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portions of 9 different works, and three large and important works have been 
completed. Of the works published, one is an English translation from the 
Sanskrit, five in Sanskrit, and three in Persian. 
The translation above referred to is an elegant and most accurate ren¬ 
dering of the Aphorisms of Sandilya with the commentary of Sivapnesvara. 
The Society is indebted for it to Professor E. B. Cowell. The work is 
devoted to the Hindu doctrine of faith, and forms the text-book of the 
Bhakti system, which appears in its most developed form in the Bhagavata 
Purana, and in the commentary of Bamanuja on the Vedanta aphorisms of 
Vyasa. In many of its salient points it is closely related to the doctrine 
of the Sufis. The cardinal principle which the author of the work upholds 
is, that “ knowledge is only the hand-maid of faith and not, as contended by 
the Hindu gnostics, the only thing needful.” The Sanskrit text was origi¬ 
nally undertaken by the late Dr. Ballantyne, and on his retirement from 
India when half of the work had been printed, was completed for the 
Society by Mr. Griffith, in 1861. 
Of the Sanskrit works, the most important is the Sanhita of the Sama 
Veda. It comprises four different works, namely, Gramageya Gana, the 
Uha Gana, Uhya Gana and Aranya Gana. These include all the hymns of 
the Sama Veda set to music. Inasmuch, however, as the hymns with their 
musical notations were perfectly unintelligible, the words of the hymns 
were early separated into a distinct compilation called “ Archika; or the 
Bichas of the Big Veda, occurring in the Sama Veda”. This last was com¬ 
mented upon by Sayana. A recension of this compilation was published by 
the Oriental Translation Fund of London, in 1842, and another by Dr. Benfey 
in 1848. Both appeared under the name of the Sanhita of the Sama Veda ; 
hut as they did not include those peculiarities which convert Big verses 
into Sama hymns, they were, in the form in which they appeared, not Samas 
hut Big verses. The Society undertook, in 1870, an edition of the Sama 
hymns, and it has now been completed in 5 volumes. The Big collection has 
been adopted as the basis, and to every verse of it have been added all the 
various transformations which it has undergone in changing from the Big 
to the Sama,—including all the musioal notations, as also the commentary 
of Sayana on the text. Thus practically the Society’s edition comprises six 
different works, namely, the Archika, the four Ganas and the commentary of 
Sayaiia, and the hulk of the edition has necessarily been greatly increased 
thereby ; hut it is hoped that it will afford to oriental scholars the most 
complete edition of the Sama Sanhita. The plan adopted has in some places 
disturbed the order in which the Ganas appear in their respective collec¬ 
tions ; hut this was unavoidable. To remedy the defect full indexes have 
been supplied at the beginning of each volume. The Council have great 
