1891.] Annual Beport. 21 



The followinop is a descriptive list of the publications issued during 

 1890. 



A. Arabic and Persian Series. 



1. Ma'asi5ru-l-Umara or memoirs of the nobles of the Mu gh al 

 Court of Delhi by a nobleman of that Court, compiled during the early 

 part of the last century. It contains biographical accounts of those 

 great men who worked hard for the establishment and the consolidation 

 of the Mughal empire in India. Nos. 740, 750, 751, 756, 762, 769, 778. 

 Vol. II, Fasc. 9, Vol. Ill, Fasc. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Total, seven Fasc. 



2. Riyazd-s-Salatin, hj Ghulam Husain, called Salim, a native 

 of Zaidpur. It is a history of Bengal to which is prefixed a short 

 geography of Bengal. The work of editing and translating the work 

 was entrusted to Maulvi Abdul Hak Abid, B. A., but the translation 

 has been abandonned for the present. Nos. 755, 7G4, 771, 775, Fasc. 1, 

 2, 3, 4. Total four Fasc. 



3. TarIkh-i-FIruz Shahi, a history of the reign of Firuz Shah 

 Tughlaq of the Tughlaq dynasty of Delhi by Shams-i-Siraj-i-'Afif, has 

 advanced by one fasciculus only. No. 738, Fasc. 5, There is another 

 work on the same subject by Ziya-i-Barani. 



B. Sanskrit Series, 



1. Advaita-Brahma-Siddht by Sadananda Yati has been completed. 

 It contains four chapters designated " blows with a club." It refutes 

 the various philosophical doctrines that obtained currency in ancient 

 India and establishes the non-dual theory. The Veddnta Dindima, a 

 short work on the Vedanta philosophy, in verse, has been added to 

 the work as an appendix. The editor Pandit Vaman S'astri, Upa- 

 dhyaya of Islampur in Bombay, has added a very large number of foot- 

 notes which have the rare merit of really elucidating the text, No. 747. 

 Fasc. 4. Total one Fasc. 



2. Brihad-Devata, a very ancient work attributed to S'aunaka 

 Acharya. It is an index to the Rig Veda giving the devatd, the deity 

 praised, i. e., the subject-matter of every suJda^ and rich of that 

 Veda. It is one of those works which enabled the ancient rishis to 

 preserve the purity of the Vedic text. Edited by Raja Rajendralala 

 Mitra, LL. D., C. I. E. The work has advanced by one fasciculus only. 

 No. 760, Fasc. 2. 



3. Chaturvarga Chintamani is an exhaustive work on Hindu 

 rituals by Hemadri the Court Pandit of one of the Yadava kings of 

 Devao'iri during the thirteenth century. The author is reported to have 

 been a great friend of Vopadeva, the celebrated author of the Mugdha- 



