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b. Lathyayana Sutra with commentaries, to be edited by the same. 



c. The smaller Upanishads with connimentaries, to be edited by 

 Pandita Ramahmaya S'iromani. 



d. Gobhila Sutra with commentaries, to be edited by Pandita 

 Ohandrakanta Tarkalankara. 



e. Vayu Purana, to be edited by Babu Pratapachandra Ghosha, 

 /. Agni Purana. 



And that MSS. of the commentaries of the Gopatha Brahmana of the 

 Atharva Veda be solicited from the Madras College Library through 

 the Director of Public Instruction, Madras, and that other measures be 

 taken to procure the MSS. of Vriddha Parasara Smriti and Vyavahara 

 Tilaka. 



Babu Rajendralala Mitra writes on the subject, as follows : — 



" Owing to the departure of Mr. Gowell from this country, the 

 death of our late indefatigable editors, Panditas Ramanarayana Vidya- 

 ratna and Premachanda Vidyavagis 'a, and some other causes, the 

 Sanskrit department of the Bibliotheca Indica has been, for the last 

 three years, progressing very slowly, and the expense per annum, 

 instead of coming up to half the amount of the annual grant of Rs. 

 6000, has seldom exceeded Rs. 2,000. It is desirable therefore, that 

 measures should be taken to give a fresh impetus to the department, 

 by the employment of a body of new editors, and the commencement 

 of a new series of works. This is the more necessary, as the recent 

 Government grant of Rs. 3,000 per annum, renders it obligatory on 

 us, to send such a number of works to press as will involve an expen- 

 diture of at least five to six thousand Rupees a year. 



" The works now in the press, with three exceptions,* are all 

 near completion, and the excepted works, owing to their na- 

 ture and the scant leisure of the editors, are not likely to be 

 printed very rapidly, nor cost more than Rs. 1000 a year. Indeed, 

 as a general rule, Sanskrit editors, whether European or Indian, have 

 not, within the last ten years, brought out more than 2 to 3 fas- 

 ciculi of the Bibliotheca Indica a year, and as each fasciculus, at an aver- 

 age, costs about Rs, 300, it will be necessary to send at least ten differ- 



* Taittiriya Sanhita, edited by Professor Mahes'achandra Nyayaratna. 

 Mhnansa Darsana, do. do. 

 Kamandakfy a commentary, edited by Pandita Jaganmohana Tarkalankara. 



