424 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [No. 5. 



To Dr. W. B. O'Shaughnessy, Senior Secretary of the Asiatic Society. 

 Sir, — The publication of the Upanishads, which are accompanied with a 

 commentary of S'ankara A'charya, being nearly completed, I have the honour, 

 by direction of the Oriental Section, to propose, for the consideration and 

 orders of the Council and Society, the gradual publication of the following 

 works in the Bibliotheca Indica : 



1. The Uttara Naishadha, or the second part of the Naishadha, together 

 with the commentary of Narayan Pandit. 



2. Tha Vaishe'ika Sutras with the commentary of Sri Sankara. 



3. The Bhasha Parich'heda with an English translation. 



4. A selection from the best Dramas in Sanskrit, not yet published. 



5. The Puranas. 



6. The most important Astronomical works of the Hindus, and at first 

 Varahamihira's Varahi Sanhita and Pancha Siddhantas, if these works can 

 be obtained. 



7. Nala Champu. 



8. Bhoja Champu. 



9. Bharata Champu. 



10. Raghava Pandaviya. 



11. Anargha Raghava. 



By the completion of the Naishadha the Society, who published the first 

 part in 1836, would gratify the wishes of the Oriental scholars in Europe as 

 well as in India. As Prem Chander Pandit of the Sanskrit College in 

 Calcutta, who has written the commentary to the first part of this work, is 

 not prepared to furnish us with a commentary to the second, the Section 

 proposes, that the Tika of Narayan Pandit, one of the oldest and best com- 

 mentaries, be added to the text. 



The Sutras of Kanada deserve also the early patronage of the Society, as 

 no work of the Vaishesika school of philosophy has yet been printed. 



The Society, some years ago, sanctioned the publication of the text of the 

 Bhasha Parich'heda together with an English translation which I had pre- 

 pared. This translation, as the Society will recollect, was lost by the transfer 

 of papers from the former Secretary's office. I have since revised a rough 

 copy, and have now the pleasure to offer it to the Society for publication, 

 together with the preface and text, in the Bibliotheca Indica. 



2. It is further proposed: 1. — That every three months copies of the 

 Bibliotheca should be sent to those Societies and scholars to whom they 

 were presented before. 2. — That 25 copies should be, regularly every month, 

 transmitted to Messrs. Allen and Co., complaints having reached us, that no 

 copies are for sale in Europe. 3. — That a certain number of copies should 



