exiv Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [July, 
Vedic works. At the instance of Raja Dr. Rajendralala Mitra 
in the same year he was engaged by the Asiatic Society of 
Bengal to edit the Sama Veda Samhita for the Bibliotheca 
Indica. After the death of his father, he brought his family 
from Benares to Calcutta and applied himself to the diffusion 
of Vedic learning in Bengal. At his residence he kept pupils 
and gave them free board and tuition. He contributed to 
Bibliotheca Indica a new edition of the Nirukta. In 1889, 
he commenced publishing a new Vedic Journal, the Usha. He 
contributed also to the Bibliotheca Indica an edition of 
Aitareya Brahmana, Taittiriya Samhita and Satapatha Brah- 
mana. From his own press he published in Bengali character 
the Samaveda, the Yajurveda and several Brahmanas and 
Vedangas. Besides his editions of Sanskrit works of Poetry 
and Philosophy, and his original Compositions in the Sanskrit 
and Bengali languages, he edited a Buddhist work, Karanda 
Vyuha, with a Bengali translation by himself as well as a few 
of the Jaina Scriptures. 
As a Vedic scholar:he was without a rival in Bengal, 
and carried out his father’s idea of reviving Vedic learning in 
the land of his birth, He was an Honorary Member of the 
Asiatic Society of Bengal. He was appointed examiner in 
connection with the Government Sanskrit Title Examinations 
in Bengal. To give effect to the New Regulations of the 
Calcutta University he was appointed University lecturer and 
an examiner in the Vedas. 
After suffering from Apoplexy for about six months he 
breathed his last on the first of June last, leaving a brother, 
a sons and a large circle of pupils and admirers to mourn 
oss. 
The following eight gentlemen were balloted for as Ordi- 
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Williams, King’s Dragoon Guards, Schely: Palin; proposed 
by Lieut.-Colonel D. C. Phillott, seconded by Mr. G. H. Tipper; 
Prince Mohamed Bukhtyar Shah, ©.1.E., of Mysore family, 
No. 6, Loudon Street, Calcutta, proposed by Maulavi Abdul 
teed seconded by Lieut.-Colonel D. C. Phillott ; Lieut. Sureswar 
IMS., proposed by Dr. N. Annandale, seconded by Mr. G. 
Tipper; Mr. Nirmal Chandra Sen, M.A,, Barrister-at-Law, 
Judge, Small Cause Court, Calcutta, proposed by the Hon. 
