on the Sanskrit Manuscripts in Madras. 75 



14. Sankalpa suryddayam (read suryodaya) by Vedanta- 

 chSrya II, 359 and tika I, 13, II, 361. 



15. Soma vallica yaga*nanta Prahasana-n&tacam (sic) by 

 Dindima Cavi I, p. 82, entitled also Soma vali prahasyanam 

 (read valli prahasanam) by Dindima Cavi otherwise known 

 as Arana giri na"t'ha (?) I, 334. 



16. Subhadra-dhananjaya nataca by Rama cavi I, p. 81 



17. Vasanta tilakam bhana. By Varadacharya I, 87, 223, 

 333, II, 363, 364. 



18. Vencatesa prahasnam (leg. prahasanam) II, 363. 



Copies of some of these plays are known to exist else- 

 where. The Prasanna-raghava is found in the libraries of 

 Oxford and Calcutta, aa well as the Nagananda and Sam- 

 kalpa suryadaya. This play, as well as the Narakasura 

 badha, the Vasantatilaka, Mukundananda and Micrabha- 

 na, is known also in the Mahratta country and Gujerath. 

 A particular interest is attached to the Laxmisvayamvara, as 

 we are told in the Vikramorvac$ and elsewhere, that the 

 first Hindu drama composed by Bharata and acted in Indra's 

 heaven bore this name. It would be interesting to learn if 

 this Laxmi-svayamvara of Qrinivasa has any claim to anti- 

 quity and can have given rise to this legend. 



Not less interesting than the plays is the collection of gram- 

 matical works. Besides a good assortment of the more com- 

 mon books, it appears to contain one new work, or as it would 

 seem, a number of fragments, of the grammar of ^akatayana. 

 This grammarian is older than the other writers on gram- 

 matical subjects, whose works are known at present. He 

 is quoted in the Praticakhyas, in Yaska's Nirukta and in 

 Panini's grammar. It is evident that the recovery of his 

 writings would carry us at least one step further in the know- 

 ledge of the history of Indian grammar. It would give us 



