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of the development of the Puranic literature ; the principal interlocutors 

 being Vyasa and Jabali ; and Jaya, Vijaya and the goddess Durga. 

 No. 668, Fasc. I, Total one fasciculus. 



9. Chaturvarga Chintamani, Volume III, Part I, S'raddha-kalpa, 

 has been completed this year under the joint editorship of Pandits 

 Jogesvara Smritiratna and Kamakhya Natk Tarkavagisa. The author 

 of the work is Hemadri, who nourished in the court of Mahadeva, 

 one of the Yadava Princes of Devagiri, in the Deccan, about the middle 

 of the thirteenth century. . The edition was prepared from three MSS. 

 Volume III, Part II, Kala Nirnaya has been taken in hand by the same 

 editors. Nos. 652, 675, Vol. Ill, Part I. Fasc. XVIII, Vol. Ill, Part II, 

 Fasc. I. Total two fasciculi. 



10. Kala Madhava, edited by Mahamahopadhyaya Chandrakanta 

 Tarkalankara, is an astrological treatise by Madkavacharya for the de- 

 termination of the proper time for various rituals of the Hindus. The 

 work is a sort of an appendix to Madhava's commentary on the Institutes 

 of Parasara, and it treats of the time for the performance of rituals 

 mentioned in it. The work has been completed this year. No. 67Q, 

 Fasc. V. Total one fasciculus. 



11. Kurma Purana, edited by Babu Nilmani Mukerji, M. A., Pro- 

 fessor of Sanskrit, Presidency College, is a system of Hindu mythology 

 and tradition advocating devotion to Vishnu. This work shows a phase 

 of Puranic literature chronologically intermediate between the Vishnu, 

 Agni and other older Puranas on the one hand and the Brihad-dharma 

 and others on the other. Nos. 655 and 687, Fasc. VI, VIII. Total two 

 fasciculi. 



12. Madana Parijata, edited by Pandit Madhusudana Smritiratna, 

 Professor of Smriti, Sanskrit College, Calcutta, is a digest of Hindu law 

 later than the Chaturvarga Chintamani, Mitakshara and Smriti Chan- 

 drika. The work was composed at a place named Kastha, a few miles 

 towards the north of Delhi, on the Jamuna. Nos. 672, 686, 696, Fasc. II, 

 III, IV. Total three fasciculi. 



13. Nirukta, edited by Pandit Satyavrata Samasrami, with com- 

 mentaries, has been completed in four volumes. The first volume, or 

 the Nighantu chapter, was accompanied with the commentary of Deva- 

 raja Yajva, and the other volumes with that of Durgacharya. The 

 editor has given exhaustive indices of words at the end of each volume. 

 It is a work of the highest authority on the Vedic philology. No. 664i, 

 Vol. IV Fasc. V. Total one fasciculus. 



14. The work of editing the Ntaya Kusumanjali Prakaranam, of 

 Udayana, who was termed the Nyayacharya or the great teacher of the 

 Nyaya philosophy, has been taken in hand by Mahamahopadhyaya Chan- 



