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the oldest work in existence in the literary language of Bengal, the 

 Sri sri Krishna hi jay a of Gunaraj Khan, who flourished some 450 years 

 ago. The labours of Pandit Ramanarayana Vidyaratna in reprinting a 

 large and interesting series of Vaishnava works, and of Babu Mahesa 

 Chandra Pal in publishing works on philosophy deserve honourable 

 mention. The latter has recently completed the commentary on the 

 Vedanta by Madhvacharya with the gloss of Jayatirtha. I have also 

 to notice an important bhdshya, or commentary in Sanskrit, on the 

 VaisesJiika-darsana, by Mahamahopadhyaya Chandrakanta Tarkalankara. 

 Already well known by his commentary on the Gohhiliya-grihya sutra and 

 the exposition of the tenets of the philosophical schools in his Tattwabali, 

 the learned pandit now conies forward with a system of his own a.nd 

 shows himself a worthy successor of the Bhashyakaras of old. Another 

 of our recently created Mahamahopadhyayas, Pandit Rakhal Das Nyaya- 

 ratna of Bhatpara, justifies his selection for that honour by publishing 

 a treatise on the Nyaya, in which he contests the views ordinarily held 

 by the Naiyayiks of Bengal. Mr. R. C. Datta has completed his edition of 

 the Rig-veda, with a Bengali translation based on Sayana's commentary, 

 and notes derived both from indigenous sources and the results of the 

 labours of European scholars. For using the latter he has received severe 

 censure at the hands of some of his orthodox fellow-countrymen, but we 

 may trust that more liberal views will soon prevail, and that the work 

 done by Europeans who have rescued from oblivion so much that is valu- 

 able in Sanskrit literature will be fittingly recognized and valued even 

 by the followers of the old orthodox school. Babu Pratapa Chandra 

 Raya's valuable edition of the Mahabharata, translated with the aid of 

 competent European and Native scholars, has now reached the thirty- 

 seventh part, which falls within the Bhishmaparvan. Whether due 

 or not to the prominence into which Buddhistic ideas have risen 

 owing to the progress made by the Theosophical Society, it cannot 

 but be regarded as a sign of the times that a commencement has been 

 made in making the tenets of Buddhism more widely known by a trans- 

 lation from the Pali into Bengali of the 8utta Nipate of the Buttapitaha^ 

 a portion of the sacred Tripitaka. 



Madras. — The Madras issues comprise works in English, Tamil, 

 Telugu, Malayalim, Kanarese, Urdu, Sanskrit, and polyglots. In Tamil, 

 there are several works on grammar with commentaries, numerous 

 relip'ious works advocating the advaita system, or in praise of particular 

 forms of the deity, such as the Kanjiviram Siva and Vishnu, the Tanjor 

 Ganapati and Subramaniya, In Telugu, we have to note reprints of 

 the works of the great southern teacher Ramaniija Acharya, besides the 

 usual series of translations from the Sanskrit. The Malayalim issues 



