XXXI1V Annual Address. [February, 1915. 
of first-rate importance has also been accomplished by the 
Buddhist Text Society of Calcutta, under the joint editorship 
of Rai Bahadur Saratchandra Das and Dr. Satischandra 
Vidyabhushan. They have opened up a new mine of know- 
ledge, of inestimable value as a contribution to the study of 
Indian Philosophy, as has been freely acknowledged in no 
ambiguous terms by such an exacting scholar as the late 
*rof. Max Miiller in his treatise on the six systems oi 
Indian Philosophy. We are further indebted to, Dr. Max 
Walleser for the Tibetan version of the commentary of 
Buddha-palita on the Madhyamika Sutra, and the Prajna 
Pradipa of Bhavaviveka, to Prof. Louis dela Vallee Poussin 
for the commentary Chandrakeerti and of Bineeta Deva on 
the Nyayabindu; to Prof. Sherbatsky for the text itself of 
Nyayabindu with the commentary of Dharmottara, and to 
Babu Pratapchandra Ghosha for the Satasahasrika Prajna 
Paramita. But for the publication of these works, it would 
have been impossible for scholars to obtain an accurate and 
comprehensive view of the Madhyamika Philosophy. In the 
way of lexicographical work, we have the epoch-making Dic- 
tionary by Rai Bahadur Saratchandra Das published under 
the patronage of the Government of Bengal, and the Tibetan 
version of the Amarkosha, the oldest metrical lexicon in the 
Sanskrit language, edited by Dr. Satischandra Vidyabhushan 
together with a commentary called the Amaratika Kamadhenu 
of Indian Logic, originally composed by. Dr. Satischandra 
Vidyabhushan as a thesis for the Degree of Doctor of Philoso- 
