February, 1917.] Annual Report. xvii 



Maulavi Asad al-Zaman Khan has amplified, up to the his- 

 torical portion, the printed Persian Catalogue of MSS. belonging 

 to the Society. Maulavi Shah Mu'In-al-Din Ahmad lias prepared 

 an alphabetical list of 262 MSS. omitted in the first printed list 

 of the Government of India collection. Maulavi Abu Miisa 

 Ahmad-al-Haqq has prepared a hand-list of the commentaries 



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Bibliotheca Indica. 



Of the three fasciculi published in the Bibliotheca Indica 

 series during the year under review, two are continuations of 

 old works, while the third is a new publication. The three 

 fasciculi are as follows : 



1. Akbar-nama, Vol. III., fasc. VIII. — translated into 

 English from Persian by Mr. H. Beveridge, I.C.S. (retired). 



2. Yoga-Sastra, fasc. IV. — a Jaina Sanskrit work edited 

 by Sastra-visarada Jainacarya Vijaya Dharma Suri. 



3. A Dictionary of the Kashmiri language, Part I — edited 

 by Sir George Grierson and M. M. Mukunda Rama Sastri. This 

 dictionary, based as it is on materials left by the late Pandita 

 Iswara Kaul of Kashmir, is a most comprehensive one, contain- 

 ing all important words of the Kashmiri language, together with 

 their synonyms in Sanskrit and Hindi, as well as copious ex- 

 planations in English. 



Bardic Chronicles. 



During the year under review, thanks to the good will of 

 the Government of India and the enthusiastic support of the 

 Bikaner Durbar, successful attempts have been made to place 

 the Bardic and Historical Survey of Rajputana on a firmer foot- 

 ing, and to eliminate the difficulties which had been handicapping 

 the progress of the work last year. His Highness the Maharaja 

 of Bikaner, at the end of the four months during which he had 

 employed Dr. Tessitori to examine the manuscript materials 

 in Bikaner, manifested a desire to retain Dr. Tessitori' s ser- 

 vices for a longer period, so as to enable him to compile a His- 

 tory of Bikaner and to edit some of the most interesting bardic 

 poems referring to the State. He offered to contribute the 

 cost of the work if the Government of India were willing to 

 continue Dr. Tessitori's pay. Meanwhile, an offer was made by 

 the Mewar Durbar to employ Dr. Tessitori in connection with 

 the bardic materials in Udaipur, and willingness was expressed 

 to contribute a certain sum towards the cost of his employ- 

 ment. Encouraged by these facts, but at the same time realis- 

 ing that big schemes were hardly suitable to the present time 

 of financial stringency, Dr. Tessitori prepared a new Scheme for 

 a Summary Survej 7 , in which he proposed to deal only with the 

 six principal States of Bikaner, Udaipur, Bundi, Jesalmer, Jai- 

 pur, and Jodhpur, and to devote only one year to each of them. 



