February, 1905.] Annual Report. 
two are editions of Sanskrit works of rare value which have no 
chance of being published by private enterprise. Two of these 
belong to Jaina literature, namely, the Tattvarthadhigama Sutra 
.and Upamitibhava-prapaficakatha; the first was composed by 
Umasvati Vacaka in the lst Century A.D. at Pataliputra, and the 
second by Siddharsi, reputed to be the brother’s son of the poet 
Magha, in the beginning of the 10th century. There are two 
Buddhist works among these, namely, the Bodhicaryavatara by 
Santi Devain the 7th century, and the Satasahasrika Prajiapramita 
attributed to Nagarjuna, the founder or at least the first great 
writer of the Mahajana School, in the 2nd century A.D. Several 
other works are in the course of publication of which no mention 
is made here, since no fasciculi have been published during the 
ear. 
‘ Of the Brahmanic Sanskrit works two belong to the Orissa 
school of Smrti, two to the Bengal, one to the Bombay, and one 
to the Benares school; one to the Ramanuja School of the Vedanta, 
one to the Sankara School, and to the Mimamsa School. 
_ Of the works that have been completed, the Riyaz-tis-Salatin 
belongs to the Arabic-Persian series. It is an Hnglish translation 
of a history of Bengal composed by Ghulam Husain Salim between 
1786 and 1789. The translation has been made by Maulavi Abdus 
Salam, M.A., of the Bengal Provincial Service, and he has elucidated 
it with ample footnotes and enriched it with an elaborate table of 
proper names. The Riyaz-tis-Salatin is the only comprehensive 
history of Bengal, and Stewart’s History of Bengal is based upon 
it. Dr. Blochmann long ago strongly recommended that it should 
be translated, and the translation has now been accomplished. 
Since H. H. Wilson translated the Visnu Purana, no sustained 
effort was made to translate any other Purana till in 1884 Mr. Jus- 
tice Pargiter (now our President) undertook the translation of the 
Markandeya Purana. Onerous official duties and other difficulties 
impeded the preparation of the work with the notes. The progress 
was slow, but the translation has at length been brought to a close. 
It is accompanied by a full index and a preface in which the trans- 
lator expresses the opinion that the Purana had its origin in the 
Narbada valley, and that parts of it may beasold as, if not older 
than, the Christian era. 
Godadhara Rajaguru, who flourished by the middle of the 
18th Century, was the spiritual guide of the Gajapati Rajas of 
Puri. Hecompiled a complete code of Hindu law and ritual for 
Orissa. As no Hindu work from Orissa had ever been published, 
the publication of this work was thought desirable, and it was placed 
in the hands of Pandit Sada Siva Misra, a well-known pandit of 
Orissa. The work consists of three volumes, of which the first has 
been completed with an elaborate index. 
Last year was notified the completion of the Vargakriyé Kau- 
mudi, by Govindananda Kavikankanacarya; and the other work 
by the same author, belonging to the same code of Hindu law and 
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