Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

Your efforts to place within reach of the readers of ancient literature a work of so interesting a nature both to the Oriental scholar and to the man of medicine, are very praiseworthy, and I shall be happy to bring the work to the notice of the French public, or, at least, of those who take an interest in these researches. From this moment I beg that you will put me down as a subscriber to your edition of Charaka written in Devanagri.

(Sd) A. BARTH. Paris,

12nd December , 1891.

Dear Sir,

I have received your letter with its enclosed pamphlet. I thank you for the same. I praise you on uyour nder-

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taking and wish you all success. The work is of interest to all learned men and to medical men, and the com¬ mentaries written on it prove its value and Utility. I will put in a notice in the “ Journal des Savants” as soon as I can and shall be happy to do you justice.

Accept, dear sir, all my good wishes for your success.

Yours sincerely,

(Sd) B. St. HILAIRE.

Bonn, Germany,

2 2nd January , 1892.

Dear Sir,

I beg to thank you for the first fasciculus of your translation of Charaka Samhita. The work you have undertaken will interest Sanskritists as well as medical men who care for the history of their science. I shall not fail to draw the attention of some eminent physicians whom I know personally, to the ancient work of Charaka as soon as your translation of it has proceeded far enough to allow them to form an opinion on the intrinsic value and the position, in the development of medical science o Charaka Samhita. Wishing you success in your work

I remain, Dear Sir,

Your Sincerely,

(Sd) H. JACOBI, Sanskrit Professor

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16 Prinzenstrasse.

Konigsberg, Germany, January 1 oih, 1892.

Dear Sir,

I am much obliged to you for kindly sending me a ' opy of the first fasciculus of your English translation o Charaka Samhitd, which is, perhaps, at least from ar historical point. of view, the most important work of the medicinal literature of your country. I congratulate you sincerely on this undertaking by which the great merits you have already acquired in this line of Indian literature are highly augmented.

I shall do what I privately can to call the attention o scholars and medical men to your translation.

Yours sincerely,

(Sd) R. GARBE'

Westminster, Maryland, u. s. a.

January 8 th, 1892

Dear Sir,

Your letter and Part 1. of your English version o Charaka Samhitd reached me yesterday. I hasten to ex¬ tend to you my thanks for both and to say that I have already gone through the first fasciculus with great interesl and that I shall be delighted to receive the other numbers which you so kindly offer to send me. You have under¬ taken a great and difficult work, and one which, it seems to

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me, deserves the approbation and encouragement of all who care to know what wisemen of the past ages thought and taught on a topic so important as the preservation of health and the cure of desease. I confess to a very eager curiosity as to everything about India : its history, its literature, its antiquities, and I rejoice at every attempt made by properly qualified scholars to bring its buried treasures to light.

Very respectfully yours,

(Sd) JAMES W. REESE.

Philadelphia, u. s. a., February \th, 1892.

My Dear Sir,

Do not think, pray, that my silence, in any way indicated lack of interest in your most valuable work ; far from it ! I think, on the contrary, that you are entitled to the greatest praise. The delay was due to the fact that neither of the journals under my direction possessed a department for reviews. I could not tell you when I could allude to your labours and so waited until it would be possible for me to give you some idea of the time when I should be able to do you justice. Next May or June,' the Satellite— a journal under my editional manage¬ ment — will begin to review books, etc., and one of the first to be taken up will be yours. In the meantime permit me to consider you as one of the Corresponding Editors of the Annual of the universal medical sciences, which is, as you know,, an annual review of everything done in medicine, worth recording. I will have the

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pleasure of sending you this year’s issue (5 bound volumes, 2,500 pages) as soon as it leaves the binder’s, say, about April 1st. I send you by this mail a few numbers of the Satellite-, they will give you an idea of both works.