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by the exersioiis of tlie late lamented Hofrath Biililer. The writer is a 

 Jaiiia, t)ie disciple of Candraprabha. He throws much light on the 

 history of Malava and Gurjjarade^a daring the centuries just pre- 

 ceding the Muhammadan Conquest. The translation has been entrusted 

 to the distinguished scholar C. H. Tawney, Esq., m.a., c.i.e., and as a 

 special privilege he has been allowed to have it printed in England. 

 The first fasciculus has appeared during the year. 



TJie other English translation undertaken this year is that of the 

 third volume of the Muntakhabu-t-Tawarikh by AI-Badaoni, under 

 the editorship of Captain T. Wolseley Haig, i.s.c, m.r.a.s. The transla- 

 tion of the second volume was completed some years ago by Professor 

 Lowe of Cambridge, and that of the first volume has just been completed 

 under the editorship of Lieutenant-Colonel G-. S. A. Ranking. 



The new Sanskrit works undertaken during the year are three, two 

 of them are works of the highest importance, namely, — 



Upamitibhavaprapanca Katha by Siddharsi, one of the greatest 

 Jaina writers. Siddharsi was the cousin of the celebrated poet 

 , Magha. He was a brahman and a wealthy man too, being the grandson 

 of Suprabhadeva, the Prime Minister of the Raja of ^rimala in 

 Kathiyawad. His date is variously estimated by Klatt in the tenth, by 

 Jacobi in the seventh, by Merutunga in the eleventh, and by the editor the 

 late lamented Professor P. Peterson in the fifth century A.D. Professor 

 Peter Peterson met with an untimely death after publishing the first 

 two fasciculi only of this work. It has now been entrusted to Professor 

 Dr. Jacobi of Breslau. 



The other new work undertaken is the Mahabhasyapradipodyota. 

 It is a Commentary in the second remove on the " Great " Bhasya of 

 Patanjali, Kaiyyata wrote a Commentary on the Mahabhasya entitled 

 Mahabhasyapradipa. On that Commentary Nageca Bhatta in the last 

 century wrote a Commentary known as Udyota. The Society has now 

 undertaken a critical edition of this work and ha,s entrusted it to a 

 young Pandit Bahuvallabha fastri. 



The third work is Bhatta dipika by Khandadeva an elementary 

 work on the Miraanisa School of Hindu Philosophy under the editorship 

 of Candrakanta Tarkalaqkara. 



One of the works that has come to an end is the Caijkhayana prauta 

 Sutra with its Commentaries in four volumes under the editorship of 

 Professor Dr. Hillebrandt of Breslau. 



Taittiriya Krsna Yajuh Samhita also has come to an end, The 

 work was commenced by Professor E. B. Cowell in 1854. On his retire- 

 ment Mahamahopadhyaya Maheca Candra Nyayaratna became the 

 editor and continued the work for a long series of years. Pressure of 



