1889.] Address. 53 



He lias, further, a note to a paper " on the mother of Jahangir," by 

 Kaviraj Shyamal Das. 



Bibliotlieca Indica. — This valuable series of publications has made 

 greater progress than usual under the vigorous supervision of Dr. 

 Hoernle, assisted by Pandit Hara Prasada S'astri. Fifty-eight 

 fasciculi, the largest number ever published in a single year, were 

 issued during the year and a complete list of them will be found in 

 the Report of Council. Of these 34 belong to the Sanskrit, 21 to 

 the Persian and 3 to the Tibetan series. The parts of the Sanskrit 

 series are chiefly continuations of works commenced in previous years, 

 but there are seven works newly begun. These are the Sankhyd Sutra 

 Vritti, by Professor Garbe ; the Nydya Kusumdnjali, by Prof. Ch. K. 

 Tarkalankar ; the Briliad Dharma Purdna, by Pandit Hara Prasada 

 S'astri; Anu-Bhdshyam, by Pandit Hemachaudra "V idyaratna ; the S'ri 

 Bhdshyam, by Pandit Ramanatha Tarkaratna; the Advaita Brahma 

 Siddhi, 'by Pandit Vamana S'astri Upadhyaya ; also one Hindi work, the 

 Tidsi Satsai, by Pandit B. L. Ohaube. In the Persian series also, most 

 of the published fasciculi belong to continuations ; but there is one new 

 work,the Tarikh-i-Firuz ShdM of Shams-i- Shir dj-i-'Af if, edited by Maulawi 

 Vilayat Husain. Both works of the Tibetan seines are new commence- 

 ments. The publication of Tibetan works in the Bibliotlieca Indica 

 is a new departure, the importance and first beginnings of which have 

 been fully detailed in the addresses of the two preceding years. The first 

 fasciculus of the Sher-phyn, or the Ashtasdhasrikd Prajiidpdramitd, was 

 nearly finished at the time of the Annual Address of 1886, and a few 

 pages of the Pag Sam Khri-S'iti, or the Avaddna Kalpalatd, were printed 

 at the time of the Address of last year. Of the former work there are 

 now two parts finished, and of the latter one. 



Catalogues. — A Catalogue of our Persian and Arabic Manuscripts 

 and prints or lithographs has been some time under preparation by 

 Maulawi Mirza Ashraf AH, of the Calcutta Madrasah, under the superin- 

 tendence of Dr. Hoernle. The Persian portion is completed, and 52 

 pages are printed, a copy of which is placed on the table. The Arabic 

 portion is far advanced towards completion. 



Search for Sanskrit MSS. — A part of the work of searching for 

 Sanskrit MSS. — that done in the province of Bengal — is carried on, in 

 connection with our Society, by Raja Rajendrahila Mitra. The results of 

 his search are recorded in the well-known " Notices of Sanskrit MSS." 

 These have now reached their twenty-third number, which contains 

 notices of 168 manuscripts, bringing the total of manuscripts hitherto 

 described up to 3,240. The following remarks are summarised from 

 the Raja's interesting report, prefixed to Volume IX of his "Notices," 



