506 Report on the " Vedas" 



Committee of Papers, your valuable aid, as additional members of 

 the section appointed for advice and reference to, on 



"ORIENTAL LITERATURE AND PHILOLOGY."* 



Of this section Dr. E. Roer is the Secretary, and he will from time 

 to time circulate for your examination all papers and documents upon 

 which the Asiatic Society may desire the benefit of yonr suggestions. 



The members of the several sections being appointed by the Society 

 as ex-officio inspectors of the Museums and Library in their several 

 departments, your co-operation in this respect is most earnestly invited, 

 and any aid or advice you may be pleased to afford for the improve- 

 ment or increased efficiency of these branches of the Society's esta- 

 blishment, will be received with the utmost thankfulness and respect. 



In deference to the expressed wishes of the Honourable the Court of 

 Directors, reiterated in Mr. Secretary Bushby's letter, dated the 21st 

 November, 1846, the Asiatic Society are desirous of taking immediate 

 measures for the publication of the Vedas, with a commentary, the 

 expense to be defrayed from the grant from Government of 500 Rs. per 

 mensem for " Oriental Publications." Your Secretary, Dr. Roer, will 

 be requested to obtain for the Society, at the earliest possible period, 

 such suggestions as your section may be pleased to communicate on 

 this important subject. 



I have the honor to be, 



Gentlemen, 

 Your most Obedt. Servt. 



W. B. O'Shaughnessy, 

 Asiatic Society, 16th Feb. 1847. Sen. Sec. Asiatic Society. 



Asiatic Society , the 30th March, 1847. 

 Gentlemen, — In compliance with the request expressed in the 

 Senior Secretary's letter of the 16th ult., addressed to the Oriental 

 Section of the Society, I have the honour to submit to you, for your 

 consideration, a few suggestions respecting the publication of the Ve- 

 das, and request the favour of your able advice for the guidance of the 

 Society in this important undertaking. 



* Former members : — Major Marshall, since resigned. — The Rev. Dr. Hseberlin 

 — The Rev. Mr. Long 



