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all. He seems to have been forgotten when that great work 

 was written. If, as some manuscripts testify, Asuri is one o! 

 the interlocutors in this work, it is really an important dis- 

 covery. It is throughout written in the Sutra form, not in the 

 form of comparatively modern Sutras like Kautilya's Arthasasl r a , 

 Vatsyayana's Kamasutra and even Panini's Ast&dhyayl, hut 

 in the more ancient form of the Sutras of Vasisllia and Gotamu. 

 Jaimini Sutra-kasika is a commentary on astrological Sutras 

 attributed to Jaimini. The commentator is Malayavarma, a 

 Raja of Kumayun. 



Abhinava Gupta was a noted Saiva teacher of BL&Smlr. 

 A complete copy of his commentary on the Gita has ben 

 found in the collection acquired from Laksmi Na ray ana Kavi. 

 Satarafija-kutuhala, a work on chess-play, appears to be new in 

 this collection. Samkhya-pradlpa, Vidyamanjarl, Commentary 

 on Suryasataka by Valambhatta Payagunde, Nimvaditva- 

 prastava, Nimvadityalaghustava and Ratnodyota byCiranjiva 

 are new works found in this collection. 



Of the eight schools of Sanskrit grammar, the Jinendra 

 School is the least known. Twelve or thirteen years ago, a 

 description of the work appeared in the pages of Indian Anti- 

 quary, and a search was at once instituted in Benares, to find 

 if a copy of that work was available. At last a manuscript was 

 traced in one of the richest Jaina-Upasrayas in that city, and 

 a copy procured for Government. From Xepal came two 

 manuscripts, one of which, Ekallavira-canda-Mahiirosanat an- 

 tra, represents the modern mystic worship of Tantrik Bud- 

 dhism. No amount of persuasion would procure the work at 

 Kathmundu from the Vajracaryas there. They say that it is 

 their Guhya worship and should not go to profane hands. 

 Fortunately, however, the work has been procured this year. 

 Sarasamgraha by Ratnakara Mi^ra is a Smriti compilation 

 current at Chittagong. It is one of those works by which, on 

 the loss of political power, the Brahmanas sought to keep up 

 their ascendency in the Hindu society. It is written 

 throughout on a thick bark procurable in Assam and Chin 



gong only. 



Two volumes of the Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts are in 



the press, over forty forms of which have been printed oft 

 The volumes could not be completed owing to interruptions on 

 account of tours, both in search of Sanskrit Manuscript-, and 

 of Bardic Chronicles. Harikrsna-Vyasa collection of 567 manu- 

 cripts have been fully catalogued. 



Search for Arabic and Persian Manuscripts. 



The year under review is the first year of second quin- 

 quennial sanction of the Government of India for the Search 

 of Arabic and Persian Manuscripts. The Government of India 



