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 PUNDITS AND MUNSIS 208 two are original works and _ two translations from Sanscrit. :— 1 Batri& Siimnhasan, 1802. 2 Hitopade’, 1808. 2nd Kd. 1814. 3rd Ed. 1821. 3 Rajabalz, 1808. - 4 Prabodh Chandrika, 1813. Batrig Simhasan is a lose translation — in plain simple Bengali of a very popular and well-known eT Sanserit work which 15 some- times supposed to be of Buddhistie origin, sometimes attributed to no less a writer than Kalidasa.' The title literally means means the //irly-two thrones but it should be rather the ¢hirty-(wo ‘mages of Bikramaditya’s Batris Simhasan, all the scholarship and sincerity of an orthodox pundit, but at the same time it is marked by a deplorable tone of violence and personal rancour. ’ The first edition (which is in the Imperial Library, Calentta) bears 100৪ 19119 17)£ 11016-1)98৮ :- বত্রিশ সিংহ।সন। সংগ্রহ ভাষাতে । মৃত্যুঞ্জয় শর্ণ। ক্রিয়তে। প্রীরা মপুরে ছাপ! হইল । ১৮*২। 70. 210. The copy in the British Museum Library bears the following title-page; বত্রিশ সিংহাসন। Tyas শল্্ণ! ক্রিয়তে | ১৮৯৮। Roebuck, op. cit. having apparently seen this edition gives 1808 as the date of its first publication; and this has been the usual date given by those who follow him (e.g. Long, Rim-gati Nydyaratna etc.) But Buchanan, op. cit. in 1805 mentions this publication at p. 222, though he gives no exact date. The title-page of the London reprint says: শ্রীবিক্রম!দিত্যের বত্রিশ পুত্তলিক। সিংহাসন সংগ্রহ । বাঙ্গাল! ভাষাতে । | Aggies sie afer aa মহানগরেতে চাপ! হইল 1 ১৮১৬। 11776 69101078177 10106. 151)%7৮ 01 0176 13087৭ of Examiners (London reprint) slso bears 1816 as the date of publication. The Bahgabasi reprint is from the latter edition but some alterations in spelling ete., make the book less valuable to the student. Similar remarks apply to its edition of Prabodh-chandrika and Rajabali. There was a Sriraimpor reprint in 1818, as ia evident from the entry in the Catalogue of the Calcutta Public Library (1898) and another reprint as late as 1884 a8 the copy in the Sahitya Parisat Library and entry im the Catalogue of Bengali