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PRELIMINARY NOTICE. 



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COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. 



Hon. Treasurer— W. W. HUNTER, Esq., CLE., L.L.D. 

 Hon. Secretary— U. B. BRODRIBB, Esq., B.A., 3 Brick Court, Temple, E.G. 

 PROFESSOR FAUSBOLL. 

 DR. OLDEN BERG, 

 DR, MORRIS. 

 M. EMILE SEN ART. 

 T. W. RHYS DAVIDS. 

 {With power to add workers to their number.') 



Bankers. 



LONDON JOINT STOCK BANK, Prince's Street, E.C. 



TT is proposed to start a Pali Text Society on the model 

 of the Early English Text Society, in order to render 

 accessible to students the rich stores of the earliest Buddhist 

 literature now lying unedited and practically unused in the 

 various MSS. scattered throughout the Public and Univer- 

 sity Libraries of Europe. 



The Society looks forward to publishing, within a no 

 very distant period, the whole of the texts of the Pali 

 Pitakas. Professor Fausboll having completed the Dham- 

 mapada, is already far advanced with his edition of the 

 Jataka Book, the longest of the texts of the Sutta Pitaka ; 

 and Dr. Oldenberg has the Vinaya Pitaka well in hand. 

 The remaining texts of the Sutta and Abhidhamma Pitakas 

 lend themselves easily to distribution among various editors. 

 The project has been most heartily welcomed by scholars 



