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 80 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF BENGALI BOOKS. Bhattachergea Lahshmi Charitra, 1st ed., 1820, 1842, rules from the Padma Purana, for winning the favor of Lakshmi, the goddess of luck. Witticism, Kautak Bilas, 1849, 7 as, told at Kishnaghur by Bharat Chandra, for the amusement of the Raja of Nuddea, clever, but indecent, an account of the Raja and his buffon, Gopal, of Kirti Bas, the book says the Raja was born on earth, for having violated a women in hea- ven. WOMEN, evil deeds of, Stri Durachar, 1840, a king of Ujeyn asks Kali Das to give him an account of woman's faults. WIDOW RE-MARRIAGE, Bidkabd [Bibdha Nishddh 1846, pp. 28. Advocates Sati, reckons those widows who re-marry as beasts and deserving death. WORSHIP of the Goddess Durga Sha&ti Santishini, 1832, pp. 30, with a picture of the goddess, mounted on a cat. 337. (S. B.) ATONEMENTS, Hindu, for venial sins, Karma Bipak, 1st ed., 1820, Ser. P. Jy. A., 1855, pp. 61, 4 as. various sins : and special diseases as the result of special sins. 338. BENGALI Language, Discourse on, Jyanopadesk, by I. C. Chatturjea, 1853, pp. 14, 1 an. On the importance of studying Bengali Grammar. 339. INSTRUCTION for Boys, by Bani Madhav Chatterjea, 1854, pp. 100. Moral instruction with fables or anecdotes in illustration. 340. (S. B.) CASTES, account of the origin of, JaH Mala, J, R., 1850, pp. 22, a curious work on the Mythological rise of castes, why some of them were degraded. 341. (S. T.) CASTE refuted by a Buddhist ; Bqfra Suchi, composed in Sanskrit and tr. into English by B.Hodgson. Shows great knowledge of Hinduism and subtlety of reason- ing: an edition was published in 1842, by W. Morton, with notes and an English translation. 342. CHARMS, Gayatri, 2nd ed., 1849, pp. 24. A Mantra or charm whispered into the ear of every young Brahman when consecrated to the priesthood to the following effect. " We meditate on that excellent light of the divine sun, may he illuminate our minds." 343. (S. B.) CHIROMANCY, the Hindu fortune- tellers' guide, Samudrik, pp. 48, b. b., 1855, 2 as. Gives the fortunes predicted by the various lines on the hand, forehead, arms, loins, fect, navel, breast. Shews various diseases from