188 Notes and Queries suggested hy a Visit to Orissa. [No. 3. 



A Bengali Pandit's commentary on the Geography of the 

 Mahabharat. 



VlKRAMA SaGAR MS. 



Desa Mala and Khshetra Samasa oe the Puranas. 



Bhttyana Kosa oe the Bhayishyea Purana. 



Kritadharayali MS. 



Tara Tantra MS. 



It is a subject of regret that Lassen in his great work the Alter- 

 thumskunde had not these MSS. 



We want some one to do for Orissa, what Major Troyer in Paris 

 has performed for Kashmir in his Rajatarangini, viz. to give us a 

 translation of the pith of the above MSS. with notes and prelimi- 

 nary dissertations. As the valley of Kashmir, owing to the dis- 

 covery of a MS. 40 years ago, has afforded so rich a field of inves- 

 tigation into the social and religious condition of its people in days 

 of yore — surely Orissa is not barren of incidents on the same sub- 

 ject ? 



6. Life of Sanglcar Acharyea of use for Orissa. In connec- 

 tion with the history of Orissa a life of Sanglcar A'clidryea com- 

 piled from such MSS. as the Sangkar Katha, Sangkar Cha- 



RITRA, KERALUTPATI, SANGKAR BIJAY AND SARYA DaRSHANA SaN- 



graha is desirable. Light would thus be thrown on the state of 

 Orissa when the dogmas of Sangkar gained the ascendancy over 

 the Vaishnav and Buddhist systems. Though Sangkar himself was 

 so liberal as to be a follower both of the Vedantic and.Tantric 

 systems, yet to the Buddhists he was the malleus hereticorum, and 

 like Charlemagne he resorted to the sword when the process of 

 conviction was too slow. Professor Wilson in his " Sects of the 

 Hindus" has made much use of these MSS., but he admits that a 

 further analysis of them would be of great value in giving the state 

 of Hinduism in the 9th century, A. D. He wrote his account 30 

 years ago, but since that period immense progress has been made 

 with reference to oriental research in France, Germany, Russia and 

 England. 



7. Chaitanyea. The effect of Chaitanyea the great Vaishnab's 

 preaching in Orissa in the 16th century would deserve investiga- 

 tion. His doctrines gained rapid ascendancy when Pratap Rudra 



