February, 1911.] Annual Report. xxix 
equivalents, a copy of the Kappastya of the Jainas with a 
commentary, and a copy of the Syadvadamafijari with a com- 
mentary composed in Saka 1214, 7.e., 1292 A.D. There is, also, 
an elementary work on Mimansa entitled N yaya Prakasa. The 
last two books of the Ramayana are in the handwriting of 
a son of Ramajaya Mukerji Vidyabhiisana of Somra, copied 
in 1801. Many parts of the Rg. Veda were copied in the 18th 
century. The collection cian small is very important as it 
contains standard works on a variety of subjects and is extra- 
ordinary for such an early collection by an European scholar. 
Search for Arabic and Persian Manuscripts. 
Ross has conducted the search without interruption 
throughout the year. As heavy purchases were ma 
previous year and the payment of many MSS. had to be 
held over to this year, no extensive tour was made. Only Hafiz 
Nazir Ahmad, the Chief Travelling Moulvi, was sent to Benares 
and Lucknow. 
A list of the manuscripts which have been collected since 
Moulvi Hafiz Nazir Ahmad has taken the charge of this Depart- 
ment have been prepared and sent to the press and will be 
published in due course. 
During the year under review about 326 manuscripts were 
bought, and the collection is representative of almost every 
branch of literature. 
During the year Moulvi Abdul Hamid, the Resident 
Moulvi, has left the search work on being appointed Assistant 
Librarian in the Oriental Public Library at Bankipore 
For some time Mirza Abul Fazl worked in this. aye 
but he resigned on receiving a better appointment. On a 
count of want of funds no new man was appointed as ngs i- 
dent Moulvi, and Moulvi Hafiz Nazir Ahmad, the Ist ‘ta 
ling Moulvi, performed the duties of the Resident Moulvi in 
addition to his own duties 
recent acquisitions include many interesting manu- 
scripts, among which the following may be mentioned here 
I. (gpie} ytd} ) Al-Hisn-ul-Matin, an Arabic Ee of 
the Nawabs and Kings of Oudh; beginning with the account 
a Sa‘adat Khan Burhan-ul-Mulk the progenitor of the kings 
of Oudh, down to Wajid Ali Shah, completed in A.H. 1281. 
The author ‘Abbas Mirza, son of Sayyid Ahmad, who himself 
belonged to Lucknow and was a contemporary of Moi ‘Ali 
Shah, divides the work with the following three chapte 
1. Account of the Burhan-ul-Mulk and his Sardants. 
2. Account of the mothers of the Nawabs and Kings of 
Oudh. 
3 Account of the relatives of the Nawabs and Kings of 
Oudh. 
