1862.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 315 



it is now proposed that the older prose work should be edited in 

 its stead. 



Professor Wilson's "Hindu Sects" was mainly based on the present 

 Digvijaya, and the Sarvadars'ana Sangraha of Madhavachdrya which 

 was published in No. 63 and 142 of the Bibliotheca Indica, and 

 European scholars have frequently asked for an edition of Anantan- 

 andagiri's work. It contains the legendary history of Sankara Acharya 

 and his times, and amidst much that is misstated and untrustworthy 

 throws great light on the state of the Hindu mind at that period 

 and the philosophical ideas then prevalent. 



The work will occupy not more than three Fasciculi, 



They also recommend that Mr. Cowell's offer be accepted to edit the 

 Maitri or Maitrayani Upanishad with Ramatirtha's eommentary, and 

 an English translation. It will occupy about two Fasciculi. 



Dr. Weber in 1855 (Indische Studien, vol. 3, p. 480) remarked 

 that the Society had published editions of all the more important 

 Upanishads, with the exception of the Kaushitaki, Maitrayani and 

 Vashkala. At the beginning of this year we published an edition of the 

 first ; the present proposal takes up the second. Of the third we 

 have very slender hopes, as though its translation is given in D'an- 

 quetil du Perron, no traces of the Sanscrit original have as yet been 

 discovered and the name does not occur in the very full Telugu list 

 of Upanishads furnished by W. Elliott, Esq., and published in our 

 journal for 1851. 



ADOPTED. 



Communications were received — 



1. From Babu Gopeenauth Sein ; abstracts of meteological ob- 

 servations taken at the Surveyor General's Office in November and 

 December last. 



2. From F. E. Hall, Esq., a paper containing some fragments of 

 Havana's commentary on the Pig Veda. 



3. From W. T. Blanford, Esq., contributions to Indian Mala- 

 cology., No. 3, containing description of new operculated land shells 

 from Pegu, Aracan and the Khasi hills. 



4. From W. Theobald, Jr., Esq Notes of a trip from Simla to 

 the Spiti Valley and Chormorre (Tohomoriro) Lake during the 

 months of July, August and September last. 



