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“Spriche” the first volume (¥4-a@) is now ready. Dr. Friederich 
has left with us before he resailed for Batavia, a decipherment and 
translation of a curious inscription on a Manjus’ri statue.” 
Dr. Weber also writes to Babu Rajendra Lala Mitra. 
“ Your translation of the Chhandogya Upanishad and the introduc- 
tion to it deserve all praise: in the latter, however, there are some 
points in which I cannot quite agree with you. The four new 
Brahmanas of which you speak at pp. 15, 16, are nothing but the 
VIL. VI. I. and II. Kandas of the S‘atapatha Brahmana, as you will 
easily verify from my edition of it: the names hasti, usha, havyan 
and ekvai are corruptions for hastishat (or hastighata,) ukhdsambha- 
rana, haviryajno and ekapadiké. It is a pity, that you have not 
joined the text of the first two chapters of the Chhandogya Brah- 
mana, (pp. 17, 18,) to this your translation of the eight following 
adhydyas. Their context refers to the grihya ritual and its knowledge 
would be I guess of value for the understanding of the corresponding 
part of the gobhilagrihyasttra (see Indische Studien, V. 368 ff.). 
Professor Buhler (Elphinstone College, Bombay) is now busy with 
an edition of this sutra, and he would no doubt be very thankful to 
you for a communication of the text in question. We long very 
much for the conclusion of your valuable edition of the Lalita-Vis- 
tara and for the continuation of the fext of the Taittiriya Braéhmana, 
the third kanda being of much interest on account of its containing 
the enumeration of the victims at the as’wamedha and the purusha- 
medha sacrifices (compare Vaj. Samh. 24—30.) The only copy of 
it, which J knew till lately in Europe, is very corrupt: but they have 
in Paris, as I learned some time ago, a very excellent copy, formerly 
in the possession of Hug. Burnouf. 
Aufrecht’s edition of the Riksanhita in Latin type is now finish- 
ed, and will be hailed by all engaged in our studies with much fer- 
vour. He has also composed a complete Index of all the words con- 
tained in it, together with an indication of all the passages, where 
they occur. But as yet he is not decided when and where he will 
publish it. His catalogue of the Sanskrit MSS. of the Bodleian 
is finished in print, excepting the indexes: and these will be com- 
pleted he hopes in the course of this year. We shall have then 
before us a most excellent work, a real mine of literary intelligence 
not to be found any where else.” 
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