1875.] Library. 77 



Under the general head of Kavya, my acquisitions include a codex of 

 the Bengali recension of the Salcuntald three hundred and two years old : a 

 fragment of the Vrihatkatha of Kshemendra, about four hundred years old ; 

 a Sanskrit version of the Hindi Totakahani or Tales by a Parrot, and a 

 complete copy of Narahari's commentary on the Naishadha. 



But the most important of my acquisitions are treatises on the grammar 

 of the Prakrit languages. These include 1st, Audarya-Chintamani of Sub- 

 hasagara ; 2nd, Prakrita-sarvasv'a of Markandeya ; 3rd Prakrita-kaumudi ; 

 4th Prakritalankesvara, of Vavana ; 5th Prakrita kamadhenu of the same 

 Prakrita-lakshana of Chan da; 7th Prakrita-chandrika ; 8th Prakrita- 

 author ; 6th manorama. None of these has been noticed in Professor Lassen's 

 Institutions LingasB Prakriticse, and all of them will, I think, be new to 

 European scholars. The first I believe is the same work which Dr. Hernle 

 has noticed in the Indian Antiquary of August last, but it is there described 

 to be the work of one Subhaehanclra. My codex comprises only two chapters. 

 It has been copied from a text which, from the appearance of its paper and 

 the antiquated form of its writing, I believe is about five hundred years old. 



Library. 

 The following additions have been made to the Library since the meet- 

 ing held in February last. 



Presentations. 

 *#* Names of Donors in Capitals. 



Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie, Novre. et Decbre. 1874. 

 Novembre. G. Ducos de la Kaitte. — Le cours du Hong-Kiang, ou fleuve Rouge, au 

 Tongldn, d'apres les notes et renseignements de J. Dupius. L. Eostenko. — Khiva en 

 1873. 



The Geographical Society of Paris. 



Annales de la Societe D' Agriculture de.Lyon, 1871, 1872. 



The Agricultural Society of Lyon. 

 Mittheilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft fiir Natur und volkerkunde 

 Ostasiens, December 1874. 



The German Oriental Society of Natural History and Ethno- 

 logy of East Asia, Yokahama. 

 Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal-land en Volkenkunde, Decl XVIII, Gth 

 series, Afflg. 5-6, Deel XX, Gth series Deel III, Afflg. G. 7th series Deel I, 

 Afflg. 4-5, Deel XXI, Afflg. 1-2. 



Notulen van de Algemeene en Bestuurs Vergaderingen, Deel X, Nos. 

 1-4, Deel XI, Nos. 1-1. 



Yerliandelingen. Deel XXXVI. 

 Codicuni Arabiuorum. 



The Batavian Society op Sciences. 



