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Rh also engaged on a commentary illustrative of the Nyaya doctrine.

Krishnamohana Vidyabhushana, dwelling at Mahtab in the Balkrishna thana, claims to have written a commentary on Alankara Kaustubha, a work on rhetoric, containing 300 leaves or 600 pages; and Bayu Duta, a work of general literature in verse, containing 10 or 12 leaves.

The most voluminous native author I have met with is Raghunandana Goswami, dwelling at Maro in the Potna thana. The following is an enumeration of his works:—

1. A commentary on the Chandomanjari, a treatise on prosody, so framed as to express the praises of Krishna.

2. A commentary on Santi Sataka, a work on abstraction from the world.

3. Sadachara Nirnaya a compilation from the laws on the Vaishnava ritual, containing 140 leaves or 280 pages in prose and verse; a copy is in my possession.

4. Dhatu Dipa, a metrical explanation of Sanscrit roots in the order of the ten conjugations, containing 500 slokas.

5. Aunadika Kosha, a metrical dictionary of works comprising the Unadi postifixes in two parts, of which one contains words having more meanings than one, and the other words of only one meaning, 300 slokas.

6. Rogarnava Tarini, a compilation from various medical works on the treatment of disease, containing 174 leaves or 348 pages, part being in verse, extending to 6,000 slokas.

7. Arishta Nirupana, a description of the various signs or symptoms of approaching death, a compilation in verse of 400 slokas, contained in 14 leaves or 28 pages.

8. Sarira Vivritti, a treatise on the progress of gestation and on the seats in the human body of the various humours, &c., in prose and verse, comprised in 22 leaves or 44 pages.

9. Lekha Darpana, on letter writing, principally in prose, 15 leaves or 30 pages.

10. Dwaita Siddhanta Dipika, a defence of the distinction between the human and divine spirits in opposition to pantheism, contained in 71 leaves or 142 pages.

11. Hariharastotra, the praises of Vishnu and Siva, in nine slokas, so composed that every sloka has two senses,—of which one is applicable to Vishnu and the other to Siva; a copy is in my possession.