xvi Annual Report. 
During the year 1920 the following eight Arabic, Persian 
_and Urdu Manuscripts were purchased on behalf of Gover 
ment :—(1) Al-Azharu’l-Mutanathira fi'l-Akhbar’’l| Mutamatira 
by Jalalu’d-Din ‘Abdu’r-Rahman B. Abu Bakr as-Suyiti. (2) 
Al-Masa’lu’l-Bahiyvatu’z-Zakiyya ‘ala’l-Masa’ili’l-Ithna ‘Asha- 
rivya by Abul Ikhlas Hasan B. ‘Ammar al-Wafa’i ash Shurun- 
hulali. (3) Kitab Adab al-‘Alim wa’l-Mutaallim fi’l-Muka- 
tahat. (4) Kitabu’l-Tazkira by Shaykh Khalifa Shaykh al- 
Katilun. (5) Sah‘a Sayyara by ‘Ali Riza Khan. (6) Al- 
Futuhat al-Itahiyya by Zakariyya B. Muhammad al-Ansari. 
(7) Déwan-i-Mirza Tafta. (8) Déwan-i-Ma‘rif. 
The preparation of the Catalogue of the MSS. in the Govern- 
ment collection on the lines of the Catalogue of two collections 
of Persian and Arabic MSS. preserved in the India Office Library 
by Sir E. Denison Ross and Professor E. G. Browne is in pro- 
throughout both years. The amplification of the Society’s 
Catalogue of Persian MSS. continued from the subject reported 
last is in progress. 
Bibliotheca Indica, 
The following works have been published in the Bibliotheca 
Indica :— 
The Baudhayana Srautasutram Vol. 3, fas. 3, which has 
been edited with numerous footnotes by Dr. W. Caland. 
The Maitrayaniya Upanisad fas. 2 which was formerly 
edited by EH. B. Cowell has now been revised and re-edited by 
Mahamahopadhyaya Dr Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana. 
The Atmatattvaviveka fas. 3, which is a work on the re- 
futation of Buddhist Metaphysics, has been edited with 6 old 
Commentaries by Mahamahopadhyaya Vindhyesvari Prasad 
Dvivedin 
The first of Minor Tibetan Texts contains the Song of the 
dy 
Eastern Snow Mountain in the Tibetan language with an 
English translation, together with an elaborate glossary and 
notes by Mr. Johan van Manen. 
Under Bardic and Historical Survey of Rajputana Dr. L. P. 
Tessitori has edited Chanda rau Jéta Siro Vitha Sije ro kiyo 
in the Bibliotheca Indica. It is a poem composed by Vitha 
Siyo Nagarajota, a Cavana, at the stipend of rau Jéta Si of 
Bikaner, about the year 1535 A.D., to celebrate a victory 
obtained by the latter prince over Kamran. 
The sixth fasciculus of Udayanacarya’s NV yayarartikatat par - 
yaparisuddhi edited by Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Vindhyes- 
vari Prasad Dvivedin and Mahamahopadhyaya Lakshamana 
Porg Dvavida has come out in No. 1432 of the Bubliotheca 
wea. 
Of the odes of Shaikh Muslihu’d-Din Sa‘di Shirazi, edited 
