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3. Major H. S. Jarrett has published five fasciculi of his annotated 

 English translation of the Tarikh-ul-Khulfa or the History of the 

 Caliphs by Jalaluddin As Suyuti. 



B. Sanskrit Series. 



4. Pandit Bala Sastri of the Benares College has issued the eighth 

 fasciculus of the Bhamati, which is a gloss on Sankara Acharya's commen- 

 tary on the Brahma Sutras by Vachaspati Misra. This concludes the 

 work. 



5. Pandit Chandra Kanta Tarkalankara has published the twelfth 

 fasciculus of the Gobhiliya Grihya Sutra accompanied by a com- 

 mentary compiled by himself. This work also is now completed. 



6. Dr. Kajendralala Mitra has brought out three fasciculi of the Vaytt 

 Purana. This is a sort of Cyclopaedia of Sanskrit Literature, and is the 

 second of that class of works for the publication of which the Society is 

 indebted to the learned Editor. The other is the Agni Purana, the most 

 ancient and most authentic of that kind of Sanskrit books, the edition of 

 which was completed last year. 



7. The text of the Mimansa Darsana which is edited by Pandit 

 Mohesachandra Nyayaratna, the Principal of the Sanskrit College, has been 

 advanced by one fasciculus. This work is a critical commentary on the ritual 

 of the Veda accompanied by the commentary of Savara Svamin. 



8. Of the Phakrita Lakshana the first fasciculus has been issued by 

 Dr. A. F. Budolf Hoernle. It contains the text of a Grammar of the ancient 

 Prakrit by Chanda, together with a critical Introduction and Analysis. 

 Another fasciculus, containing an annotated English translation, will com- 

 plete the work. 



9. By the same editor the first fasciculus has been published of his 

 annotated English translation of the Prithi Raja Rasau, the famous epic 

 of Chand Bardai in old Hindi. 



10. Among the works, the forthcoming publication of which was 

 announced in the Annual Report of last year, is the English translation 

 with notes of the Katha Sarit Sagara, or the Ocean of the Streams of 

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

 The first volume consisting of six fasciculi has now been published. A 

 second volume completing the work, will probably appear in the course of 

 the current year. This work is the celebrated repository of Indian legends 

 which was composed from older sources by Somadeva of Kashmir to- 

 wards the close of the eleventh century. The stories are illustrated by 

 notes which refer to similar legends current in other collections of 

 folklore. 



