1896.] . F. ¥inn— List of Birds. I3J 



But on Mimamsa he wrote a commentary, entitled Nyayakanika, on 

 a certain work named Vidhi-viveka. His commentary is known to Hall 

 (see his catalogue p. 87). A MS. of this commentary is to be found in 

 the Sanskrit College Library at Benares. Two pages of this com- 

 mentary are missing, and so I was requested to get a copy of these 

 two pages from the only other MS. known to belong to the Mahant 

 of ^'aijkai*a-matha at Puri. The fagkara-matha MS. is noticed by tlie late 

 Raja R. Mitter in p. 291 of the eighth volume of his Notices of MSS. 

 My travelling Pandit, Binodvihari Kavyatirtha was asked to copy 

 out the pages at Puri, and in attempting to do so, he has made an 

 important discovery. He was successful in laying his hand on tlie 

 identical MSS. mentioned by Dr. Mitia. This was very fortunate, 

 because since the publication of Vol. VIII, many of the paqkara-matha 

 MSS. are reported to have been lost or destroyed. 



The beginning and end of the MS. is the same as given in 

 Vol. VIII ; but on careful examination, the first forty-six leaves 

 of the MS. proved to be the text of the Vidhi-viveka. The MS. of 

 Nyayakanika was defective. It commences at leaf 87 and ends at 

 leaf 268. The whole MS. was mistaken by Dr. Mifcra's Pandit to be 

 that of Nyayakanika. The text of Vidhi-viveka is by Mandana Mi9ra — 

 the great Mimaiiisaka teacher who was converted to be a Vedantist by 

 ^aqkaracarya and who wrote a large number of works on Vedanta 

 His name as a Sannyfisi was changed into Sure9varacarya. He wrote 

 the Vidhi-viveka while he was a householder and fully believed in the 

 efficacy of Vedic rituals. The so-called biographers of f'aijknra have 

 dwelt largely on the powers and» learning of Mandana, who was re- 

 garded as an incai-nation of Brahma himself. 



The MS. of the Vidhi-viveka is written in an excellent Devanagarl 

 hand and appears to have been written at least two hundred years ago. 

 I have caused a transcript of the MS. to be made in Bangali chai^acter, 

 and it is now laid before you. 



5. List of Bii'ds collected hy the Afghan- Baluch Boimdary Commission 

 of 1896.—% F. Finn, B.A., F.Z.S. 



The paper will be published in the Journal, Part II. * 



