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graphing of manuscripts could not, owing to war conditions, be 
received in time to allow of anv photographs being taken 
before the end of the year. 
EpitroriaL WorRK. 
The two works which principally engaged my attention 
during the year, were the edition of the Chanda rau Jeéta Si ro 
by Vithi Sujo, and the compilation of the History of Bikaner. 
The former work was completed and sent to Press in October. 
The edition of this poem was a task of special difficulty owing 
to the fact that it had to based on only two manuscripts, 
whereof one was good, but the other was of very little philo- 
logical value. But the poem was so important that no pains 
bestowed on it seemed to me too great, and I think I can say 
without undue self-confidence that the edition produced is as 
the numerous difficulties of the text, was the other homonym- 
the times of Sihd (twelfth century A.D.) to those of rau 
Jodho, the father of rau Viko (fifteenth century A.D.) as a sort 
of introduction to the history of Bikaner proper. The compi- 
lation of this introduction has been to me a source of special 
satisfaction not only because it’ afforded scope for the solution 
of many knotty points, but also because it enabled me to utilize 
