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the trade. His edition of the Unadi Sutras is very useful and care- 

 fully edited. There is not much doing in Sanskrit on the Continent. 

 ... I received the separate copies of the Essay on Writing which was 

 inserted in the Journal. Bohtlingk has written an Essay in answer 

 to my hypothesis, but it contains no new facts, and does not seem to 

 me to remove any of the difficulties which I stated." 



We have received during the present year two new parts of Messrs. 

 Bohtlingk and Roth's Sanskrit Dictionary, which carry the work 

 down to fiTT^. It is seldom that we can detect any omissions in 

 this excellent work ; but we may venture to notice an oversight in 

 the latter part. Under the word ^^X we have only a quotation from 

 the Mahabh., where it is a proper name, followed by the remark, 

 " Welche Bed. hat aber das Wort, Malati-Madhava 148-8 ?" The 

 learned editors appear to have overlooked the fact that this obscure 

 word is a favourite with Bhavabhuti. It occurs in the Mal-Madh., 

 p. 3.3 in the phrase ^WJl«Ti where the scholiast explains it by 

 sif^Tf (Prof. Wilson translates it " possessing names of note."). In 

 the prologue to the Mahaviraeh. we have ^"jf^^t:* in a similar 

 sense. The use of this word in Mai. M., p. 148, 8, 



is by no means so infrequent as the editors' remark would lead us to 

 suppose. The same meaning (as applied to the blossoms of the Ka- 

 damba) occurs in an earlier part of this very play (p. 48, last line) in 

 the lines 



where the scholiast explains it by 9*nf ; and a parallel is also to be 

 found in the Mahaviracharita (Trithen's ed. p. 99, 17) where it is 

 applied to the masses of clouds, 



f^^^^f ^nrlfe; rr^rft:*? far fw i 



c. 



* So the Calcutta edition, explained by Pundit Taranath Tarkabachaspati 

 3*K«<cfei41ifll3r7n<; The London edition reads faultily ^"^^TT:. 



