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1862.] Notes of a trip from Simla to the Spiti Valley. 
Here with an infant joyful sponsors come, 
Then bear the new-made Christian to its home ; 
A few short years, and we behold him stand 
To ask a blessing with his bride in hand; 
A few still, seeming shorter, and we hear 
His widow weeping over her husband’s bier ; 
Thus, as the months succeed, shall infants take 
Their names, while parents them and us forsake; 
Thus brides again and bridegrooms blithe shall kneel 
By love or law compelled their vows to seal; 
Ere I again or one like me explore 
These simple annals of the village poor.” 
On tlie whole, though reaching Simla proved a grateful change to 
the hard fare and vicissitudes of hill travelling, I did not now expe¬ 
rience the same buoyant feelings of pleasure as on my first visit in 
early summer, and it was with less regret, therefore, that I commen¬ 
ced immediate preparations for quitting pleasant friends and a fine cli¬ 
mate and once more devoting myself to routine pursuits in the plains. 
Notices oe works connected with Sanskrit Literature. 
The Bhdmini Vildsa of Panditardja Jaganndtha , edited by Pandit 
Jadu Nath Tarkaratna. 
Calcutta, 1862. 
This is an edition of one of the modern Sanskrit poets, whose 
works are very scarce and consequently but little known. Like the 
modern Latin poets of Europe, Panditaraja Jagannath has hut a 
reflected beauty,—he feels only at second hand ; still he has consi¬ 
derable elegance of style and occasionally even some originality of 
thought. Dr. Aufrecht, in his Catalogue, would fix his date as late 
as the emperor Akber, hut we know not on what grounds. The only 
personal allusion in the poems themselves is in the last stanza hut 
one. 
“ I have read all the Sastras and performed all the necessary rites, 
and my early days were spent under the branch of the hand of 
Dehli’s lord, but now I have changed my dwelling place and worship 
Hari in Mathura; I have achieved all superhuman tasks, the orna¬ 
ment of the assembly of pre-eminent pandits.” 
