1871.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 11 
2734, dated the 19th September last, forwarding copy of a letter from 
the Secretary to the Government of India, Ilome Department, No. 
3963, dated Simla, the 29th August, 1870, and stating that the 
Notices of ‘Sanskrit Manuscripts” lately submitted by the Society 
‘‘are considered incomplete in some points, which tend materially to 
lessen their value and usefulness, especially to European scholars,” 
and that the Government of India accordingly desire the compi- 
lation of a “ supplementary list of the manuscripts drawn up numeri- 
cally” with the additional information. 
2. Inreply, Iam directed to state that in the blank form, annexed 
to the Government of India letter No. 4358, dated 8rd November, 
1868, which was forwarded to the Society for its guidance, there are 
nine columns: 1st for number; 2nd for name, in Devanagari; 3rd 
for ditto, in Roman character ; 4th for subject matter and name of 
author ; 5th for number of pages; 6th for number of lines in each 
page; 7th for substance on which is written and character; 8th for 
names of place where and of person with whom found, and 9th for 
remarks regarding accuracy and peculiarities. Of these, information 
under the heads 4, 6, 8, 9, it is now said, is wanting in the ‘ Notices.’ 
On reference, however, to the Sanskrit text it will be seen that the 
required details regarding the 5th, 6th and 9th heads are given in 
the second para., and that regarding the 8th in the third para. under 
each name. ‘The editor has likewise added (10th) the extent of the 
work calculated according to the Indian method in stanzas of 32 
syllables each ; 11th, the date of writing’ whenever available; 12th, 
the initial words or stanza; 13th, the concluding words; 14th, the 
colophon which in Sanskrit works serves the purpose of the title 
page, and 15th, a full description of the work, its contents, history, 
and literary notices. The Council of the Asiatic Society fail, there- 
fore, to perceive how it has been made out that information under 
some of the heads had not been supplied, and are driven to suppose 
that the Sanskrit portion of the “ Notices’ has been entirely over- 
looked by the Government of India. From a reference to those 
Notices, it is clear that more information of an useful character 
has been supplied than was asked for. 
8. It might be said that if all the information had been given 
in English, it would have proved more convenient. But the word- 
