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a Gujarati transliteration and translation of the Zend-avesta. I may 

 also note some Marathi translations of Sanskrit works : the Briliat 

 Katha Sagara, a free translation of Somadeva's Katha Sarit Sagara ; the 

 Gita Subodha Chandrika, a translation of the Bhagavadgita (with the 

 text) ; the Dharmasindhu, a translation of Kasinatha's Dharmasindhu. 

 The " Jain Vritta Sikskapatra," by Svami Ladkaji Deoji, in Gujarati, is 

 designed as a book of instruction in Jainism. More important are two 

 books by Muni Atmaramji Vijay Anandji, both in Hindi, the " Ajnana- 

 timira-bkaskara," a controversial book and the " Jainddarsha," an ex- 

 position of Jainism. I may also draw your attention to the edition of a 

 few chapters of the " Dnyaneshvari," a commentary on the Bhagavadgita, 

 which is published in a work entitled " Nabanita " (or butter), a collec- 

 tion of Marathi poems. The Dnyaneshvari is regarded as the oldest 

 Marathi work in existence, and its language is so different from the 

 modern Marathi that it cannot be understood without a commentary. 



Indian Border-lands. — I will now pass on to a brief review of the 

 literature of the Border-lands of India. The " Manual of Sikkim and 

 Bhutan languages," by the Rev. G. Sandberg, will prove a very useful 

 help to many of us ; and the same may be said of the " Grammar of 

 Lhotc't Ndga," by Rev. W. E. Witter; of the " Bengali- Gar o Dictionary," 

 published by the Calcutta Missionaries, and of the Ramayan by Bhanu 

 Bhaktacharya, in Nepali. To Kashmiri students may be recommended 

 Rev. W. "Wade's " Grammar of the Kashmiri language," with texts, and 

 Rev. J. Hinton Knowles' " Folktales of Kashmir : " and to those who 

 interest themselves in Andamanese, a " Manual " of that language, by 

 Mr. M. V. Portman. Perhaps I may best mention here Gipsy, which is 

 an Indian dialect spoken in Europe, as shown by its very name " Romani 

 Cib " (Domani Jibh). A grammar, vocabulary and chrestomathy of it 

 has been published by W. J. Jesina ; and I may also note the " English 

 Gipsy Index," by Mrs. Grierson (originally in the Indian Antiquary), of 

 which a separate edition has been issued. Of Singhalese, we have a 

 " Grammar," by the Rev. C. Chounawel ; of Burmese a " Manual," by 

 Captain Chas. Slack, and a " Pocket Dictionary, with an abridgment of 

 Dr. Judson's Grammar," by M. M, Phinney and Ebeleth. Of the Shan 

 language, there is a " Grammar," by Mr. J. N. Cushing ; and of Malayan 

 a " Grammar," by Mr. J. Pijnappel, and " a Complete Course, in the form 

 of letters, to teach the Malayan language," by Mr. A. A. Rockoff, both 

 in Dutch, also an " English, Salu and Malay Vocabulary," by Mr. T. H. 

 Haynes. 



Tibetan. — A translation of the Bses-pai-phrin-yig or " the Friendly 

 Epistle " has been published in the Journal of the Pali Text Society. 

 But the most important contributions to the publication of Tibetan 



