1878.] AnniMi Be])ort, 4^7 



The Agni Purana which forms a sort of Cyclopaedia of Sanskrit 

 learning, is also in a forward state, and two fasciculi more will complete the 

 work. Three Nos. were brought out by the editor, Dr. Rajendralala Mitra, 

 during the past year. This will be followed by an edition of the Vayu 

 Purana simultaneously with an English translation by the same editor. 

 The translation will appear under the auspices of the Oxford University 

 authorities. 



Pandit Bharatachandra S'iromani has brought out six fasciculi of his 

 edition of the Vrata Khanda of Hemadri. The work is a digest of all 

 rules and ordinances of ancient Hindu sages regarding fasts and penances. 

 The quotations given in it are numerous, and of great interest with refer- 

 ence to the dates of the writers quoted. 



Vachaspati Misra's gloss on the Vedanta Sutras of Vyasa, which 

 was undertaken two years ago by Professor Bala S'astri of Benares, has 

 advanced by two Nos., and the Mimafisa Aphorisms by one. Both these 

 works will require some time yet before they are completed. 



The progress made in the printing of Gobhila's Aphorisms on the 

 domestic rites enjoined in the Sama Veda, has also been slow, only one 

 fasciculus having appeared during the past year. But that task has nearly 

 been completed, and will be brought to a close in course of the current year. 

 By way of appendices to the text, the editor proposes to print the Supple- 

 mentary Aphorisms by the son of Gobhila, as also the Snana and the Sandhya 

 Sutras. The whole of these will not take up more than one fasciculus. 



The Council have great satisfaction in announcing that Dr. Rajen- 

 dralala Mitra has at last completed his edition of the Lalita Vistara. The 

 work was undertaken several years ago, and five fasciculi were published ; 

 but after that, owing to one cause or another, it had to be set aside from 

 time to time. Annexed to the last fasciculus is an Introduction in which 

 the editor has given a detailed account of the language, history, date and 

 contents of the work, which will not fail to prove interesting to oriental 

 scholars. 



The following is a detailed list of the Bibliotheca Indica Publications 

 issued during 1877 — 



A. Arabic and Persian. 



Akbari^amah, by Abul-Fazl-i-Mubarak-i-'AUami, edited by Maulawi 

 'Abdur-Rahim, Calcutta Madrasah. Nos. 362 and 363, 374 and 375, Vol. 

 I, Fasc. V to VIII ; Nos. 379 and 380, Vol. II, Fasc. II. 



Ain-i-Akbaei, by Abul-Fazl-i-Mubarak-i-'Allami, edited by H. Bloch- 

 mann, M. A. Vol. II, Nos. 370, 378, 387, Fasc. XX, XXI, XXII. 



I9ABAH, or ' Biogra2:)hical Dictionary of Persons who knew Muham- 

 mad,' by Ibn Hajar 'Askalani, edited by Maulawi 'Abdul-Hai, Calcutta 

 Madrasah, Old Series, Nos. 238, 240, Vol. II, Fasc. XVI, XVIL 



