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of Sanskrit learning; but nothing of any interest was met with 
there. 
5. The Pandit was therefore, after a fortnight’s stay at that 
place, sent on to Burdwan where I had hoped to find large collec- 
tions of MSS. in the Library of the Mahéraja and the pandits of 
the district. But I was equally disappointed there. The Maha- 
raja, at my request, very obligingly allowed the Pandit access to 
his Library, but there were not quite a hundred MSS. in Sanskrit, 
and they comprised the Mahabhirata and other well known works 
which have been already printed, The head pandit of the Maha- 
raja’s palace, however, showed some works on the Vedanta new 
to the Society’s Library, and notices of these have been duly se- 
eured. Burdwan, is a place of some antiquity, and was of considers 
able importance during the Muhammadan rule, but it seems, like 
Dacca, to be very poor in Sanskrit works, and there is not a single 
pandit of any note who has a decent collection of MSS. 
6. The disappointment at Burdwan, however, was amply com- 
pensated at Mankar, near the Boodbood station of the Hast Indian 
Railway. Babu Hitalala Mis’ra, a zemindar and Honorary Magis- 
trate of the sub-division, has an excellent library, in which the 
travelling Pandit found between five and six hundred works on the 
Vedanta. These I had hoped, would have occupied his time for at 
least four months, but before he had time to take notes of about 
forty or fifty works, the Dusserah vacation intervened, and the 
Babu’s pandit subsequently falling ill, there was nobody to keep 
the library open, and the travelling Pandit had to be removed to 
Halisahar, a small town situated opposite Hugli. 
7. Halisahar had at one time a large number of toles or colleges 
of Sanskrit learning, and several are still extant. In the time of 
Raja Krishnachandra Raya of Nadia, about one hundred and fifty 
years ago, the place was celebrated for its Nydya school, and some 
of the best pandits of Calcutta came from that place. But the 
pandits who now own the toles, proved the most bigotted of their 
kind, and offered so many obstacles, and raised so many difficulties, 
that after two months’ stay, my travelling Pandit had to return 
without getting a single work of any importance. 
8. During the last two months of the year, the travelling Pan- 
