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English translation of the Katha Sarit Sagara or the Ocean of Streams of 

 Storj. This work is the celebrated repository of Indian legends composed 

 from older sources by Somadeva of Kashmir toward the close of the eleventh 

 century. The translator has illustrated the stories by notes, which refer 

 to similar legends current in other collections of folklore. 



8. Pandit Satyavrata Samasrami has brought out two fasciculi of his 

 edition of the Nirukta, the well known glossarial exiDlanation of obscure 

 Vedic terms, together with extracts from various commentaries. This con* 

 eludes the first volume. 



9. Two fasciculi have been published of Hemadri's Chaturyarga 

 Chintamant, by the joint editors, Pandits Yogesvara Smritiratna and 

 Kamakhyanatha Tarkaratna. These belong to the fifth part of the work, 

 the Parisesha Khanda, which, however, is the third volume of the Society's 

 Series, manuscripts for two parts being wanting. 



10. Of the Apastamra S'rauta Su'tra, a very rare and important 

 work connected with the Black Yajur Veda, three fasciculi have been issued 

 by Professor E,. Garbe of Konigsberg, together with the commentary of 

 Rudradatta. These complete the first volume. 



The following works are in course of preparation : — 



1. The Prakrita Lakshana by Chanda, a grammar of the Ancient 

 Prakrit, edited by Dr. A. F. Rudolf Hoernle. The second fasciculus, con- 

 taining translation and notes, is nearly ready. 



2. The Prithiraj Rasau, by Chand Bardai ; text and translation by 

 Dr. A. F. Rudolf Hoernle. The first volume of the text is expected to be 

 completed this year. 



3. The Katantra, with the commentary of Ddrga Sinciha, edited with 

 notes and indexes, by Professor Julius Eggeling. One fasciculus, contain- 

 ing the Introduction, remains. 



4. An annotated English translation of the Sits'rijta, an ancient 

 Hindu medical work, hardlj'- less important than the Charaka, by Dr. U. 

 C. Dutt, Civil Surgeon of Serampore. The first fasciculus will shortly 

 appear. 



5. An annotated English translation of the second volume of the 

 Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh by 'Abdul Qadir, by the Rev. W. H. Lowe, M. A., 

 of Cambridge. The first fasciculus will shortly be issued. The text, in 

 3 volumes, has already been published by the Society. 



6. The Parasara Madhaya Smriti, edited by Pandit Chandrakanta 

 Tarkalankara. The first fasciculus will shortly appear. 



The following work has been newly sanctioned for publication, and is 

 in course of preparation : 



7. The Paris'ishta Parvan or StatiravalI Charitra by Hemachan- 

 dra, a Jain work in Sanskrit verse on the history of the first twelve Staviras 



