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sources which may be accessible to me in Europe, and upon the assistance 

 of the learned in India in finding out the most important ancient works. I 

 venture to hope, if the interest for this branch of the development of the 

 Hindus is resuscitated in accordance to a systematical plan, that we shall in 

 course of time receive from India those appliances the want of which we 

 feel now so keenly. 



" Permit me to mention more specially for what the first is wanted. I have 

 of course to commence with the Mimansa, of which the study the more 

 requires renovation, as this commentary to the Vedas is closely connected 

 with another, which my friends M. Miiller and A. Weber are now publish- 

 ing. I have commenced with the publication of the Jaiminiya-nyaya-mdld- 

 vistara by Mddhava, partly because, in want of other appliances I was com- 

 pelled to begin with it, partly because I wholly concur in Colebrooke's 

 opinion, that among all Mimansa works this is the most simple and there- 

 fore best fitted for the commencement of its study. By the appliances I 

 have met with at Paris, London and Oxford (there are none at Berlin) I 

 trust, I shall be able to prepare a critical text. To this would be joined in 

 the first volume the Jaimini-sutras, for which I have procured sufficient 

 material. The next volumes of the Mimansa division are to contain the 

 extensive Sdbara-bhdshya and the important Vartikas of Kumdrila-svdmin 

 For the former I have three MSS., but on account of their great extent, I 

 do not yet exactly know whether they will be safe guides through the 

 whole detail of my labours. For the Vartikas, however, the prospect is yet 

 very unsatisfactory, as in Europe, viz. in London and Oxford, there are only 

 two MSS., and both of them quite incomplete. An edition of this im- 

 portant work will therefore depend upon the success of my solicitations in 

 various quarters for getting MSS., and I hope you will allow me also to 

 request your mediation of procuring for me a MS. of the Vartikas of Ru- 

 mania (12 Adhyayas of 4 Padas each, with the exception of the 3rd, 6th 

 and 10th Adhyayas each of which contains 8 Padas.) It would also be 

 very important, if commentaries previous to Sahara could be discovered, 

 especially the work, the author of which (in accordance with the designation 

 of his disciples " Prabhakaras") must have had the name of Prabhdkara : — 

 also Guru. Jaimini's Sutras among others make a special mention of Bada- 

 ri, but I have not been fortunate enough to trace a work of an author of this 

 name, and I shall feel much obliged, if you can give me information about 

 him. Is there any Tantrika work and a commentary to it by Bhavadeva 

 in India ? And may I take the liberty of asking another question, are there 

 commentaries on Sahara's commentary, and which ? In this case also is 

 the Mimansa literature in the East India House, ill-furnished ; for it con- 

 tains only a small fragment of such a commentary by Sdllkandtha. 



