1904] Annual Beport. 21 



of the series by the author, the other volumes are in the course of publi- 

 cation. The editor, Kamala Krsaa Kavyatirtha, has given a short 

 preface discussing the date of the author and describing the MSS col- 

 lected. His index giving the works consulted by the author is specially 

 valuable. 



(2) Nityacara Paddhati, by Vidyakar Vajapeyi, composed in the 

 fourteenth century in Orissa under the patronage of King Narasimha, 

 was finished in seven fasciculi. Pandit Vinoda Vihari Kavya Tirfcha, 

 the discoverer of the work, has edited it with care and has given a preface 

 discussing the date of the author and circumstances under which he 

 wrote. The indices appended are valuable. 



(3) Trikanda Mandanam or Apastamba-sutra-dhvanitartha-karika 

 by BhaskaraMisra, called Trikanda Mandana, son of Kumara Svami, who 

 boasts of being a mace and an axe to the opponents in disputation, pur- 

 ports to be the versified essence of the 10th Prasna of the Apastamba 

 Srauta Sutras of the Black Yayurveda, treating of Soma Yaga. The 

 editor, M. M. Candra Kanta Tarkalagkara, has written a very meagre 

 preface. He has not gone beyond his MSS. in editing this work, 



(4) Apastamba Srauta Sutra belonging to the Black Yayur Veda 

 came to a close under the distinguished editorship of Prof. Dr. Richard 

 Grarbe of Tiibingen in seventeen Fasciculi. The first twelve fasciculi 

 were accompanied with a commentary by Varadutta Suta Anarttiya, but 

 the other fasciculi had no commentary. The editor has written an 

 excellent preface discussing the peculiarities of language and grammar of 

 Apastamba, on the unity of the Sutra collection of the Apastamba School ; 

 on the position of these Sutras in the ritual literature and topics of that 

 sort. His index is extremely valuable. 



Search for Sanskrit MSS. 



M .M. Hara Prasad Sastri was in charge of this department through- 

 out the year. He took two trips to Benares, and his travelling Pandits 

 were touring in Orissa and in Western Bengal ; nearly three hundred 

 MSS. have been collected, of which about hundred acquired at Benares 

 contained many interesting, and curious works. Many new digests of 

 Hindu law and ritual have been brought to light. During the last 

 three months the M. M. and his Pandits were engaged in preparing an 

 alphabetical list of all the MSS. in the Asiatic Society's rooms belonging 

 to the Society and to Government. This list will be a valuable guide 

 in acquiring new MSS in the future. 



The Report having been read and some copies having been distri- 

 buted, the Cliairman invited the Meeting to consider it at their leisure. 



