Newsletter of the NGMCP, Number 3 January-February 2007 Editorial and News from the NGMCP The third number of our Newsletter has been delayed a little, for which I offer apologies to readers and contributors alike. In compensation, I am glad to be presenting an issue that is particularly rich in content, half as large again as either of its predecessors. Even at that, some contributions have had to be held over for the following issue, which should be available online by early May. We begin this Newsletter with two reports. Dragomir Dimitrov presents an illustrated survey of the work and activities at the Nepal Research Centre in the period April 2005 to September 2006, while Dominic Goodall and Harunaga Isaacson report briefly on a workshop held in January 2007 which brought together scholars from all over the world to study one of the unique manuscripts in the National Archives, Kathmandu. There follow two contributions with critical editions. Oliver Hahn gives us the concluding part of his edition of Mahe´ svara’s ¯ Us . mabheda; and it is a pleasure to welcome Csaba Dezs˝o, of ELTE University, Budapest, to these pages for the first time with Part 1 of an edition of the hitherto unknown Nepalese recension of the first act of the play Kundam¯al¯ a, in parallel with the South Indian recension of the same. We have an announcement of a recent book-publication, and a brief contribution by Diwakar Acharya drawing attention to a manuscript, not hitherto used, of Candragomin’s ´ Sis . yalekha. This issue then concludes with another contribution by Dragomir Dimitrov, this time together with Kashinath Tamot: a fine piece on Kaiser Shamsher and the ‘Kaiser Library’. This is an opportunity to thank Dr. Dragomir Dimitrov not only for his contributions to this Newsletter, but for his years of dedicated service to the NGMCP and NRC. As of February the 1st, 2007, he has been succeeded as Local Director of both institutions in Kathmandu by Dr. Albrecht Hanisch. I am happy to welcome Dr. Hanisch, already in station in Kathmandu, most warmly; and equally warmly wish Dr. Dimitrov all success. We anticipate that he will continue to stay in close contact with the NGMCP, and it is our hope that our readers will soon encounter him again in the Newsletter of the NGMCP. Harunaga Isaacson The Work at the Nepal Research Centre from April 2005 to September 2006 Dragomir Dimitrov The activities of the Nepal Research Centre (NRC) car- ried out in the period from April 2005 to September 2006 were based on an agreement of cooperation between the Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, and the German Ori- ental Society, which was signed on August 30, 2002. In the recent period of turbulent and troublesome political developments, which repeatedly brought life in Nepal to a standstill, the NRC established itself as a safe haven where researchers involved in Nepalese studies were able to pursue their work undisturbed by the ongoing political imbroglio in the country. The NRC in the evening of Laks . m¯ ı P¯ uj¯a Infrastructure At present the NRC is accommodated in a beautiful building situated in peaceful surroundings in Baluwatar, in the northern part of Kathmandu (P.O. Newsletter of the NGMCP, Number 3