392 Literary Intelligence. [No. 4. 



Jugunnath and his brother Balarama and sister Subhadra, with the 

 Buddhist monogram or symbol of Dharma.' There is every reason 

 to believe that the annual procession observed by the Buddhists and 

 described by Fa Hian was adopted by the Brahmans as a ceremony 

 too popular to be then safely suppressed. 



Major C. will see that our Society has already made a move in 

 the direction indicated in his Preface. The prosecution of the Sar- 

 nath excavations is quite compatible with simultaneous researches 

 on and around the site of Rajagriha. 



The same author's vol. on ' Ladak' has also reached our Library. 

 It is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the physical fea- 

 tures of the "Western Himalayas which are not to be distinctly 

 gathered from the pages of his fellow-traveller Dr. Thompson. The 

 work moreover as pointed out in the Preface enters into subjects 

 interesting to the antiquary, and contains a comparative vocabulary 

 which will be most welcome to the philologist. 



The 1st vol. of the labour of love on which our learned Secretary 

 Dr. Sprenger has been so long engaged was published just before 

 his departure for Egypt. This portion of his ' Catalogue' is devoted 

 to the MSS. of Persian and Hindustani poetry in the Lucnow 

 libraries, but the vol. has been arranged differently from what was 

 originally intended in consequence of the author's failing health. 

 It was commenced too under happier auspices than it was abruptly 

 closed — for the instigator of the undertaking and the constant 

 co-operator with the author, died at the Cape just as its last sheets 

 were passed through the press. It is much to be hoped that the 

 Hon'ble Court will direct the prosecution of the work. 



Of the late Sir H. Elliot's great unfinished work, the Society has 

 been presented with a sample just sufficient to show the value of 

 what we have been deprived of. Lady E. has bestowed on the 

 library a copy of the vol. printed at the Cape for private circulation, 

 and alluded to in Dr. Sprenger's List of Sir H.'s MSS. in our last 

 No. The references in this Appendix show the complete conver- 

 sance of the writer with every thing that had been written on 

 subjects connected with his work — a feature indeed in his published 

 1st vol. which drew from Fleischer a remark highly flattering to 

 the ' Indian Secretary.' Few orientalists indeed in this country 



