वासवदत्ता (महाकवि सुबन्धु - श्लेष-प्रधान शास्त्रीय गद्यकाव्य सान्वय सटीक)

3 Volume 8. Vāsavadattā, a Sanskrit Romance by Subandhu. Translated, with an introduction and notes, by LOUIS H. GRAY, Ph.D. New York, 1913. Cloth, 8vo, pp. xiii + 214, $1.50 net This romance is one of the best examples of the artificial and ornate style in Sanskrit prose. Besides the translation, the volume will also contain the transliterated text of the South Indian recension, which differs to a noteworthy degree from that of Hall, and a bibliography. The relation of the Sanskrit romance to the Occidental, especially the Greek, will be discussed in the introduction, and the notes will include parallels of incident in modern Indian and other folk-tales, as well as points of resemblance with other Sanskrit romances. VOLUMES IN PREPARATION In addition to the Sanskrit Grammar for Beginners, the fol- lowing volumes are also in preparation : The Sanskrit Poems of Mayūra, edited with a translation and notes and an introduction, together with Bāṇa's Caṇḍīśataka and Mānatunga's Bhaktāmarastotra, by G. PAYN QUACKENBOS, A.M., Tutor in Latin, College of the City of New York. This volume presents the works of a Sanskrit poet of the seventh century. Besides the Sūryaśataka it includes also the Mayūrāṣṭaka, printed for the first time from the unique birch-bark MS. in the Tübingen University Library. The introduction gives an account of Mayūra's life and works, and the appendixes will contain the text and translation of the supposedly rival poems by Bāṇa and Mānatunga. Priyadarśikā, a Hindu Drama ascribed to King Harsha. Trans- lated from the Sanskrit and Prakrit by G. K. NARIMAN and A. V. WILLIAMS JACKSON, with notes and an introduction by the latter. This romantic drama on the adventures of a lost princess was supposedly written by Harsha, king of Northern India in the seventh century, and is now to be published for the first time in English translation. Besides giving an account of the life and times of the author, the introduction will deal also with the literary, linguistic, and archaeological aspects of the play.