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the Vedas or commentaries thereon, 26 are treatises on Vedic 
ceremonials, and 8 parts of the Vedangas; 11 are on the Vedanta, 
8 on the Nyaya, and 2 on astronomy, one of them being an exposi- 
tion of Arabic terms borrowed by the Brahmans. Of grammatical 
treatises 2 only are included in the list, and of medical compi- 
lations 5; but law, rituals, poetry and the drama, are repre- 
sented in it by 6, 12, 28, and 14 codices respectively. 
6. On my return to Calcutta, a pandit was employed on a salary 
of Rs. 30 a month, and travelling allowances, to proceed to the 
mofussil. He commenced operations at Krishnagar and in five 
months collected the names and short descriptive accounts of about 
four hundred MSS. new to the Society. Among these are included 
a number of Tantras belonging to the Raja of Krishnanagar ; but 
few of them are of any great antiquity. Notices of these have been 
drawn up in the prescribed form, and will be sent to press in the 
course of next month. 
7. In March last, advantage was taken of the Rev. J. Long’s 
trip to Dacca to send the pandit to that district, and he has since 
been employed there. The field, however, does not seem to be 
promising, and no work of any value has yet been met with. 
I have, therefore, asked the pandit to return to Krishnagar, where 
and in the neighbouring town of Nuddea, the most renowned seat 
of the Nyaya school in Bengal, there remains yet much to be 
done. 
8. In July 1869, two MS. lists were obtained from the Home 
Office, one containing the names of 2744 works said to be owned 
by Pandit Radhakrishna of Lahore, and the other of works supposed 
by the Nepalese pandits to be rare in the Nepalese Libraries at 
Khatmandu. Both these have been printed, and copies are here- 
with submitted for inspection. The first contains the names of a 
great number of scarce works, but it has been much swelled out 
by inserting the same treatises under different names in different 
places. The Nepalese list contains nothing of any value. 
9, Nominal lists have likewise been obtained from the renown- 
ed Pandit Rangéchéri Svami of Brindaban, and from different 
parts of Bengal, extracts from which will ere long be published. 
10. Much has not been done in the way of purchasing MSS. At 
