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Pundit in the Shanfcritand Bengalee Lan- 
guages in the College of Fort William. 
2. The Hiftery of Rajah Prita Padityo, 
'tranflated into the Mahratta Language, 
by Vipya Natu, Head Mahratta Pun- 
dit m the College of Fort William. 
PREPARING FOR THE PRESS. 
A View of the Manners and Cuftoms 
of the Hindoos, as:they exift at the prefent 
Time; an ‘whickfmany popular Practices 
are contrat ed 8h the ancient. Obier- 
vances preferibed by the Vedas; an ori- 
ginal Work in’ fhe Bengalee Language, 
eompofed by Maitoonjoy Vipya 
LUNKaR, Read Pundit in the Shanferit 
and Benga'ee Languages in the College of 
Fort William. 
The Afiat ¥ Society has united with 
the College of Fort William im granting 
an annual fi; pend (by equal contribution, ) 
ef four hundred and filty pounds fterling 
to the Protefiant M-ffionaries in Bengal, 
towards defraying tne expence of publi ih- 
ing the original text of ‘the mof ancient 
Shanfcrit writings, aid particularly of th 
Vedas, with an Englifh rranflation. 
Phe Hindaoltance: Dictio nary, 10 long 
expected by Oriental fudents, 1s at leng 
ready to be put to preis. Itc will be aa 
ed by Dr. WILLIAM HuNTER, and En- 
fen WiLLSAM MacDOUGALL, Affiftant 
Hindoofanee Profefior in the College of 
Fort William. This work will compote 
two volumes quarto, and will be publifhed 
under the patronage of the College. 
A Manu(cript in the Mahratta lan- 
guage has been communicated to the Col- 
lese by Captain WiLL1AM HaMixTOn, 
of the Bengal Eftablithment, Perfian In- 
terpreter to the Subfdiary Force at Peo- 
na, with a tranflation by the fame Gen- 
tleman. It contains an bittorical account 
ef the events which occurtcd during the 
adminiftration of the prefent Peifhwa’s 
immediate predeceffcrs ; compeled in the 
pureft ftyle of the Mahbratias, and compil- 
ed from authentic documents, by Hun- 
MUNT Rao JuGc Deo. This work is il- 
Judrated with Notes by Captain Hamil- 
ton. 
Captain CHarLes Srewarr, Afliit- 
ant Perfian Profefor, has commenced the 
formation of a Deicriptive Catalogue of 
the Oriental Books and Manuicripts be- 
lunging to Tippoo’s Library m the Col- 
leze ot Fort William. In the progrefs of 
his refearches be has difcovered in that li 
brary a valusble work in the Pevfian lan- 
guage, referred to by Dow and Orme as 
neceilary for the illuftration of an im- 
eeige perod in Eaitera hiftery, and 
which was fought for in India by thete 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
[April f; 
hiftorians without fuccefs. It is the Hif- 
tery of the Emperor Aurungzebe from the 
rith Year of his Reign to his Death, (an 
interval of forty years,) written by the 
learned and authentic MAHOMMUD Saki, 
being a continuation of Mahommud Ka- 
zim’s Hiitery of the firftt Ten Years of 
that Prince. See Notes to Orme’s Hittori- 
cal Fragments of the Mogul Empire of 
the Mahrattas. 
The ancient Infcriptions and valuable 
Manulcripts in the Carnata, Tclinga, and 
other languages, ccllef&ted in Mytfore by 
Doctor Francis BUCHANAN, whillt em. 
ployed in inveftigating the natura] hiftory 
of that country, have been committed to 
Mr. Carey, teacher of the Shanfcrit, 
Bengalee, and Mahratta languages in the 
College of Fort William, for the purpofe 
of being tranflated into Englifh under his 
fuperintendance. Amongft thefe Manu- 
fcripts has been founda Hiftory of the firft 
Arrival of the Portuguefein India, by a 
contemporary Hindoo writer: alfoa Hif- 
tory of the Rajahs of Myfore. 
The Rev. Dir. CLAaUDIUS BUCHANAN, 
Vice-Provoft cf the College of Fort 
Wiliam, is about to proceed to Cochin cn 
the coat of Malabar, for the purpofe of 
examining the aneient Hebrew Mannu- 
{cripts preferved in the fynagogue of the 
Jews at that place. The Manutfcripts 
are reprefented to be of a very high anti- 
quity, being fuppofed to contain that por- 
tion of the Scriptures whch was ‘written 
before the firft difperfion of the Jews. A 
collation of am with the European co- 
pics has been Jong defired by the learned. 
Another object of Dr. Buchanan's miffion 
will be, to ingu're into the fate of the na- 
tive Chrifian churches in the proviaces of 
Travancore and Malabar ; particularly of 
the thirty-five congregations denominated 
by the Roman Catholies the {chiimatie 
churches. Thefe Chriftians refufe com. 
munion with the Romifh church, and ad. 
here to the fimple ritual of an early age. 
They are noticed in hiftory as early as the 
fourth century, and are fuppofed to have 
emigrated fiom Syria and Chaidea. At 
this day the Syro-Chaldaic ianguage is 
ufed in their churches, and their li:urgy 
is compofed in that language and charac- 
ter. Agreeably to iaftruttions received 
trom the ecclefiaftical authorities at home, 
a report is te be made on the conftitution 
and doétrine of thefe churches, with a 
view to afcertain how far it may be the 
duiy of the Enghth church to recognize 
the Chriftians of Malabar, now that they 
have become fubjeéts of the Britith Em- 
pile. 
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