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interest on several subjects connected with the investigations in which 

 the Society takes an active interest. 



BlBLIOTHECA IlTDICA. 



The Council are gratified to notice the continued activity which 

 has prevailed during the past year in the different branches of the 

 Bibliotheca Indica. Sixteen numbers have appeared of the new series 

 and fifteen of the old. 



In the new series the Vais'eshika Sutras have been completed with 

 two commentaries under the editorship of Pundit Jayanarayana Tarka 

 Panckanana, and Dr. Ballantyne has published the S'andilya Sutras 

 with Swapnes'wara's commentary. Dr. Hall has published the first 

 Ease, of the Das'a-nipa or Hindu canons of Dramaturgy, (the Fasc. 

 concluding the work is in the press), and he has also in the press an 

 edition of the very rare Natya Sastra of Bharata. Mr. Cowell has 

 edited the Kaushitaki Upanishad with S'ankarananda's commentary ; 

 the Rev. K. M. Banerjea has published the first part of the Narada 

 Pancharatra ; and the first part has been published of the translation 

 of the Siddhanta S'iromani by the late Lancelot Wilkinson, Esq., 

 revised by Pundit Bapu Deva. 



Considerable progress has also been made in the series of Muham- 

 madan historians of India : four Fas. have been issued of Zia-i Barni's 

 Tarikhi Ferozshahi, and only one more remains to complete the work. 



The Tarxkhi Masaudi of Baihaki, (as prepared for publication by 

 the late W. H. Morley, Esq.) has been also commenced and two Fasc. 

 have appeared. 



The editors of the works in the old series have also made good 

 progress towards the gradual completion of the publications still 

 remaining unfinished. 



Mr. Cowell has issued two Fasc. of the Black Yajush Sanhita ; and 

 Babu Bajendralal Mitra has brought out two Fasc. of the Black Yajur 

 Brahmana, and the concluding parts of the Kamandakiya Niti Sara, 

 and of an English translation of the Chhandogya Upanishad. The 

 Kamandakiya Niti Sara is a rare work on polity, and will prove inter- 

 esting to Oriental scholars, while the translation is a valuable con- 

 tribution to our knowledge of the literature of the Dpanishads. 



Pundit Earnnarayana who undertook in the absence of Dr. Boer to 

 complete the Vedanta Sutras, has published three Fasc. of that im- 

 portant treatise. 



