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5 the glorification of Siva, and is evidently written in the interest of the Saiva form of worship. 9. I have up to the present moment collected 237 MSS. One of them professes to be a Samhita of the Rig Character of MSS. Veda belonging to the Samkhayana school. purchased by me Dr. Alfred Hillebrandt of Breslau has shown, in his excellent edition of the Samkhayana Srauta Sutra, that the Samkhayana recension of the Rig Veda differed considerably from that of the Sakalas published by Max Muller. If the Samkhayana hymns given in his Index No. vi are found in this codex, the work will prove of great value to scholars. I have purchased a copy of Sayana's Commentary on the Rig Veda dated Sm. 1579 or 1523 A. D.; I have also obtained a fragment of a new commentary on the same work by Sarvavidyanidhanakavindracharyya, which has many new features. It is full of Nyaya terms current in the modern school of Navadvipa. This fragment with others was used by its owner to stop a hole in his thatched roof through which a cat used to come and disturb the peace of the room. They remained in this condition for a long time till they attracted the notice of my friend Vindhyesvari Prasad, who repaired the hole at his own expense and secured the manuscripts, which were perfectly useless to the owner. I have also secured a complete collection of the sikshas or works on Vedic pronunciation; they are all in verse and attributed to great sages like Yajnavalka, Vasishtha, Parasara, Katyayana and others, and are altogether 10 in number. I also secured a number of works on Vedic prayogas or ceremonial works. There is only one important Jaina work in my collection, and that is Munipaticharita, and a very large portion of a Sanskrit commentary on the Jaina astronomical work in Prakrit entitled Suryaprajnapti. I was greatly interested in the collection of Tantric works, and in ascertaining their relation to the Vedas. I purchased the entire collection of Ramkrishna Brahmachari and am still purchasing Tantric works; my object is to make this collection as complete as possible. 10. It is a matter of regret that no systematic attempt has yet been made to collect Tantric works, and no systematic treatise written to give to the world an idea of their contents. The problem of the relation of the Tantras to the Vedas occupied my attention for a long time, but up to the time of my journey to Benares I could find no clue to its solution. In Benares I found a MS., a commentary entitled Anuparama, on the Siva Tandava Tantra, in the possession of Pandit Vindhyesvari Prasad, which discusses this question at some length. But the solution given there is not at all satisfactory. The commentator begins with an explanation of the question why he attempts to annotate a work not founded on the Vedas; he enumerates the 18 Vidyas or branches of knowledge founded on the Vedas, and includes the Tantras in Itihasa; but then, says an objector, the Vernacular formula used by the Snake-charmers would also come under the same head, and would be considered as founded