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February, 1908. | Annutl Report. xix 
December 1905, observed that, though he knew every pale of the 
book, he could not properly the meaning of a single sen- 
tence. It is ho oped that some scholar will = leisure ai ravel 
the intricacies of this work by the help of the four commentaries 
whic fe teal published along with the text. 
e Government grant of Rs. 9,000 for the Bibliotheca Indica 
has es raised to Rs. 12,000 for five years, for affording facilities 
for publishing a larger number of Arabic and Persian texts. A 
few changes have been made in the rules for remunerating editors 
and translators. Works will henceforth be issued in fasciculi of 
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publication was ‘in the hands of Mahamahopadhyaya Satis 
Chandra Vidyabhusana, Joint Philological Secretary of the 
Society. 
Report on the Search for Sanskrit MSS. 
During the year under review, Mahimahopadhyaya Hara- 
prasid Sastri went to Nepal to examine manuscripts in the 
Durbar Library collected since his visit in 1898, ‘This collection 
was commenced by the late Maharaja Sir Vir Shamsher Jung 
Rana and continued by his able brother, Sir Chandra Shamsher 
Jung Rana, tre present Maharaja. It contains about a 
hundred manuscripts, nearly half written on palm lea Som 
of the palm-leaf manuscripts bear dates of the 10th century, : in 
very few are later than the Lit ost are works on Tantra, 
both Hindu and Buddhist. One of the Tantrik works entitled 
TY is attributed to Macchendra Nath. The Hindu 
Tantras are all attributed to Siva, and they are supposed to have 
been brought down to Earth from Kaildsa by nine Nathas, 
one of whom was Macchendra ae This is one of the earliest 
Tantra known. The MS. is written in Gupta character of the 
transition period. Another int entitled Kiran Tantra and 
written in the same character, is dated N.S. te. 924 A D. 
There are many works in the Vajrayan School of Buddhism, which 
is the origin of that obscene and m\stic worship popularly known 
as the Sahaja School. The modern Sal»ja Vaishnavism of 
Bengal is a mere adaptation of that Buddhist School to Hinduism : 
the doctrine and the dogmas are very much the same, there being 
but a siight difference in name and form. 
The tage a@hasrika Prajfiaparamité is the ancient and 
original wo on = rajiaparamits. About the sixth sontery 
eda Prajniparamita ; it embodied ps ideas of 
- Again, in the reign ‘of Dharma Pal of Magadha, a falar 
sea called the Abhisamayalankara Sastra, was written 
on the Asta Sahasrika. 
But the most important discovery of local interest is the 
collection of Bengali songs of the Vajrayan School of Buddhism. 
