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and the surrounding countries from the pen of Professor Bendall. 
These expeditions have enabled Professoor Sylvan Levi to 
publish the Mahayana Sutralamkara witha French translation, 
Professor Bendall to publish the Subhasita-Samgraha and me 
to publish the Ramacarita, the only historical work relating to 
Eastern India yet known. The Paisaci original of the Vrhat- 
Katha is an anxious object of search by every enthusiastic 
scholar. The search has not succeeded. But I found 4,000 
verses of an ancient Sanskrit version and Professor Levi found 
another 4,000 of the same version. He entrusted both these 
sections to one of his pupils to edit, and the edition has been 
published. 3 
The late Rai Bahadur Sarat Candra Das’s Tibetan-English 
Dictionary has been published. But its Sanskrit, Tibetan and 
English appendix has not vet been published. For some time 
it was entrusted to Professor Poussain. But for want of time 
he had to make it over to a Swiss scholar, and there is no in- 
formation what progress it has made. 
A great part of these verses lives in oral tradition and a very 
small part of it is ever committed to writing. Lord Curzon 
entrusted the work of giving a Preliminary Report as to how the 
search should be conducted to the Asiatic Society of Bengal ; 
and the Society, after negotiating with several scholars in 
Calcutta and in Rajputana, at last entrusted it to me on my re- 
tirement from Government Service in 1909 ; and I made several 
trips to Rajputana and submitted a Preliminary Report. The 
keenly concerned. In the meantime several scholars in Raj- 
putana have published or are about to publish Bardic works 
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