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in these notes. This village is about two miles south of Karauli, and I 

 here secured a curious vase-shaped pinnacle which well denoted the 

 period of its construction. 



Literary Intelligence. 



A very useful handy-book on the Hindu law of adoption has just been 

 published under the patronage of Honorable Prasanna Kumar Tagore, 



C. S. I. It is entitled the Dattaka-Siromani, and contains the substance 

 of all the leading treatises on the subject, including the Dattaha- 

 mimdnsa, the DattaJca-cJiandrikd, the D. nirnaya ) the D. Darpana, the 



D. Didhiti, the D. Kaumudi, the Dattaha Siddhdntcc manjari, as also 

 of an apocryphal treatise named the Dattaha Tilaha. The work has 

 been compiled with great care and judgment by Professor Bharata- 

 chandra S'iromani of the Sanskrit College of Calcutta, who has also 

 supplied, at the end of each chapter, an excellent summary of its 

 subject. 



Anglo-Pali literature has received an important accession in an 

 English translation of the Attanagalluvansa of Ceylon, by James 

 d'Alwis. Though professedly a history of the Temple or vihara of 

 Attanagalla, it contains the chronicles of King Sangabodhi, who 

 reigned in the middle of the 3rd century A. D. In an elaborate 

 preface the translator has discussed a number of interesting questions 

 regarding the Singhalese Chronicles of the Mahavansa and the Dipa- 

 wansa, and of translations of particular passages in them by Tumour 

 and others. 



The Librarian of the Sanskrit College of Calcutta, Pandita Jagan- 

 mohan Tarkalankara, has brought out an edition of the play of Chanda 

 Kausiha of Khemisvara. The author flourished in the court of 

 Mahipala Deva of Gour, and his work therefore is about 900 

 years old. By a curious mistake the editor, confounding an epithet 

 with a proper name, says in his preface that the work was written for 

 the entertainment of a king of the name of Kartika who flourished 

 between four hundred and a thousand years ago. The subject of the 

 b ook is the preeminence of truthfulness as illustrated by the story 

 of Visvamitra and king Harischandra. The Tamil version of this 



