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imbedded, in the great Encyclopaedias constructed by the 
industry of Tibetan Lamas under the patronage of accom- 
plished rulers, versions of Sanskrit works the originals whereof 
have long disappeared from the country of their birth. It 
is only during the last twelve months that the Society has 
been able to complete the publication of the Avadana Kal- 
palata of Kshemendra, the Sanskrit text whereof, nowhere 
available in India, was discovered in Tibet written in Tibetan 
characters'and accompanied by a beautiful Tibetan version. 
The restoration of this monumental work has occupied for 
many years three distinguished editors, one of whom, Panditi 
Harimohan Vidyabhushan, at one time the Oriental Librarian 
of the Society, died in the early stages of the publication, 
while the other two, Rai Saratchandra Das Bahadur and Dr. 
Satischandra Vidyabhushan, have spent a life-time in the 
accomplishment of the laborious task committed to their care. 
To take another illustration, Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad 
Sastri has just acquired for the Society the manuscript of a 
commentary by Pundarika on the Laghu Kalacakrayana, 
called Bimalaprabha. The manuscript is believed to be more 
than nine hundred years old and brings to light an important 
work which has hitherto been assumed to be irrecoverably 
lost and has been known only in its Tibetan version. A close 
comparison of the long-lost original and of the version pre- 
_ Served in Tibet would obviously be of the greatest interest 
and would at once throw light upon the question, through what 
developments, if any, the work has passed. But apart from 
the intrinsic interest which attaches to Tibetan studies from 
the Indian point of view, we must not overlook the patent 
fact that as Tibetan studies have in recent years attracted the 
attention of well-equipped scholars throughout the learned 
world, Indian investigators, unless they pursue the path 
steadily and assiduously, will soon find themselves outstripped 
and hopelessly left behind. Since the British Expedition to 
Tibet in 1904, these studies have made considerable strides, 
and scholars have now at their disposal original texts which 
were practically unattainable to men of the last generation 
by the publications comprised in our Bibliotheca Indica Series 
and in the Bibliotheca Buddhica Series of Petrograd. Work 
