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f In spite of all the false assumptions and the errors of which Vijiiaiia-bhiksu is undoubtedly guilty, his Commentary ... is after all the one and only work which instructs us concerning many particulars of the doctrines of what is, in my estimation, the most significant system of philosophy that India has produced.*— Editors Preface. Volume III.—Buddhism in Translations. By Henry Clarke Warren. 1890 8vo, buckram, xx + 520 pages, price $ 1 . 20 . Fourth issue, 1906 , royal Svo, price $ 1 . 20 . This is a series of extracts from Pali writings, done into English, and so arranged as to give a general idea of Ceylonese Buddhism. The work consists of over a hundred selections, comprised in five chapters of about one hundred pages each. Of these, chapters ii, iii, and iv are on Buddhist doctrine, and concern themselves respectively with the philosophical conceptions that underlie the Buddhist religious system, with the doctrine of Karma and rebirth, and with the scheme of salvation from misery. Chapter i gives the account of the previous existences of Gotama Buddha and of his life in the last existence up to the attainment of Buddhaship ; while the sections of chapter v are about Buddhist monastic life. Volume IV.—Raja-cekliara’s Karpura-manjari, a drama by the Indian poet Raja-^ekhara (about 900 a. d.): critically edited in the original Prakrit, with a glossarial index and an essay on the life and writings of the poet, by Dr. Sten Ivonow, of the University of Christiania, Norway; and translated into English with notes by Professor L an .man. 1901 . Royal Svo, buckram, xxviii + 2 S 9 pages, price $ 1 . 50 . Here for the first time in the history of Indian philology we have the text of a Prakrit play presented to us in strictly correct Prakrit. Dr. Konow is a pupil of Professor Pisehel of Berlin , whose Prakrit grammar has made his authority upon this subject of the very highest. The proofs have had the benefit of Professor Pischel’s revision. The importance of the play is primarily linguistie rather than literary. Volumes V and VI. — The Brhad-Devata, attributed to Qfiunaka, a summary of the deities and myths of the Rig-Veda : critically edited in the original Sanskrit with an introduction and seven appendices, and translated into English with critical and illustrative notes, by Arthur A. Macdonell, Boden Professor of Sanskrit in the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Balliol College. 1901 . Royal 8vo, buckram, xxxvi + 198 and xvi + 334 pages, price per volume SI . 50 . Volume V (or Part I) contains the introduction and text and appendices. Volume VI (or Part 11) contains the translation and notes. Tlie arrangement of the material in two volumes is such that the student can have the text of any given passage, together with the translation of that passage and the critical apparatus and the illustrative notes thereto appurtenant, all opened out before his eyes at one time, without having constantly to turn from one part of the volume to another, as is necessary with the usual arrangement of such matter. Volumes VII and VIII. — Atharva-Veda Samhita, translated, with a critical and exegetical commentary, by William Dwight Wiiitney, late Professor of Sanskrit in Yale University. Revised and brought nearer to completion and edited by Charles Rockwell Lanman, Professor of Sanskrit in Harvard University. 1905 . Superroyal 8vo, buckram, clxii -I- iv + 1016 ( = 1212) pages, price of the two volumes § 5 . 00 . This work includes, in the first place, critical notes upon the text, giving the various readings of tlie manuscripts, and not alone of those collated by Whitney in Europe, hut also of those of the apparatus used by S. P. Pandit in the great Bombay edition. Second, the readiugs of the Piiippalada or Cashmero version, furnished by the late Professor Roth. Further, notice of the corresponding passages in all the other Vedic texts, with report of the various readings. Further, the data of the Hindu scholiast respecting authorship, divinity, and meter of each verse. Also, references to the ancillary literature, especially to tlie well-edited Kau^ika and Vaitana Sutras, with account of the ritualistic use therein made of the hymns or parts of hymns, so far as this appears to cast any light upon their meaning. Also, extracts from the printed commentary. And, finally, a simple literal translation, with introduction and indices. Prefixed to the work proper is an elaborate critical and historical introduction. Volume IX. — The Little Clay Cart (Mrcchakatika), a Hindu drama attributed to King Shudraka, translated from the original Sanskrit and Prakrits into English prose and verse by Arthur William Ryder, Pli.D., Instructor in Sanskrit in Harvard University. 1905. Royal 8vo, buckram, xxx + 177 pages, price §1.50. In this volume. Dr. Ryder, passing by the more momentous themes of religion and philosophy, has attempted to show what the Indian genius, in its strength and in its weakness, could do in the field of literature pure and simple. Nowhere else in tlie hundreds of Sanskrit dramas do we find such variety and such drawing of character and sucli humor as in Tlie Little ('lay Cart. Volume X. — A Vedic Concordance : being an alphabetic index to every line of every stanza of the published Vedic literature, and to tlie liturgical formulas thereof, that is, an index to the Vedic mantras, together with an account of their variations in the different Vedie books. By Maurice Bloomfield, Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology in the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. 1906 . Royal 4 °, leather back, xxiv and 1078 ( = 1102 ) pages, price § 6 , 00 .