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known by the name of its patron, and the fact of Vopodeva having quoted 

 largely from several of those works which are accepted by some European 

 scholars to be not more than two or three hundred years old, opens a new 

 field of enquiry. 



The plan adopted for a complete edition of the Samaveda Sanhita 

 involves great labour and time, and the work is not likely to be brought 

 to completion for some years to come ; but the editor. Pandit Satyavrata 

 Samasrami, has devoted his attention very diligently to his undertaking, 

 and the Council have every reason to be satisfied with the manner in which 

 he is conducting it. He has issued five fasciculi during the year under report, 

 bringing up the work to the end of the first volume. The diff'erent Indexes 

 annexed to the volume are full and complete. 



The Taittiriya Sanhita of the Black Yajur Veda is a very large work. 

 It was first undertaken by the late Dr. Roer, who left the country in 1859, 

 after publishing the first volume of 1072 pages. The second volume was 

 completed by Mr. Cowell. On his retirement from India, in 1864, the late 

 Pandit Ramanarayana Vidyaratna was engaged to carry on the work, but his 

 untimely death put a stop to it for a time. Professor Mahes'achandra Nyaya- 

 ratna has now charge of the undertaking, and he has completed the fourth 

 volume, bringing up the work to the fourth octad. Two more volumes will 

 complete the work. The Professor has also completed the first volume of 

 his edition of the Mimdnsd Darsana, and issued two fasciculi of the second 

 volume. 



The Agni Furana was undertaken, in 1868, by the late Pandit Har- 

 chandra Vidyabhushana who died after bringing out three fasciculi, and the 

 work had to be left in abeyance for a time. Babu Rajendralala Mitra has 

 lately taken it in hand, and completed the first volume, comprising about 

 one third of the work. 



Of Professor Ramamaya Tarkaratna's edition of the Artharva Upani- 

 shads two fasciculi have been published, comprising the Aruneya, the Bralima- 

 vidyci, the Kshurika, the Glmliha^ the Sikhd, the Bralima, the Brdnagni- 

 hotra, the Nila-ritdra, the Kantliasriiti, the Binda^ and the Bd^natdpani 

 Upanishads, with the commentary of Narayana. With the exception of the 

 Eamatapani, which was some time ago edited by Professor Weber in the 

 Roman character, but without a commentary, these treatises are little 

 known, and will prove valuable accessions to the published philosophical 

 literature of the Hindus. 



Pandit Chandrakanta Tarkalankara has published the fourth fasciculus 

 of the Gobhila Sutra, with an original commentary by himself. The work 

 will be completed in course of the current year. 



In compliance with a suggestion lately received from Professor 

 Max Mliller the Council have resolved to send to press in course of the 



