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contain equally copious rules on judicial procedure and civil law. It will 

 be edited by Professor J. Jolly, of Wurzburg, from six good MSS. The 

 text will be accompanied by the commentary of Asakaya, as far as the 

 latter goes. 



10. The Svayambhu Purdna a Buddhist history of Nepal and 11, 

 the Ashtasdhasrika Prajrid Pdramitd. The Society possesses one MS. 

 of each of these two works ; that of the latter being very old and re- 

 markably correct. As soon as one or two more MSS. have been pro- 

 cured, their publication will be taken in hand.* 



2. Persian. 



1. The Safamdmah, by Maula Sharfuddin A'li Yazdi. It gives the 

 history of Timur, and is a large work. There are six MSS. in the Society's 

 library, from which it will be edited by Maulvi Illahdad, late 2nd Pro- 

 fessor of the Calcutta Madrasah. 



2. The Tdrikh i Firuz Skdhi, by Shams i Shiraz Ufif, a history 

 of Timur Shah. Another history, bearing the same name and written 

 by Zia o Barni has already been published by the Society. This second 

 work is an exceedingly rare one, and, if anything, more valuable than 

 the one already published. There is at present one MS. available, 

 which belongs to the Society ; but there is every hope of one or two 

 more being procurable from Lucknow and Bampur. As soon as these 

 have been obtained, the edition will be proceeded with by Maulvi Abul 

 Khair, Professor of Arabic and Persian in the Madrasah College, to 

 whom it has been entrusted. 



3. An English annotated translation of the first volume of the 

 Muntakhab ut Tdivdrikh, by Abdul Qadir, the Badaoni. It will be pre- 

 pared uniformly with Mr. Lowe's translation of the 2nd volume, which 

 is at present in course of publication. Maulvi Abul Khair, of the 

 Madrasah College, has been entrusted with the work. 



4. The Tdjul Maasir by Hasan Nizdmi, one of the oldest Muham- 

 madan histories of India, treating of the reigns of Qutbuddin Ibak and 

 Shamsuddin Iltimish. 



5. The Tdrikh i Wassaf by the so-called W assdf ul Hazrat, a sort 

 of general history of the Muhammadan world. 



6. The Tuzuk i Timuri, a Persian translation of the Turki Auto- 

 biography of Timur. 



* A twelfth work, the Rasagangddhara, a treatise on Rhetoric, had been 

 sanctioned by the Council, and was to have been edited by Pandit Nilmani Mukher- 

 jea, a Professor of the Sanskrit College, but it was withdrawn, on its being 

 subsequently discovered that an edition of it was already in preparation at Benares. 

 It is now proposed to substitute the Kurma Purdna in its place, to be published by 

 the same editor, if a sufficient number of MSS. can be procured. 



