for two references, and to Prof.Cowell, Prof.Venis, and Mr.Kasinath B. Pathak, for one each. A special acknowledgment is made in each case in a foot-note or in the Notes at the end. I have appended an Index to the quotations (exclusive of those from Upanisads and the Gita which can always be obtained from my Concordance),and a second one to all the technical and useful terms. The latter list includes twelve nyayas, or maxims, all of which are explained in the Notes. It is much to be wished that editors of Sutras, of philosophical poems, and of metrical law books, would give us full Indices thereto; for in these degenerate times of uncultivated memories, such aids would be invaluable. Yet, to this day, we have no printed index to the Nyaya or Vaisesika Sutras, and it was only in 1889 and 1891 that Dr.Garbe and Mr.M.C.Apté gave us those to the Sankhya and Vedanta aphorisms respectively. It is matter for congratulation that Mr Apte is adding an Index to the Anandasrama edition of Suresvara's bulky work the Brihadaranyakavartika. This will increase its value immensely.
In a third appendix will be found a list of the works cited by our three authors, so as to exhibit at a glance the authorities on which they chiefly relied. Ramatirtha, it will be seen, made large use of writings of the highest class; and his commentary, which contains no less than 428 extracts, is a much more scholarly production than that of Nrisimhasarasvati. In some parts, however, it is wearisomely prolix. In the valuable preface to his edition of the Vamsabrahmana, Dr. Burnell says--"Many (if not most) of Sayana's quotations are what may be called traditional, and have been taken by him from the works of predecessors, not from original texts, and even in cases where he might have referred to the original." This is true, to some extent, of Ramatirtha also; and, in the Notes, I have pointed out the probable sources of not a few of his quotations. Besides the present work he is the author of a commentary on Sankara's Upadesasahasri, and also of one on the Sanksepa
