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11. Another of the new publications is the Nirukta, the well known 

 glossarial explanation of obscure Vedic terms, of which Pandit Satyavrata 

 Samasrami has issued the first fasciculus, accompanying the text with 

 extracts from various commentaries. 



Besides the above named eleven works, there are in course of prepara- 

 tion the following new ones : 



1. The Vishnu Smriti, by Professor Jolly of Wiirzburg, containing 

 the text and extracts from various commentaries. 



2. The Apastamba Srauta Sutra, by Professor R. Garbe of 

 Konigsberg, containing the text accompanied by the commentary of Rudra- 

 datta. This is a very rare and important work connected with the Black 

 Yajur Veda. The edition will be based on a collation of two or three 

 complete and several fragmentary manuscripts. 



3. An English translation, with notes, of the Charaka, the oldest 

 Hindu work on medicine, by Dr. Mohendralala Sarkar. 



4. An English translation, with notes, of the Lalita Vistara, by 

 Dr. Rajendralala Mitra, to whom the Society is already indebted for a 

 complete edition of the text of that most ancient and important work on 

 the earlier portion of the life of Buddha. 



5. The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali by Dr. Rajendralala Mitra, with 

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

 and commentary ; also with an English commentary compiled by the Editor 

 himself, including short extracts from the commentaries of Vyasa, Vijnana 

 Bhikshu and Vachaspati Misra. This work will complete the Society's 

 series of the six Darsanas. The texts of four have been already published ; 

 the Mimamsa is in a forward state, and the Yoga will complete the series. 



6. The Brihaddevata, by Dr. Rajendralala Mitra. This is a very 

 interesting metrical work of Saunaka on the deities invoked in the hymns 

 of the Rig Veda. The edition will be founded on five MSS. 



On the other hand, the Maitratani Samhita, the forthcoming, 

 publication of which, by Dr. L. v. Schroeder, was announced in the annual 

 report of last year has, with the permission of the Society, been withdrawn 

 from the list of the Bibliotheca Indica by the editor, who intends to 

 publish it in Germany. 



Also the Maghazi el Waqidi, the edition of which was begun by Von 

 Kremer many years ago and was to have been^ completed by Mr. C. J. 

 Lyall, in conjunction with Dr. Wright of Cambridge (see Proceedings, 

 May 1880, p. 88), has been withdrawn from the Bibliotheca Indica in 

 favour of a complete edition of the work which is to be brought out in 

 Germany and will be founded, among others, on two complete and very 

 ancient MSS. in the British Museum. 



