February, 1920.] Annual Address. xvii 
These twenty years are remarkable for the number of Orien- 
tal works published. The four vedas with their commentaries 
were published before this thas, some of the Brahmanas were 
also published. Scholars were satisfied if they could get or 
publish one Brahmana of one Veda. Sakhas of the Vedas 
were very little understood and it is the work of these Sakhas 
which came in for their share of attention during the years 
under review. The Kausitaki Brahmana has been published— 
a work belonging to the. Kausitaki or S4nkhayana Sakha. 
Works of Maittrayaniya Sakha, both Samhita and Brahmana, 
have been published. The Brahmana of the Talavakara 
Sakha has been published. The word Talavakara was (twenty 
years before) a mystery to Orientalists. But it now appears 
from an inscription published in the Progress Report of the year 
before last that Talavakara and Kauthumi were the two main 
Sakhas of Sima Veda, in the same way as the White and the 
Black were the two main Sakhas of the Yajur Veda. The 
Talavakara Upanisad is well known, and it is also well known 
that it belongs to the Sama Veda. amkaracaryya in his 
preface to the Bhasya of the Upanisad says that it is the eighth 
chapter of the Brahmana, but nobody knew which Brahmana 
was referred to. It now appears that it was the Talavakara 
Brahmana that was meant. Part of the Kathaka Samhita and 
Kathaka Brahmana have also been published from i 
obtained in Kashmir where the Katha Sakha still p s 
The Harvard Series have done an immense i ae to the 
republic of letters by publishing a number of books of the 
highest importance to scholars with notes and the history of 
its study from ancient times to modern days. Bloomfield’s 
Sen nanos is | very cana ee of er students. _ 
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very gf rtrionchoane Mee not ate works a Sanskrit Bud- 
dhist literature. Professor Bendall’s Siksa Samuccaya, Professor 
Speyer’s pivg seme Professor Poussain’s Madhyamaka. 
Vritti, Messrs. Kern and Nanjio’s Saddharma-Pundarika are 
beautiful examples of svaeloatices of the editor’s art. Saddharma- 
Pundarika from the 5th century downwards appears in San- 
skrit prose with Gathas in mixed Sanskrit. But before that 
even the prose was written in mixed Sanskrit. This exhi- 
bits the hold which the mixed Sanskrit bad on the Buddhist 
mind in centuries preceding and succeeding the Christian Era. 
— Sylvan Levi’s Mahayana Sitralamkara is the only 
work on the Yogacara system of Buddhist Philosophy that 
hee sipeneed | in print. It defends Mahayana against Hina 
yana, but condemns Stnyavada as unsatisfactory. Professor 
Macodonell per Keith’s Vedic Index ranks foremost amongst 
the auxiliaries of Vedic study, and the Professor’s Vedic Gram- 
mar is a unique work in so far as as he has done it without 
Panini’s Vaidika Prakriya. He has evolved the Grammar 
