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Extract of a letter from Dr. Muller, dated the 23rd April, 1849. 



" Your edition of the Brihad Aranya Upanishad, at least the first four 

 numbers, has arrived in England, but I have been of late so busy that I had 

 as yet no time to read it. At any rate, it is delightful to have all the mate- 

 rial so near at hand, and I hope that the Bibliotheca Indica will remain an 

 inexhaustible mine for the Sanskrit. 



Now in Europe we'll be able to publish the Taittiriya Sanhita or Bramhana. 

 Of the first there is only one MS. containing 7 Ashtakas, in Colebrooke's 

 collection, and a portion of the commentary to the 7th Ashtaka ; and there 

 is no complete copy of the Taittiriya Bramhana. I believe, however, it is 

 the same with the Apastamba Bramhana, of which three books are in Cole- 

 brooke's collection. If you will do service to the Sama Veda, why not publish 

 the Tandya Bramhana ?" 



Extract from a letter of Br. Weber of Berlin, dated 27th Jan. 1849. 



" A publication of the 50 Upanishads, translated by Anquetil, would be of 

 much greater importance. Only five of them have as yet been printed, viz. 

 Kena, Isa, Kathaka, Mundaka, and the Brihad Aranyaka in the Kamvasakha. 

 (Bonn, 1844, by Poley). The Chandogya Upanishad is being prepared for 

 the press since some years already by Windishmann ; but many years may still 

 elapse, before it will be printed. The work, however, whose publication is 

 of the greatest importance, is the Taittiriya Yajur. I have examined the 

 libraries in England, in Paris and here, and may assure you, that an edition 

 of the Yajur is impossible in Europe. With reference to this I have written 

 a small paper, which will appear in the next number of Lassen's Journal. 

 According to your advice I wrote to the Societies in Bombay and Madras 

 with regard to my edition of the white Yajur, and took at the same time the 

 liberty of requesting them to look out for MS. of the Taittiriya Yajur, and to 

 transmit them to you. There are at any rate MSS. of the commentary of 

 Sayana in Benares, as I have read in the Journal of your Society. About 

 230 pages of the white Yajur have been printed, and the first volume, con- 

 taining 320 pages, will be published at the commencement of April (in 

 London, at Williams' and Norgate, at 21 shillings). 



Rev. Benfey in Goettinger has published a most excellent edition of 

 the Sama Sanhita, with gloss, translation and a copious introduction. The 

 7 — 12 books of Roths' Nirukta may soon be expected. Lassen writes to me, 

 that a further portion of his Indian Antiquities, containing Indian history to 

 Vikramaditya, will probably appear about Easter. Stewgler prepares an 

 edition of Yajnavalkya, which is to be ready at the same time. Trithen in 

 Oxford has lately published Bhavabhuti's Uttara Rama Charitra. Mueller's 



