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Literary Intelligence. 



Mr. F. E. Hall writes from America, in a letter dated Dec. 24th. 



" You may not be aware that a translation of the Stirya-siddhdnta 

 is coming out in the Journal of the American Oriental Society. Part 

 has appeared ; and the rest is ready for the press and will probably 

 be published by nest April." The translation is made by the Rev. 

 — Burgess, assisted by Professor Whitney. Mr. Hall elsewhere re- 

 marks, " if I had Pundit Bapii Deva at my side, I think I could 

 considerably improve it." Our learned coadjutor will be glad to learn 

 that the translation by his fellow editor, is in the press, and will soon 

 be issued in the Bibliotheca. 



Professor Midler writes from Oxford, in a letter dated April 1st. 



" The Surya-siddhanta, as you probably have heard before now, has 

 been edited and translated (revised by Whitney) in the Journal of 

 the American Oriental Society ; it seems very carefully done with 

 diagrams and notes. Biot has lately published some articles in the 

 Journal des Savans on Indian Astronomy, reiterating his opinion that 

 the Hindus borrowed from the Chinese. Whitney believes it ; I 

 shall never believe it ; as little should I believe that the Greeks bor- 

 rowed their Astronomy from the Goths. You ask me to mention 

 some works which are wanted for the Bibliotheca Indica. Would it 

 be possible to prepare a complete edition of Kumarila ? He is a most 

 instructive writer, and there are no complete MSS. of his Tantra- 

 vartika in any library in Europe. Is the Mahabhashya ever to be 

 continued ? The plan to publish the Vais'eshika Stitras with com- 

 mentary is a very good one. What could be done for the Puranas ? 

 Could you get an edition of the Vayu Purana ? This seems to be 

 one of the most original. However, the test of the Vishnu Purana 

 too would be acceptable. If you think it possible to publish a col- 

 lection of the Upanishads, excluding only the most modern compil- 

 ations, that would be equally useful The Library of the East India 



House is to be removed to the Board of Control ; happily it has been 

 saved from being swallowed up by the British Museum. I hoped for 

 a time we might have got all the MSS. for the Bodleian, but this 

 was not to be Aufrecht is going on with the Catalogue of our Sans- 

 krit MSS., part of which is out, but I do not know whether it is ia 



