1853.] Literary Intelligence. 405 



by very extensive and critical reading that these difficulties can be 

 cleared up. They consist, sometimes in allusions which have become 

 hackneyed among poets, like J^'A j* <J*J ; sometimes in the use of 

 rare and obsolete words, and sometimes in the use of strange idioms. 

 All doubt on these subjects can only be removed when we have 

 critical editions of the principal Persian authors ; in the mean time 

 however the Bahar Dictionary is, by far, the most valuable book of 

 reference on these points, because, as the term ok*JUa*a««o in the title 

 implies, it is expressly designed to meet these difficulties, and his 

 immense reading and intercourse with the most learned Persian 

 scholars both in India and Persia, enabled him to collect and make 

 bear on the difficulties a number of passages from classical Persian 

 authors. Por a European lexicographer this Dictionary will not 

 only be valuable in furnishing him with explanations which he finds 

 nowhere else, but, what is much more valuable, it enables him to 

 strike out many absurd meanings, which are given to words in Richard- 

 son and even in the Burhane Qati, and which rest on misunder- 

 stood passages of poets. 



Very few Sanskrita works have appeared since we last had occa- 

 sion to advert to the publications of the native press of Calcutta. 

 Pandita Ananda Chandra Vedantavagisa of the Tattwabodhini Society 

 has lately published some of the standard works of the Vedanta 

 system of philosophy, and among them we find excellent editions 

 in the Bengali character of the Veddntasdra of Sadananda, with the 

 commentaries of Nrisinha Saraswati and Ramatirtha Tati, and of the 

 Panchadasi, or the Fifteen Chapters on the Principles of the Vedanta, 

 by Vidyaranya, with the commentary of Bamakrishna. The learned 

 Pandita is now engaged in carrying through the press, the Adliikara- 

 namald of Bharati Tirtha with a commentary : the work is to appear in 

 monthly parts, and seven fasciculi have been already published. 



The new edition of the Baghu Vaiisa, which was adverted to some 

 time ago, has just issued from the Sanskrita Press of Calcutta. 



Of Bengali works we have to record, 



1. ?TTSJ-^<3- *TfV^ TTT*?T-£f f t^<r *TW-1t5T? ; or the Eelation of 

 the Mind to external objects. By Babu Akshayakumara Datta. Tat- 

 twabodhini Press, 1852-3, 2 vols. 12mo. Besides two original essays, 

 these volumes include a reprint of a series of papers published under 



