Annual Report. . [February, 1905 
ritual, has been completed this year, namely the Sraddhakriya 
Kaumudi, by the same young editor Pandit Kamal Krsna Smrti- 
bhasana of Bhatpara. He has added a full subject index of the work. 
The new works undertaken during the year are :— # 
The Baudhayana Srauta Sitra. Professor Hillebrandt of 
Breslau, the great authority on Vedic subjects, undertook the edi- 
tion of three Vedic works for the Bibliotheca Indica, namely, 
Sankhayana, Baudhayana and Hiranya-Kesi’s Srauta Sitras. He 
completed the Sankhayana Stitra and transferred (with the consent 
of the Council) the editorship of Baudhayana’s work to Dr. W. 
Caland of Utrecht. Dr. Caland has published two fasciculi of the 
work during the year under review. Baudhayana’s School is still 
current in Southern India, and he seems to have flourished several 
centuries before Christ. 
The Balambhatti or Laksmi is a commentary on the Mitaksara, 
by Balambhatta Payagunda of Benares in the 18th century. It — 
is an important work on the Hindu Law of the Benares school, 
and the Hon’ble Mr. Justice Asutosh Mukhopadhyaya obtained the 
permission of the Council to edit it. But his numerous engage- 
ments afforded him little leisure, and the editorship was trans- 
ferred to Babu Govinda Das of Benares, who has published the 
first fasciculus during the year under review. 
The Caturvarga Cintamani, by Hemadri, the Minister of the 
Yadava Kings of Devagiri, about the middle of the 13th century, 
is an encyclopedic work on Hindu Laws and rituals of great value. 
As it quotes from a variety of works, the publication of the entire 
work was considered forty years ago to be of great importance, 
as giving the names of Sanskrit works existing before Hemadri’s 
time. The workis divided in parts or kandas, three of which have 
already been published during the last forty years. MSS. of the 
other parts not being procurable, the publication was kept in abey- 
ance. During the past two years, however, the MS. of a fourth 
part, the Prayascitta-khanda, being available, the Council requested 
Pandit Pramatha Nath Tarkabhisan, Sanskrit Professor in the 
Sanskrit College, Calcutta, to undertake the editing of it. He has 
issued three fasciculi of the work this year. 
The Vallala-carita purports to be biography of Vellala Sena, 
a great King of Bengal who reigned during the middle of the 12th 
century. Jt was composed from old materials by Ananda Bhatta in 
the beginning of the 16th century at Navadvipa. Several incom- 
plete and partial reprints of the work were published in the Bengali 
character in Calcutta, but no authentic MS. wasforthcoming. Dur- 
ing the caste agitation that arose after the census of 1901, two 
authentic MSS. of the work, were placed in the hands of Maha- 
mahopadhyaya Haraprasad Sastri, and the Council requested him 
to publish the work in Deva Nagari with an English translation and 
historieal notes. The first fasciculus has been published containing 
the text only. The translation and notes are in the course of pre- 
paration. 
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