30 Annual Report. [Feb. 



The want has long been felt of some means of the kind of diffusing in 

 India knowledge of the latest European scientific discoveries and for bring- 

 ing forward information regarding many subjects of Indian or Oriental 

 interest in a more general and popular manner than can be done by papers 

 read at the general meetings. The deficiency of space and the lack of 

 funds have hitherto prevented the Council from carrying out former pro- 

 posals for this worthy object, but the improvement in the financial condi- 

 tion of the Society has enabled them to try the experiment this year, and 

 it is to be hoped that it will prove sufficiently successful to warrant the 

 continuance of the lectures in future seasons. 



Journal. 



The Journal continues to maintain a high standard of excellence, and 

 many papers of great value have been published during the year. 



About 400 pages of the Journal, Part I, have been printed during the 

 year, and they have been illustrated by 9 plates. 



300 Pages of Part II have been published with 19 plates. Of the 

 Proceedings 228 pages have been published. 



Bibliotheca Indiea. 



During the past year, thirty fasciculi of the Bibliotheca Indiea have been 

 issued, comprising portions of nineteen different works. 



Sanshrit. 



In the Sanskrit series, the Council have the satisfaction to notice the 

 completion of several works which had been undertaken some time since. 

 The S'rauta Sutra of A'svalayana, containing the liturgy of the Rig Veda, 

 was taken in hand by the late Pandit Pamanarayana Yidyaratna, in 

 1863. After publishing the whole of the text and a portion of its index, the 

 Pandit died, and the work was left in abeyance. Pandit Anandachandra 

 Yedantavagis'a has now completed it. The Index extends to 148 pages, 

 and gives in detail the substance of every aphorism of the text. The Pan- 

 dit has also completed his edition of the Taiidya Brahmaiia, which he had 

 undertaken in the year 1866. It extends to two volumes, comprising 1896 

 pages. It is the largest Brahman a of the Sama Veda, and gives in great 

 detail the ritual of that work. The Pandit has annexed to it an elaborate 

 table of contents which, it is hoped, will prove useful to oriental scholars. 



Professor Bharatachandra S'iromaiii has completed his edition of the 

 Dana Khanda of the Hemadri, being the second part of that author's ela- 

 borate digest, entitled the Chaturvarga CTiintdmani. The work extends to 

 1057 pages, and includes an alphabetical index of the contents, as also of 

 the names of the different authors quoted in the text. As a help to 

 the settlement of the dates of many treatises on Hindu law, this work, it 

 is believed, will prove particularly valuable. Its real author is generally 

 believed to be the_ celebrated grammarian Vopadeva, though the work is 



