BIBLIOTHECA INDICA; COLLECTION OF ORIENTAL WORKS PUDLISHED UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, New Senies. THE APHORISMS OF S'A'NDLLYA wir tn COMMENTARY OF SWAPNES/WARA, EDITED By J. R. BALLANTYNE, Lh, De 998 PULYTED BY C. 0, LEWIS, BAPTIST MISSION PRESS, 1s61.ADVERTISEMENT. Tut following work was more than half printed, for his new when Dr. Ballantyne lett this coun post in London, and the remaining sheets were car ried through the press hy Prolessor Griflith, his sue- cessor in the Benares Sanskrit College, We extract from the prefer to the editor's prize essay on © Christianity contrasted with Hindw phis losophy,” the following remarks on the work itself, “'Phore are some Sanskrit hooks yel untranslated, whieh the writer must study before deciding upon his theological terminology for India. Among these works is the stphorisus of Séndilye. Sandilya rejects the Hinda (gnostic) theory that know le thing needful, and contends that knowledge is only the handmaid of failh.” Lence, besides its intrinsic value peculiar phase of the Vedanta philosophy, S’andilya’s is the one illustrating a work has an additional value as hearing on the ques- tion of the proper Sanskrit phraseology for theology controversy. Dr. Ballantyne hopes to publish hereafter a trans- lation of the Aphorisms, if his present engagements allow hi Ieisure to complete it. EBC. Seevolarn, BoA S.afguaH qaal oafe | BNR! waa © Ro agaaTAt aaaaat yw g waRaTT Sa Rg aaatfafe asartta yo aS ee te [eke \ wana ai adams a RR ATT aat ge wR aTMaRyy ACTA AU