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ent works to the press to keep up our expenses to the amount stated 

 above. Accordingly I beg to propose the following, in addition to 

 those which are now in hand, for the consideration and approval of 

 the Philological Committee. 



" The works to which our attention should be first directed, according 

 to the Government letter, are the Vedas. Of these a Sanhita and 

 a Brahmana each, of the Rig and the White Yajurs, have already been 

 published in Europe, and a Sanhita and a B rah m ana of the Black 

 Yajurs are in a forward state in the Bibllotheca Indica ; the Brahmana 

 awaiting only an Index for completion. Of the Sama, Mr. Stevenson 

 has published a Sanhita, and of the Atharva, Drs. Both and Whitney 

 have likewise published a Sanhita, but no Brahmana of either of 

 those works has as yet been printed. I am of opinion, therefore, that 

 the Committee should first take up the Brahmanas of those Vedas. 



" According to Sayana Acharya eight Brahmanas of the Sama Veda 

 are still current,* and of them the Tandy a, otherwise called the Pancha- 

 vihsa Brahmana is the largest and most valuable. It embraces the 

 whole liturgy of the Sama Veda, and a great number of traditions 

 which cannot fail to be of interest to the oriental scholar and the Indian 

 historian. MSS. of this work are easily accessible ; the Society has 

 two good ones in its possession, and there are four in the Library of the 

 Sanskrit College of Calcutta, one of which is three hundred years 

 old. The Benares College has one, and I expect another from Pro-' 

 fessor Pickford of Madras. Three commentaries are likewise avail- 

 able ; and these, I believe, will suffice for a carefully collated standard 

 edition of the text and comment. Pandita A'nandachandra Vedanta- 

 vagis'a, the chief priest of the Brahmya Sabha, is willing to undertake 

 the work at the same rate at which he has lately edited the Asvalay- 

 ana Sutras for us, (viz., 1 Rupee per page), and I think him to be 

 fully qualified to do justice to it. 



u Of the Atharva Veda, the most important, and perhaps the only 

 extant, Brahmana is the Gopatha. Professer Kuhn of Berlin has 

 lately urged Mr. Whitley Stokes to exert his influence in getting 

 it printed, and Mr. W. Stokes has written to me, expressing his 

 earnest wish that the Society should have the needful done, if possible. 



* Vide my Introduction to the Chliandogya Upanishad, and Max Mailer's 

 Sanskrit Literature. 



