February, 1906. | Annual Report. XXi 
preceded the code of age eine, the standard work of the 
Bengal school, by at least half a century. 
Professor Dr. W. Caland of echt Holland, my been obliged 
to put a stop to his edition of the Srauta Siitra o f Baudhayana, 
after the ninth Pragna, for want of MS, materials. 
The Society’s stock has been arranged by the Assistant 
Secretary, and the Cashier is engaged in counting the books and 
writing up the stock-book. 
On an application from Prof. Louis de la Vallée Poussin, 
his name was placed on “ee a of individuals in Europe receiving 
the Bibliotheca Indica 
Council iekeeened the publication in the Bibliotheca 
Indica of an Index of Place names to the second volume of Col. 
Jarrett’s translation of the Ain-i-Akbari, compiled by Mr. W. 
rvine. 
g to financial ee (see Appendix-Accounts) of the 
Oriental Tau Fund the Council sanctioned Rs. 2, m 
the fund of the Society as an advance to pay off the bills passed 
for payment and for work already done, 
Search for Sanskrit MSS, 
s department published the ‘‘ Catalogue of Palm leaf and 
ce paper MSS inthe Durbar Li ibrary, Nepal,” by arg yoo 
padhyaya Haraprasad Shastri. It gives descriptions of 457 ra 
and valuable MSS., some of them written in characters of the Tth 
and 8th centuries. It brings many tantric works to light, and its 
post-colophon statements have enabled Professor C. Bendall to 
compile a chronological list of Nepal kings, fuller and more 
accurate than those hitherto published by him. This Catalogue 
has been published as an extra number of the “ Notices of Sanskrit 
The third volume, in course - 2 scsoapeaee will contain notices 
of 366 MSS. mostly seen in Ben 
he year has been very fruitful in the collection of MSS., no 
less than 1,360 having been acquired. Of these about 1,100 are 
Jain MSS. This, with about 800 Jain MSS., already collected 
with great industry from —— quarters, raises the Government 
Jain collection to 2,000. The Jaina works are in Sanskrit, Jaina 
Prakrit, Madwari, Guzera ; Hindi and other languages, and con- 
tain works of all classes stots biographies of saints, Angas, com- 
ntaries, and so The collection brings to light two facts—that 
the Jainas had ecto it that they had smrtis of their own and 
N epal Darker in return for their courtesy to Professor Bendall 
and Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri, when on their visit 
to Nepal in 1898, for the purpose of compiling this work. 
