1862.] Bavaria's Commentary on the Rig Veda. 129 



Havana's Commentary on the Rig Veda, by Fitz-Edward Hall, 

 Esquire, D. C. L. 



To the Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



Bombay, April 11, 1882 



Sir,— Accompanying this note I send, for the Journal, some ex- 

 tracts from a commentary on the Rig-veda, by one Havana. Time 

 fails me to put into presentable shape for the press a translation of 

 them, and remarks thereon, which I had hoped to communicate with 

 the Sanskrit. 



The extracts are contained in the ParamArtha-prapd, a volume of 

 scholia, by Siirya Pandit, on the Bhagavad-gitd, Some account of 

 Surya, who lived in the first half of the sixteenth century, will be 

 found in my Contribution towards an Index to the Bibliography of 

 the Indian Philosophical Systems, pp. 119, 120.* I have indicated 

 numerically, by mandala, sukta, and rich, the passages of the Rig- 

 veda which are expounded. 



That a Havana wrote annotations on some portion of the Veda, is 

 hinted by Mallari. See the Graha-ldghava, &c, Calcutta edition, 

 p. 5. At Ajmere, at Gwalior, and elsewhere, pandits have, again and 

 again, assured me of their having seen, and even of their having 

 possessed, the whole of Havana's commentaries on the Rig-veda and 

 Yajar-veda. And I hesitate to conclude, that herein they were cre- 

 tizing ; as I am unable to conceive why they should have wished to 

 deceive me. 



On the authority of the Bhdva-praTcds'a, by Bhava Mis'ra, son of 

 Latakana Mis'ra, some Havana or other composed a Kumara-tanlra. 

 A work of like title, Bhava alleges, is ascribed to Sanatkumara. 



Your obedient servant, 



Fitz-Edward Hall. 



* The extracts, now given, were originally printed in a preface to this work 

 which was subsequently cancelled. 



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