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special interest to us in India. Professor 0. Bohtlingk gives us two small 

 but useful notes on " the impersonal use of the participle future passive 

 in Sanscrit," and on " the Grammar of Katantra." Mr. E. Wilhelra 

 has contributions to the " Lexicography of the Avesta," and D. H. von 

 Wlislocki, to " Benfey's Pancbatantra." To Professor Oldenberg we are 

 again indebted for two valuable papers on " the Song- writers" and " the 

 Adkyaya division of the Rigveda." I would call particular attention to 

 the proposals addressed by Professor E. Leumann " to all future editors 

 of Indian dramas and non-vedic prose texts" with reference to the adoption 

 of an uniform system of editing with the object of facilitating, especially 

 for the purpose of Dictionaries, an easy and intelligible system of citation 

 of words or passages from tbe edited texts. 



The Vienna Oriental Journal is keepiug up its high character, and 

 gives us a great variety of most interesting matter. I may instance 

 Professor Kielhorn's paper on " Hemachandra's Sanskrit Grammar" 

 Mr. Manilal N. Drivedi's on " the Advaita philosophy of S'ankara," 

 Prof. H. Jacobi's " on Ruclrata and Rudrabkatta " and " on Visakka- 

 datta," and Dr. Jos. Zubaty's on " the change of quantity in the termi- 

 nations of Vedic words." Dr. Hanusz continues his " Contributions to 

 Armenian Dialectology," and Prof Biikler adduces " further proofs of the 

 authenticity of the Jaina tradition." Mr. Joh. Kirste again discusses the 

 vexed question of the meaning of the words raonano rao on the Indo- 

 Scythian coins, to which he proposes to assign a Semitic origin from a 

 root meaning " to guard as a shepherd." 



Inch- Aryan. — On the subject of the Indo- Aryan languages generally, 

 I have to notice the translation of the first volume of Professor H. 

 Brugmann's " Elements of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo- 

 European languages," prepared by Mr. J. Wright. It contains the 

 introdxiction and phonology. 



Sanskrit. — This is a vast subject, and I must limit myself to draw, 

 ing your attention to some of the more prominent publications in 

 Europe and India. For fuller information, I cannot do better than 

 refer you to the annual lists of serial publications, such as our own 

 Bibliotheca Indica, the Benares Sanskrit Series, the Bombay Sanskrit 

 Series, the Sacred Books of the East, Orient alische BibliugrajiJtie, and 

 others. Mahamahopadhyaya Ch. K. Tarkalankara has published an 

 edition of the KusumdnjaM, a standard work of the Nyaya philosophy, 

 with the explanation (vydkhydna) of Haridasa Bkattacharya, to which 

 he has added a very full commentary (tikd) of his own. Dr. Winternitz 

 has given an excellent edition of the Apastdmbiya Grilnja Sutra," with 

 extracts from the commentaries of Haradatta and Sadarsanarva ; Profes- 

 sor Jolly, of the Mdnava Dltannaidstra, and Professor P. Peterson of the 



