428 General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Paris. [No. 125, 



translation, has been reprinted at Bonn by tyT. Gildemeister, who has 

 added to the same volume a little erotic poem of the title " Sringari- 

 Tilaka." Both texts are accompanied with a complete dictionary. Raja 

 Kalikrisna at Calcutta, advertises an edition an English translation of 

 Maha Nataka, that is to say, the great poem. It is a half dramatic nar- 

 rative of the Ramayana, which is at present known in Europe by the 

 short analysis only of Mr. Wilson. This work, of which the ape 

 Honuman is believed the author, enjoys great popularity in India. 

 Mr. Hcepfer has published at Leipzig a small volume, containing the 

 first series of translations of Indian poems, the metre of which he imi- 

 tates in German. 



The Indian Grammar has been the object of some labours, of which 

 the most important is the second volume of the edition of Panini, edited 

 by Mr. Boethlingk, 21 and the tables, arranged by the editor, much facili- 

 tate the use of it. Mr. Hcepfer has published a dissertation on the 

 infinitive in Sanscrit, 22 considered under the view of the comparative 

 Grammar and of the Synthesis. Mr. Westergaard has edited the second 

 part of his Sanscrit roots. 23 The progress of Indian literature since 

 the print of Rosen's Radices, enabled Mr. Westergaard to extend the 

 plan, and to fill out the sketch given by Rosen. Mr. Johnson lastly, has 

 published in London the first volume of the Hitopadesa, together with 

 a grammatical index of all the words. This book is destined for be- 

 ginners. 



The religious controversies, always disturbing India, which from the 

 intercourse of the natives with Europeans had recommenced with renew- 

 ed ardour, especially at Bombay, have caused some curious publica- 

 tions ; I shall offer, however, a remark on only two of them. The first 

 is an antient Sanscrit treatise under the title of " Wajrah Soutchi, 24 by a 

 Buddhist of the name Aswa Goscha, who therein attacks the Brahmini- 

 cal institution of caste. Mr. Wilkinson, political agent at Bhopal, who 

 discovered it, intended to print it as a work, attacking caste, but the 

 Pundit Soobaji Bapoo, whom he employed for this purpose, requested his 



21. Panini, 8 Biicher Grammatischer Regeln, horausgegeben von Or. Boethlingk, 2 

 vols, in 8vo. Bonn, 1810. 



22. Vom Infinitiv, besonders im Sanscrit, von Dr. A. Hoepfer. Berlin, 1840, in 8vo. 



23. Radices Linguae Sanscritae definivit, Nic. L, Westergaard. Bonn, 1840, in 8vo. 



24. The Wujra Soochi, or Refutation of the arguments upon which the Brahmanical 

 institution of Caste is founded bv the learned Boodhist Arhwa Gorhu. eh. 





