February, 1913.] Annual Address. XXXF 
incumbent on us as a learned body to bring within the easy 
reach of scholars interested in the progress of Oriental studies. 
To take one illustration only, Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad 
Sastri has, in the course of his searches for Sanskrit manu- 
scripts, come across a copy of an important work on Hindu 
Law called Smriti Manjari by Gobindaraja, the great commen- 
tator on the Institutes of Manu. This manuscript dates back 
to the year 1145 and effectively contradicts the theory put 
forward by Prof. Julius Jolly that Gobindaraja flourished 
between the 11th and the 15th centuries and could be identified 
with King Gobindachandra of Kanauj. One can imagine 
without difficulty the stir which would be created in the learned 
world of Orientalists by the publication of an accurate edition 
of this work. The Sastri has also been fortunate enough to 
come across a palm-leaf manuscript of Parasara Smriti, copied 
in 1142. We cannot but lament that the funds at our disposal 
ion to generation by the bards 
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of Rajputana. In the course 0 ay 
come ‘aston important collections at Ujjain, rape te 
Mundi, and has discovered the original of the real Erithviraja 
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rasau, composed. by Chand, the illustri hi. It is now 
form, was of moderate length, : : 
by successive accretions not always easy to renee niin 
the genuine original. ‘The field of work thus broug c 
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extensive, and as soon as the final repo Sk tuake ‘out a; strong 
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have a number of important papers embory’ this la 
researches which it is not easy to make ee ne —: 
mind. It is sufficient to say that two ee — Goonbis we 
been published of the monumental work © . 
