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PREFACE. This volume contains Notices of 359 MSS. examined in Private Libraries in Bengal, Behar and at Benares. The MSS. belong to various branches of Sanskrit literature; an analysis of these works is given below:Vedas.-Bengal is not famous for its Vedic literature. But the present volume contains notices of a number of Vedic works chiefly from Benares. Aitareya-bhasya-visamapada-vyakhyanam (48), by an anonymous author, gives the explanation of difficult terms in the Aitareya Bhasya of Sayanacarya. Ukhasambharanakanda-bhasyam. The sixth book of Satapatha Brahmana, is called the Ukhasambharanakanda. No. 40 is a commentary on it by Sayana. Pitrmedha-Bhasyam (No. 159). Dr. Caland has published the Pitrmedha portions of the Apastamba sutras, the Hiranyakesi sutras, the Bharadvaja sutras. From the extracts here given, it is difficult to say to what sutra the bhasya belongs. Pratihara-sutra-bhasya (162) by Varadaraja, son of Vamanacarya, grandson of Ananta Narayana, belonging to the Usika gottra. The sutra belongs to the Samaveda. The author wrote a vrtti on the Arseyakalpa too. He consulted Brahmanas, Sutras, Nidanas, Upagranthas and their commentaries. Praisyadhyaya (177). This work belongs to the Rgveda. It contains four chapters: the first is called Praisyadhyaya, the second Nivitadhyaya, the third Kuntapadhyaya, and the fourth Puroyugadhyaya.. Ksudra-sutra (69) belongs to the Samaveda. See I.O. 45 B. Kusmandahoma or Kusmanda-mantra-vyakhya (61) is a commentary by Sayanacarya on the third, fourth, fifth and sixth anuvakas of the second prapathaka of the Taittiriya-