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Bibliutheca by Di'. Rajeudralala Mitra. This last is taken from Nopalese 

 manuscripts, aud three fasciculi have appeared in 1887. It is also the 

 tirst work of its character printed in India, nor has any edition or 

 translation of it ever been made or attempted, to the best of my know- 

 ledge, in any European country. The last volume of the series is entitled 

 the S'na-ts-hogs, or ' the miscellany,' and comprises treatises of the Sutra 

 class explanatory of the preceding volumes. The Society has undertaken 

 the publication of the 100,000 slo/cas Tibetan text, and, as already 

 stated, since there is only the one impression available, the efforts of 

 the editor will be devoted to faithfully reproducing the text as it stands, 

 leaving it to others hereafter with better materials to make such correc- 

 tions as will doubtless be found necessary, for there are evident traces 

 of mistakes made by the engraver. It may be possible also to omit 

 many of the tedious repetitions with which the work abounds. 



The entire work is in prose, and forms twelve volumes, comprising 

 303 divisions (bam-po), each containing 300 sloJcas, or rather their equi- 

 valent in prose, and occupying each about twenty-one leaves of the 

 block print. In preparing the work for the press, Babii P. C. Ghosha has 

 separated the several words by spacing them out, and has also arranged 

 the sentences in paragraphs for more easy reference, and, only so far, has 

 not followed the original, which gives neither divisions nor para- 

 graphs. The numbering of the pages in the original is also repro- 

 duced in the body of the text now printed. The Sher-chin is devoted 

 to Buddhistic philosophy, theoretical and practical, and, as stated by 

 Csoma de Koros, contains the psychological, logical, and metaphysical 

 terminology of the Buddhist faith without entering into or reconciling 

 conflicting views on any particular subject. There are 108 subjects or 

 dharinas, regarding which, if any predicate be added to them, affirmative 

 or negative judgments may be formed. All these contain the sub- 

 stance of the teachings of the great teacher himself delivered on the 

 Gridhrakiita hill at Rajagriha in Magadha. To the student of the 

 earlier systems of philosophy and religion in India, the Sher-chin 

 should be of much interest, for a Buddhistic philosophical work is 

 very uncommon in India, and most of the information that we possess 

 on the subject is at second-hand and comes through those who hated 

 the very name of Buddhist. 



In continuation of the same project, our Associate Member, Babii 

 Sarat Chandra Das, is bringing out for the Society a hitherto un- 

 published work by the poet Kshemendra, entitled Avaddna Kalpalatd, 

 of which we have the complete Sanskrit with an interlinear Tibetan 

 version in a manuscript recently acquired from Tibet. It is intended 

 to publish the Sanskrit and Tibetan texts in parallel columns, the 



