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Important Oriental journals are: *Indian Antiquary*, Bombay; *Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft*, Leipsic; *Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society*, London (with a Bengal branch at Calcutta and another at Bombay); *Journal Asiatique*, Paris; *Vienna Oriental Journal*, Vienna; *Journal of the American Oriental Society*, New Haven, Conn. On the origin of Indian writing (pp. 14–20), see Bühler, *Indische Palæographie*, Strasburg, 1896, and *On the Origin of the Indian Brāhma Alphabet*, Strasburg, 1898. Page 18: The oldest known Sanskrit MSS., now in the Bodleian Library, has been reproduced in facsimile by Dr. R. Hoernle, *The Bower Manuscript*, Calcutta, 1897. The Pāli *Kharoshṭhī* MS. is a Prākrit recension of the *Dhammapada*, found near Khotan; see Senart, *Journal Asiatique*, 1898, pp. 193–304. Page 27: The account here given of the Prākrit dialects is based mainly on a monograph of Dr. G. A. Grierson (who is now engaged on a linguistic survey of India), *The Geographical Distribution and Mutual Affinities of the Indo-Aryan Vernaculars*. On Pāli literature, see Rhys Davids, *Buddhism, its History and Literature*, London, 1896. On Prākrit literature, see Grierson, *The Mediæval Vernacular Literature of Hindostan*, trans. of 7th Oriental Congress, Vienna, 1888, and *The Modern Vernacular Literature of Hindustan*, Calcutta, 1889.