20 O. Annual Address. [February, 1922. 
Suchipatram. Kavindracharya was a famous South-Indian 
ascetic who lived at Benares in the middle of the seventeenth 
recently as the end of the seventeenth century can no longer 
be traced. 
{ have not yet. however, turned your attention nearest 
heme, because it is always darkest under the lamp. To my 
mind, the most hopeful augury for our future progress is the 
creation of living centres of oriental studies in connection with 
the Indian Universities, amongst whom the University of 
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Raychaudhuri, Mr. N anigopal Majumdar, Mr. Hemchandra Ray, 
Mr. Masuda and Mr. Kimura. They have proved themselves 
able and willing to enter the field along with scholars of estab- 
lished reputation like Prof. Bhandarkar, Mr. Herbert Bruce 





