ORIGINAL ADVERTISEMENT.

THE Volumes now laid before the public comprise a selection from the several Essays, originally published by the Author in the Transactions of the learned Asiatic Societies, with the addition of four prefaces to works originally edited or translated by him. It is not his intention to carry the selection into a third volume.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

I. A Discourse read at a Meeting of the Royal Asiatic

Society of Great Britain and Ireland, on the 15th of

March, 1823. [From the Transactions of the Royal

Asiatic Society, vol. i. pp. xvii.-xxiii.].

II. On the Vedas, or Sacred Writings of the Hindus. [From

the Asiatic Researches, vol. viii. pp. 369-476]

III. On the Duties of a Faithful Hindu Widow. [From

the Asiatic Researches, vol. iv. pp. 209-219].

IV-VI. On the Religious Ceremonies of the Hindus, and

of the Brahmans especially. Essay I. [From the

Asiatic Researches, vol. v. pp. 345-368]

Essay II. [From the Asiatic Researches, vol. vii.

232-285]

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Essay III. [From the Asiatic Researches, vol. vii.

pp. 288-311].

VII. On the Philosophy of the Hindus. Part I. On the

Sankhya system. [From the Transactions of the

Royal Asiatic Society, vol. i. pp. 19-43]

Translation of the Sánkhya-káriká

. 217

VIII. Part II. On the Nyáya and Vaiseshika systems. [From

the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. i.

pp. 92-118]

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IX. Part III. On the Mímánsá. [From the Transactions

of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. i. pp. 439-461] . 319

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X. Part IV. On the Vedánta. [From the Transactions of

the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. ii. pp. 1-39] . . . 350

XI. Part V. On Indian Sectaries-the Jainas, Bauddhas,

Chárvákas and Lokáyatikas, Máheś waras and Páśu-

patas, Páncharátrás or Bhágavatas. [From the

Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. i.

pp. 549-579].

Appendices:

A. An Account of the Jaina Doctrines from the

Sarva-darśana-sangraha, by the Editor

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B. On the Twelve Nidánas, by R. C. Childers, Esq.. 453

C. On the Chárvákas, by the Editor.

456

XII. Preface to the Digest of Hindu Law on Contracts and

Successions, published at Calcutta in 1798 . . . . 461

XIII. Preface to the Translation of Two Treatises on the

Hindu Law of Inheritance, published at Calcutta

XIV. On Hindu Courts of Justice, with Appendix. [From

the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. ii.

XV. On Indian Weights and Measures. [From the Asiatic

Researches, vol. v. pp. 91-109]

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