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and the Dasal-umdracharitra. As to the third there is a dispute. But 

 none of those hitherto named are famous enough to be linked with the 

 two others just mentioned. On the other hand, the Mrichchhakatika is 

 a very famous work, and its author is unknown. Professor Pischel's con- 

 tention is that this is the third of the three world-widely famous works 

 of Dandin. The proof is this. In the Kdvyddarsa, Dandin twice quotes 

 a verse to illustrate a rhetorical rule of his (K. 2, 362) : f%«r?fte rnft 

 Stf\ft ^$ffaT^f *W : ^fl^tt^ ^fsfl^cif J.rfT 51 This verse also occurs 

 in the Mrichchhakatika (Act I, p. 14, ed. Stenzler). Now it is wellrknown 

 that Dandin uses no other illustrations in the Kdvyddarsa but such as are 

 composed by himself. It follows therefore that he quotes a verse of his 

 own, and that therefore he was the real author of the Mrichchhakatika, 

 Dandin accordingly must have been a protegee of king S'udraka to 

 whom, being his patron, the work is usually ascribed. That poet, in all 

 probability, was a native of the Dakhan. Curiously enough in a gloss on 

 Vamana's KdvydlauMra Vfitti, on the name S udraka, it is said that this 

 king was ' Komati.' Now Komati is a South Indian name. Moreover 

 the state of life as described in the Mrichchhakatika is precisely the 

 same as that in the Dasakumara Charitra, which is a well-known work 

 of Dandin. Finally it is now generally admitted, that the Mrichchha r 

 katika is not so old as it was at first believed to be, but belongs to about 

 the 6th or 7th century A. D. Thus everything seems to agree in con? 

 firming the authorship of Dandin. 



The subject of conversation by the Philological Secretary " The 

 International Congress of Orientalists at Vienna, held in 1886," was 

 postponed. 



h 



IBRARY. 



The following additions have been made to the Library since the 

 Meeting held in March last. 



Transactions, Proceedings and Journals, 

 presented by the respective Societies and Editors. 



Amsterdam. Revue Coloniale Internationale, — Tome IV, No. 3, Mars, 



1887. 

 Berlin. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, — Band XXX, Heft 2. 

 . Der Koniglich Preussischen Akademie dcr Wissenschaften zu, 



Berlin,— Sitzungsbcrichtc, XXIII— XXXIX. 



