmaeatha and Vipaka Sutra (Text) ; 13, Saddharma Punda- 

 RiKA (Text) ; 14, Al Tabrizi's Commentary (Text) ; 15, SvayambhiJ 

 PuRANA (Text) ; 16, BaudhatanIya S'rauta SiJtra, and Hiranyakesi 

 S'rauta Si5tra (Text); 17, Ain-i-Akbari (English translation) ; 18, 

 RiAzu-s-SALATfN (Text and English translation) ; 19, Nyayavindu TfKA 

 (Text in Sanskrit and Tibetan) ; 20, Bhattopala's Commentary on 

 Vara'ha Mihira's Brihat Samhita'. 



No new works were sanctioned for publication during the year. 



The following is a descriptive list of the publications issued during 

 1889. 



A. Arahic-'Persian Series. 



1. IsABiCH, or the Biographical Dictionary of Persons who knew 

 Muhammad. It was compiled by Shaikh Sahabu-d-din Abu-1-Fazl 

 Ahmad during the first half of the 9th century of the Muhammadan 

 era with the object of giving more or less detailed accounts of the 

 Sihabis, i. e., those who received their faith directly from their Prophet 

 and are therefore considered men of superior sanctity than the Tdbi'ts 

 who received their faith second hand from the Sihabis. It contains 



