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[ 285 ] No. CCCCXCV. Anumiti-Rahasya. A commentary on a portion of the Chintamani of Gangesa Upadhyaya on inference. By Mathuranatha Tarkavagisa. This and the following ten codices are parts of an elaborate and highly esteemed commentary on the great work of Gangesa Upadhyaya on the totality of the Nyaya doctrine. The entire work is usually known under the name of Mathuranathi, or Mathuri, from the name of its author, but from such passages in the section on Pakshata as "asmatkrtasiddhanta-rahasye," "asmatkrta-purva-paksha-rahasye" &c., and the use of the word Rahasya in the colophons of the MSS. I believe it originally bore the name of Rahasya or Manirahasya or Chintamani-Rahasya, in the same way in which the commentary of Raghunatha Siromani on the Chintamani is named, Chintamani-didhiti, Manididhiti, Didhiti, or Siromani, the last being the most common. Dr. Hall notices the whole work under the name of Mathuranathi. (Contributions, p. 29.) The usual abbreviation of the name is Ma. TI. The original text of Gangesa Upadhyaya, who lived about seven centuries ago in Tirhoot, (Mithila), bears the title of Tattvachintamani, but it is generally known and quoted under the name of Chintamani or simply Mani. It is divided into four books, the Pratakshya-khanda, perception, Anumana-khanda, inference, Upamana-khanda, comparison, and Sabda-khanda, affirmation. Of these, the second was printed in Calcutta, in 1848, and MSS. of the first and the fourth are available in the Calcutta Sanskrita College Library. The Asiatic Society's Library has a codex of the fourth, and the third has been met with in the late Raja Radhakanta Bahadur's Collection. The Bodleian has the first, (Aufrecht's MS. 584), and the Berlin Library the second (Nos. 651-2). The Benares College codex noted by Dr. Hall is probably complete (Contributions, 28). The work forms the text book of the Bengal School of the Naiyayikas, and has been most extensively commented upon. The oldest commentary extant bears the name of Manyaloka or simply A'loka. (No. DXVI.) Its author, Jayadhara Tarkalankara Misra was a native of Tirhut, and lived about five centuries ago. He bore the title of Pakshadhara, from the circumstance, it is said, of his having been able to maintain by argument whatever side of a question he undertook to defend; but others say that the title is due to the power he had of retaining in his memory for a fortnight whatever he once heard. According to Dr. Hall, it proceeded U