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MSS. of the work, however, are very scarce. The Society has 

 an only copy, and that a very imperfect one ; and I have lately got 

 another from Benares, but that also is incomplete. The work be- 

 sides is very difficult to understand, and no editor in Calcutta, that 

 I know of, can do justice to it without the aid of a commentary. It 

 would be necessary, therefore, should the Committee resolve upon 

 printing it, not only to procure more MSS. of the text, but also 

 codices of two or three commentaries. Mr. Bnrnell of the Madras 

 Civil Service once wrote to me, that he had a copy of the commentary, 

 but as he is now in Europe, I cannot get the loan of it. There is 

 one, however, in the library of the old Madras College, and this may 

 be obtained through the Director of Public Instruction at Madras, 

 or the Secretary to the Madras Government. 



" As sequels to the Brahmanas, the Upanishads come next in order. 

 According to the most recent calculations, there are between 130 and 

 140 of them still extant, of which MSS. between 70 or 80 only, are 

 accessible in Calcutta. When Dara Shikoh prepared his Persian trans- 

 lation, he could obtain only 60, and Dupetron, in the last century, got 

 no more. The Society has published only 12 out of the number 

 now available, and the remainder therefore may be sent to press to 

 advantage. Professer Max Muller strongly recommended them in a 

 letter published in the Journal for 1862 ; and as they are mostly 

 very small, not more than 8 or 10 to 20 pages in extent, they are 

 not likely to occupy more than two fasciculi of the Biblotheca, nor 

 cost at the outside more than 7 to 8 hundred rupees. Professor Iiama- 

 maya S 'iromani of the Calcutta Sanskrit College is willing to edit 

 them at the usual rate. 



" Next to the Vedas stand the Sutras, and of them I have to propose 

 two, viz. the Lathy ay ana and the Gobhila-grihya Siitras of the Sama 

 Veda. They are both founded on the Tandya Brahmana, and for 

 antiquity and interest stand high in rank. MSS. of both are easily 

 accessible, and they may be at once taken up. Pandita Chandrakanta 

 Tarkalankara of Mymensing has offered to edit the last, and I would 

 suggest that his offer be accepted. He is a profound Sanskrit scholar, 

 and will not fail to acquit himself creditably in the undertaking. 

 The work will fill just one fasciculus, and cost about 250 Bs. 



* As the Lathy ay ana Sutra is a sort of exegesis of the Tandya 



