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though not found in the received lists. I enclose a memorandum 

 marked A. showing the whole of these. The first column contains 

 the numbers of the Telugu works arranged conformably to your list, 

 founded on Colebrooke's, which (i. e. Colebrooke's) is given in the 

 second column, Anquetil's in the third aud the Miscellaneous Nos. 

 from Weber and other sources in the fourth. The order of the num- 

 bers, I may remark, is derived only from the preface above referred to 

 (No. 34 of Vol. VII.) and may not therefore be quite correct. The 

 remaining works known to the Telugu Pandits then follow alphabeti- 

 cally, the three extra ones, being marked with a ;* viz. Nos. 87, 103 

 and 123, the last having been added subsequent to the preparation 

 of the list. In the first of these three, the Mahavacya Ratnavali, an 

 enumeration of the whole 108 Nos. occurs with a specification of the 

 Vedas to which they belong. A similar list is likewise found in the 

 Muctica Upanishad, No. 93 in my list. Extracts from these two 

 works transcribed in Nagari characters and marked B and C are 

 enclosed. I have made enquiry for the Tica of Anandagiri on the 

 Swetaswatara Upanishad, but hitherto without success. 



There is a notice in the last No. of the Journ. As. Soc. (III. of 

 1851, p. 283) inviting aid in procuring MSS. of the Sanhita of the 

 Black Yajur Veda and its commentary by Sayanacharya. Copies of 

 portions of these are not uncommon and no great difficulty would be 

 experienced in collecting a complete set, both of the text and commen- 

 tary. Most of them are in palm leaves, but some are on paper, all 

 however are in Teulgu characters. 



It will give me great pleasure if I can be of any assistance to join 

 in the valuable labours in which you are engaged, by procuring for you 

 any information which this province can furnish, but in doing so, I am 

 sorry to say, I can bring no critical knowledge to bear on the value 

 of such materials as may fall in my way. 



I am, dear Sir, 



Yours very faithfully, 

 Walter Elliot. 



