Annual Report. _[ February, 1905 
ritual, has been completed this year, namely the Sraddhakriya 
Kaumudi, by the same young editor Pandit Kamal Krsna Smrti- 
bhasana of Bhatpara. He has added a full subject index of the work. 
e new works undertaken during the year are :— 
The Baudhayana S'rauta Sitra. Professor Hillebrandt of 
Breslau, the great authority on Vedic subjects, undertook the edi- 
tion of three Vedie works for the Bibliotheca Indica, namely, 
Sankhayana, Baudhayana and Hiranya-Kesi’s Srauta Siitras. He 
completed the Sankhayana Siitra and transferred (with the consent 
of the Council) the editorship of Baudhayana’s work to Dr. W 
e mbhatti or Laksmi is a commentary on the Mitaksara, 
by Balambhatta Payagunda of Benares in the 18th century. It 
is an important work on the Hindu Law of the Benares school, 
and the Hon’ble Mr. Justice Agutosh Mukhopadhyaya obtained the 
permission of the Council to edit it. But his numerous engage- 
ments afforded him little leisure, and the editorship was trams- 
ferred to Babu Govinda Das of Benares, who has published the 
he Caturvarga Cintamani, by Hemadri, the Minister of the 
time. The work is divided in parts or kandas, three of ong we 
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already been published during the last forty years. MS he 
other parts not being procurable, the publication was kept in abey- 
ance. During the past two years, however, the MS. of a fourth 
The Vallala-carita purports to be biography of Vellala ger 
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ing the caste agitation that arose after the census of 1 
authentic MSS. of the work, were placed in the hands of Maha- 
mahopadhyaya Haraprasad Sastri, and the Council requested him 
to publish the work in Deva Nagari with an English translation and 
historical notes. The first fasciculus has been published contamng 
the text only. The translation and notes are in the course of pre- 
paration. 
