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ing of old and new standard works. Two editions of the Tulsi Das Rama- 

 yan I have already noted under Bengal. To these I may add an edition of 

 Chand's great Epic, the " Prithiraj Rdsau," which is being published in 

 serial parts by Pandit Mohanlal Vishnulal Pandia; the " ISTakh Sikh," 

 written A. D. 1637 by Sayad Gulam ISTabi, alias Ras Lin, and edited by 

 Pandit ISTak'ckhedi Tiwari ; and the " Sringar Sangrah," written by the 

 poet Sardar of Banaras, and edited by the well-known Munshi Newal Ki- 

 shore of Lakhnau. Of original works in Urdu may be noted a " History of 

 Oudh " (Tawarikh Aina-i-Awadh) from the earliest times, by Shah Abu- 

 1-Hasan Pirzada ; and a life of the late king of Oudh, Wajid Ali Shah, 

 (Tawarikh Sbah-i-Awadh) by Syud Muhamed Sajjad Husain : of tran- 

 slations into Urdu, a version of the " Tarikh-i-Ferishta," and of Sir 

 Mackenzie Wallace's work on " Egypt." 



Panjdb. — The number of publications registered in the Panjab 

 Catalogue is nearly 1800 ; but the majority of them are of an ephemeral 

 character. Of medical works may be mentioned the " Madhusudni 

 Nlghantu," a glossary of medical terms in English, Arabic, Persian, 

 Hindi and Sanskrit. Religious controversial works are specially numer- 

 ous, those of the Sikhs and Aryas being particularly interesting. There 

 are also numerous works in praise of Muhammadan saints, written in 

 Urdu. Publications in the latter language are the most common, 

 though there are also many in Panjabi and Hindi, and some in Sindhi, 

 Pushtu, Persian, Arabic and English. 



Madras. — The Madras publications average about 250 per quarter, 

 and are written in English, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalim, Kanarese, Tulu, 

 Hindi, Sanskrit and Persian. A Tamil-French Vocabulary has been 

 published by Mr. M. A. Lap. Besides works designed for educational 

 purposes, there are a large number of works written either in defence of 

 the "advaita" or non-dual system of philosophy, or in praise of S'iva 

 or Vishnu of particular shrines. Madras being the home of S'ankara 

 Acharya and his ' advaita ' philosophy, that system has still a stronger 

 hold there on popular belief than in any other province. 



Bombay. — The average number of publications in Bombay is about 

 1,900 a year. Maratki and Gujarati are the languages in which the 

 largest number of works are published ; but Urdu, Hindi, Sindhi, 

 English, Sanskrit, Zend, Hebrew also contribute their quota. Besides 

 literary works and works designed for educational purposes, such as 

 Mangal Das Prabuda's " English- Gujarati Dictionary," Bombay publishes 

 the largest number of works on the Jaina and Zoroastrian religious. 

 " Parsiism, its place in history," in English, by Professor J. Darme- 

 steter, is a learned exposition of Zoroastrianism, giving it a high place 

 among the religions of the world. Kabasji Edalji Kanga has published 



