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danta system of philosophy ; the 14th, his conversation with Padmapacla, 

 on pilgrimage ; the 15th, his disputations with all the great scholars of 

 India ; and the 16th, his last illness, his travels in Kashmir, Badari- 

 kasrama, Kedara and elsewhere, his disputations and teachings there, 

 and his final departure from the earth. Although it does not give so good 

 an account of the different sects prevalent in India during the time of 

 Sahkara and of their dogmas, as the prose work of Anantanandagiri 

 now heing printed in the new series of the Bibliotheca Indica, it was 

 largely used by the late Professor Wilson in compiling his "Religious 

 Sects of the Hindus." The work is tolerably w T ell printed, but, like 

 most works issued from the native press, it is not edited. 



Parasurama Pur-ka of the same city has published a short treatise 

 by Ananda Swami, entitled S'diva Sudhdkara. It is a manual on the 

 worship of S'iva. A similar manual on the worship of Vishnu and 

 named Ndrdyana Sura Sangraha, has been published by one Shatari 

 Dasa, a Gour Brahman of Bombay. Both are lithographed in the puihi 

 form and comprise 50 and 32 folia respectively. 



Professor Weber of Berlin has sent to press an essay on the Bhagavati 

 Sutra of the Jains, in the introduction to which he has given an 

 elaborate dissertation on the Magadhi of that curious work. 



The following is an extract from a letter, dated 13th September, 

 1865, from Professor Holmboe of Christiania, containing notices of 

 two interesting papers published by him in the Saerskilt Aftrykt af 

 Vid. Selskab Forhandlinger for 1864. 



" On yellow and red earth in ancient barrows. J'y ai demontre, 

 que dans des tertres sepulcrales de Scandinavie on a trouve quel- 

 quefois des quantites de terre jaune ou rouge, partie daiis des vases, 

 partie hors d'eux. J'y ai compare la trouvaille de minium (sin- 

 dur) dans quelques topes de 1' Afghanistan ; et hazarde la con- 

 jecture, qu' on a voulu honorer les defunts par l'insertion de la 

 couleur, jaune ou rouge — les couleurs solennelles des religieux Boud- 

 dhistes ; comme aussi le samghati de Bouddha selon la legende etait 

 rouge. 



2. Sur une suite d'anciens poids trouves dans un tombeau on 

 voit, que dans une partie cle Norvege, comme en Suede on subdivisait 

 1'Ortug en huit parties (Peningar), justement comme en Inde on 

 subdivisait le Kurrho ou Tola (egal a, 1' Ortug de Scandinavie) en 

 huit parties." 



