60 Literary Intelligence. 



Literary Intelligence. 



Mr. E. B. Cowell has sent to press the Yoga Aphorisms of Patan- 

 jali, with the commentary generally ascribed to Yyasa. The work? 

 we understand, is to appear under the auspices of the Sanskrit Text 

 Society. 



Major Henry Dixon. H. M.'s 22nd Reg. M. N. L, has just published 

 a large quarto volume containing Photographs of 113 Canarese and 

 10 Sanskrit inscriptions. They are from the districts of Chittledroog, 

 Davenghiri, Hurrihur, Ballagamee, Taldagundee, Sooroob, Annant- 

 pur, Shemogah, Taicul, and Beygoor in the Mysore Territory, and 

 contain records which will prove of great interest to the historian of 

 the Indian peninsula. The Canarese inscriptions are taken mostly 

 from Sati stones of the Saiva period, and a number of them have the 

 figures of Siva and his attendants carved on the top. The Sanscrit 

 ones are title deeds of grants of land made by the former princes of 

 Mysore, Canara and the Carnatic. We hope some enterprising 

 scholar in Madras will, by translating these records, render them 

 accessible to European scholars, and Major Dixon will meet with 

 sufficient encouragement from the Government of Madras and the 

 public to rescue from the ravages of time other documents of the kind 

 of which there are a great number in Mysore. 



The following is an extract from a letter from Dr. R. Rost of 

 London. 



"I mean to take an early opportunity of drawing attention to some 

 rare Sanscrit MSS. in our possession, which are in Grantham characters, 

 and have never been looked into. Amongst them are the Rik, 

 White Yajur, Sama and Atharva Yedas ; Kumarila, Mimansatantra- 

 vartika, the Sankhya Saptati with commentary (2 copies), the Mayukhar 

 malika on the Sastradipika, Mananam (Yedanta), and Bharata's 

 Natya S'astra. Of the last mentioned work, there are several copies 

 in the Brown collection at Madras ; but all of them being, like our 

 copy, in Dravidian characters, they are sealed books to the intending 

 editor, Mr. Hall. We have altogether nearly 200 Sanscrit MSS. in 

 the Grantham character. I wish Mr. C. P. Brown had deposited his 

 large collection of Sanscrit MSS. (above 2300) in London ; in Madras 

 no one cares for them." 



