1854.] Literary Intelligence. 197 



the Sankhya philosophy examines at great length the system of 

 Kapila, and attributes to his school the philosophical doctrines of 

 Sakhyamunee. 



" Gorresio at Paris has published the 2nd vol. of his Italian transla- 

 tion of the Ramayana, and Parisot the first vol. of his French trans- 

 lation, the text followed by both being that of the work current in 

 Bengal. Pavie has translated the 10th book of the Bhagvat Purana. 

 The means of studying Sanskrit have been facilitated by Ballantyne's 

 text and translation of the Laghou Kaumudi of Yaradaraj, the 

 Grammar principally used in the Brahmanical schools and by Ben- 

 fey's Grammar. "William's English and Sanskrit Dictionary, a 3rd 

 edition of Wilson's Dictionary now under preparation, and a San- 

 skrit Thesaurus about to be published at St. Petersburg by Both- 

 lingk and Roth, are all works indicative of the progress which is 

 being made in establishing the true relations of European languages 

 with the Sanskrit. Holmboe, moreover ] has published an excellent 

 grammatical and lexicographical comparison of Scandinavian dialects 

 with the Sanskrit, and Delatre has commenced on a similar compari- 

 son of the Erench language. 



" Lassen's Antiquities of India, of which the 2nd vol. is now com- 

 plete, is an instance of what European criticism can construct from 

 the most heterogeneous elements. The political history of India 

 must always be very incomplete, but it is probable that its moral 

 and social history will one day be better known than that of any 

 people of high antiquity, and the value of this attempt of Mr. Las- 

 sen's cannot be too highly estimated. 



" In Buddhist literature Burnouf's Lotus de la bonne loi is a trans- 

 lation from the Sanskrit, and is accompanied by a commentary and by 

 21 tracts on Buddhism. The same author has left a vast quantity 

 of materials for his History of the Buddhism of the South, on which 

 he was engaged when he died, and it is hoped that much of it will 

 yet be published. Spence Hardy's works are the result of a twenty 

 years' residence in Ceylon, where the author collected a large libra- 

 ry of MSS. bearing on Buddhism. Latter has published Selections 

 from the vernacular Buddhist literature of Burmah, and Bennet, an 

 American Missionary has translated the life of Gaudama from the 

 same language. But St. Julien's biography of Hiouen Thsang is 



