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the handmaid of faith, i. e., the doctrine of BhaJctimdrga, is represented by 

 two works, the Aphorisms of S andilya, edited by Dr. Ballantyne, and the 

 Ghaitanya Chandrodaya Ndtaka, edited by Babu Rajendralala Mitra. 



On the minor systems of philosophy two works have been pubhshed, 

 the polemical disquisitions of S aiikara, the S'anJcaradigvijaya, and the sum- 

 mary of Madhavacharya, the Sarvadarsana Sangraha. 



Next to the Vedas and the Darsanas, the most important branch of 

 Sanskrit literature is represented by the Pm^anas. They form a distinct 

 class, and have of late entirely superseded the religion of the Vedas. The 

 attention of the Philological Committee was early turned to them, and three 

 works were undertaken at different times, two of them the Mdrlcandeya 

 But'dm and the W^dradapcmcJiaratra, edited by the Rev. K. M. Baneiji, have 

 been completed, and a third, the Agni Purdna, is now in com-se of pub- 

 lication. 



No work on Hindu law (Smriti) was undertaken until last year, when the 

 digest of Hemadri, King of Deogarh, the Chaturvarga Chintdmani, probably 

 the work of the grammarian Yopadeva, was brought to notice. The parts, 

 however, which have been published of it refer to ddna or gift, which are not 

 likely to interest European readers so much as those relating to judicatm-e 

 and inheritance. It is expected, however, that the other parts will soon be 

 sent to press. 



The most important branch of Hindu science is astronomy, and on that 

 subject three works have been published in the Bibliotheca Indica. These 

 are the VriJiat SanJiitd of Yaraha Mihira, the Surya Siddhdnta, and the 

 Siddhdnta S'iromani of Bhaskara Acharya. English translations of the last 

 two by Bc4pu Deva S ^astri were edited by the late Venerable Archdeacon 

 Pratt. They were eagerly sought by scholars, and are now out of print. 



Of Sanskrit Rhetoric, the series includes the Basarupa, edited by Dr. 

 Hall, the Kdvyddarsa of Dandin, edited by the late Professor Premachand 

 Vidyavagis'a, and the Sdhitya Bmyana, edited by Dr. Roer. A translation of 

 the last was undertaken by the late Dr. Ballant3rne, and on his departure from 

 India, taken up by Babu Pramadadasa Mitra. One fasciculus remains to be 

 printed to complete this work. 



Allusion may likewise be made here to the Society's editions of the life 

 of Sakya,* the political maxims of Chanakya, the minister of Chandragupta, 

 compiled by his disciple Kamandaki,f the Vdsavadattd,X which is reckoned to 

 be the best prose romance in the Sanskrit language, and the second part of 

 the great epic of Srihars'a, the Naishada, — all standard works of the different 

 classes to which they belong, without a knowledge of which no oriental 



* Lalita Yistara. Edited by Babu Rajendralala Mitra. 

 t Kamandakiya Nitis'ara, by do. 

 X Edited by Dr. Fitz-Edward Hall. 



