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cording to the ordinance of the Rig Veda. The text is explained 

 by a running commentary by Garganarayana, and the editor has 

 appended to it an elaborate Index to the Sutras, alphabetically ar- 

 ranged. A short preface in Sanskrit describes the MSS. used 

 in preparing the text for the press. Of the Mimdnsd about one 

 half has been printed, and the forthcoming fasciculus will complete 

 the first volume. Protracted illness has prevented Babu Bajen- 

 dralala Mitra from completing his edition of the Tattiriya Brdh- 

 mana and the Ar any oka. The texts-have, however, all been printed 

 and the necessary indexes and prefaces, ready in manuscript, 

 will, it is hoped, be published in course of the current year. 



Considerable progress has likewise been made in the collection 

 of MSS. and the collation of texts for the publication of several 

 new works. Professor Eamamaya Tarkaratna has compiled an 

 edition of the Nrisinlia Tapani with * the commentary of Sanhara 

 Achdryya, after careful collation of five different codices ; and Pan- 

 dita Haramohun Vidyabhushana has prepared a text of the Gopdla 

 Tapani with the commentary of Narayana after a comparison of 

 seven different MSS. Carefully collated texts of the Agni Para- 

 na, the Gopatha Brdhmana of the Atharva Veda, the Taittiriya Pra- 

 tis.ikhya, and the Gobhila and the Ldtydyana Sutras of the Sama 

 Veda have also been prepared and will immediately be sent to 

 press. Of the two Tapanis several sheets have already been 

 printed. 



In February last the Government of Bengal requested the Socie- 

 ty to undertake the task of collecting information regarding Sans- 

 krit MSS., extant in the country, and the scheme thereupon sug- 

 gested by the Philological Committee was finally sanctioned on the 

 23rd of June following. Owing, however, to certain unavoidable 

 difficulties, no steps were taken to carry out the scheme until the be- 

 ginning of September when a pandita was deputed to report on the 

 Library of the Raja of Krishnagar. The pandita has since submi 

 returns of 540 MSS. not included in the Society's collection. Babu 

 Rajendralala Mitra, during his late sojourn in Benares, has also 



dned several private collections, containing altogether upwi 

 of six thousand MSS., from which he obtained the loan of some 

 works to be copied for Government. His notes of rare works in those 



