84 Literary Intelligence. 



A new translation of the Sakuntala of Kalidasa, by Professor Foucaux 

 of the French Academy, has just been published in Paris. The work 

 has been got up in imitation of Professor Williams's excellent edition 

 of the same work, and is intended to popularise among French readers 

 that master-piece of the Indian Drama. 



The publication of the Taittiriya Sanhita of the Black Yajur 

 Veda has once again been brought to a stop. Dr. Roer, who first 

 undertook this work, left India on account of ill-health after publish- 

 ing only five fasciculi. On his return to this country, press of 

 official duties prevented his resuming the task, and it was therefore 

 made over to Mr. E. B. Co well. That gentleman succeeded in 

 the course of three years to publish fourteen hundred pages, when 

 ill health obliged him to retire from India. Pandita Ramanarayana 

 Vidyaratna, who succeeded him and brought out the first fasci- 

 culus of the 3rd volume, died in May last, after a protracted 

 illness of six months. He was a Sanskrit scholar of a high 

 order, and was earnestly devoted to the ancient literature of his 

 country. He published several Bengali books, and edited, for the 

 Bibliotheca Indica, the Vedanta Sutras with the Commentary of 

 Sarikara, and the Srauta Stiira of A'swalayana. 



We have to record the death of another Sanskrit scholar of great 

 eminence; Pandita Premachandra Tarkavagica died at Benares on the 

 14th of April last. He was Professor of Rhetoric in the Sanskrit College 

 of Calcutta for over thirty years, and was esteemed as the most pro- 

 found scholar of his time. He was the only Bengali Pandita who had 

 made the Prakrita language a subject of critical study. Among his 

 works may be noticed the commentary on the great epic of Kaviraja 

 the Rdgliava joandaviya, every verse of which had to be explained so as 

 to form once a history of the race of Raghu and once that of the Pan- 

 davas. His commentaries on the first half of the Naishada CJiarita, and 

 those on the Sakuntala, the Uttararama Charita, the Anarghar&ghava , 

 the ChatupushpanjaU, the Muhunda-muktdvali, the Saptasati-sdra, 

 and the 8th chapter of the Kumdrasambhava are well known. For 

 the Bibliotheca Indica he edited 'the Kdvyddarca of £!ri Dandin with 

 an original commentary. He has left unpublished a Sanskrit Dictionary, 

 and four Cantps of a poetical life of Salivahana, from whom dates the 

 £aka era of India. 



