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gives an account of the Tantrdkhydna, a collection of Indian Folklore, 

 from a unique Sanskrit MS. Its date is Nepal Samvat 604, or A. D. 

 1484, and it is closely allied to the Panchat antra, and is largely founded 

 on tales in that collection. Mr. Bendall also contributes some notes 

 on a collection of MSS. obtained by Dr. Gimlette at Kathmandu, 

 now at Cambridge and the British Museum. Dr. Wenzel contributes 

 to the same journal a paper on a Jataka tale from the Tibetan, forming 

 the 6th chapter of a history of Tibet called Hgyal-rahs-gsal-vai-me- 

 lon and corresponding to the Val&hassa Jataka. The history is the 

 work of the 1 7th century A, D. 



The Journal of the American Oriental Society, contains a long and 

 interesting paper by Mr. E. W. Hopkins on the social and military 

 position of the Kuling caste in ancient India as represented by the 

 Sanskrit epic. 



In the Journal Asiatique, M. Ryanon Fujishima has given a transla- 

 tion of two chapters from the memoirs of I-tsing, one of the Chinese 

 pilgrims, on his Travels to India. The chapters translated are 33 and 

 84 of the Nan-hai-khi-koue'i-nei-fa-tchouen (Histoire de la loi interieure 

 envoyee de la mer du Sud) written by I-tsing in the countries of the 

 South Sea, where he lived several years after his return from the voyage 

 he made in India with the object of studying the Buddhist doctrine 

 and of bringing back the books containing it. The work is much more 

 difficult to translate than Fa Hian or Hiouen Ts'iang, and has never yet 

 been published in auy European language. The two chapters translated 

 are entitled "the Service of Song" (Le Rite des Cantiques) and " The 

 teaching of the Western Countries" (1' Enseignement des Pays Occi- 

 dentaux). A short account of the life of I-tsing is also given, and in a 

 subsequent paper the author gives an index of the Sanskrit- Chinese 

 words occurring in the two chapters translated. 



This Journal also contains part of M. Abel Bergaigne's " Histoire 

 de la Liturgie Vedique,^' which the author was finishing for the press 

 when he died. 



In a paper, in the Bevue Linguistique, on ancient Tamul Literatui'e, 

 Mons. Julien Vinson gives an account of the Sinddmani, one of the 

 principal Tamul works of the first period, though largely borrowed from 

 Jain and Sanskrit works. Translations of extracts from it are also 

 given. 



In the Journal des Savants, Mons. Barthelemy de St. Hilaire treats 

 at length on Hindu Legislation, in a series of reviews of Dr. Biihler's 

 "Laws of Manu" and "the Sacred Laws of the Aryas " and Mons. 

 Jolly's " Institutes of Vishnu." 



Professor Hermann Jacobi contributes to the Vienna Oriental Journal 



