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S'drngadhara Paddliati, the two latter in Trubner's Oriental Series and 

 the Bombay Sanskrit Series respectively. To Professor Paul Deussen 

 we are indebted for a translation (in German) of the Veddnta Sutras, or 

 the S' dviraha-Mimdmsd, of Badarayana, with the complete commentary of 

 S'ankara, and to Professor Bohtlingk for a translation (also in German) 

 of " Panini's Grammar," together with the text and explanations. 

 Professor A. Weber has contributed the edition of a very curious little 

 book, called the " Pdrasi-prakasa." It is a Persian-Sanskrit vocabulary, 

 written in Sanskrit by Vishnudatta, during the reign of the emperor 

 Akbar. To Professor Delbriick we are indebted for a " Syntax of the 

 Ancient Indian Language" (Altindisclie Syntax). Tour attention may 

 be specially drawn to the new great work of Professor Oldenberg 

 on the " Hymns of the Rigveda," of which the first volume has been 

 issued. The author makes an attempt in this work to restore the 

 text of the Rigveda from its traditional to its original shape, as far as 

 Vedic tradition and the present state of philosophical inquiry allow. 

 The first volume explains the Vedic metres, discusses the principles of 

 arrangement, and traces the history of the Vedic text. In subsequent 

 volumes the text itself will be published, with a full ' apparatus criticus.' 

 I need not do more than recall to your memory the Sanskrit Dictionaries 

 of Bohtlingk and Cappeller, the re-edition of the S'abda-Kalpa-Druma by 

 the two brothers Barada, Prasada and Hari Charana Basu ; Pratap Oh, 

 Ray's English Translation of the Mahdbhdrata, and Parab and Durga, 

 Prasad's Kavyamald (a monthly magazine), the publication of all of 

 which is making satisfactory progress. But I must not omit to notice 

 Professor J. Eggeling's " Catalogue of Sanskrit MSS. in the library of 

 the India Office," of which Part I, containing the Vedic MSS., has been 

 issued ; and the new edition of Professor Sir Monier Williams' "Sanskrit 

 Dictionary." 



Pali. — The most important publications of Pali literature are those 

 of the Pali Text Society. In their Journal have appeared the " Simd- 

 vivdda-vinichhayd-Jcathd," edited by Prof. J. P. Minayeff ; the " Saddham- 

 mo'pdyana" edited with notes by Dr. Morris, and the " Pajjamadhu, a 

 poem in praise of Buddha," edited by Mr. G. R. Gooneratne (Modaliyar) 

 Their annual volume has given us the text of the first volume of the 

 " Majjhima Niki'tya," edited by Mr. V. Trenckner. To this I may add 

 the translation, by Mr. L. W. Modliyar, of that portion of the Malid- 

 varnsa which remained untranslated by the Hon'ble G. Tumour, and 

 which is now in course of publication. 



Prakrit. — Of publications of works in the ordinary Prakrit, I have 

 to note Vakpati's historical poem, called the Oaiidavdho, which has been 

 edited by Mr. Sh. P. Pandit, in the Bombay Sanskrit Series, and to which 



