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V 6. A commentary on the Tattva-pradipika. 7. Ditto on the Bheda-dhikkara. 8. Brahma-sutra-samanjasa-vritti. 9. Ramanuja's Vedartha-sangraha. 10. Visishtadvaitopanyasa. 11. Tattva-traya. 12. Prapannamrta. 13. Aniruddha's commentary on the Sankhya Sutra. 14. Mahadeva's ditto. 15. Narayana's ditto on the Yoga aphorisms. 16. Yoga-sutra-maniprabha-viitti. 17. Devala Smriti. 18. Vriddha-satatapa Smriti. 19. Yajur-vidhana. 20. Prakrita-pingala-prakasa. 21. Ditto with the commentary of Chandrasekhara. 22. Setubandha (672 years old). The Gossains of Santipur are noted for their learning and for the interest they have evinced during the last three centuries in Sanskrit literature, and their collections have also been examined, as also those of Ramayadava Chudamani, Bhuvanesvara Tarkalankara, Ramadhana Vidyavagisa and Radhikaprasada Gosvami, and notices secured of 48 rare codices. In the village of Simla, close by Santipur, the Bhattacharyas have a considerable collection of MSS. including about a hundred Tantras. Of these 15 have been noticed. Birabhuma. 12. From Santipur the Pandit proceeded to Birabhuma where, in the house of Raja Ramaranjana Chakravarti, of Hitampur, he found 25 codices. These are daily worshipped with offerings of flowers, tulsi leaves, and sandal paste, but the Raja allowed them to be opened by the Pandit, who took notices of the contents of 8 of them. Close by Hitampur, in the village of Debrajpur, one Mahesa Bhattacharya has a small collection of 60 MSS., out of which 7 have been noticed. Proceeding thence to Kenduli, the Pandit found a collection of about 200 MSS. in the monastery of Jayadeva. Most of the works were, however, in the Bengali language, and of little interest. They were found in an old chest in a neglected hut. Only 12 codices were deemed worthy of notice. Close by this