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throwing light on some of the most intricate and difficult prob- 

 lems connected with Bardic Literature : 



Appendix I.— Who are the Bards ? 



Appendix II.— What is the language of Bardic poetry ? 



Appendix III.— In how many different ways were the 

 Bards remunerated ? 



Appendix IV. — A catalogue of 36 Ksattriya royal races 

 as opposed to 36 Rajput royal races as given in Todd. 



Appendix V. — Whether and to what extent is Chand's 

 Prithwirajrasa genuine with Chand's genealogy? 



Appendix VI. — A history of Sekhowati. 



Appendix VII. — The discovery of a lamp worship as a 



survival of the fire worship of the Persians at Belada in 

 Alar war. 



Appendix VIII.— Rev. Dr. Macalister's perpetual loans of 

 Hindi and Bardic manuscripts to the Society. 



Appendix IX .--Manuscripts donated, acquired and copied 

 in Rajputana. 



Appendix X. — Gifts of Bardic Manuscripts by the Jodhpur 

 Durbar to the Society. 



Appendix XI.— Bardic Manuscripts in different Durbar 

 Libraries in Rajputana. 



Appendix XII.— Collection of Bardic songs of the Gaekwar 

 family found in the Education Department at Baroda. 



Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts. 



Connected with the search of Sanskrit Manuscripts is the 

 work of cataloguing the manuscripts in the Society's Library. 

 In the last report the number of manuscripts described was 

 4700. At the present moment the number stands at 5900. 

 This means 1200 for the year. One manuscript, the Desavali- 

 bibriti, a Gazetteer in Sanskrit of Eastern India written 

 during the early years of the 17th century at Patna under 

 the patronage of a local Zemindar, took nearly a month. 

 There are other manuscripts also which took a long time 

 to describe. These belong to that very obscure period of 

 Buddhist literary history which intervened between the fall of 

 the Mahayana School of Buddhism and the Muhammadan con- 

 quest. The manuscripts are generallv very old, copied in the 

 11th and 12th centuries, written in ungrammatical and often 

 unintelligible Sanskrit, giving descriptions of rituals, obsolete, 

 obscure, mystical and therefore hard to understand. 



Bureau of Information. 



The Bureau of Information was not very active this year, 

 still an important reference was made by the Chairman of the 

 Calcutta Improvement Trust on the subject of the removal of 



