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stay at Benares having been limited to seven weeks only, I could 
not examine moro than about half of them. These were mostly 
works of which the Asiatic Society possesses copies. The few that 
appeared to me to be new have been included in the accompanying 
volume of ‘ Notices,” 
8. The principle on which the notices have been drawn up has 
already been explained in my minute of April 1869.* I have taken 
the Oatalogue of the Society’s Library for my guide, and described 
only such works as were not included in it, except when better MSS. 
were met with than are to be found in Calcutta. 
4. The plan of quoting the initial and the concluding sentences, 
as also the epigraphs, which was first suggested by me and ap- 
proved by Government, rendered a departure form the tabular form 
originally proposed unavoidably necessary ; but none of the heads 
of information recommended by Mr. Stokes has been omitted, and 
on the whole the form adopted will, I believe, be found to be in 
every respect convenient. It has greatly economised space, and 
obviated the necessity of printing, in narrow columns, long extracts, 
mostly in verse, and other matter not fit to be tabulated. 
5. Among the works noticed I would draw the attention of the 
Committee to the Upanishads, most of which are rare, and have 
hitherto been known only through Duperron’s translation of the 
Persian version of Dara Sekoh. From three to five copies of each of 
them have now been obtained, and placed at the disposal of Pro- 
fessor Raimamaya Tarkaratna for publication in the Bibliotheca 
Indica. The little treatises on Vedic Phonetics (Nos. 132 to 136) 
are also rare, and of considerable interest. Professor Max Miller, 
in his history of Sanskrit literature notices only one of them—that 
of Narada—and the others, therefore, I imagine, will be new to 
many scholars in Europe. The commentary of Sures’vara on the 
Brihadaryanaka Upanishad and that of Sankarénanda on the 
Atharva Upanishads are also worthy of note. Most of the dramatic 
works noticed are not included in the list annexed to Professor Wil- 
son’s Hindu Theatre ; some of the medical works are also valuable, 
and the Mahabhashya is remarkable for age and accuracy. Alto- 
gether 204 works have been noticed, of which 69 are portions of 
* Proceedings, Asiatic Soviety, Bengal, for May, 1869, p. 127 et sey. 
