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tinct part of the whole, containing notices of 1254 ' male witnesses' 

 whose names commence with the word abu, and of 1543 ' female wit- 

 nesses' of the prophet. 



B. Sanskrit Series. 



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

 the Vayu Purana by two fasciculi. The work has now progressed to the 

 fourth fasciculus of the second volume. 



3. The same editor has published two fasciculi of his text and 

 translation of the Patanjala Yoga Sutra. This work was first under- 

 taken in 1871, when a few pages were printed. It was then dropped for 

 want of time, and again taken up in 1880. It has now been completed. 

 The text is accompanied by the commentary of Bhoja Raja, and an Eng- 

 lish translation of both the text and commentary ; also by an English 

 commentary compiled by the editor himself, including short extracts 

 from the commentaries of Vyasa, Vijnana Bhikshu, and Vachaspati 

 Misra. 



4. Of the third volume (containing the fifth Khanda) of Hemadri's 

 Chaturvarga Chintamani three fasciculi have been published by the 

 joint- editors, Pandits Yogesvara Smritiratna and Kamakhyanatha Tarka- 

 ratna. This work, though now known by the name of its patron, is 

 generally ascribed to the celebrated grammarian Vopadeva. It is a very 

 voluminous work, consisting of five parts (khanda), which treat severally 

 of fasts and penances (vrata), gifts (ddna), times (kdla), funeral ceremo- 

 nies (srdddha), and supplementary matters (parisesha) . Manuscripts of 

 it are very rare ; of the complete work no manuscript has yet been dis- 

 covered. Fortunately the several portions of the work are practically 

 independent of one another ; and as the work is particularly valuable, 

 because of the help it gives to the settlement of the dates of many trea- 

 tises on Hindu law, and the light it throws on the state of Hindu society 

 at the time when it was compiled and for some time previously, the 

 Society resolved to proceed at once to the publication of those parts of 

 the work of which manuscripts were already available, in the hope that 

 by the time these were published, manuscripts of the remaining portions 

 might be discovered. This hope has only partially been fulfilled. When 

 the publication commenced in 1871, the only part of which sufficient 

 manuscript material was at hand, was the second, treating of ' gifts' 

 (or danas) ; and the edition of this portion was entrusted to Pandit 

 Bharata Chandra S'iromani, who added an alphabetical index of the con- 

 tents, as also of the names of the different authors quoted in the text. 

 In the meanwhile sufficient manuscripts of the first part, on ' fasts and 

 penances' (or vratas), had been procured ; and the edition of this portion 



