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Among these publications there are four English Translations ; viz., of 

 the Tarikh-ul Klmlfa in the Arabic-Persian Series, and of the Kathd Sarit 

 Sahara, the Lalita Vistara and the Pdtanjala Toga Sutra, in the Sanskrit 

 Series. There are also ten text editions, two in the Arabic-Persian and 

 eight in the Sanskrit Series. Of the Patanjala Yoga Sutra both text and 

 translation are being published pari passu. 



A. Arabic- Persian Series. 



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

 Muhammad, by Ibn Hajar, one fasciculus has been published by Maulvi 

 'Abdul Hai, Head Professor of the Calcutta Madrasah. 



2. Major H. S. Jarrett has published the sixth fasciculus of his 

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

 of the Caliphs by Jalal-ud-din as Suyuti. This concludes the work. 



3. Of the Akbahnamah, edited by Maulvi 'Abdur Rahim, two 

 fasciculi have been published. These commence the third Volume of that 

 work. 



j5. Sanslcrit Series. 



4. Pandit Mahesachandra Nyayaratna, Principal of the Sanskrit 

 College, has brought out the thirty-second fasciculus of his edition of the 

 Taittiriya Samhita, containing the earliest recensions of the mantras of 

 the Black Yajur Veda together with the commentary of Madhava Acharya. 

 This completes the fourth volume of that work. 



5. The same editor has issued one more fasciculus of the text of the 

 MiMAMSA Darsa]S"A, a critical commentary on the ritual of the Veda, accom- 

 panied by the commentary of S'avara Svamin. This is the fifth of the 

 Society's series of the six Darsanas. The texts of four have been already 

 published ; and the sixth is the Yoga Siitra of Patanjali, mentioned below 

 (No. 12). 



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

 Vatij Purana by one fasciculus, the first of the second volume. This is 

 the second of the Society's Series of the Puranas, a sort of Cj^clopsedias of 

 Sanskrit Literature. The first is the Agni Purana, a complete edition of 

 which has already been published by the same learned editor. 



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

 has published three fasciculi of the second volume of his English translation 

 with notes of the Katha Sarit Sagara or the Ocean of Streams of Story. 

 Four more fasciculi will probably complete this work, which is the celebrated 

 repositor}' of Indian legends composed from older sources by Somadeva of 

 Kashmir toward the close of the eleventh century. The stories are illus- 

 trated by notes which refer to similar legends current in other collections 

 of folklore. 



