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Literary Intelligence. 



The learned Professor Mahes'achandra Nyayaratna, of the Calcutta 

 Sanskrit College, has just brought out a new edition of the Kdvya 

 Prakds'a, a treatise on Sanskrit Rhetoric by Mammata Bhatta. It is 

 illustrated by a number of explanatory notes by the editor, and has 

 an excellent introductory essay. The last is a new feature in a 

 Sanskrit book edited by a modern Pundit. It gives a summary of the 

 principal works on Rhetoric in Sanskrit, their ages and characteristics, 

 the relation which the work of Mammata Bhatta bears to them, the 

 number of manuscripts used in printing it, its contents and age, and a 

 variety of other interesting literary and critical notices. 



The Professors of the Benares Sanskrit College have started a 

 monthly journal devoted to Sanskrit Literature. It is named The 

 Pundit, and is intended to serve as a vehicle for the " publication 

 of rare Sanskrit works which appear worthy of careful editing here- 

 after ; to offer a field for the discussion of controverted points in old 

 Indian Philosophy, Philology, History and Literature ; to commu- 

 nicate ideas between the Arian scholars of the East and the West ; 

 between the Pundits of Benares and Calcutta and the Sanskritists of 

 the Universities of Europe." The first three numbers, already 

 published, contain, among other articles, two cantos of the second half 

 of the Kumdra ScnhhJiava, short notices of topics on Indian Astronomy 

 and Logic* and a reprint of the late Dr. Ballantyne's essay on the 

 Nyaya. 



Pundit Rangachari Swarm, of Brindabun, has published, for gra- 

 tuitous distribution, a Sanskrit pamphlet entitled Durjana-Jcari-pan- 

 clidnana. Its object is to prove the authenticity of the present form 

 of Vaishnava worship, and to refute the opinion of the court pundits 

 of Jaipur, who* maintain that there is no ordinance in the shasters to 

 justify the worship of Grovindaji, the great idol of that place, and 

 accordingly recommend that it should be cast out of its temple. The 

 author, in his little book, displays consummate polemical powers, and 

 a thorough knowledge of the literature of the Vaishnavas. 



