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bodlia. Two volumes of the work have been completed and the first 

 part of the third volume. The Editors, Pandits Jogesvara Smritiratna 

 and Kamakhyanatha Tarkavagisa are now engaged with the second part 

 of the third volume which relates to the S'rdddha ceremony. Nos. 746, 

 763, 774, Vol. Ill, Pt. II, Ease. 5, 6, 7. Total three Fasc. 



4. Ki5uMA PuRiCNA, edited by Babu Nilmani Mukhopadhyaya, 

 Professor of Sanskrit, Presidency College, Calcutta, has been com- 

 pleted. It contains a learned preface by the editor in which the char- 

 acter and nature of the Puranic literature has been fully discussed. 

 No. 743, Fasc. 9. Total one Fasc. 



5. Madana Parijata, written under the patronage of Madana 

 Pala Deva of Kashtha or Kachchha a city near Delhi on the Jamuna. 

 Madana Pala was a great patron of learning and a large medical work 

 was also compiled under his patronage. The Parijata quotes from 

 the Chaturvarga Chintamani and the Mitakshara and appears to have 

 been written about the fifteenth century. It has advanced by two 

 fasciculi. Nos. 757, 770, Fasc. 7, 8. 



6. Manu-tIka Samgraha, edited by Dr. Julius Jolly, Professor of 

 Sanskrit, Wiirzburg, contains extracts from six of the well-known 

 commentaries of Manu. These extracts are meant simply to explain 

 the texts of the original, all additional matter and arguments having 

 been excluded. The work has advanced by one fasciculus, which brings 

 the extracts to the end of the third chapter of Manu. It has now 

 been stopped by agreement with the editor, owing to the publication of 

 all the Manu commentaries by the late lamented Rao Vishvanath 

 Mandalik. No. 728, Fasc. 3. Total one Fasc. 



7. Nyaya-vindu TfKi, a commentary to the Nyaya-vindu. A 

 work on the Buddhist system of logic, edited by Professor Peter Peter- 

 son, M. A., of Bombay. It is a solitary example of a Buddhist work pre- 

 served in the Continent of India in a Jaina Library. The learned editor 

 has succeeded during the course of his edition in getting a copy of the 

 original work, the Nyaya-vinda. The present commentary is by 

 Dharmottaracharya who is reputed to be the founder of the Dharmot- 

 tariya school of the followers of Buddha. The learned editor is now 

 engaged in making a translation of both the text and the commentary. 

 No. 741, complete in one Fasc. 



8. Nyaya Kusumanjali Prakaranam by Udayanacharya. This 

 work is to be distinguished from the metrical work of the same name 

 by the same author, edited some time ago by E. B. Cowell, Esq. The 

 edition is in the hands of Mahamahopadhyaya Chandrakanta Tarka- 

 lankara. It is accompanied with the commentary of Varddhamana, 

 copiously illustrated by extracts from the gloss of Ruchidatta. It has 



