XX Annual Report. (February, 1906, 
These thirty-four fasciculi were issued at a cost of Rs. 13,231, 
the average cost per fasciculus being Rs. 389. : 
3y a resolution of the Council, dated 30th September 1898, 
the annual statement of Bibliotheca Indica publications is limited 4 
to those works which were either commenced or which came toa 
close during the year. 
Among the works taken in hand during the course of the 4 
year may be mentioned Saddargana-Samuccaya, by Haribhadra, : 
a great Jain writer who died in A.D. 479. He wrote a short work 
on the six Systems of Indian Philosophy, namely, Bauddha, 
Naiyayika, Jaina, Samkhya, Vaisesika and Mimamsaka. Those 
vho consider Nyaya and Vaisesika to be one and the same 
The other work taken in hand is the Lower Ladakhi Version 
of the Kesar Saga by the Rev. A. H. Francke, Moravian mission- 
ary. The version was dictated slowly to him by an inhabitant of 
Kholotse who was brought up in Lardo near Tagmacig, and is 
likely to clear up many obscure points in the Kesar epic. 
Of the works that came to an end the most important is an 
English translation of the Markandeya Purana by the Hon'ble 
Mr, Justice F. E. Pargiter. The work was undertaken 20 years 
ago, and after many interruptions has now come to an end. Th 
conclusion of the editor is that the work was written at two differ- 
ent periods, one some centuries B.C., the other some centuries A D. 
The scene is laid in Central India amid the wilds of the 
Vindhyas, 
heavens and so on, of the Jains of his day. It wus edited by Vakil 
Keshablal Premchand of Ahmedabad, under the supervision of 
Professor Hermann Jacobi. 
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between A.D. 1478 and 1535. It was composed for the benefit of 
the Vaidika brahmanas professing bende the Rg Veda, and 
