1872.] ■ An7iual Eeport. 15 



ancient laws, customs and domestic rites of the Hindus without a careful 

 study of those works ; and the attention of the Philological Committee was, 

 therefore, early directed to collect materials for their pubKcation. The dif- 

 ficulty of obtaining old and correct MSS., has, however, prevented them from 

 undertaking more than four works^ of that class, two of which have been 

 completed. 



On the Vedic Prosody the leaduig work is the Chhandas Sutra of 

 Pingala ; and of this, one fasciculus has lately been published, and the con- 

 cluding portion is in a forward state. 



Each Yeda has its own separate system of phonology, or Pratisakhya, 

 and the Society, in 185^, resolved to print the- treatise of that class which 

 bore upon the Black Yajm- Yeda. The task was confided to Babu Eajendra- 

 lala Mitra who had undertaken to edit the Brahmana of that Yeda ; but the 

 Brahmana itself having completely engrossed his leism-e for many years, it could 

 not be taken in hand mitil two years ago, when Mr. Whitney had published the 

 first ten chapters of the work together with an English translation, in, the 

 Jom-nal of the American Oriental Society. The bulk of that edition, how- 

 ever, being printed in the E-oman character and its being otherwise imperfect, 

 as the examples are generally omitted, or mutilated, the necessity for a com- 

 plete edition in the Devanagari character was not superseded, and the Council 

 therefore, did not think it proper to put a stop to the Society's edition. To 

 the whole body of Indian readers, a large and daily increasing class, romanised 

 editions of Sanskrit works are useless, and it is believed that the Society's 

 edition ^dll be most welcome to many to whom the American edition will never 

 be accessible. 



Of the six leading philosophical schools of the Hindus, the original 

 text books of five have been published. The SciiiJcni/a is represented by the 

 Aphorisms of Kapila ^rith an Enghsh translation, published by the late Dr. 

 Ballant}Tie ; the Yeddnta, by a complete edition of the Sutras of Yj^asa with 

 the conunentry of S^ankara and the gloss of Anandagiri ; the JSFydya, by the 

 Aphorisms of Grotama with the commentary of Yatsayana ; the Yais'esJiika, 

 by the Aphorisms of Kanada with the commentary of S 'aiikara Mis'ra ; and the 

 3fimdnsd, by the Aphorisms of Jaimani with the commentary of S ^avara 

 Svami. The text of the sixth school, the Yo(/a, has been carefully collated, 

 and a few pages have abeady been printed. On the completion of this work, 

 the texts of all the six schools will be rendered easily accessible to scholars. 



The peculiar form of the Veddnta doctrme which rejects the gnostic theory 

 that knowledge is the one thing needful, and contends that knowledge is only 



* As'valayana S'rauta Sutra (completed.) 

 Ditto Grihya do. (do.) 



Latyayaua Kalpa Sutra. 

 Gobhihya Grihya Sutra. 



