Department o^ oriental printed books and mss. 39 



Nubian MS. — Eighteen vellum leaves, apparently relating 

 to the miracles of St. Menas. Probably 10th century. Only 

 two other Nubian MSS. are known. 



Persian MS. — Kanarang-namah, an historical, poem on 

 the wars of Fath 'AlT Shah of Persia (reigned a.h. 1211- 

 1250), by Muhammad Husain Khan Malik al-Shu'ara. Dated 

 A.H. 1243 (a.d. 1827). 8°. A contemporary account of the 

 events narrated. 



Pushtu MS. — The Diwan, or collected poems, of Mukhlis. 

 XVIIIth century. 8°. Otherwise unknown. 



Sanskrit Printed Book. — A Vedic Concordance, being an 

 alphabetic index to every line of every stanza of the published 

 Vedic literature and the liturgical formulae thereof. By 

 Maurice Bloomfield. 1907. Harvard Oriental Series, Vol. 10. 



Sanskrit MSS. — A number of MSS. written in S'arada 

 character, on birch-bark (probably XVIth century for the 

 most part), of which the following are the most important : — 

 1. A commentary by Narahari on S'riharsha's classical poem 

 Naishadhiya, with text of the peom. Very rare. 4°. 



2. A commentary by Bhaskara Misra on books 7-8 of 

 Mammata's Kavya-prakasa, a famous manual on the art of 

 poetry. 8°. Exceedingly rare. 



3. A collection (now bound up in 12 volumes) of religious 

 works, including Vedic lectionaries, rituals, hymns, etc. 8°. 



4. Nyaya-sara-pada-pancika, a treatise on logic, by 

 Vasudeva ; of considerable antiquity and great rarity. 8°. 



5. Brahma -gupta's Khaiida-khadya, a treatise on 

 astronomy. 8°. 



6. Abhinava-gupta's Isvara-pratyabhijna-vivriti-vimarsinT, 

 a commentary on Utpala's Pratyabhijna-sutra. 8°. 



7. The Carayaniya (Kathaka) Grihya-bhashya, a commen- 

 tary on a work treating on the rules of domestic ritual. 

 Very rare and important for the study of the Kathaka 

 recension of the Veda. 



L. D. Barnett. 



