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2 time. Besides Azimgunge he visited Santipur, Guptipara, Mirhata, and Begune. While detained at head-quarters, he prepared notices of MSS. purchased for the Government of India and deposited at the Asiatic Society's rooms. He is now working at Dacca, visiting the various places in the purgannah of Vikrampur, in which was situated the last Hindu capital of Bengal and which is a well-known seat of Sanskrit learning, the foremost in East Bengal. The places visited in the Pargana Vikrampur are;-Baddanagar Subhadhya, Tantar, Ghataker-kola, Jivasara, Teghare, Sakta, Raninagar Bharakor, Bibandi Konda, Noadda, and Ganpara. The new travelling Pan- dit is working at Mymensingh, and during the last six months, notes have been collected of a large number of manuscripts examined. I personally went to both these districts with the view of superintending the work of the Pandits and of interesting influential persons in my work: and I have the satisfaction to report that at both these places great interest was evinced by the zamindars, pleaders, pandits and the officers of the Education Department. The Pandits often have to travel in the interior of the district where no conveyances worth the name are procurable, and it would be impossible for them to travel without the help of the local gentry, as they have to travel without previous preparation. I should take this opportunity of publicly acknowledging my obligations to Babu Devendra Kisor Acharyya Chaudhuri and Hara Chandra Chaudhuri, enlightened zamindars of Muktagachha and Sherpur, and to that distinguished literary man Babu Kaliprasanna Ghosh, who enjoys wide celebrity as a Bengali writer. As manager of the Bhawal Raj, he has done, and is in a position to do, eminent services in facilitating the search for MSS. in the District of Dacca. In the Eastern districts, the Pandit need not be guided by popular rumour as to the places where Sanskrit MSS. are to be found, as was the case in Tirhoot and other places, because the educated classes in the Eastern districts take great interest in Sanskrit learning and know the places where the tcls are and where MSS. are likely to be found. 5. In a math at Ramna in the Suburbs of Dacca some manuscripts written in Devnagari character were The Character of found; with the exception of these, all the MSS . in East Bengal. MSS. in East Bengal are written in Bengali character. They treat principally of tantric ceremonies. Kamakhya in Assam has justly been described by the late Raja Rajendralala Mitra as the capital of Sakti worship in India. The nearer one goes to that place one meets with works of Tantric literature in larger and larger numbers. In the Eastern districts the higher classes are almost invariably tantriks, and in the family of Babu Tarakisor Ray, the Deputy Inspector of Schools, Dacca, were found 25 tantric codices which had never before been known to the learned world. I myself examined the collection in company with my Pandit, and as I had Aufrecht's Catalogus Catalogorum with me, I could plainly see that those MSS. were not mentioned in it.