21 Annual Hep or t. [Feb., 



1 87G, which will effect a great saving of time and trouble in all references 

 to the previous business of the Society. 



Bibliotheca Indica. 



Eighteen fasciculi were published during the year, twelve in the 

 Sanskrit and six in the Arabic-Persian series. They belong to ten different 

 works, of which three are in the Arabic-Persian, and seven in the Sanskrit 

 series. One work of the former series, the Tahaq^dt-i-Ndsiri, has been com- 

 pleted. 



Among these publications there are four English Translations ; viz. 

 of the Kathd Sarit Sdgara, the Lalita Vistara, the Tahaqat-i-JSTdsiri, and 

 the Pdtanjala Yoga Sutra. The remainder are text editions. Of the 

 Fdtanjala Yoga Sutra, both text and translation are being published pari 

 passu. 



A. ArahiC' Persian Series. 



1. Of the IsABAH or Biographical Dictionary of persons that knew 

 Muhammad, by Ibn Hajar, two fasciculi have been published by Maulvi 

 'Abdul Hai, Head Professor of the Calcutta Madrassah. 



2. Major H. G. Raverty, Bombay Army (retired), has published two 

 fasciculi of his annotated English translation of the Tabaqat-i-Nasiei. 

 These conclude this valuable work. An index of names of persons and 

 places is in preparation and will be published as soon as practicable. 



3. Of the Akbarnamah, edited by Maulvi 'Abdur Rahim, two fasci- 

 culi have been published. 



B. Sanskrit Series. 



4. Dr. Rajendralala Mitra has advanced his edition of the text of 

 the Vatu Purana by one fasciculus. This is the second of the Society's 

 Series of the Puranas, a sort of Cyclopsedia of Sanskrit Literature. The 

 first is the Agni Purana, a complete edition of which has already been 

 published by the same learned editor. 



5. The same editor has published two fasciculi of his text and trans- 

 lation of the Yoga Su'tsa. The text is accompanied by the commentary of 

 Bhoja Raja, and an English translation of both the text and commentary ; 

 also by an English commentary compiled by the editor himself, including 

 short extracts from the commentaries of Vyasa, Vijfiana, Bhikshu and 

 Vachaspati Misra. 



6. The same editor has also issued the second fasciculus of his 

 annotated English translation of the Lalita Vistara, one of the most an- 

 cient and important works on the earlier portion of the life of Buddha. 



7. Mr. C. H. Tawney, M. A., Principal of the Presidency College, 

 has published the fourth fasciculus of the second volume of his annotated 



