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[No. 2, 
Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 
N. T. Davey, Esq. ; Hon’ble Samuel Laing ; C. Boulnois, Esq. ; 
Charles Barnes, Esq.; Hon’ble H. B. Devereux ; J. J. Gray, Esq., 
(re-elected.) 
The following gentlemen were named for ballot at the next meet- 
ing : 
Rev. T. H. Burn, proposed by Rev. F. F. Mazzuchelli, and second- 
ed by Mr. Cowell. 
Major P. S. Lumsden, Assistant Quarter Master General of the 
Army, proposed by Major Thuillier, and seconded by Colonel Sir A. 
S. Waugh. 
Report from tiie Council. 
The Council beg to recommend that the following works be pub- 
lished in the New Series of the Bib. Indica. 
1. Pandit Mohesehandra Nyayaratna proposes to edit from three 
MSS., an edition of the S'anlcara Dig Yijaya by Madhava A'charya. 
This work is one of the authorities for a little known but deeply in- 
teresting period in Hindu history. We have already printed* Madhava 
* Some doubts have been expressed as to the identity of the Madhava, the 
author of the S'anlcara-dig-vijaya, with the celebrated vaidie and philosophic 
scholiast of the 14th century. The style is undoubtedly different to that of 
Madhavacharya’s other works, but the following facts seem to establish the 
identity of the two authors. 
1. In the opening line of the Digvijaya, the author addresses the supremo 
Being, whom he identifies with his guru Vidyalirtha , 
*TTT! ^ II 
This couplet throws light upon the opening lines of Madhavacharya’s commen- 
tary on the Rig and Taittirfya Sanhitas. 
W in i 
(Madhava-Sayana seems to have had many gurus, as his Sarva-dars'ana san- 
graha is dedicated to Vishnu Sarvajna , while in the Panchadas'i he calls his guru 
S’anlcarctuanda. Vidyatirtha, however, is mentioned in the Nyaya-mala-vistara). 
2. There is in the library of the Sehore School a copy of a commentary on 
the Madhaviya Digvijaya, written by one Dhanapati Mis'ro, in the samvat year 
1855. By the kindness of F. E. Hall, Esq. we have received a copy of the open- 
ing pages. The following is the beginning of his commentary on the first words 
quoted above, where he expressly attributes the work to Madliavacharya. 
