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PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL,

FoR pANUARY, 1880.

The monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was
held on Wednesday, the 7th instant, at 9 o’clock Pp. m.

H. B. Mepricort., Hsq., M. a., F. BR. S., President, in the Chair.

The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed :—

The following presentations made since last meeting were laid on the
Table—

1. From the Government of India, Home, Revenue and Agricultural
Department,—Scientifie Results of the Second Yarkand Mission; (1)
Syringospheride, by Professor P. M. Duncan, and (2) Lepidoptera,
by EF. Moore.

2. From the Author,—Note on Elephants (supplementary to that
of the 8rd April 1879) ; by Captain H. W. Clarke.

3. From the Cherbourg Society of Natural Science,—Catalogue of
their Library, Part II; by Aug. le Jolis.

4, From the Zoological Society of London,—List of the Vertebrate
Animals now or lately living in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of
London. Seventh Edition.

5. From the Author,—Metrical Translations from Sanskrit Writers ;
by J. Muir.

6. From the Superintendent, Marine Surveys,—(1) Chart of the
Mutlah River to the Chittagong Coast, (2) Chart of Tuticorin Road-
stead and Harbour.

7. From Die Verein fiir Naturkunde in Cassel,—Catalogue of their
Library.

8. From Dr. G. Leitner,—Proceedings of the Anjuman-i-Punjab in
connexion with the proposed Vaccination Bill and Dr. Cunningham’s Sani-
tary Primer,

2 Presentations. [ Jan.

9. From the Royal Zoological Society of Amsterdam,—A number of
their publications, the names of which will be found in the Library List.
10. From the Madras Government, Education Department,—A Clas-
sified Index to the Sanskrit MSS. in the Palace at Tanjore; by A. C.
Burnell,
11. From the kénigliche bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
in Miinchen,—Ueber Calderons Sibylle des Orients ; by W. Meyer.
The following gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded at the last Meet-
ing, were ballotted for and elected Ordinary Members—
Fred. E. Pargiter, Hsq., B. A., C. 8.
Lieut. W. H. Johnstone, R. &.
Babu Govinda Kumara Chaudhuri (re-election).
H. Kisch, Hsq., c. 8.
J. W. Parry, Esq.
The following Gentlemen were announced as candidates for ballot at the
next meeting—
1. Beharilal Gupta, Esq., B. c. 8., proposed by Dr. Rajendralala Mitra,
seconded by Babu P. C. Ghosha.
2. The Hon’ble Arthur Wilson, proposed by H. B. Medlicott, Esq.,
seconded by J. Crawfurd, Esq.

The SEcRETARY reported that Mr. R. Parry had intimated his desire
to withdraw from the Society.

The SecRETARY announced that a limited number of coloured copies
of Messrs. Moore and Hewitson’s “ Descriptions of new Indian Lepidop-
tera in the collection of the late Mr. W. S. Atkinson” were available for
sale to Members at Rs. 4-8 per copy and to Non-Subscribers at Rs. 6 per
copy.

With reference to the Ethnological Queries put by Professor Schaff-
hausen of Bonn to Mr. H. Rivett-Carnac, and which were published in the
August Proceedings, the Secretary read a letter from Mr. W. King, dated
9th December, in which he says :

I have just seen in the Proceedings, Asiatie Society of Bengal for
August 1879, the series of questions put to Mr. H. Rivett-Carnac by
Professor Schaffhausen of Bonn.

Perhaps it may not be too late to let it be known that I saw two
Yanadi men (of an aboriginal tribe living about Sriharikota and the
Palicah Lake) produce fire from the friction of wood in (I think) 1862.
Tt was a rainy day, and within a short distance of a village whence fire
could easily have been found: yet these men worked industriously for

1880. ] Geological Specimens from Afghanistan. 3

about half an hour until the fire was produced. The man sat on his haunches,
with a small horizontal bar of wood, kept in its place underneath his
feet. There was a small hole made or worn in this bar, andin this was
inserted the point of a vertical stick which the men alternately rolled
between the palms of their hands. Under this rapid friction of the vertical
stick in the small hole in the horizontal one carbonized dust gradually
collected, when at last a first spark of fire was produced which the men
gently blew into a flame around a piece of rag which they held close to
the bit of carbonized dust. I neglected to ascertain the kinds of wood
used ; but the men had evidently had them for some time in their posses-
sion.

The PRESIDENT exhibited some Geological Specimens from Afghanis-
tan and said—

At the June and August meetings of the Society specimens were exhi-
bited from the hills between Dera Ghazi Khan and the Pishin Valley, on
the Thal Chotiali route, passing north of Quetta. The presence of bitumen
and nummulitie rocks was proved ; and there were no specimens that might
not belong to these formations. There were also many samples of baser
irruptive rocks, and some partially metamorphosed rocks, but which may
only be connected with the contact of the trappean masses.

The collections now to be noticed are from the region of the Safed
Koh. There are 12 specimens sent by Major Tanner from the north or
Gandamak side of the range, and three by Mr. Scott from the same ground,
one being from the summit of Sikaram the highest peak (15,620 feet) of
the range. Both of these contributors are officers of the Topographical
Survey. A larger collection, numbering some 40 specimens, was made by
Dr. J. E. Tierney Aicheson, attached as botanist to the Kuram column ;
these are from the southern or Peiwar Kotal flanks of Sikaram. The two
latter collections were communicated through Mr. A. B. Wynne, of the
Geological Survey.

From all these specimens we soon form a rough idea of the geology of
the ground. The ridge of the Safed Koh at Sikaraém, and all the country
to the north seems to be formed of much altered rocks, though with only
few samples of the extreme gneissic type. There is a remarkable prepon-
derance (as represented by these specimens) of magnesian and calcareous
rocks ; amongst them come very fine white montitis and stratitis. The
culminating point of the Safed Koh is approximately formed of pure white
quartzite, but the range most likely owes its name to its snow beds. The
white rock from which Safed Sang takes its name is a beautiful statuary
marble.

4 R. Mitra—Old palm-leaf MSS. [J an.

On the western flanks of Sikaram, at elevations of 10,000 feet, quite
unaltered shales, with impressions of Alew, and similar rocks from the
south side, occur among Dr. Aicheson’s specimens. There are no observa-
tions to suggest what may be the stratigraphical solutions of these highly
contracting series of rocks, The only clue as to age for any of these forma-
tions is in a large pebble of limestone found in the Shalinar stream on the
east side of the Peiwar Kotal ; it is a lithodendroid coral, testifying to the
presence of triassic or carboniferous strata in the vicinity.

A serpentinous trappean rock or diallagic serpentine seems to be in
force about Ali Khel.

Beside these, Dr. Aicheson brought to notice a copper ore found on
Karatiza hill, near the Shuturgardan. It was forwarded officially for opi-
nion, the presence of some metallic copper having given rise to the impres-
nion that the ore was peculiarly rich. This was not confirmed by analysis ;
the total yield of metal being only 26 per cent. It is a very mixed ore,
with much silicious matter finely disseminated.

From the northern side of the range, again, specimens were sent by
Major Stewart, of the Corps of Guides, from the so-called ruby-mine near
Jagdalak, It appears that the gems found there were highly prized by the
natives, a guard being kept constantly at the mine by the Amir, and it was
naturally thought that it might prove a source of revenue. However this
may be, it is certain that the gem is not the true ruby, but only spinel-
ruby, which is very little thought of in Europe, its value being not more
than a tenth that of the true oriental ruby, or red sapphire. ‘The spinel
can generally be most readily distinguished by its carmine-red colour and
its crystalline form, in regular octahedrons, as is well seen in the speci-
mens furnished by Major Stewart. A good specimen of the rock in which
ib occurs was also sent ; it is a largely crystalline micaceous limestone.

Thave also laid on the table a specimen of beautiful verdeantique
marble, or calcareous serpentine, brought by Major Biddulph from Shigar
in Ladakh where it is continuously worked and sold as “yessham” or jade.

Dr. RAsENDRALALA Mirra exhibited some very old palm-leaf MSS.
and some ancient coins.

Dr. Mitra said that, in his paper on the Pdla and the Sena Rajas
of Bengal, he had occasion to advert to the era of Lakshmana Sena, and
to refer to certain Sanskrit MSS. which were dated in that era. He had
since been able to obtain some MSS. of the kind as also some others of very
old dates. These he submitted as proofs of the era in question having been
current all along from the time of its initiation to a very recent date. ‘The
codices were written with ink on palm-leaf (Corypha elata), and appeared
very much decayed and crumbling ; but the writing was clear and fairly

1880.] R. Mitra—Old palm-leaf MSS. 5

correct. One of the MSS. was dated the 6th of Sravana @ 44 1509, but the
cypher was obviously a mistake, for 1509, would make it correspond with
A. D. 2614, which would be absurd. Nor is the mistake an uncommon
one ; ignorant copyists very often put in a dot to indicate hundred and then
put in the unit, though correctly in the decimal system the unit figure
should oceupy the place of the dot. Dr. Mitra had seen many instances of
the kind in the pagination of MSS. ‘Taking the date at 159 of the
Lakshmana era it would correspond with 1265 of the Christian year, and
the MS. wonld consequently be 615 years old. That would make it the
oldest Bengali record that had yet been discovered. The place where the
MS. was written is not mentioned, but it was found in the village of
Nisidagad, Post Bayinchi, in the Burdwan district, and the writing was of the
pure Bengali, and not of the Maithili style. If these facts could be accepted
as proofs of its having been written in Burdwan, it would show that.
the era was at the time current over a much larger area than that of Tirhoot.
It showed also that the Bengali character written over six hundred years
ago, was very much like what it was in the last century. The subject of
the record was a commentary on the Pratyaksha Khanda of Gangesa, by
Jayadeva Misra, and this proved that the commentator lived some time
before the date of the MS.

The second MS. laid on the table was the Mitékshard commentary on
the law of Yajfiavalkya. According to its colophon it was copied by Sri-
natha Sarma, in the village of Bhandnaja, on the 4th of the wane in the
month of Vaisakha, a. @\ 399 = A. D. 1506. This gives to the codex an
age of 373 years. The third MS. was the Dharmaratna of Jimutavahana,
and bore date Saka 1417 = A. D. 1499, which gives it an age of 383 years.
It is a work of considerable repute, but exceedingly rare. The last was the
Stidrapaddhati of Apipdla, written in the Samvat year 1442 = A. D. 1885,
z.-e€., 495 years ago. Dr. Mitra had not seen the work cited in current
digests on the religious duties of the Stdras of which it treats, but it ap-
pears to be a very comprehensive and well-written summary of all the laws
current on the subject.

Dr. Mitra also exhibited a small collection of coins lately obtained by
him from money-changers at Bombay. It included an Egyptian gold-piece
of 1277 H.; 10 and 20 cent pieces of Hongkong, Italy, Mauritius, France,
Spain and Mexico; a 5-Frank piece of Napoleon I, (1812); a 50-Lepta of
Greece ; a 50-Koptek of Austria; a7 guilder of Netherlands India; and
rupees of most of the native States of India. Of old coins there were two
good rupees of Muhammad bin-Tughlak ; several Bull and Horsemen tankds
of Chahada Deva, Syalapati Deva, and Shams-uddin Altimish; half a dozen
specimens of the silver currency of the Khalifs; of several Sassanians; and

6 H. F. Blanford—Balfour Stewart's Actinometer. [J An.

some Parthians. Among the last were drachmas of Arsaces Artabanus, and
Arsaces Sinatroces. Of the former there were four specimens with the legend
in perfect preservation thus—Paowevs Bacrdery dpoixov Aucciov evepyerou
emipaviov fideddtxos, with the monogram A under the extended bow of the
king. Of the latter there was an only specimen and one word in its legend
was illegible. It had no monogram. Its legend runs thus—Pacwdevs

emupaviov pireAXAuXos.

Meyadov apotkov diAoratpov

Mr. H. F. Buanrorp exhibited an actinometer of a new form, the
invention of Professor Balfour Stewart, recently constructed for the Alipore
Observatory. Also the older forms of actinometer invented by Herschell,
Pouillet (the Pyrheliometer) and Hodgkinson, and described the object and
principle of these instruments.

An actinometer is essentially a thermometer, having in general a large
bulb and a very contracted column ; and its object is to measure the quan-
tity of heat, (or, to speak more strictly, the radiation) received from the
Sun in a certain definite interval of time (which may be half a minute or
more) by observing the expansion thereby produced, which is a function of
the quantity of heat received, and the mass and nature of the fluid heated.
An ideally perfect actinometer would be one which should completely absorb
and convert into heat all the radiation which falls on its exposed surface,
while it should remain entirely unaffected by radiation to or from bodies
around, other than the Sun, and by any change of temperature in the air
or other medium in contact with it. But this, of course, cannot be realized.

In Professor Balfour Stewart’s actinometer, the disturbing influences
are reduced to a minimum, so far as is compatible with simplicity of arrange-
ment and working. The thermometer which is mercurial, having a bulb
of about the size and form of a walnut, is enclosed in a massive hollow
cube of brass, perforated by a small hole in the middle of one side,
which can be closed by a sliding screen, and through which a beam of the
sun’s rays concentrated to a focus by a lens 23 inches in diameter is directed
on the thermometer bulb. With the exception of this small aperture, a
massive brass wall blackened internaily completely surrounds the thermo-
meter and screens it from the variable radiation of surrounding objects,
and the chamber itself is also protected by a casing of felt and an
outer coating of polished brass plates. The instrument is mounted on
a massive iron stand affording a motion both in azimuth and_alti-
tude. In use the instrument possesses the great advantage of simplici-
ty over all other forms of actinometer. Having been placed in position, so
that the Sun’s image in the focus of the lens falls on the shutter imme-
diately over the aperture already noticed, the shutter is withdrawn, and the
concentrated beam allowed to fall on the thermometer bulb during the

1880. ] Coins of the Sunga or Mitra Dynasty. a

space of two minutes by the chronometer ; the temperature being observed
at the instant of withdrawing the screen and again on closing it. There is,
of course, an unknown loss of heat by absorption in the lens and reflection
from its surface, so that the measurement obtained is only a relative and
not an absolute determination, but the same must be said of other forms of
actinometer, and meanwhile an instrument that affords a good relative
measurement and is so simple in manipulation is a very important addition
to our means of observation.

Dr. Horrnte exhibited 10 copper coins of the Mitra dynasty, kindly
sent by Mr. H. Rivett-Carnac, for the inspection of the Society. Ina
note accompanying the coins, Mr. Rivett-Carnac says, that he obtained
them through Mr. H. Pratt from the vicinity of Ramnagar, in the Bareilly
District, and that Mr. A. C. Carlleyle, of the Archzological Survey, to whom
he sent them for inspection, read the legends and, at his request, prepared
a detailed description of the coins, to be read before the Society. The de-
scription is entitled—

Coins of the Sunga or Mitra Dynasty found at Ramnagar or Ahichhatra,
the ancient Capital of North Panchdla in Rohilkhand ; the property
of H. Rrvert-Carnac, Esq., c. 1. E., F. 8. A., &e. Described by A. C.
CaRLLEYLE, of the Archeological Survey of India.

(Abstract. )

After some introductory remarks on the wide extent of the sway of
the Mitra dynasty, the author mentions that he himself obtained a consi-
derable number of these coins from excavations at Bhuila, the site of the
ancient city of Kapilavastu, in the Basti District ; but the coins obtained
by Mr. Rivett-Carnac (about 110) are mostly of a much larger size, and
several bear names of kings which are either new or of rare occurrence ;
such as Bhadraghosa, Phaguni-mitra, Srayan-mitra and Anu-mitra. Tak-
ing into account the numerical proportion, in which the coins of the various
kings were found in the hoard, as well as the older or later form of the
alphabetic characters of the legends and some other peculiarities, the author
preceeds to arrange the coins in the following chronological order: 1, Bha-
draghosa (5 coins), 2, Srayan-mitra (7); 3, Bhanu-mitra (10); 4, Agni-
mitra (11); 5, Anu-mitra (1); 6, Phaguni-mitra (28); 7, Bhiimi-mitra (84) ;
8, Indra-mitra (2). The impressions on these coins are very much alike.
The Obverse always shows a square depression, caused by a die, containing
the legend (the mere name of the king in the genitive case), with three
symbols above, arranged in a horizontal row. These symbols are said to be
the Bodhi-tree, Linga and two serpents entertwined. The Reverse shows

8 Coins of the Sunga or Mitra Dynasty. . [ Jan.

either a figure of Buddha as teacher, or the Buddhist symbols of the “ San-
gha” and the Law (a wheel).

This paper will be published in the Journal, Part I.

Dr. Hoernle stated that he had shown the coins to General Cunning-
ham, who had empowered him to communicate to the meeting that while
generally agreeing to Mr. Carlleyle’s description of the coins, he took
exception to two of his readings. Instead of Srayan-mitra and Anu-mitra,
as read by Mr. Carlleyle, he thought the names were Strya-mitra* and
Ayu-mitra. Dr. Hoernle also gave some account of what was hitherto
known about the Mitra-Dynasty from Sanskrit sources, especially the
Vishnu Purdna and the Malavikagni-mitra ; pointing out the wide diver-
gence between names of the the Mitra kings as found on the coins and as
handed down in those Sanskrit works. He added that the first coin of these
kings (one of Agni-mitra) was noticed by General Cunningham, as far back
as 1852 (see Lassen, Ind. Ant. II, 47). Since then coins of this dynasty had
been found from time to time ; and General Cunningham had told him, that
he possessed a considerable number of coins of Indra-mitra, who is placed at
the bottom of his list by Mr. Carlleyle on account of the paucity of his
coins. ;

Dr. Rajendralala Mitra said, the coins laid on the table were very
interesting, and the acknowledgements of numismatists were due to Mr.
Rivett-Carnac for the opportunity he had given them of examining the
coins. The first to notice a Mitra coin was the distinguished antiquarian
General Cunningham, and Sir Edward Bayley subsequently got two or
three specimens; but so large a collection as that of Mr. Rivett-Carnac
had never before come to notice. It supplied many links, hitherto missing,
of a dynasty which was known only from casual mention of two or three names
in Puranas and works of fiction, like the ‘ Malavika Agnimitra,’ and the time,
he hoped, would soon come when the chronology of the dynasty would be set-
tled satisfactorily. He took exception, however, to the classification which
had been adopted by the author of the paper read, and to the principle on
which that classification had been based. The principle was an arithmetical
one, and priority and posteriority were regulated by the number of coins
found in the trove. That king who was represented by a single specimen
of his comage was accepted as the oldest ; he was reckoned the second, two
of whose coins had come to hand; and the largest number of coins repre-
sented the latest king. Dr. Mitra thought this principle to be a fallacious
one, calculated to mislead at every step. A hundred. different cireumstan-
ces might lead to a trove containing more coins of one reign than of ano-
ther, without any reference to their age. To take an instance ready at

* In a communication from Mr. Carlleyle, received after the meeting, he says,
that he now also reads the name Strya-mitra,

1880. } Coins of the Sunga or Mitra Dynasty. 9

hand, he said, the packet of miscellaneous coins he had laid on the table
contained one coin each of Victoria and Isabella—a 20-cent piece of Mau-
ritius and a 40-cent piece of Spain,—and five coins of the Arsacidan dynasty,
and six of the Sassanians. Were the packet treated as a trove, or to become
a trove under some circumstance or other, the principle, faithfully worked
out, without reference to history, would result in the conclusion that the
Queen-Empress Victoria and Isabella were the oldest, that the Parthians
were much later than these, and that the Sassanians were the most recent.
A principle that would lead to such a conclusion was open to the gravest
objection. The author of the paper had himself felt this objection,
and had met it by adding that he had supplemented it by his know-
ledge of the gradual changes which the Lat charaeter had undergone
in course of time. Dr. Mitra took exception to this also, for he
thought no one, however well-versed he may be in the old character, could,
from the appearance of three or four smudgy letters on two coins, say which
was the anterior and which the posterior. The total number of Lat inscrip-
tions was so exceedingly limited that it was impossible from a study of
them to acquire such a test of the gradual changes which letters undergo
in course of time as would suffice to determine the difference in the writing
of two consecutive reigns. The coins were all of copper, bearing letters
varying from one-tenth to one-twentieth of an inch in size, more or
less covered with rust, and otherwise defaced; the coin of the so-called
Anu Mitra was the smallest, and the letters on it were one-twentieth of an
inch in size, and to attempt to judge of paleographic changes from them
was simply impossible. With far ampler means and opportunities, one in a
hundred well-educated persons, would not venture to determine the difference
in the shape of the letters forming the words ONE RUPEE on the coins of
William IV and Victoria. Dr. Mitra had seen only the coins laid on the
table, and in them he could trace no such paleographic difference as would
justify him in arranging them chronologically.

Dr. Mitra also took exception to the reading of two of the names.
One of these he had communicated to General Cunningham whose revised
reading had been announced by the Society. The other was that of Anu
Mitra, which he read Bhanu Mitra. The letter a in the Lat character was
very like the English K reversed thus y, with the projecting arms slightly
curved, and the bh was like the same English letter with the upper arm re-
moved. Now, among Mr. Rivett-Carnac’s coins there was one which was
unquestionably of Bhanu Mitra, and in the other which Mr. Carlleyle
took for Anu Mitra, the upper part of the first letter was smudgy and
covered with rust, and only the lower part was clear, and from that no one
could fairly restore the upper part, and make a new name of it.*

* Examined with a high-power magnifying glass a few granulations appeared be-

10 R. C. Temple—Inseription at Sultanpir. [ Jan.

Dr. Hoernle said, that he quite agreed with Dr. Mitra, that the prin-
ciple of determining the chronology of the dynasty by the numerical
proportion of their coins in a particular hoard, which Mr. Carlleyle had
put forward, was not a very safe one. It certainly required to be worked
with very great care ; and many other circumstances also would have to be
taken into account, in order to control the results obtained by the applica-
tion of that principle. Mr. Carlleyle himself, however, admitted as much
in his paper. In the case of the supposed hoard containing coins of Queen
Victoria of England, Queen Isabella of Spain, and of the Arsacidan and
Sassanian Dynasties, there would be no difficulty for numismatists to deter-
mine the relative age of the dynasties by other considerations, quite inde-
pendent of such a trivial circumstance as the numerical proportion of the
coins in the hoard. But when it was the case of a single dynasty, the
reigns of which did not range over much more than a century and about
which as yet so little was known historically, every circumstance, however
trivial it might be, was of importance ; though no doubt suflicient judg-
ment and discrimination, as Mr. Carlleyle said, would have to be used to
apportion to each circumstance its relative importance. Mr. Carlleyle’s
chronological arrangement could only be looked upon as a provisional one,
which would have to be verified or modified by information derived from coins
found in other hoards. ‘With regard to the reading Bhanumitra (instead of
Anumitra), proposed by Dr. Mitra, Dr. Hoernle stated that he had carefully
examined the coin, which happened to be one of the best preserved of the
collection, and he fully concurred with General Cunningham in his
reading of the first letter as @ (not 6h) ; the upper arm of the letter being
quite distinctly visible to his eye.

The coin in question was handed round and several who were present
stated that they could recognize the upper arm of the letter.

A letter was read from Lieut. R. C. Temple on an Inscription at Sul-
tanpur in Kulu-Eli in which he writes :

“T see a translation of the Nirmand Inseription in Kulu joy 1D se, IE,
Mitra in the August Proceedings of this Society. I gota copy of it my-
self about 13 years ago and sent it to Dr. Burnell, but do not know what
has happened to it since. here is another Kulu Inscription which it might
be worth while copying and translating. It is in the Chaugan at Sultanpur
in Kulu and on a large stone near the civil offices. I was never able while
serving in the Kangra Valley to get at it myself, and made several unsuc-

hind the grst letter ; but they are perfectly detached, and seem never to have formed
a part of the letter. If they be jomed they would not produce an oblique line such as
is required to produce the upper oblique spur of the Pali q. R. M.

1880. ] B. R. Branfill—Svva Temple of Ganjai Kondapuram. 11

cessful attempts to get others to copy it forme. The Society may, how-
ever, have means of having it copied, and I therefore write to let them
know of its existence. It is said locally to relate to the construction of
the Kul or open artificial watercourse in its neighbourhood.”

“T send herewith some specimens obtained in 1878 of the local “ Paha-
ri’ alphabet still employed by the Kangra Baniahs and people of that
class in the valley, as they may be of use. I would point out the position
of short “i” as being after instead of before the consonant it qualifies as
in ordinary Nagari, and the representation of long “1” by two strokes fol-
lowing the consonant, e. g., 1 = fa and ay = Wt.

The following papers were read—

1. Note on some Ladak Mammals.—By KR. LYDEKKER, B. A.
This paper is published in the Journal, Part I.

2. On the Great Siva Temple of Ganjai-Kondapuram, in the Trichino-
poly District.—By Lrevr.-Cou. B. R. Branrinn. Communicated by
Masor-Generat J. T. WALKER, RB. E., C. B., F. B. 8S. Surveyor- General
of India.

(Abstract. )

The temple which is described in this paper is situate in the extreme
K. N. E. part of the Trichinopoly District, 20 miles S. W. from Chidamba-
ram. Roughly speaking it isa facsimile of the great Tanjore temple,
possibly its prototype, or perhaps more probably a copy ; but never having
been “restored” as the Tanjore example has, and being built throughout
in a very hard kind of stone, it retains much of its pristine appearance and
purity of design, which has been lost there. It consists of a grand stone
stubi or Vimanam, 100 feet square at base and about 165 feet high. At-
tached to it, on the east side, is the Mele-mandapam, a three-storied portico
or transept, covering the cross aisle between the north and south entrances
to the temple. To its east again and attached to it, is the west wall and
end of the great outer court (Veli-mandapam), which was never completed.
The whole is raised on a basement or terrace, at a height of about 5 feet
above the (original) ground level. The paper also briefly describes some
other places of architectural interest. In one of them, Chenji-kottai, the
author found a curious carved stone lying in front of a small shrine dedi-
cated to a local goddess called Kamala-kanni-y-Ammam to whom human
sacrifices were formerly offered. It shows four human heads, surrounded
by trisuls, ram’s and buffalo’s horns, arrows and a bow.

This paper, together with a sketch of the carved stone, will be publish-
ed in the Journal, Part I. ;

12 C. J. Rodgers— Coins of the Mahdrajas of Kangra. [Jan.

3. On the Coins of the Mahdrajas of Kangra.—By C. J. Roperrs,
Principal of the Normal College, Amritsar.

(Abstract. )

This paper describes twenty-four coins of Kangra, commencing with
Samanta Deva and ending with Triloka Chandra Deva. The former is sup-
posed to have preceded Pithama or Pithama Chandra Deva, who is the first
of the Kangra Rajaébhs of whom cvins have been found. He is assigned by
General Cunningham to the year 1330 A. D. The date of Triloka Chandra
Deva, according to the same authority (Arch. Report, Vol. V, p. 152), is
1610 A. D. All these coins have a bull on the Obverse, with the name of
the king above it ; the Reverse shows a horseman.

This paper will be published in the Journal, Part I.

4 On the Barometer in Asia and Australia, and on the Sun-spot Cycle.—
By H. F. Buanrorp, F. 4@. 8.

(Abstract.)

The three years 1876, 1877 and 1878 were characterized by a very
persistent excess of atmospheric pressure throughout India and the Malay-
an region. It was most intense on an axis lying between the Andamans
and Bengal, and was relatively less both to East and West of this line. To
the South, Singapore and Batavia showed a similar excess of pressure, less
intense but more prolonged; and in Australia, the registers of Adelaide,
Melbourne and Sydney show that there also the pressure was excessive ;
being most so at Adelaide, (where it exceeded that of any Indian Stations),
and least so at Sydney. To the North again, in Asia the greatest excess
is that shewn by stations in Western Siberia. It appears therefore as far
as can be judged from the existing dates, that it was most intense on an
axis lying obliquely across the two great continental masses of Asia and
Australia.

An examination of the barometric registers of past years shows that
at Batavia, Singapore and Port Blair there has been a regular and gradual
rise of pressure since 1870, which at Singapore (situated in Lat. 2°) was of
remarkable regularity. The register of Batavia which extends back to
1866 shows that at that station it reached a maximum in 1868, sank rapidly
to a minimum in 1870 and rose to a maximum again in 1877, the oscilla-
tion thus conforming approximately to that of Sun-spot variation. With
more or less regularity, the same oscillation is shown by the registers of
other stations, and those of Calcutta and Bombay which reach back re-
spectively to the years 1853 and 1847 prove that this variation with the

1880.] Library. 13

Sun-spot cycle is a regularly recurrent phenomenon, the minimum pressure
coinciding with the maximum of sun-spots and vice versa.

Turning to Siberia, an oscillation of the opposite kind is met with, and
of much greater amplitude. It appears to be restricted to Western Siberia
and European Russia, and is shewn most prominently by Hkaterinenburg
at the Hastern foot of the Ural. It is equally great at St. Petersburg but
more marked by non-periodic variations. But it is not distinctly traceable
in the registers of Tiflis, nor in those of Nectchingk and Pekin. Those
of the last station seem rather to indicate an oscillation of the Indo-Mala-
yan type. In the Indo-Malayan region the variation was very decided as
affecting all seasons of the year, being only somewhat more pronounced in
the winter (of the Northern hemisphere) than in the summer months.
But the opposite variation in Western Siberia was entirely restricted to
the winter months.

From this it results that the excessive pressure of 1876-78 was the
maximum phase of a cyclical variation in India and the Malay region ; and
there only. In Northern Asia it was quite anomalous, and most probably
also in Australia; and even in the intervening Indo-Malayan region, it is
probable that the phenomenon was intensified by an aperiodic or anoma-
lous excess being superimposed on the regular and cyclical excess of pres-
sure.

This paper will be published in Part II of the Journal.

Ppiprary.

The following additions have been made to the Library since the Meet-
ing held in December last.

J RANSACTIONS, PROCEEDINGS AND JOURNALS,
presented by the respective Societies and Editors.

Amsterdam. Koninklijk Zoologisch Genootschap Natura Artis Magis-
tra,—Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde, Afl. 1—9.
Jaarboekje, 1852, 1858, 1855, 1856, 1858-68, 1870,

1872-75.

Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor de Dierkunde, Deel
I—IV.

Athens. Zigabenus’ Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistles,—Part I.

Batavia. Bat. Gen. van Kunsten en Wetenschappen,—Tijdschrift voor
Indische Taal-, Land-en Volkenkunde, Deel XVIII, Adi. 1,

Verhandelingen, Deel XXII.

1k Library. [ Jan.

Berlin. K. Akad. der Wissenschaften,—Abhandlungen aus dem Jahre
1878.

K. preussische Akad, der Wissenschaften,—Monatsbericht,
August 1879.

Bordeaux. la Société de Géographie Commerciale,—Bulletin, Nos. 22
and 23, 1879.

Calcutta. Geological Survey of India,—Memoirs, Vol. XVII, Part 1.

Blanford, W. T.—Geology of Western Sind.

The Mahabharata, No. 41.

Cassel. Verein fiir Naturkunde,-—Catalog der Bibliothek.

Cherbourg. La Société Nationale des Sciences Naturelles,—Mémoires,
Tome XXI, 1877-78.

Dresden. Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Isis,—Sitzungs-Berichte,
Jahrgang 1879, Jan.—June.

Dublin. Royal Geological Society of Ireland,—Journal, Vol. V, Part 2,
1878-79.

Munich. K. Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften,—Abhandlungen,
histor. Classe, Vol. XIV, Part 3.

==. Math.-physik. Classe, Vol. XIII, Part 2.

—_. ——. Philos.-philol. Classe, Vol. XV, Part 1.

Sitzungsberichte, Math.-physik. Classe, Hefte I and

TLS 79:
Heft Il. Pettenkofer.—Uchber die Permeabilitat des Bodens fiir Luft von Dr.
Friederich Renk. Ueber den Uebergang von Spaltpilzen in die Luft von Dr.
Isidor Soyka.
— O Philos.-philol.-und histor.. Classe, Heft IIT,
of 1878 and Hefte I-III, of 1879.
Leipzig. Deutsche morgenlind. Gesellschaft,—Zeitschrift, Vol. XX XIII,

Part 4.
London. Anthropological Institute-—Journal, Vol. IX, No. 1, August

1879.
Athenzeum,—Nos. 2716—2720.
Nature,—Nos. 511, 525—527.
—. Royal Asiatic Society,—Journal, Vol. X, Parts I—III.
Part 1. Brandreth, E. [.—On the Non-Aryan Languages of India. Mittra,
P. Ddésa.—A Dialogue on the Vedantic Conception of Brahma. Friederich,
R.—An Account of the Island of Bali. Rogers, H. T.—Unpublished Glass
Weights and Measures. Boulger, S. C.—China via Tibet. atten, J, H.—
Notes and Recollections on Tea Cultivation in Kumaon and Garhwal.
Part Il. Miles, Major-Gen. S. B.—Note on Pliny’s Geography of the East
Coast of Arabia. Gray, A.—The Maldive Islands ; with a Vocabulary taken
from Francois Pyrard de Laval, 1602-7. Forbes, Capt. C. J. F. S—On Tibeto-
Burman Languages. St. Barbe, H. L.—Burmese Transliteration. Sorbes,

1880. | Library. 15

Capt. C. Js F. §.—On the Connexion of the Mons of Pegu with the Koles of
Central India. Haupt, P.—Studies on the Comparative Grammar of the Semi-
tic Languages, with Special Reference to Assyrian. Sawvaire, H.—Arab Me«
trology. Kingsmill, T. v¥.—The Migrations and Harly History of the White
Huns; principally from Chinese Sources.
Part II. Shaw, R, B.—On the Hill Canton of Sélér—the most Easterly Set-
tlement of the Turk Race. Vyse, G. W.—Geological Notes on the River
Indus. Chamberlain, B. H.—Educational Literature for Japanese Women.
Redhouse, J. W.—On the Natural Phenomenon known in the East by the
names Sub-hi-kazib, etc., etc. Beal, Rev. Si—On a Chinese Version of the
Sankhya Karika, etc., found among the Buddhist Books comprising the Tri-
pitaka, and two other works.
London. Royal Astronomical Society,—Memoirs, Vol. XLIV, 1877-79.
——. — - Monthly Notices, Vol. XXXIX, No 9.
Royal Geographical Society,—Proceedings, Vol. I, Nos. 10 and
11, October and November 1879.
No. 10. Martin, Capt. G.—Survey Operations of the Afghanistan Expedition ;
the Kurram Valley.

Royal Microscopical Society,—Journal, Vol. II, No. 6, October

1879.

Ord, W.—OQn some causes of Brownian Movements. Record of Current Re-
searches.—Zoology. Connective Tissue. Mechanical Genesis of Tooth Forms.
Chromatophores of the Cephalopoda. Action of Strychnine on Gasteropo-
dous Molluscs. Animal of Voluta Musica. Anatomy and Physiology of the
Digestive Organs of the Myriapoda. Pentastoma teniodes in the ear of a
Dog. The Nebaliad Crustacea as Types of a New Order. Physiology of the
Nervous System of the Crayfish. Blood of the Lobster. Observations on the
Amphipoda. Contributions to the Natural History of the Caprellide. Oaprel-
lide of tne Mediterranean. Glands found in the Appendages of the Phroni=
mida, Some young Stages of Peneus Caramote. Hermaphroditism of the
Tsopoda. Planaria Limuli. Ascaris parasitic in the Lion. Ascaris of the
Orang-Cutang. Spermatophores of the Harth-worm. Body-cavity of the
Sedentary Anmnelids and their Segmental Organs. Segmental Organs of the
Capitelide. Anatomy of the Ophiurida. Comatule of the ‘ Challenger’
Expedition. New Genera and Species of Corals. Hozoon Canadense.—Bota-
ny. Anatomical and Physiological Study of Nectaries. Causes of the Change
in Form of Etiolated Plants. Effects of Submersion on Aerial Leaves and of
Water on Floating Leaves. Absorption of Water by the Lamina of Leaves.
Contribution to the Germ Theory. Nature of the Fur on the Tongue. In-
jection of Bacteria into the Blood without any Toxic Hftects.—Microscopy,
&c. Heematoxylic Kosin and its Employment in Histology. Brésicke’s Stain-
ing Method. Method of Examining Living Cells of Larva of Newt. Novel
Method for Focussing. Roy Microtome. Improvements in Microphotogra-
phy. Modern Applications of the Microscope to Geology.

. Royal Society,—Proceedings, Vol. XXIX, No. 197.
Gamgee, Prof. A. and Blankenhorn, Dr. L.—On the Existence of Liebreich’s Pro-
tagon in the Brain, Roberts, Dr. W.—Note on the Existence of a Milk-

16 Library. [ Jan.

curdling Ferment in the Pancreas. Rosse, Harl of.—On some Recent Im-
provements made in the Mountings of the Telescopes at Birr Castle. Darwin,
G. H.—The Determination of the Secular Effects of Tidal Friction by a
Graphical Method. Abney, Capt.—On the Production of Coloured Spectra by
Light. Bottomley, J. T.—Preliminary Experiments on the Effects of Long-
continued Stress on the Elasticity of Metals. Lockyer, J. N.—On a New
Method of Studying Metallic Vapours.
London. Zoological Society,—Proceedings, Part III, 1879.

Tristram, Rev. H. B.—Description of a New Species of Wood-pecker from the
Island of Tzus Sima, near Japan. Joore, #.—Descriptions of new Genera
and Species of Asiatic Lepidoptera Heterocera. Angas, G. #.—Description
of ten New Species of Avxinea and Pectunculus in the Collections of Mr. 8.
Hanley and the late Mr. T. L. Taylor. Godwin-Austen, Lieut.-Col. H. H.—
Notes on and Description of the Female of Ceriornis blythii (Jerdon). Sclater,
P. I.—Remarks on two yolumes of original drawings of the birds of India
by Brigadier-General A. C. McMaster. Garrod, Prof.—Notice of a Memoir
on the brain and other parts of the Hippopotamus. Note on the Mechanism
of Respiration as well as of the Retraction of the Head and Limbs in certain
Clielonia. Jeffreys, J. G.—On the Mollusca procured during the ‘“ Lightning”
and “ Porcupine’ Expeditions, 1868-70. Salvadori, T.—On Acomus inorna-
tus, Salvad. Bell, F. J—Observations on the Characters of the Zechinoidea.
II. On the Species of the Genus Tripnentes, Agassiz.

London. Statistical Society,—Journal, Vol. XLII, Part 3, September
1879.
Paris. Revue de Linguistique,-—Vol. XII, Fase. 4, October theres!

Gonsalves, J—Esquisse grammaticale de la langue de Goa.

——. la Société de Géographie,—Bulletin, Vol. XVIII, October 1879.
Pooks AND PAMPHLETS,

presented by the Authors.

CrarkE, Cart. H. W. Note on Elephants (Supplementary to that of the
3rd April, 1879). Fol., Caleutta, 1879. Pamphlet.

Murr, J. Metrical Translations from Sanskrit Writers, with an Intro-
duction, Prose Versions and Parallel Passages from Classical Authors.
8vo., London, 1879.

MiscELLANEOUS PRESENTATIONS,

Records of the Geological Survey of India,—Vol. XII, Part 4.

Annual Report on Inland Emigration for the year 1878-79. Fep., Calcut-
ta, 1879.

Annual Report on Emigration from the Port of Calcutta to British and
Foreign Colonies for 1878-79. Fep., Calcutta, 1879. .

Report on Vaccination in the Province of Bengal for 1878-79. Fep., Cal-
eutta, 1879.

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Report on the Administration of Bengal, 1878-79. 8vo., Calcutta, 1879.
BENGAL SECRETARIAT.

Brief Sketch of the Meteorology of the Bombay Presidency in 1878. 8vo.,
Bombay, Pamphlet.

BoMBAY GOVERNMENT.

Report on the Trade and Resources of the Central Provinces for the year
1878-79. Fep., Nagpur, 1879.

Cu. CoMMISSIONER, CENTRAL PROVINCES.

Ravensuaw, J. H. Gaur: its Ruins and Inscriptions. Rl. 8vo., Lon-
don, 1878.

Mrs. G. H. Damanr.

The Rajputana Gazetteer,—Vol. II. 8vo., Calcutta, 1879.

ForEIGN DEPARTMENT.

Indian Antiquary,—Vol. VI, Part 69, July 1877.

Fallon’s New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Part XXV, October 1879.

Scientific Results of the Second Yarkand Mission. Syringospheride ; by
Prof. P. M. Duncan. Lepidoptera; by F. Moore.

Home, Rey. anp Acrit. DEPARTMENT.

Lyman, B. S. Geological Survey of Japan. Reports of Progress for 1878
and 1879. 8vo., Tookei, 1879.

Cu. Secy., Pusnic Works Deipt., JAPAN.

Meyer, W. Ueber Calderons Sibylle des Orients. 4to., Munich, 1879.

K. Bayer. AKabD. DER Wissenscu., MuncHEN.

Proceedings of the Anjuman-1-Punjab in connexion with the proposed
Vaccination Bill and Dr. Cunningham’s Sanitary Primer. Fcp., Lahore,
1879.

Dr. G. W. LErrver.

Annual Report on the Lunatic Asylums in the Madras Presidency during
the year 1878-79. Fcp., Madras, 1879.

Burnett, A. C. A Classified Index to the Sanskrit MSS. in the Palace
at Tanjore. Part I—Vedieand Technical Literature. Part II—Philoso-
pby and Law. 4to., London, 1879.

Mapras GOVERNMENT.

Ovprmans, Dr. C. A. Rede ter Herdenking van den Sterfdag van Caro-
lus Linneus. 8vo., Amsterdam, 1878.

Openingsplechtigheid van de Tentoonstelling. 8vo., Amsterdam, 1878.

Linnzana in Nederland Aanwezig. §8vo., Amsterdam, 1878.

Roy. Zoou. Society or AMSTERDAM.

List of the Vertebrate Animals, now or lately living in the Gardens of the
Zoological Society of London. Seventh Edition. S8vo., London, 1879.

Zoou. Society or Lonpon,

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PERIODICALS Pu RCHASED.

Benares. Fallon’s Hindustani-English Dictionary,—Part XXV, October
1879.

Bombay. The Vedarthayatna,—Vol. III, No. 12, September 1879.

Caleutta. Calcutta Review,—No. 93, May 1868.

—. Indian Medical Gazette,—Vol. XIV, No. 12, and Vol. XV, No. 1.

Stray Feathers,—Vol. VIII, Nos. 2—5.

Geneva. Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, Tome II, No. 11.
Gottingen, Gelehrte Anzeigen,—Stiicke 44—48.

. Nachrichten,—Nos. 14—16.

Leipzig. Annalen der Physik und Chemie,—Vol. VIII, No. 3.

. Beiblatter,—Band ITT, Stiick 12.

London. Academy, Nos. 271, 390, 393—397.

Annals and Magazine of Natural History Layat IV, No. 23,
Nogember SO:

Thomson, G. M.—Additions to the Amphipodous Crustacea of New Zealand.
Butler, A. G.—Descriptions of New Species of Lepidoptera from Japan.
Carter, H. J—On the Nutritive aud Reproductive Processes of Sponges.
Wood-Mason, J.—Preliminary Notice of a new Genus (Parectatosoma) of Phas-
mide from Madagascar, with brief descriptions of its two Species. Thomas,
O.—On Robert Kerr’s Translation of the “Systema Nature’ of Linnzeus.

Schnetzler, M, B.—On the Part played by Insects during the Flowering of
Arum crintum, Ait.

London. Chemical News,—Nos. 905, 909, 912, 920, 984, 990, 1042,—
1046.
No. 1042-46. IMendeleef, D.—The Periodic Law of the Chemical Elements.

Journal of Botany,—Nos. 188, 202 and 203.
No. 208. Vines, S. H.—On Alternation of Generations in the Thallophytes.
——. Hdinburgh Review,—No. 808, October 1879.
Afghanistan.
The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine,—Vol. XVI, No. 186,
November, 1879.
The Entomologist,—Vol. XII, No. 198, November, 1879.
Weir, J. J.—Effect of the wet sunless season on the Lepidoptera of the New
Forest.
London. Messenger of Mathematics,—Vol. IX, Nos. 6 and 7, October and
November 1879.
—-—. Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics,—Vol. XVI,
No. 64, October 1879.
—. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science,—Vol. XIX, No. 76,
October 1879.

Lankester, E, K.—Lithameba Discus, noy. gen. et sp., one of the Gymnomyxa.

1880.1] Library. 19

The structure of Haliphysema Tumanowiczti. Gibbes, Heneage-—On the
Structure of the Vertebrate Spermatozoon.

London. Mind,—No. 16, October 1879.
Nineteenth Century,—Vol. VI, No. 33, November 1879.
Giles, H. A.—The Book Language of China.

The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine,—
Nos. for February 1823, January-December 1828, January 1829, February
1838, January-December 1839, January 1872 and November 1879.

Noy. 1879. Barus, Dr. C.—On the Relation between the Thermoelectric Pro-

perties, the Specific Resistanceand the Hardness of Steel. Spottiswoode, W¥.—
A Mode of Exciting an Induction Coil. Schwendler, Z.—On a New Standard
of Light. Rayleigh, Lord.—Investigations in Optics, with Special Reference
to the Spectroscope.

The Publishers’ Circular,—Vol. XLIT, Nos. 1012 and 1013.

———. Quarterly Review,—No. 296, October 1879.

-———. The Monthly Journal of Science,—Vol. I, Nos. 60 and 61, Octo-
ber and November 1879.

No. 61. National Scientific Appointments. Longevity, or the Natural Duration
of Life. Barber, Rev. Si—Habits of Animals in relation to the Weather.
Williams, W. M.—The Temperature of the Sun. Thompson, LE. H.—Atlan-
tis not a Myth.

———. The Quarterly Journal of Science,—Vol. II (New Series).
———. Journal of the Society of Arts,—Nos. 1110, 1286, 1307, 1340,
1341, 1407—1412.
No. 1407. Preece, W. H.—Recent Advances in Telegraphy.
No. 1408. The India Museum.
———. Westminster Review,—No. 112, October 1879.

The Indian Mutiny. India and our Colonial Empire.

Paris. Comptes Rendus,—Vol. LXXXIX, Nos. 18—22.

Caligny, A. de-—Expériences sur un siphon renversé 4 deux branches horizonta-
les, pouvant élever de l’eau a des hauteurs considérables, &c. Klercher, de.—
Sur le spectre anormal de ja lumiére. Franchimont.—Sur la cellulose animale
outunicine. Jolly, L.—Recherches sur les différents modes de combinaison
de V’acide phosphorique dans la substance nerveuse. Heckel, H.—Des poils et
des glandes pileuses, dang quelques genres de Nymphéacées.

——. Journal des Savants,—October and November 1879.
——. Revue des deux Mondes,—Tome XXXVI, Liv. 2 and 3.
——. Revue Critique,—Vol. VIII, Nos. 45—49.
Revue Scientifique,—Vols. VII; IX; X; XVII, Nos. 20—23.
No. 20. Boulard, J—lWLa Transmission de la Force Motrice par l’intermédiaire
de I’ électricité. Les Dragages sous-marins d’Alexandre Agassiz. Le golfe
du Mexique et la mer des Antilles.

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Linps, ¥. Tea in India: a Sketch, Index and Register of the Tea Indus-
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‘Vaittiriya Safihita, 31 fasci. 1. cece sccees ceseee scenes saree Seetemngel ne
Mr aithiriva Acanyeka, 11 fancies ck cede ces useucancesee eour run eu eess
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_ As/valayana Gribya Sutra, 4 fase... ss .ssese cesses ces eseee cere ee sete ce eens
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Tandya Brahmana, 19 fasci. Peo hee OOTP OO CHOC TOD Pee e Bee e Deo ee SE Cede Ce eD

opathaiea Mandy 2 fasCl ots ier ole ves we ssyshs dle sia’s We we cleccie wre cils wainie ote eifs'a\
Atharvana Upanishads, 5 faci, 0... ce esseneee seerenes coe ceceee care aees
Agni Purana, 14 fasci. esecve O08 Creel Oe CoH HOw ETH OSHe DETR BESTE O Cora Se oHOD
Sama Veda Sanhita, 37 fasCi. .. 0c sees cece e eves CRO CEORIOR Titno EOS EEOC AGEN
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‘Pingala Chhandah Sutra, 3 fasci. oo canoes eoce 29686000 cece ee oo ee ve cook cee oe
Taittiriya Pratis’akhiya, 3 fasci. Diaid’ PSLMNIe hi, ela ete etare OLacee arora i sveernioehotalistertecieiptanics
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Rajatarangini, ...... sens meee tence ences cone eeteneee se se ee ceee seen ne an
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Pali Grammar, 2 fasci. . sescee 08 Bees 080 e0200e eeese8 AES REUSE 82s
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Brahma Siitra; Hnglish, Ee Te EO oR

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_Bhamati, 7 fasci. oe es ee . Cees s we sores esse Swe vie es ceceiee seus ea ee.

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Annual Meeting, 1880 Fg ad ae SRG YE Ss SUPER MEG ERR EE MEMES E ED ae
Annual Report of the Council ....... SR eo I SERDAR
Abstract of Council Proceedings cove 1879 . oniien. t
President's (AGOLCSH. oe kccnsas casa e Makcake ems Rie uRece ene eGEE ean
Election of Officers and Members of Council for 1880.. . ;
Monthly General Meeting in February ........e...seseeseesseeeecen eee ee
Letter from Col. J. F. Tennant, regarding Newcomb’s Astronomical
Papers .
Papers—
1. A History of the Fossil Vertebrata of India. oe R. LyDEKKER,
B. A. CPible only Ja. s-sesiaera sa seine y ane aceaeduaset get ecte saan rts es
2. Onthe Zoological Position of the Barhal, or Blue-sheep of
Thibet.—By R. Lyprxxnr, B. a. (Abstract) ...c0...... 00.0.
3. An Account of the Verification in part of a set of Standard
Weights and the Relative Values of the series of Weights
in use.—By Cou. J. F. Tennant, B. £., F. B. 8. (Abstract)...
4, Rude Megalithic Monuments in North eta Lirvt.-Cou.
B. R. Branrrut (Abstract) . He aa
5. Supplementary Note to the Pelee on thal ane of He Sanee
or Mitra Dynasty—By A. C. Cariuryiz, Arckzological
Survey :of (nia {3c5.ssessavepares orice tendon iaebaaweee sire te
Communication received 7 eyseaienasvanepeuiee oe peusaewtieeevecenes
DEATH sve atns as or ede bs vies cvs mergers casnrsewe

Now Ready.

THEO ANT AOU TALES 0 ORISSA,

BY
RA’JENDRALA’LA MITRA, LL. D.

VoLumeE II,

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*,* Containing detailed descriptions of the Temples of Bhuvaneswara,
Puri ad Canarac, It extends to about 210 pages Folio, and is ee

with sixty Se and lithographs.

PROCEEDINGS

‘OF THE

ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL,

FoR J EBRUARY, 1880.

The Annual Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was held on
the 4th of February, 1880, at 9 P. mu.

H. B. Mepurcorr, Hsq., F. R. 8., President, in the Chair.

According to the Bye-Laws of the Society, the President ordered the
voting papers to be distributed for the election of Officers and Members
of Council for 1880, and appointed Lt.-Col. Sconce and M. von Hetvelde,
Serutineers.

The PrustpEnt called upon the Secretary to read the Annual Report.

PNNUAL REPORT FOR 1879.

In presenting the following report on the condition of the Society
during the year 1879, the Council are glad to be able to congratulate the
Members again upon the satisfactory state of its affairs. Thirty-three
Members were added to the list during the year, of whom 2 were old
Members who were re-entered without election, and 31 were new Mem-
bers. The total number removed from the list was 32, of whom 10 died ~
and 14 retired. The total number of Ordinary Members at the end of
the year was 329 as compared with 327 at the end of 1878. Of the
Ordinary Members 36 are absent from India, and of the rest 111 are
Resident, 154 Non-Resident, 16 Foreign and 12 Life Members.

The annexed tabular Statement shows the fluctuation in the number
of Ordinary Members during the past 6 years.

22 Annual Report. [Frs.

PAYING. Non-Payinea.

YEAR. 4 . 3 3 . TOTAL.

2 o a 8 on =

s iS os 5) 3 2

S & AS 5 oH wa

i ate fa ies "a =
WS Aimee ete, te. ete: 312 Def 184. 3 32 346
ICSU Sea erten AO a 292 113 179 3 50 B45
MS Gaomcneee nce ree 294 119 1/5) 5 4S 347
HS Tigers conn NEE 290 113 163 14 9 AG 345
ES Seeey rece eee: 285 7 153 15 13 29 327
1879 281 ill 154 16 12 36 329

During the year Professor Henry and M. Stanislas Julien, two of
the Honorary Members of the Society, died. To fill the vacancies thus
caused and others existing previously, the following gentlemen have
been appointed to be Honorary Members :—Prof. E. B. Cowell, Dr. A.
Gunther, Dr J. Janssen, Prof. H. Milne-Edwards, Prof. P. Regnaud, and
M. E. Renan.

The following names of Ordinary Members appear in the obituary of
the year:—

Nawab Amir Ali Khan Bahadur, Mr. R. 8S. Brough, Mr. G. B. Damant,
Mr. R. B. Shaw, Mr. H. C. Sutherland, the Maharaja of Vizianagram,
Mr. G. Robb, Mr. F,. L: Beaufort, Mr. F. Wilcox‘and Capt. C. J. F.
Forbes, F. R. G. 8:,

In Mr. Brough the Society lost a most active Member. He died
suddenly of cholera, on the 8rd April, having only the previous evening
attended, apparently in good health, a meeting of the Society ; and assisted
in showing experiments in connection with a paper on a “new standard of
light” read by Mr. Schwendler. He promised to become in time an
eminent physicist, and was the author of the following papers in the Pro-
ceedings of the Society :—

In 1877. “A theoretical deduction of the best resistance of a tele-
graph receiving instrument.”

“Note on Prof. Graham Bell’s telephone.”

“On a case of lightning; with an evolution of the potential and quan-
tity of the discharge in absolute measure.”

“On the diameter of the wire to be employed in winding an electro-
magnet in order to procure the maximum magnetic effect.”

In 1878. “Magnetic elements for northern India.”

* A mistake was printed in last year’s Report.

1880. ] Annual Report. 23

“On the proper relative sectional area for copper and iron hghtning
rods.”

Indian Museum,

The following presentations made to the Society have been transferred
to the Indian Museum under the provisions of Act XXII of 1876.

(1). Seulptural stones from Buddha Gaya, presented by the Gov-
ernment of Bengal, through Dr. R. Mitra.

(2). Three small figures; one stone, one bronze, and one copper.

(8). A celt found by Capt. Badgley at Shillong, in 1873.

(4). Geological and other specimens collected by Lieutenant R. C.
Temple in the march between Kala Abdullah Khan and Lugari Barkhan.

Three vacancies in the oftice of Trustee having occurred through the
departure to England of Mr. W. T. Blanford, the President; of Major
J. Waterhouse and of Mr. T. S. Isaac,—Dr. Hoernle, Dr. Lewis and Mr.
Crawfurd were elected Trustees on the part of the Society.

Finance.

It will be seen from the accounts annexed to this Report that the
financial condition of the Society is satisfactory, notwithstanding the
loss of income involved in the reduction of the rate of interest on its
investments in Government Securities.

A special Committee was appointed during the year to consider and
report or the form of account hitherto kept by the Society, and, in accor-
dance with its recommendations, the system of accounts is now under re-
vision. Mr. Westland, to whom the thanks of the Society are due for
undertaking this important work, has completed the revision of the Socie-
ty’s accounts, which will accordingly be found published in a form some-
what differing from that adopted in former years. Similarly, the accounts
of the O. P. Fund and Conservation of Sanskrit MSS. Fund will shortly
be revised and placed on a more satisfactory footing.

London Agency.

At the close of 1878 there was a balance due from the Society to
Messrs. Triibner and Co., amounting to £28-10-2. The sale proceeds of
the Society’s publications, sold by Messrs. Triibner during that year,
amounted to Rs. 868-1-7 and of the Bibliotheca Indica to Rs 311-4-0.

Nineteen invoices, consisting of publications of Scientific Societies
presented to the Society, and of books purchased, were received from
Messrs, 'Triibner and Co. during the past year. The money value of these
consignments was £136-17-8. 404 copies of the Journal, and 316 copies
of the Proceedings were despatched to them for sale, besides 628 copies
of the Bibliotheca Indica publications.

24 Annual Report. [Frs.

Library. f

The additions to the Library during the year comprise in all 1,433
volumes or parts of volumes. Of these, 741 were received as presentations
from Government, from authors, or by exchange, and 692 were purchased.

In last year’s report it was stated that the Catalogue of the books
in the Library which had been carried out under the late Mr. Blochmann
required careful revision. On examination, the work done was found to
be defective and it is now being carefully revised under the directions of the
President. Twenty-two book-cases have been examined, and the cata-
loguing of 2,431 books carefully checked. As there are more than 7,570
books, in cases numbered up to 86, it appears that little more than a
quarter of the work is accomplished. It is necessarily a tedious process,
and cannot be hurried through, while the Assistant Secretary can only give
it his spare hours from current work.

Publications.

The publications issued by the Society during the year comprise 10
numbers of the Proceedings consisting of 293 pages of text with 11 plates.
Four numbers of the Journal Part I, have been issued containing 405
pages, illustrated with 9 plates. Of the Journal Part II, 4 numbers also
have been issued consisting of 234 pages of text with 25 plates. The
Title-Page and Index of Part II of 1879, will be issued with No. 1 for
1880, and the fourth part of Part I of 1879 will be published in a few
days.

The 1st Part of the extra number to which allusion was made in last
year’s report, containing Moore and Hewitson’s “Descriptions of New Indian
Lepidoptera found in the collection of the late Mr. W. S. Atkinson” has
now been received, and is ready for distribution to Members.

Building.

The total amount expended in repairs to the Society’s premises dur-
ing the year was Rs. 488-8-0. Besides this, Rs. 110 was spent on remoy-
ing 4 ancient pillars supporting the staircase, which were claimed by the
Trustees of the Indian Museum, and substituting light iron pillars. Half
of this charge was recovered from the Trustees of the Museum.

‘Coin Cabinet.

The additions to the Coin Cabinet have been very large during the year
under review. The total number of coins added, is 167. This is, in a great
measure, owing to the orders of Government, issued, at the instance of the
Council, to the Civil Authorities throughout the countr y to inform the
Asiatic Society of all finds of coins within their respective jurisdictions, in
order to give it a chance of purchasing. Accordingly a large number of

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1880. ] _ Annual Report. 25

purchases have been made ; altogether 122. Among these are four gold
coins, two Roman (of Domitian and Vespasian) and two South Indian
(a Pagoda and a Mada). Again 114: silver coins ; v7z., 19 of Sher Shah
of Delhi (six are new) ; 15 of Islam Shah of Delhi; 1 of Muhammad Shah
of Bengal, 1 of Sultan Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah of Bengal; 2 of
Bahadur Shah of Bengal; 1 Surat Shahi; 1 of Sher Shah of Lakhnau, 1
Machlidar of Lakhnau; 1 Tara Shahi; 1 Choli Mohesh; 1 of Burhampur,
1 of Banjrangarh ; 12 from Guzarat (Pathoos ?) ; 12 from Budaon (five with
the imperfect legend Sri-Mahama.........); 2 of Mahmud Shah (from
Bijnaur)*; 1 from Sattara; 1 from Surat; 1 from Nassik; 1 Bakhri
Rupee ; 14 intermediate between the Indo-Scythian and the Adi Varaha
series ; 12 early Hindu punched coins from Hoshiarpur and the 24-Par-
ganahs ; 3 oboli of Alexander ; 1 of Ptolemy Philadelphus, 1 of Antiochus
Epiphanes, 1 of Antiochus, 1 of Philip III of Macedon, 1 of Antoninus, 1
of Demetrius, and four unnamed. The copper coins purchased are four ;
viz., 2 of the Bull and Horseman type (from Hoshiarpur) ; 1 large
Alexander, and 1 large Antoninus.

The number of coins presented is 45; viz., 8 gold, 3 silver, and 34
copper. Among these there are two gold (one of Chandragupta II and
one of the series intermediate between the Guptas and the Indo-Scythians)
and two copper (of Azes and of Su-Hermaeus) from F. S. Growse, Esq.,
c. 8.; 6 gold (out of the Ahin Posh Tope find, 3 of Kadphises, and 8 of
Kanerki) from the Indian Government ; 3 silver (of Bahadur Shah, Sher
Shah and Islam Shah) from Babu Surjyanarain Singh ; 29 copper (of the
Maharajahs and Sultans of Kashmir) from Charles J. Rogers, Esq., Prin-
cipal of the Normal College in Amritsar ; and 3 copper (modern Nepali
pice) from Syed Ahmed Khan.

A Catalogue of all the coins in the Society’s Cabinet is in course of
preparation.

Secretary’s Office.

Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle has continued to hold the Philological Secre-
taryship and charge of Part I of the Journal.

Major J. Waterhouse performed the duties of General Secretary till
December, when Mr. J. Crawfurd was appointed in his place. Major
Waterhouse also edited Part II of the Journal until Mr. Wood-Mason
resumed the Natural History Secretaryship in October.

* Legend ; obv., the great king, conqueror of the world and faith, Abul Muzaffar
Mahmiid, son of the king. ev., during the reign of Mu’tasim, Lord of the Faithful.’

fiound the cirele on both sides, struck this silver coin in the city of Delhi in the year 653
Hijra.

26 Annual Report. [Fer.

The Treasurership has been held throughout the year by Mr. Bever-
ley, with the exception of about 3 months from May to July, when Mr.
Medlicott acted for him.

Mr. W. E. Bateman resigned the Assistant Secretaryship in February,
and Mr. W. A. Bion was appointed in his place.

Mr. Andrews, and Babus Kedarnath Bysack and Ramjibun Mooker-
jea have continued to hold the post of Assistant Librarian, Cashier and
Assistant Cashier respectively. Babu Jadubinda Bysack left the service
of the Society in September, and was succeeded, as storekeeper, by Babu
Jogendranath Mittra.

Bibliotheca Indica.

In the two series together, twenty-four fasciculi were issued during
the year ; four in the Persian, and twenty in the Sanskrit. . They belong to
eleven different works, of which three, in the Sanskrit series, have been
completed. The latter are the Agni Purana, the Chaturvarga Chintémani
and the Kdtantra. Of the works published one, in the Persian series, is an
English translation of the Tabaqat-1-Nayiri; the rest are text editions, nine
in Sanskrit and one in Persian.

A. Persian Series.

Major H.G. Raverty has brought out two fasciculi of his annotated
English translation of the TaBagAt-1-NAstrfi. The addition of two more
fasciculi, it is expected, will complete the work.

Maulvi Abdur Rahim of the Calcutta Madrasah has issued one double-
fasciculus, consisting of two numbers, of the Persian text of Abul Fazl’s
AKBAR NAMAH. These complete the second volume of the work, of which
one volume more remains to be published, in order to complete it. It con-
tains the history of Akbar’s reign to 980 Hejira (A. D. 1572). An index to
Vol. II of all proper names mentioned in it, similar to that of Vol. I,
will also be published.

B. Sanskrit Series.

Dr. Rajendralala Mitra has brought out the last fasciculus of the Aaytr
Purdna. The text edition of that work was completed last year in three
volumes. Dr. Mitra has now added an English introduction, which very
fully describes the contents of that important work. It is a sort of Cy-
clopedia of Sanskrit Literature, and is beside the Vishnu Purdna and the
Vayu Purana, the most ancient and most authentic of that class of Sans-
krit works. The text of the first has been edited twice, though not by this
Society. An edition of the text of the second is now in course of publi-
cation by the same learned editor, to whom the Society is indebted for the
edition of the Agni Purana.

1880. ] Annual Report. 27

Of the Vayu Purana, the editor of which, as above mentioned, is Dr.
Rajendralala Mitra, three fasciculi have been issued. An English translation
of this work will appear under the auspices of the Oxford University
authorities.

The text of the Tarrrrriya Samra, which is edited by Pandit Ma-
hesachandra Nyayaratna, the Principal of the Sanskrit College, has been ad-
vanced by two fasciculi. The work contains the earliest recension of the
mantras of the Black Yajur Veda together with the commentary of Madhava
Acharya.

The same learned editor has also issued one more fasciculus of the
Mimdnsa Darsana, a critical commentary on the Ritual of the Veda
accompanied by the commentary of Savara Svamin.

Of the Gopuitiva Grinya Surra three fasciculi have appeared. The
edition is illustrated by a commentary compiled by the editor himself,
Pandit Chandra Kanta Tarkalankara. The work is expected to be com-
pleted in the course of the current year ; only one more fasciculus is want-
ing.

Pandit Bala Sastri, of the Benares College has brought out the seventh
fasciculus of the BHAMaTI, which is a Gloss on Sankara Acharya’s com-
mentary on the Brahma Stitras by Vachaspati Misra. Owing to ill-health
the learned editor was not able to complete the work during the past year,
as he had hoped to do; but there is every prospect of its being concluded
in the present year.

Six fasciculi have been issued of HemApRI’S CHaTURVARGA CuHINTA-
MANI. ‘This concludes the second volume. ‘Three MSS. of one of the three
remaining volumes, the Sraddha Khanda, have been collected. The rest
cannot be published, for want of MSS. from which to edit them.

The scholarly edition of the KAranrra, for which the Society is
indebted to Professor J. EHggeling of Edinburgh, has also been completed
during the year, by the issue of the fifth and the sixth fasciculi. The last
fasciculus is enriched by excellent critical notes and an index of Sitras,
contributed by the editor. This is one of the most important grammati-
eal works of India, inasmuch as it is the most complete existing representa-
tive of the Sanskrit Grammar before Panini. The text contains both the
stitras and the commentary on them by Durga Sitha.

Dr. A. F. Rudolf Hoernle’s edition of the Privutrdsa Rasav, the
famous epic of Chand Bardai in old Hindi, has advanced by one fasciculus,
the third of Part If. The work isa large one and the difficulties, owing
to the ancient character of its language, considerable ; moreover one of the
co-editors, Mr. J. Beames, who has published one fasciculus of Part I, has
retired from the work. It will be some time, therefore, before it can be
brought to a conclusion.

28 Annual Report. [Frs.
The following is a detailed list of the publications issued during 1879.

Persian Series.

1. Tapagdr-1-NAstrf, by Abi ’Amr.i-’ Usman, translated by Major
H. G. Raverty. Nos. 358 and 359. Fasc. IX and X.

2. Axphr-NAman, by Abul-Fazl-i-Mubarak-i-Allami, edited by Mau-
lawi ’Abd-ur-Rahim, Caleutta Madrasah. Nos. 431, 482. Vol. II, Fase.
IV.

Sanskrit Series.

3. Agni Purdna, a system of Hindu Mythology and Tradition,
edited by Dr. Rajendralaila Mitra, c.1. =. No. 421. Fase. XIV, (In-
troduction).

4. Wayu-PourAna, a system of Hindu Mythology and Tradition,
edited by Dr. Rajendralala Mitra, c. 1.5. Nos. 420, 424, 428. Fase.
I—IIl.

5. Tarrrmiya Samurr4, of the Black Yajur Veda, with the com--

mentary of Madhava Acharya, edited by Pandit Mahesa Chandra Nyayarat-
na. Nos. 289, 241. Fase. XXX and XXXI.

6. Mfmdsysa Darsana, with the commentary of Savara Sv4min,
edited by Pandit Mahega Chandra Nyayaratna. No. 388. Fase. XIV.

7. Gosuiniya Griraya SUrra, with a commentary by the editor,
edited by Chandra Kanta Tarkalankara. Nos. 415, 416, 423. Fase. VIII,
EXC OXC:

8. Butwarf, a Gloss on Sankara Acharya’s commentary on the
Brahma Stitras by Vachaspati Misra, edited by Pandit Bala Sastri. No.
427. Fase. VII.

9. CHaTURVARGA Curntimani, by Hemadri, edited by Pandits
Yogesvara Bhattacharya and Kamakhyanatha Tarkaratna. Nos. 417, 418,
419, 422, 426, 429. Vol. II, Part, II, Fase. VII—XII.

10. KAranrra, with the commentary of Durga Siiha, edited with
notes and indexes, by Dr. Julius Eggeling. Nos. 396, 397. Fase. V and
VEE
11. Prirairisa Rasav, of Chand Bardai in the original old Hindi
by Dr. A. F. Rudolf Hoernle. No. 430. Part II. Fasc. III.

Among the works which it is contemplated by the Society: to publish
in the place of those which have been completed or are approaching com-
pletion, there are the following :

Arabic-Persian Series.
1. English Translation of the Tarikh-ul-Khulfa by Jalaluddin.
us Suyuti with a short memoir of the author, by Major H. S. Jarrett,
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2. English Translation, with notes, of Vol. II. of the Ain-i-Akbari,
uniform with the late Mr.. Blochmann’s annotated translation of Vol. I, by
Captain H. W. Clarke, r. &.

Sanskrit Series.
1. MArrrdvani Samurrf, one of the best known texts of the Yajur
Veda, edited by Dr. L. Schroeder.

2. English Translation with notes, of the KatHis Sarit SAGara, the
well-known treasury of Indian Folklore, by C. H. Tawney Hsq., m. «.,
Principal of the Presidency College.

3. English Translation with notes, of the CHaraKa, the oldest Hin-
du work on Medicine, by Dr. Mahendralala Sarcar.

List of Societies and Institutions with which Huchanges of Publications
have been made during 1879.

Amsterdam :—Royal Zoological Society.

Batavia :—Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences.
Berlin :—Royal Academy.

Berne :—Swiss Entomological Society.

Bombay :—Bombay Branch, Royal Asiatic Society.
:—Kditor, Indian Antiquary.

Boston :—Natural History Society.

Bordeaux :—Bordeaux Academy.

Buenos Ayres :—Public Museum.

Brussels :—Royal Academy of Sciences.

—:—Geological Society of Belgium.

Calcutta :—Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India.
—:—Geological Survey of India. .
Cherbourg :—Nationai Society of Natural Science.
Christiana :—University Library.

Copenhagen :—Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries.
Cambridge :—University Libravy.

Colombo :—Royal Asiatic Society, Ceylon Branch.
California :—Californian Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dehra-Dun :—Great 'Trigonometrical Survey.

Dublin :—Royal Irish Academy.

Edinburgh :—Royal Society.

Geneva :—Physical and Natural History Society.

Genoa :—Museum of Natural History.

Konigsberg :—Physical and Heonomical Institution.
Leipzig :—German Oriental Society.

Leyden :—Royal Herbarium.

Liége :—Royal Society of Sciences.

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:—Royal Society.

:—British Museum.

:—Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
:—Royal Institution.

:—Institution of Civil Engineers.
:—Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
:—Royal Geographical Society.
:—Zoological Society.

:—Statistical Society.

:—Geological Society.

:—Linnean Society.

:—Anthropological Institute.

:—Royal Astronomical Society.
:—Royal Microscopical Society.
:—KEditor, Athenzeum.

:—Editor, Academy.

:—Hditor, Nature.

:—Society of Telegraph Engineers.
Lyon :—Agricultural Society.

:—Natural History Society.

:—Museum of Natural History.

Madras :—Literary Society.

Manchester :—Literary and Philosophical Society.
Moscow :—Socicété des Naturalistes.

Munich :—Royal Academy.

Netherlands :—Royal Society.

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New Haven, U. 8S. :—Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.

New South Wales :—Royal Society.

Oxford :—Bodleian Library.

Paris :—Imperial Library.

——— :—Anthropological Society.

—— :—Asiatic Society.

—— :—Geographical Society.

:—Zoological Society.

Philadelphia :—Academy of Natural Science.

Pisa :—Tuscan Society of Natural Sciences.

Stettin :—Hntomological Society.

Stuttgardt :—Natural History Society of Wurtemberg.
St. Petersburgh :—Imperial Library.

—— :—Imperial Russian Geographical Society.
——— :—Imperial Academy of Sciences.
-——— :—Imperial Botanical Gardens.

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Stockhoim :—Royal Academy of Sciences.
Trieste :—Adriatic Society of Natural Science.
Turin :—Academy.
United States, America :—Geological Survey of the Territories.
Vienna :—Imperial Geological Institute.
:—Anthropological Society.
——— :—Imperial Academy of Sciences.
:—Zoological Society.
Washington :—Smithsonian Institution.
:—Commissioners of the Department of Agriculture.

Yokohama :—German Oriental Society.

:—Asiatic Society of Japan.

ABSTRACT OF PRocEEDINGS OF CoUNCIL DURING 1879.
January 2nd. Ordinary Meeting.

A recommendation of the Finance Committee, with reference to a let-
ter from Messrs. Triibner and Co., dated 13th August, that Messrs. Triibner
should be allowed to sell the Journal and Proceedings at 4s. and 1s. respec-
tively, while accounting to the Society at the rate of 3s. and 9d., was agreed
to.

January 30th. Ordinary Meeting.

-The sale of the out-house situated at the north-west corner of the
Society’s premises for Rs. 100 was approved of.

Kebruary 4th. Special Meeting.
The Annual Report and Accounts were submitted.

Kebruary 27th. Ordinary Meeting.
The Members of the Finance and other Committees were elected.

March 2% th. Ordinary Meeting.

The Proceedings were ordered te be sent monthly by Parcel Express,
and the Journals quarterly, to Messrs. Triibner and Co.

Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle’s offer to make a Catalogue raisonné of the coins
in the Society’s Cabinet was accepted.

It was resolved that the Government should be asked to give the
Society some of the duplicates among the coins found in the Ahin Posh
Tope.

Mr. J. Westland was appointed a Member of the Finance Committee,

Copies of Mr. H. Rivett-Carnac’s letters on the subject of the pre-
servation of Antiquarian Remains were ordered to be submitted to Govern-
ment, with a suggestion from the Council, that District Officers and Engi-

32 / Annual Report. [FrEs.

neers of State Railways should be requested to preserve all Archzological
Remains they might come across.

A letter from the Secretary to the Government of India, Department
of Revenue, Agriculture and Commerce, No. 69 (Marine Surveys), dated
18th March, forwarding copy of a letter from Commander A. D. Taylor
on the subject of the Sea Dredging Operations, and requesting that the
Government may be favoured with any remarks which the Society may
desire to offer thereon, was referred.to the Dredging Committee.

May \st. Ordinary Meeting.

A letter was read from the Under-Secretary to the Government of
Bengal, No. 78° Misc., dated 27th March, forwarding a copy of a letter from
the Officiating Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department,
No, 654, dated 18th March, conveying the thanks of the Governor-General
in Council to Dr. Rajendralala Mitra for his suggestions on the subject of
the discovery and preservation of the records of ancient Sanskrit litera-
ture. The letter was ordered to be recorded.

A letter was read from the Under-Secretary to the Government of
Bengal, No. 455 Misc., dated 27th March, forwarding copy of a resolution
dated 18th March, re-distributing the sum of Rs. 24,000 sanctioned for the
preservation of Sanskrit MSS., and requesting that a report of the progress
made in all branches of the work may be submitted as early as possible
after the close of the official year 1879-80. The letter was ordered to be
recorded, and a copy to be sent to Dr. Mitra with a request that he would be
kind enough to prepare the required report.

A request that the Society’s publications should be sent to the Chan-
dernagore Pustakagar was declined.

The Minutes of the Council upon a letter from the Under-Secretary
to the Government of Bengal No. 422 Misce., dated 27th March, appointing
the President and Natural-History Secretary ex-officio Members of the
Zoological Gardens Committee, was ordered to be recorded.

Professors Cowell, Regnaud and H. Milne-Edwards and Drs. Rajen-
dralala Mitra, Janssen and Giinther were nominated Honorary Members.

The Secretary reported that Mr. H. B. Medlicott had agreed to under-
take the duties of Treasurer to the Society, during Mr. Beverley’s absence
on leave.

May 29th. Ordinary Meeting.

A letter from the Officiating Under-Secretary to the Government of
India, Department of Revenue, Agriculture and Commerce, No. 118, dated
22nd May, stating that, owing to the present financial pressure, the Govern-
ment find it impossible to engage the services of Messrs. Murray and
Pierey to aid the Sea Dredging Operations, was ordered to be recorded.

1880. | Annual Report. 33

The exchange of the Society’s publications, containing botanical papers,
for the ‘ Acta Horti Petropolitani’’ was sanctioned.

A Committee, composed of Messrs. Beverley, Westland and Douglas,
was appointed to consider the question of a change being made in the keep-
ing of the Society’s accounts.

The question of Captain H. W. Clarke’s translation of the 2nd volume
of the Ain-i-Akbari was ordered to be deferred, as definite information had
been received that Mr. Blochmann had completed the translation of the 2nd
volume before his death.

The notice of the proposed change of Rule 14e was ordered to be cir-
culated to Resident Members.

An application from the Geographical Society of Metz for an exchange
of publications was declined.

The sum of Rs. 3800 was ordered to be remitted to Mr. Grote for the
purchase of coins from the Freeling Collection.

Mr. J. Douglas was appointed a Member of the Finance, and Major
Jarrett of the Philological, Committee.

Sune 26th. Ordinary Meeting.
A reward of Rs. 100 was ordered to be offered to any one giving infor-
mation that would lead to the discovery of the MSS. of the late Mr. Bloch-
mann’s translation of the 2nd volume of the Ain-i-Akbari.

July 31st. Ordinary Meeting.

A letter from Major H. 8. Jarrett, dated 9th July, requesting the
Society to undertake the printing of his translation of the Tarikh-ul-Khulfa,
was referred to the Philological Committee.

An application from the Adelaide Philosophical Society for an exchange
of publications was declined.

August 28th. Ordinary Meeting.

A letter from the Under-Secretary to the Government of Bengal,
No. 128° Misc., dated 18th August, stating that the Lieutenant—Governor
approved of the manner in which the Government grant to the Society for
the Conservation of Sanskrit MSS. had been spent, was ordered to be
recorded.

The receipt of 12 gold coins from the Ahin Posh Tope, presented by
the Government of India, Home, Revenue and Agricultural Department,
was ordered to be acknowledged with thanks.

It was resolved that Major-General J. T. Walker should be asked to
aceept the office of President, and that Mr. Wood-Mason be appointed
Member of Council, in place of Mr. W. T. Blanford.

34 Annual Report. [Frs.

The Secretary reported that Mr. Grote had lodged the money, sent for
the purchase of a selection from the Freeling Collection of coins, with Messrs.
H. S. King and Co., as it was uncertain whether the collection would be
sold, unless it could be done so ex bloc.

October 2nd. Ordinary Meeting.

An application from the Royal Microscopical Society for an exchange
of publications was agreed to.

It was ordered that, as Mr. Blochmann’s MSS. could not be found,
Captain H. W. Clarke should be informed that he could proceed with the
work of translating the 2nd volume of the Ain-i-Akbari.

Mr. Westland was appointed Member of Council, and Dr. Hoernle
Trustee of the Indian Museum, in place of Mr. T, S. Isaac.

The Minutes of the Council were read on a letter from Major-General
J. T. Walker declining the Presidentship of the Society.

It was resolved that Mr. C. H. Tawney should be asked to accept the
office.

The thanks of the Society were ordered to be conveyed to Messrs.
Grote and Moore for the trouble they had taken in the publication of the
Ist Part of the “ Descriptions of New Indian Lepidoptera.”

October 16th. Ordinary Meeting.

A letter was read from the Under-Secretary to the Government of
Bengal, No. 972, dated 9th October, forwarding copy of a letter to Mr.
G. A. Grierson stating that the Lieutenant-Governor had been pleased to
sanction a grant of Rs. 400 to the Society, as a subscription for the number
of copies of his Maithili Grammar covered by this sum. The letter was
ordered to be recorded.

M. E. Renan’s name was ordered to be inserted in the list of the
Honorary Members.

An advance to Dr. Mitra of Rs. 600 from the Conservation of Sanskrit
MSS. Fund to be expended in the search for Sanskrit MSS. was sanctioned.

Mr. Wood-Mason was re-appointed Natural-History Secretary.

A pension of Rs. 4 per mensem was granted to Manu, the office Jama-
dar, who had been in the service of the Society for 25 years.

November 27th. Ordinary Meeting.

A letter from the Under-Secretary to the Government of India, Home,
Revenue and Agricultural Department, No. 1922, dated 16th October, sanc-
tioning an additional sum of Rs. 1,500 for the cataloguing of the Sanskrit
MSS. in the Maharaja of Bikanir’s Library, was ordered to be recorded.

The exchange of the Society’s publications for Professor Carl’s “ Reper-
torium ftir experimental Physik’’ was sanctioned.

1880. ] President's Address. 35

The thanks of the Council were ordered to be conveyed to Mr. West-
land for his Memorandum on the proposed change in the Society’s accounts,
and his scheme was ordered to be adopted from the Ist of January 1880.

On Mr. Tawney’s declining to accept the Presidentship of the Society,
Mr. H. B. Medlicott was appointed President. Messrs. Tawney and West-
land were appointed Vice-Presidents, and Mr. J. Crawfurd Member of Coun-
cil and General Secretary.

A Memorandum was submitted by Mr. H. B. Medlicott, showing the
progress made in the revision of the new Catalogue.

The whole of the printing of the Bibliotheca Indica Series was ordered
to be made over to the Baptist Mission Press.

The price of coloured copies of Moore and Hewitson’s “ Descriptions
of New Indian Lepidoptera,’ Part I, was fixed at Rs. 6, or Rs. 4-8 for
Members.

December 24th. Ordinary Meeting.

The exchange of the “ Academy” for the Society’s publications was
sanctioned.

An application from the Royal Zoological Society of Amsterdam for
an exchange of publications was agreed to.

It was resolved that half the cost of substituting iron pillars for the
4 stone ones formerly supporting the staircase in the Society’s Rooms,
and which had been made over to the Indian Museum, should be recovered
from the Trustees.

Mr. J. Crawfurd was appointed a Trustee of the Indian Museum, and
Mr. J. F. Browne a Member of the Philological Committee.

A recommendation of the Finance Committee, that an increase of Rs. 10

per mensem should be made to the pay of the Assistant Librarian, was
approved.

The PRESIDENT then delivered the following address—

PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS,
GENTLEMEN,

I have already, on the very recent occasion of my nomina-
tion, expressed regret that a more suitable President had not consented to
stand. I have now only to thank you for the honour you have conferred
upon me, and to engage to do my best in performing the duties entrusted
to me.

It would be contrary to usage to expect an address from a newly-
made President ; indeed, as my election is confirmed only this evening, there
would be a sort of impropriety in my appearing before you with a ready-
made retrospect of work ; and my total unreadiness at impromptu speaking,

36 President's Address. [ Fes.

or indeed any kind of speaking, should have made me again persist in
declining a position in which such readiness is more or less essential. The
few remarks I have now to make relate only to business.

The suggestion may be traceable to my personal failing, as just now
indicated, but in thinking over the Society’s welfare and prospects, as your
President is bound to do, it has appeared to me with some force of reason
that a presidential address is a serious stumbling-block in our ease, and, as
such, an indicator of a difficulty that threatens the Society. It is the
only compulsory work contingent upon membership—excepting, of course,
the onerous duties undertaken by our Honorary Secretaries—and it falls
upon an office that should under our circumstances be free from any such
burden. In the good old times when we were all amateurs, when Sir
Edward Ryan and Sir James Colville presided over us, each for ten or
more successive years, no such task seems to have been thought of. The
innovation is traceable to the advent of the inevitable working man, the
professional student. As a member of the brotherhood I may speak of him
without offence. He soon introduced the customs of his kind, and set up
the didactic business, with the annual display of fireworks over the
achievements of the year. I am not prepared to say that the practice is
an evil: an occasional taking stock of progress, local or general, (as was
done for us last year by Mr. Blanford) is most useful and instructive, and
there are sometimes gifted men who can turn every such opportunity to
account, but as a regular institution an annual presidential address is every-
where more or less of an incubus, and under certain circumstances may be
seriously damaging, as I think it would be with us.

In normal communities scientific societies are mostly restricted to spe-
cial branches of study, and are sufficiently supported by men more or less
devoted to that study, and who think it an honour, and an advantage to
belong to the society. For larger societies that deal with all subjects
there are also enough and to spare of scientific workers seeking the advan-
tages or the honour of fellowship. If there were any need to illustrate
how abnormal is the community to which we belong in India, the statistics
of our Society would be much to the point. The relation of the body to
the members seems to be almost the reverse of what I have indicated as
normal. ‘The very precarious hold the Society has upon its members has
always been a complaint, but instead of mending with the advance of civili-
zation, there are signs of its becoming a serious disease. This has been
distressingly exhibited of late in connexion with a praiseworthy endeavour
made by our administration to get the affairs of the Society into more
regular working order. In some instances when notice was sent to mem-
bers, calling attention to the rules of the Society and stating how long the
subscription had been in arrears, while they had been in regular receipt of

1880. | President’s Address. 37

the Journal, instead of apologising for their neglect, as a proper sense of
the situation would dictate, they have not been ashamed to take offence at
the notice, and to request the removal of their name from the list of mem-
bers. The fact, I say, is a caution against attempting to regulate our
practice too closely on the pattern of Societies in a normal community.
Kxcept for the unavoidable introduction of a few scientific professional
men, the community in India is very much what it was 50 years ago,
although habits may have changed; and our Society is now as then very
largely composed of members of the several services whose interest in science
of any kind is more or less nominal, and who join the Society principally
under a vague sense of duty, that, as representatives of a higher civilization,
they should contribute to sustain in this country the only free exponent of
the basis of that civilization. Several causes have tended to slacken that
sense of duty. The greatly increased facilities of intercourse with the
mother country, whereby we can have quick enjoyment of many
of the privileges of her higher life, tends to obliterate the hitherto senti-
ment that India is at least our foster mother, that we are here as repre-
sentative men, with claims upon us that would not apply in the home
country. ‘There are around us men who are in a way good representatives
of modern intelligence, who, in former times, would certainly have taken an
interest if not an active part in this Society, but who now affect to ignore
it. On this plea we have a very strong appeal to make: no amount of bor-
rowed lght can compensate India for the extinguishing of ever so small
a source of independent light within herself. In the good old times when
we were all amateurs, several scientific or literary societies in different parts
of India managed to exist for various periods ; they have long since become
extinct ; and from the beginning till now our Society has been the only
one that has sustained a regular life. Hven as compared with many socie-
ties in Europe, tke career of the Asiatic Society of Bengal has been a dis-
tinguished one. It will be a disgrace to Englishmen in India if its suste-
nance should fall short.

From the statistics of our Society there is a more unfortunate expe-
rience to be learned than the danger I have pointed out. That danger
might be of no account if indigenous resources had been awakened and
developed, but of this there is still but small evidence. However Hnglish-
men may conduct themselves in India, they can never of themselves form
the normal community which it is the function of civilization to establish.
Superficially it did not seem an unreasonable hope that the seeds of know-
ledge would take root in this country, and in time yield an abundant crop
of native scientific workers, amongst whom this Society would find its
natural support. It is not to be doubted that this hope is yet to be
realised, but it seems as if the time required for the evolution were to be

38 President's Address. [Frs,

reckoned by geological rather than by ordinary life periods. I find indeed
the names of some 50 native gentlemen in our list of members, but a very
small minority of them are working partners, and these are still exclusively
attracted to the less exact branches of research, such as philology and
archeology, the cultivation of which studies had been long carried on under
indigenous methods. It seems as if a nédus for the seed of natural science
had not as yet been formed, or else even such teaching as has been given
must have borne fruit.

I have twice referred to the age of amateurs; and, from the lips of a
‘professional,’ it might be thought that the term was meant slightingly.
I used it as peculiarly designating the bond of fellowship that should unite
a Society like ours. The receipt of pay is certainly not exalting: the
only conditions to save it from being debasing are, that the work should be
congenial, and that no pains should be spared to make it good ; and these
are the characters that distinguish the amateur. His is aspirit that should
make every honest work invigorating. No doubt the title is variously
applied ; some usurp the name who work only for show; but these should
take rank with other quack professors, as the true professional man may
lay claim to the position of amateur. It is in this capacity that he is
admitted to our Society.

To come back to our starting point: I have made a principal appeal to
the moral consciousness of Englishmen in India, but it behoves us to do
what we can to conciliate so capricious an auxiliary. Ifit should come to
be thought that the Society is in the hands of, and sufficiently provided for
by, devotees in the shape of experts and ‘ professionals,’ we should risk
losing the very slight hold we have upon a large number of our members.
I do not speak without a knowledge of the subject, and I believe that some
such notion has already begun to take effect ; and the object of my remarks
is to suggest the only remedy I can think of—that we should not disguise
our position as amateurs, that we should, if possible, as of old, select our
President from those whom the men we have to look to are accustomed to
follow. From this point of view the innovation of an annual address is
certainly a scare and an impediment: which is the thesis I started with.
I am not prepared to say whether it is possible to interfere with what may
be an inevitable process of elimination: but that would not affect the accu-
racy of the diagnosis of our position I have submitted for your considera-
tion.

Although I have uttered a sort of Cassandra warning, it is, I am
happy to say, apparent from the report you have heard read that our
venerable Society is not yet on the verge of dissolution. The papers pre-
sented at our meetings during the past year are of high interest: in terres-
trial physics we have heard the results of the very important series of

1880. | President's Address. 39

pendulum observations in India, communicated by General Walker; and
Mr. H. F. Blanford has made several interesting contributions from his
studies in meteorology. In applied physics, valuable researches have been
exhibited by Mr. Schwendler and by Colonel Tennant, z.z. In natural
history, philology, archzeology and geography many instructive papers were
read and published. As a personal favour, I would ask permission to men-
tion here why there should be a conspicuous absence of geological work in
our publications, while the members of the Geological Survey have certain-
ly not been idle members of the Society : it is because the Survey possesses
in its Records a quarterly publication of its own, easily obtainable by every
one, and in which all work of interest receives prompt notice.

It is in connexion with the Library that members are most wont to
complain. While admitting that these complaints are founded on fact, I
would emphatically point out that guilty members are chiefly to blame for
the grievance. In a Society so old as ours and originally so well set up,
the collection of books should now be very valuable; and so it is; but
irreparable losses have been inflicted by the unconscionable conduct of mem-
bers, in taking out books and never returning them. The evil is far from
extinct ; men seem to think that their book-shelves are to be permanently
stocked with works of reference from the Society’s Library, and that, as mem-
bers, they can do just ay they please. It seems of little use to make rules,
for reference to them is in some cases constantly disregarded. I would
earnestly appeal to the sense of our members to be more reasonable in this
respect. Another cause of inefficiency is that from which every institution
in India is more or less a sufferer—the very frequent change and removal of
comptrolling officers who may take a personal interest in the establishment ;
and thirdly, there is the great difficulty in India of procuring a permanent
salaried officer who is competent for the higher duties of a Librarian. An
effort is now being made to get the Library into better order. In every
moment that can be spared from routine work, our new Assistant Secretary
is engaged in cataloguing and arranging the books upon an approved
system.

In the matter of accounts I have to make special mention of the great
obligation the Society is under to Mr. J. Westland. Our accounts have
no doubt always been effectively comptrolled and audited, but in a very
complicated and troublesome manner. Mr. Westland has, with much _per-
sonal labour, completely re-organised our financial records upon a proper
technical system.

I would finally ask you to join me in thanking our Honorary Secreta-
ries for their unwearied attention to the affairs of the Society.

40 Ordinary Monthly Meeting. [Frs.

The PRrestpEntT announced that the Scrutineers reported the result of
the Election of Officers and Council as follows :
H. B. Medlicott, Esq., M. a., F. B.8., F. G. 8., President.
Dr. Rajendralala Mitra, c. 1. EB,
J. Westland, Esq., c. 8.
C. H. Tawney, Esq., m. a.
J. Wood-Mason, Hsq.
Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle.
J. Crawfurd, Esq., c. 8.
H. Beverley, Esq., c. 8.
H. B. Medlicott, Esq., F. R. 8. )
Dr. Rajendralala Mitra, c. 1. B. |

Vice- Presidents,

Secretaries and Tryea-
surenr.

J. Westland, Esq., c. s.

C. H. Tawney, Hsq., M. A.,

Major-General J. T. Walker, F. RB. s.

D. Waldie, Esq., F. C. 8.

A. W. Croft, Esq., M. A.

H. F. Blanford, Esq., F. G. 8. + Members of Oowneil.
Babu P. C. Ghosha, M. A.

Dr. T. R. Lewis.

L. Schwendler, Esq.

J. Wood-Mason, Esq. |
Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle.

H. Beverley, Esq., c. 8.

J. Crawfurd, Esq., c. 8. J

Messrs. J. Douglas and J. Westland were appointed to audit the
annual accounts.

The Meeting was then resolved into the Ordinary Monthly General
Meeting.

H. B. Mepricort, Esq., F. B. 8., President, in the Chair.

The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.

The following presentations were announced—

1. From Mrs. G. H. Damant,—Gaur : its Ruins and Inscriptions. By
J. H. Ravenshaw.

2. From Dr. D. B. Smith,—2 Astronomical Charts.

8. From the Meteorological Reporter to the Government of India,—
Register of Original Observations in 1879, reduced and corrected. January
1879. .

4. From the Chief Secretary to the Madras Government,—two sil-
ver coins.

1880. ] Newcomb’s Astronomical Papers. AL

The following gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded at the last meet-
ing, were ballotted for and elected Ordinary Members—
The Hon’ble Arthur Wilson. Beharilal Gupta, Hsq., c. s.

The following are candidates for ballot at the next meeting—

1. Lieut. R. C. Tufnell, 30th Madras Infantry, proposed by M. Long-
worth Dames, Hsq., c. s., seconded by Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle.

2. Ramegvar Maliah, Hsq., proposed by Dr. R. Mitra, seconded by
J. Crawfurd, Hsq.

3. A.C. Carlleyle, Esq., proposed by Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle, seconded
by J. Crawfurd, Hsq.

The Srcrerary reported that Dr. R. A. Barker had compounded for
his future subscriptions.

The Councit reported that Mr. Wood-Mason had been elected Member
of Council on the 28th August, and had been been re-appointed Natural-
History Secretary on the 16th October.

The SecrRErARY read the following letter from Col. J. F. Tennant,
F. BR. S., drawing the attention of the Society to the lst Part of Vol. I of
Professor Newcomb’s “ Astronomical Papers for the use of the American
Nautical Almanac :”—

“T should like to draw the attention of members of the Asiatic Society
who may be interested in Ancient Chronology depending on Solar Helipses,
to the First Part of Vol. I of ‘ Astronomical Papers for the use of the
American Nautical Almanac.’ It is published in 1879 at Washington.

“The author, Professor Newcomb, Superintendent of the Almanac, has
recently been engaged in comparing Hanssen’s Lunar Tables with the records
of old eclipses, and he has arrived at certain results as to the corrections
required to satisfy observation. Inthe work I mention (a quarto of 56
pages), he has given an investigation of the laws of the recurrence of eclip-
ses, and obtained some relations not generally known or appreciated. Aided
by these, and taking Hanssen’s Tables as a basis, he has given tables which
enable one to ascertain, in a very short time, what eclipses occur in any year
between B. C. 700 and A. D. 2300, and to recognize their nature. Further
tables enable one to compute, with great ease, the fundamental numbers re-
quired for computing the phenomena of the eclipse by Bessel’s method.

“ All the results are approximate, but, when dealing with ancient records,
these approximations are sufficient, and, even in modern times, the tables will

give accuracy enough to enable one to know the character of an eclipse and
the rough limits of its several phases.”
=)

42 J. F. Tennant—Verification of Weights. [ Fes.

The following papers were read :—
1. A History of the Fossil Vertebrata of India — By R. LYDEKKER, B. A.

The author requested that this paper might be taken as read, as it was
too long to be read in extenso at the meeting. He remarked that
the history of the fossil vertebrates of India was intimately connected with
the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and it was, therefore, appropriate that a sketch
of the state of our knowledge of the subject should be presented to the
public through the Society.

This paper will be published in the Journal of the Society, Part IT,
No. 1 for 1880.

2. On the Zoological Position of the Barhal, or Blue-Sheep of Thibet.—
By BR. Lypexxer, B. A.

(Abstract. )

The author showed that the characters of the skull and horns in this
animal indicated closer relationship with the goats than with the sheep,
while the external characters were closer to those of the sheep, and con-
cluded that Hodgson’s genus Psewdois should be retained for the ‘ barhal.’

This paper will be published in the Journal, Part II.

Mr. Wood-Mason made a few remarks on this paper.

3. An Account of the Verification in part of a set of Standard Weights,
and the Relative Values of the Series of Weights in wse.—By Cou. J.
FB. Tennant, R. E., F. BR. S., aster of the Mint.
(Abstract. )

This paper describes the method by which a portion of the weights of
an English Bullion set have been compared, and their values found in terms
of a Standard Ounce, known in terms of the English Standard Pound,
Colonel Tennant has given full details, showing how the comparison and eva-
luation can be systematically carried out in some cases, and how an exceptional
case can be dealt with. He has everywhere kept a record of the probable errors
generated in his procedure, and has endeavoured to make his paper such
that it may serve as a guide to any one who may have to verify weights.
Tables are given in the appendix which are necessary to reduce the results
of weighings in air to what they would have been in a vacuum, and in deter-
mining specific gravities.

Lastly, Colonel Tennant compares the advantages of several systems of
weights, and discusses the best value of a Standard weight and describes the
results. he has arrived at, and by which he has been guided, in making
arrangements for a set of Standard Tolah weights for the Mint.

This paper will be published in the Journal, Part II

1880. | B. RB. Branfill—Wonuments in North Arcot. 43

4, Rude Megalithic Monuments in North Arcot.—By Lrzvr.-Cot. B. R.
BRanFiun. Communicated by Mason-GEenerat J. T. Waker, R. E.,
CyB ap amkuans:

(Abstract.)

The tombs described in this paper are of unusual interest on account
of the size, shape and arrangement of the slabs of which they are compos-
ed, and the rarity of their chief characteristic.

They are 30 feet in diameter, and consist of 3 concentric rings of up-
right stone slabs, half of them being semicircular at top. The three rings
are of various heights, the outermost being 3 feet, the innermost 12 or 15
feet high, above the cairn. ‘The whole forms an imposing structure and
recalls the idea of a small citadel or fortification. On excavating, the usual
sepulchral relics were found in them, except that iron weapons were very
scarce. The chief novelty to the author were two or three Tamil letters,
found scratched on a fragment of a little bowl.

This paper will be published in the Journal, Part I.

5. Supplementary Note to the Paper on the Ooins of the Sunga or Mitra
Dynasty.*—By A. C. CaRLLEyLE, Esq., of the Archeological Survey.
(Abstract.)

This paper describes another, apparently wntque, coin of a king of the
Sunga dynasty, called Ayu-mitra. He must have been one of the latest of
the dynasty, as the letters of the legend belong to the later Gupta period.
The obverse shows a bull, with the inscription underneath, “ ayu-mitasa ;”
the reverse apparently has a peacock and palm-tree.

This paper will be published in the Journal, Part I.

The following communication has been received—

Remarks on the Afghans found along the route of the Tal Chotiali Field

Force in the spring of 1879.—By Lieut. R. C. Tempe, B.C. S.,
F.R.G.S., M. BR. ALS:

* See Proceedings for January 1880.

A Library. [Fes.

PABRARY,

The following additions have been made to the Library since the Meet-
ing held in January last.

J RANSACTIONS, PROCEEDINGS AND, JOURNALS,

presented by the respective Societies and Editors.

Berlin. K. preuss. Akad. der Wissenschaften,—Monatsbericht, September
and October 1879.

Bombay. The Indian Antiquary,—Vol. VIII, Nos. 100, 101; Vol. IX,
No. 102 : December 1879 and January 1880.

Bordeaux. Société de Géographie Commerciale,—Bulletin, No. 24, 15th
December 1879, and No. 1, 5th January 1880.

Caleutta. Mahabharata,—No. 42.

The Hague. K. Instituut voor de Taal-Land-en Volkenkunde van nederl.
Indié,—Bijdragen, Vol. III, Nos. 1 and 2. .

Hanover. Geographische Gesellschaft,—Hrster Jahresbericht, 1879.

London. Athenzeum,—Nos. 2721—2725.

Geological Society,—List of Fellows on November 1st, 1879.

Quarterly Journal, Vol. XXXV, Part 4, November

1879.

. Institution of Mechanical Engineers,—Proceedings, No. 4
August 1879.
Nature,—Vol. XXI, Nos. 529, 531, 538.
Royal Astronomical Society,—Monthly Notices, Vol. XL, No. 1,
November 1879.
Herschel, Major.—Note on the Difference of Variation of Gravity at Revel and
St. Petersburgh ; and on Grischow’s Pendulum Observations at other stations,
Draper, Prof. J. C—On a Photograph of the Solar Spectrum, showing Dark
Lines of Oxygen.
Royal Geographical Society,—Proceedings, Vol. I, No. 12, De-
cember 1879.
Royal Microscopical Society,—Journal, Vol. II, No. 7, De-
cember 1879.
Mayall, J—Immersion Stage Illuminator. Record of Current Researches
relating to Invertebrata, Cryptogamia, Microscopy, &c.
Munich. Repertorium fiir Experimental Physik,—Vol. XV, No. 12, 1879.
Palermo. Societa degli Spettroscopisti Italiani,—Memorie, Disp. 8,
August 1879.

?

SSO Library, 45

Paris. Journal Asiatique,—Vol. XIV, No. 2, August—September 1879.
Société d’Anthropologie,—Bulletin, Vol. II, No. 3, April—July

1879.
Société de Géographie,—Bulletin, November 1879.

Société Zoologique de France,—Bulletin, Parts 5 & 6 for 1878,
and Parts 1 to 4 for 1879.

1879. Bureau, Dr. L.—Recherches sur la mue du bec des oiseaux de la famille

des Mormonidés. ‘
Pisa. Societa Toscana di Scienze Naturali,—Processi Verbali, Adunanza

del di 9 Novembre 1879.

Roorkee. Professional Papers on Indian Engineering,—Vol. IX, No. 35,
January 1880.

Washington. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories,—
Bulletin, Vol. V, Nos. 2 and 38.

MISCELLANEOUS PRESENTATIONS.

Report on the Administrations of the License Tax in Bengal for
1878-79. Fep., Calcutta, 1879.
Records of the Geclogical Survey of India,—Vol. XII, Part 4, 1879.
Waagen, Dr. W.—Note on the “ Attock Slates’ and their probable Geological
Position. Theobald, V.—Ona Marginal Bone of an undescribed Tortoise,
from the Upper Siwaliks, near Nila in the Potwar, Punjab. foote, R. B.—
Sketch of the Geology of the North Arcot District. Wynne, A. B.—On the
Continuation of the Road Section from Murree to Abbottabad.
BENGAL SECRETARIAT.
RavensHaw, J. H. Gaur; its Ruins and Inscriptions. Fol., London, 1878.
Mrs. G. H. Damant.
Report on the Administration of the North-West Provinceg and Oudh
for the year ending March 31st, 1879. S8vo., Allahabad, 1879.
Govt. oF THE NortH-WEST PROVINCES.
The Indian Antiquary,—Parts 100, 101 and 102.
Home, REvENvUE anp AGRin. Dept.
Registers of Original Observations in 1879, reduced and corrected.

January 1879.
Merror. REPORTER To THE GOVT. OF INDIA.

PERIODICALS fu RCHASED,

Calcutta. The Calcutta Review,—No. 139, January 1880.

The Indian Medical Gazette,—Vol. XV, No. 2, February 1880.

Geneva. Archives des Sciences physiques et naturelles,—Vol. II, No. 12.
15th December 1879.

Giessen, Jahresbericht ttber die Fortschritte der Chemie. 1879, Part II.

4G Library. [Fes.

Gottingen. Gelehrte Anzeigen,—Nos. 49—51.
. Nachrichten,—No. 17.
Leipzig. Annalen der Physik und Chemie,—Vol. VIII, Part 4.
. Beibliatter,—Vol. III, No. 12.
London. The Academy,—Nos. 8398—402.
—. Journal of Botany,—Vol. VIII, No. 204, December 1879.

Hartog, M. M.—Notes on Sapotacee.—Il.

British Association for the Advancement of Science,—Report of

the Meeting held at Sheffield, in August 1879.

The Chemical News,—Vol. XL, Nos. 1047, 1048; Vol. XUI,
Nos. 1049—1051.
The Entomologist,—Vol. XII, No. 199, December 1879.
The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine,—Vol. XVI, No. 187.
Lewis, G.—Diagnoses of new Liateride from Japan. Gosse, P. H.—Singular
occurrence in a Dipterous insect.
The Ibis,—Vol. III, No. 12, October 1879.
Seebohm, H,.—Remarks on certain Points in Ornithological Nomenclature.
Tristram, H. B.—On a Collection of Birds from the Solomon Islands and
New Hebrides. Wardlaw-Ramsay, R. G.—Ornithological Notes from Af-
ghanistan,—No. I. Wharton, H. T.—On the Orthography of some Birds’
Names. Jarshall, G. F. L.—On a new Pheasant from the North-West
Himalayas, Gurney, J. H.—Notes on a “ Catalogue of the Accipitres in the
British Museum,” by R. B. Sharpe. On the Occurrence of Ninow bornecnsis
in Java, and of a large Form of Scops lempiji in Sumatra. Layard, LB. L.—
Onanew Thrush from the Loyalty Islands Group. Salvadori, T.—On a
new Hawk of the Genus Urospizias, Haup, from Bourou.
—-—. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History,—Vol. IV, No. 24,
December 1879.

Sladen, W. P.—On the Structure of Astrophiura, a new and aberrant Genus of
Echinodermata. Butler, A. G.—Descriptions of new Species of Lepidoptera
from Japan. Ridley, H. N.—On a new Copepod of the Genus Doridicola.
Lewis, G.—On certain new Species of Coleoptera from Japan.

. The Nineteenth Century,—Vol. VI, No. 34, December 1879.

The Numismatic Chronicle,—Vol. XIX, Part 3, 1879.

The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine,—

Vol. VIII, Nos. 51 and 52.

No. 51. Nichols, H. L—A new explanation of the Colour of the Sky. Hutchin-
son, CO. C.—On the Separation and Estimation of Cadmium in the presence of
Zinc; with Remarks upon the Separation of Copper, Cadmium and Zinc.
Rosetti, F.—Experimental Researches on the Temperature of the Sun. Ray-
leigh, Lord.—Investigations in Optics, with special reference to the Spec-
troscope.

No. 52. Rosetti, F.—Experimental Researches on the Temperature of the Sun.
Hunt, R.—On the Influence of the Solar Rays on Vegetation. Schwendler, L.
—On a Simple Method of using an insignificant Fraction of the Main Current
produced by a Dynamo-electric Machine for Telegraph Purposes.

1880. | Library. AZ

London. The Publishers’ Circular,—Vol. XLII, Nos. 1014 and 1015.
The Monthly Journal of Science,—Vol. I, No. 72, December

1879.
The Action of Light on Plants. Are the Chemical Elements Simple Bodies ?P
Darwinism and Articulate Speech.
Journal of the Society of Arts,—Vol. XXVIII, Nos. 1413—1417.
New Haven. The American Journal of Science and Arts,—Vol. XVIII,
Nos. 106—108, October—December 1879.
No. 106. Draper, H.—Coincidence of the Bright Lines of the Oxygen Spec-
trum with Bright Lines in the Solar Spectrum.
No. 107. Marsh, O. C.—History and Methods of Paleontological Discovery.
New Jurassic Mammals.
No. 108. Draper, H.—Photographing the Spectra of the Stars and Planets.
Brooks, W. K.—Artificial Fertilization of Oyster Eggs, and Embryology of
the American Oyster. Broadhead, G. C.—Origin of the Loess. Marsh, O. C.
—New Jurassic Reptiles.
Paris. Annales de Chimie et de Physique,—Vol. XVIII, November 1879.
Comptes Rendus,—Vol. LXX XIV, Nos. 7 and 17 ; Vol. LXXXV,
Nos. 6, 17 and 26; Vol. LXXXVII, Nos. 2 and 21; Vol. LXXXIX,
Nos. 28—26; Yol. XC, No. 1.
; Index to Vols. LXXXVI and LXX XVIII.
———, Journal des Savants,—Vol. for 1839, and No. for December 1879.
Revue Critique,—Vol. VIII, Nos. 50—52; Vol. IX, Nos. 1

and 2.

Revue des deux Mondes,—Vols. XCIX.and CIV ; Vol. XXXVI,
Part 3; Vol. XXXVII, Parts 1 and 2.

Revue Scientifique—Vol. XVII, Nos. 24—26; Vol. XVIII,
Nos. 27 and 28.

Pooks PURCHASED.

Broca, P. Instructions craniologiques et craniometriques. 8vo., Paris,
1875.

CanpouLE, A. P. pz. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegeta-
bilis. 17 Vols. 8vo., Paris, 1824-73.

Cannone, A. & C. pE, Monographie Phanerogamarum Prodromi nunc
continuatio, nunc revisio, 2 Vols. S§vo., Paris, 1878-79.

Cuenv, Dr. J.G. Manuel de Conchyliologie et de Paléontologie conchy-
hologiaue. 2 Vols. Kl. 8vo., Paris, 1859-62.

FREDERICI, Kart. Bibliotheca Orientalis pour 1878. Sm. Ato., Leipzig,
1879.

Uermuorr, H. Théorie physiologique de la Musique. 8vo., Paris, 1874.

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Mzrzé-Koversp, Cu. E. Usratvy pr. Atlas Anthropologique des Peuples

de Ferghanah. 8vo., Paris, 1879.
Parliamentary Papers. East India (Silver). No. 8369. Fol., London, 1879.
ScuErer, Ch. Relation de Ambassade au Kharezm de Riza Qouly Khan.

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Page
Monthly General Meeting in March 0.0.0... ....s.snsets enveddecubines ven 49
Appointment of Committees ....0........eescssesceeseesereee weenssdobietewe 51
Note, by Dr. R. Mitra, on Arakan Coins ......... Saar 53
Note, by Major H: 8. Jarrett, on Inscription ee reas PSS at 54:
Exhibition, by Dr. Hoernle, of a copy of a Pali 1 sent by
Mr. A. M. Markham ............ tub ind bau ccetn es ueWengey @ 55
Papers—
Zoological Notes.—By L. SCHWENDIER ...e0e....sseeeseeees he A “ ab.
Remarks on the Afghans found along the Route of the Tal Choti-
ali Field Force —By Lixzur. R. C. Temes, B.S. C., F.R. GS.
(A DabiGipt) ecik Siac setaats fos san ses coe eee PRE ee aoa sae es Bet OF.
Coins supplementary to E. Thomae? Chichines of the Pathan
Kings.”—By C. J. Ropeers (Abstract)... ab.

Specimens of Baluchi Poems.—By M. L. Daren: C. S. “(Abstraet) ab.
Remarks on a Pali Inscription from Bharhat. By Dr. RasenpRa-

GALA TER Ac Uy vs dele, es ccts paw veeser bens Cr ARON AME PU ne ee tRa 58
QGoamitaunication Tecelyed secs cteer ul eek eases Oe 63
ARDLALY ceva eees oss 054 wanes Whee gibus ve sGabl Stecsas val ebeser ches ibewS( umeP ety os 64

Now Ready.
THE ANITA QUPTI ES: 0 ORT 8 6a;
BY

RA’JENDRALA’LA MITRA, LL. D.

Vorume TI.

*,.* Containing detailed descriptions of the Temples of Bhuvaneswara,
Puri a Canarac. It extends to about 210 pages sae and is seated
with sixty photographs and Ripe eee

PROCEEDINGS

' OF THE

ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL,

For Marcu, 1880.

The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was
held on Wednesday, the 3rd instant, at 9 P. M.

Dr. RAsenpRaALALA Mirra, Vice-President, in the Chair.

The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.

The following presentations were announced—

1. From the Home, Revenue and Agricultural Department,—(1)
Selections from the Records of the Government of India, Home, Revenue
and Agricultural Department, Nos. CLIX and CLX, (2) The Stipa of Bhar-
hut: by Major General A. Cunningham, (8) A Comparative Grammar of
the Modern Aryan Languages of India. Vol. III. The Verb: by J.
Beames, and (4) Hindu Tribes and Castes. Vol. II: by Rev. M. A. Sherring.

2. From the British Museum,—Descriptions of new species of
Hymenoptera in the collection of the British Museum; by Frederick
Smith.

3. From the K. Institut voor de Taal-Land-en Volkenkunde van
Nederl. Indié,—Reizen naar Nederlandsch Nieuw Guinea in de jaren 1871,
1872, 1875-76; by P. J. B. C. Robidé van der Aa.

4. From the Government, N. W. P.,—-(1) Statistical, Descriptive
and Historical account of the North West Provinces of India. Vol. V.
Rohilkhand Division, Part 1: by H. C. Conybeare, edited by E. T. Atkin-
son, (2) List of Sanskrit MSS. discovered in Oudh during the year 1879 :
by Pandit Devi Prasad.

5. From the Translator,—Vikramorvagi, ourvaci donnée pour prix
de Vheroisme: drame en cing actes de Kalidasa. Traduit du Sanscrit par
Ph. Hd. Foucaux.

6. From the Nantisk Meteor. Byran iStockholm,—(1) Instruktion
for Meteorologiska Observationers Utforande vid Svenska Fyrstationer, (2)

50 Presentations. [Mancn,

Instruktion fér Meteorologisk Loggboks Férande, (8) Instruktion for
Tydrographiska Observationers ut Férande vid Svenska Fyr-och Lots-Sta-
tioner.

7. From the K. K. Geol. Reichsanstalt in Wien,—Zur Kenntniss
der Fauna des untersten Liasin den Nordalpen: by Dr. M, Neumayr.

8. From the Authors:—(1) Report on the miscellaneous old Records
of the India Office, Nov. Ist 1878: by Dr. G. Birdwood. (2) Sanskrit
Worterbuch in kiirzerer Fassung. Erster Theil. Die vocale: by Otto Boht-
lingk, (8) Morphological notes bearing on the origin of Insects: by J.
Wood-Mason, (4) Essays on the Language, Literature and Religion of
Nepal and Tibet: by B. H. Hodgson.

9. From the Marine Survey Department,—List of Light-Houses and
Light-Vessels in British India: by R. C. Carrington. .

10. From the St. Xavier’s College Observatory,—A Statement of the
Results of the Observations made from July to December, 1879.

11. From the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Lyon,—Recherches
sur les mastodontes et les faunes mammalogiques qui les accompagnent :
by Dr. Lortet and E. Chantre.

12. From the K. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien,—Zweite
Abhandlung tber die Wasserabnahme in den Quellen, Fliissen und Strémen :
by Gustav ritter von Wex.

13. From the Secretary of State for India,—The Bondage and Travels
of Johann Schiltberger: by Commander J. B. Telfer.

The following Gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded at the last Meet-
ing, were balloted for and elected Ordinary Members—
Lieut. R. C. Tufnell.
A. C. Carlleyle, Esq.
Ramesvar Maliah, Esq.
The following Gentlemen are candidates for ballot at the next Meeting—
1. W. Fiddian, Esq., Rampur Beaulieu, proposed by H. V, Westma-
cott, Esq., seconded by J. Crawfurd, Hsq.
2. N. Elias, Esq., proposed by H. B. Medlicott, Esq., seconded by
R. Lydekker, Esq.
8. Babu Bipina Chandra Rai, proposed by Dr. Rajendralala Mitra,
seconded by Babu Pratapa Ch. Ghosha.
4. Ananda Rama Gajapati, Rajé of Vizianagram, proposed by Raja
Satydnanda Ghoshal, seconded by Moulvie Abdul Latif Khan Bahadur.

The SrcrErary reported that Major W. R. M. Holroyd had request-
ed that his withdrawal might be cancelled.
The Sucrerary read the names of the following Gentlemen appointed

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18809. ] Appointment of Committees. 51

by the Council to serve on the several Committees during the ensuing
year : —-
FINANCE COMMITTEE.

J. Westland, Esq., c. 8.

Dr. Rajendralala Mitra, c. I. E.
J. C. Douglas, Esq.

H. Beverley, Esq., c. 8.

LIBRARY COMMITTEE.

Dr. Rajendralala Mitra, c. 1. E.

Col. J. F. Tennant, R. E.
Major-General J. T. Walker, F. R. 8.
Dr. D. D. Cunningham.

Dr. W. K. Waller.

A. W. Croft, Esq., M. A.

C. H. Tawney, Esq., M. a.

Hon’ble Whitley Stokes, c. §. 1, ¢. I. E.
Babu Prannath Pandit, m. a.

H. F. Blanford, Esq., a. B. 8. M., F. G. 8.
G. Nevill, Esq.

Dr. O. Feistmantel.

J. Eliot, Esq., M. a.

A. Pedler, Esq.

H. Beverley, Esq., c. 8.

Dr. Mohendralala Siredr.

J. C. Douglas, Esq.

Babu Protapa Chandra Ghosha, B. 4.
Dr. T. R. Lewis.

PHILOLOGICAL COMMITTER.
Dr. Rajendralala Mitra, c. 1. E.
C. H. Tawney, Esq., m. a.
Major-General A. Cunningham, ©. s. I.
J. Beames, Hsq., B. C. 8.
FE. S. Growse, Hsq., M. a., C. 8., C. I. E.
Rev. K. M. Banerjea, LL. D.
Babu Gaur Das Bysack.
Dr. Mohendralala Sirear.
Hon’ble J. O’Kinealy, c. s.
Hon’ble Whitley Stokes, c. s.1., ¢. I. E.
Dr. G. Thibaut.

Appointment of Committees.

H. Rivett-Carnac, Esq., c. 8., C. I. E.
Moulvie Abdul Latif Khan, Bahadur.
Moulvie Kabiruddin Ahmad.

Babu Dijendranath Thakur.

Babu Prannath Pandit, mM. a.

Babu Protapa Chandra Ghosha, B. a.
Captain H. W. Clarke, r. £.

Major H. 8. Jarrett.

J. F. Browne, Esq., c. s.

Natvurat History ComMmirrer.

Dr. O. Feistmantel.

Dr. D. Waldie.

A. O. Hume, Esq,, c. s.
G. Nevill, Esq.

Dr. D. D. Cunningham.
Dr. J. Armstrong.

Dr. G. King.

Dr. W. Schlich.

Dr. D. Brandis.

S. E. Peal, Esq.

W. E. Brooks, Esq., c. £.
R. Lydekker, Esq., B. a.
Capt, G. F. L. Marshall, r. =.
Lieut. F. W. Jarrad, R. N.
L. Schwendler, Esq.

Dr. T. R. Lewis.

PuysicaLn Science ComMMIttTEsr.

Major-General J. T. Walker, F. R. 8.
Dr. D. Waldie.

H. F. Blanford, Hsq., a, B. 8. M., F. G. 8.
Dr. D. D. Cunningham.

A. Pedler, Esq.

A. Cappel, Esq.

J. Eliot, Esq., M. a.

Col. J. F. Tennant, F. BR. s.
Commander A. D. Taylor.

Dr. O. Feistmantel.

Rt. Lydekker, Hsq., B. a.

Hon’ble J. O’Kinealy, c. s.

J. C. Douglas, Esq.

F. Fedden, Esq.

[Marcn,

1880. ] R. Mitra—Wote on Arakan Coins. 53

Coins COMMITTEE.
Dr. Rajendralala Mitra, c. 1. 5.
Col. J. F. Tennant, Fr. R. s.
Rev. M. A. Sherring.
Major-General A. Cunningham, c¢. s. 7.
Col. EF. W. Stubbs.
H. Rivett-Carnae, Esq , Cc. 8.

Dr. Horrnte exhibited 12 Arakan coins, two of which belong to the
Phayre Museum in Rangoon, and ten to the Indian Museum in Calcutta.
They are described in the following note by Dr. Rajendralala Mitra.

Coins of this class were first brought to the notice of the Society by
Capt. J. Latter in 1846. Four specimens were then figured and described
(Journal, Vol. XV, plate III), two of which bore no inscription, and the in-
scriptions on the other two were not read. Capt. Latter called them ‘Sym-
bolical coins of Arakan.’ In 1872, Capt. Fryer obtained two other speci-
mens, and, in the note which he communicated to the Society on them,
(Journal, XLI, pp. 201 f) he described them as belonging to the Vaisdli
dynasty of Ardkan. The inscriptions on them and on Capt. Latter’s coins
were read by Babu Pratapachandra Ghosha. One he read Dharmachandra,
another S'’ri-ta-chandra and a third Sri-vikrama. All these coins had a
couchant bull on the obverse, and a conventional trident (¢riséla) on the
reverse. In 1878, Mr. Blochmann obtained from the Phayre Museum at
Rangoon, five specimens of this class of money, bearing on the obverse a
conch-shell, instead of the couchant bull, and I read the name on them to
be Vijaya, taking Babu Pratépachandra Ghosha’s reading of Srivikrama to
be erroneous. The first name I took to be correct, but I could make
nothing of the second (Proceedings for 1878, pp. 102-3.) The several spe-
cimens now obtained enable me to settle its reading and also to supply a
new name. ‘The first letter on No. 1 of the Phayre Museum specimens is
unquestionably S77, as read by Babu Pratapachandra Ghosha. It is pro-
nounced by the Arakénese and the Burmese as a word of two syllables, Srv.
The second letter, read ¢7 by Babu Pratapachandra Ghosha, appears in most
of the specimens like fe, for the mark for 7 is generally left slanting up-
wards and backwards, whereas that for e is curved downwards, and this
downward curvature is distinct on some specimens. A dot over the ¢ is
also perceptible, and that makes the word ¢ev. The last word Chandra is
unquestionable. The result is S7¢-tenv-chandra, and this is the name of the
seventh prince of the Vaisali dynasty of Arakan. In the Burmese style
the name is written Siri taing chandra. The prince lived, according to
Capt. Fryer, in A. D. 908. The letters of the name are of about this date,
z. €., the Gupta type merging into the Kutila.

54. H. 8. Jarrett—IJnseription from Kashmir. [Mancn,

The letters on No. 2 of the Phayre Museum and on most of the Indian
Museum specimens are older, being somewhat like the old Pali* of the Lat
inscriptions. They are also fairly legible, except the first, which is very like
a ¢, but I think it is intended for an s. Reading it as ¢ the name would be
tari kadu, and as s, Siri-kddu. The last is what I take to be the right
reading, for it corresponds with the name of the second raja of the Arakén
kings as given in Mr. Paton’s list, published in the XVIth Volume of the
Researches. 'The name there is written Sorea kadu, and the prince is said
to have lived in A. D. 755 = Mug era 117.

Of Vijaya and Dharma-chandra I have not been able to find out the
dates ; but from the character used on their coins I infer that they must
have lived between the dates of Kadu and Tefi-chandra. The 7 of Vijaya is
of an older type than the dh of Dharma-chandra. Arranged chronologi-
cally, Sirikadu comes in 755 A. D.; Vijaya after him, some generations
removed ; Dharma-chandra third, again some unknown generations remov-
ed ; and Siri-tei-chandra in 903 A. D.

Dr. Hoernle remarked, with regard to this note, that the date assigned
to Siri kadu which was based on a comparison of the Mug era with the
Christian, appeared to be doubtful, as the form of the letters on his coins
seems to be of a much older type, viz., of the 2nd or 3rd century, A. D.

Dr. HoErntz exhibited the Rubbing of a Persian Inscription from
Kashmir, sent by Mr. A. Constable, who writes that the inscription is on a
slab of black slate, well polished and finished, measuring 213 by 12 by 24
inches. He found the slab lying on the ground near the ruins of a Musjid
on “ Lanka Island,” in the Woolar Lake in Kashmir. The copy was taken
in September 1874. The Inscription is as follows :

oly alle yo crs td! yoink pS tls lal ge aay Gal
Sopa EA ee) | ee ee ei ee

Major Jarrett in a note which was read to the meeting, translates it :—

“May this edifice be as firm, as the foundations of the Heavens,
May it be the most renowned ornament of the Universe,

As long as the Monarch Zayn Ibad holds festival therein,

May it be like the date of his own reign—happy.”

The word, translated “happy,” is in the original, Ahwram, the numeri-
cal value of the letters of which is 847, meaning that year of the Hijra
era, equal to A. D. 1443-4. At that time Zayn Ibad or, as he is commonly

* The Pa4li letters, as constituents of a Classical alphabet associated with the Pali
religious books, and not used for the ordinary affairs of every-day life, were not subject
to those influences which lead to deterioration, and therefore retained their primitive
forms longer in Burmah than elsewhere.—R. M.

1880. ] L. Schwendler—Zoological Notes. 55

ealled, Zayn ul Adbidin was ruler of Kashmir. He was a son of Sultén
Sikandar, and succeeded his brother Ali on the throne of Kashmir in A. H.
828 or A. D. 1424-5. In earlier life he had been, for some years, a captive
of Timur in Samarkand, from whence, on his return, he introduced various
new industries in his own country. His reign was a prosperous and peace-
ful one. He artificially constructed the island of Lanka in the Woolar lake
and built a mosque on it. On the completion of Lanka, the king ordered a
great festival to be held. Verses were written by the poets to commemo-
rate this event, and among these the inscription under notice by Ahmad
Allamah Kashmiri was engraved upon a stone and placed above the Mihrab,
or Sanctuary of the Mosque.

This inscription, together with Major Jarrett’s note, will be published
in the Journal, Part I.

Dr. HoERNue exhibited an eye-copy of a Pali rock-cut inscription sent
by Mr. A. M. Markham, Collector of Allahabad, and discovered by him in
a cave near the falls of Keoti Kunda on the river Mahana, a tributary of
the Tanwas or “'Tonse”’ in the Riwa State. The inscription is as follows :

wftal yaw Gana aricat garcat

and means: “the Pool-cave caused to be made by Saunaka the son of
Hariti.’’ The cave takes its name “ Pool” from a very picturesque natural
pool, excavated by the fall of the Mahana river, which precipitates itself
over a perpendicular drop of 336 feet, unbroken even by a crag. In
another cave, near another somewhat similar fall, there are said to be
several square yards of very well painted figures and hunting and battle
scenes, in a rather bright red.

The following papers were read—

1. Zoological Notes.— By 1. SCHWENDLER.

The very successful trial of punkha-pulling by means of compressed
air, which I had an opportunity of witnessing on the 27th January 1880
at Fort William, Calcutta, where my friend the Honorable C. H. Parsons
has introduced his ingenious invention in the Dalhousie Barracks ; and my
own endeavours to devise a practical method for pulling Pankhas, w7z.,
by the transmission of power conveyed by the electric current as produced
by the present dynamo-electric machines ;* reminded me again of an inter-
esting fact which I was told some years ago, ¢. e., that the Langur monkeys
of India (Semnopithecus Entellus), if the necessary trouble is taken,
could be made useful and cheap substitutes for the ordinary punkha-coolies
at present generally in use in India.

* Philosophical Magazine (Supplement), December 1879, and Part II of the
Journal, Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1879.

56 L. Schwendler—Zoological Notes. [Mancn,

My trustworthy informant, Babu B. Pyne, a member of the Govern-
ment Telegraph Department, kindly placed at my disposal the following
statement on the subject. The Babu says :—

“ Some years ago I had a Langur which, when standing erect, measured
fully 2’ 6.” The animal was very powerful, and could easily pull a punkha
measuring 8’ in length. It was a male, and, even when young, showed a
disposition to be highly savage. The older he got the more savage he be-
came. Seeing the great power this monkey had, I wanted to utilize it,
and therefore intended to employ him for the purpose of pulling punkhas.
The teaching I effected in the following manner:—the monkey was tied
by the waist close toa strong pole, so that it could not move either back-
wards or forwards, or right or left. Both hands were tied to a rope
attached to a punkha which was regularly pulled from the other side by
aman. ‘Thus the animal had to sit in one place, and could only move its
hands up and down with the punkha rope.

“In this way the monkey, in a comparatively short time, learnt to pull
the punkha by himself, and was so employed by me for several years. He
always kept in first rate health, enjoyed his work immensely, and did it
equally well, if not better, than a cooly. During the rains he suffered from
fever and ultimately died. Putting now this trained monkey in the place
where the man used to pull the punkha, and a new Langur in the place
where the trained monkey formerly sat, I attempted to teach successively
four more monkeys, two of which were females. I succeeded perfectly in
teaching the males, but was quite unsuccessful with the females.”

I thought this might be of interest to the Society, since it appears to
me the first authentic record of the power of a monkey having been em-
ployed for doing wseful work. There is a certain amount of intelligence
required to do this work, since the arms, in their up and down movements,
have to keep time with the swinging punkha.

When the reading of the above paper was concluded, Mr. Schwendler
mentioned some other instances in which the display of intelligence by
monkeys had been noticed. In particular, he mentioned a case in which a
monkey, which had sustained a fall from trusting to a rotten branch while
swinging on a tree, had been observed afterwards to examine the branches
of the tree, and to break off those which it found to be rotten. Some dis-
cussion ensued as to whether the action of the monkey in this case was
the result of intelligence, and some of the members present were of opinion
that it might have been the result simply of anger caused by the fall. Mr.
Schwendler, however, stated that he had for long made the habits of
animals a study, and that he was convinced of the fact that monkeys were
possessed of much intellig2nce ; and he vouched for the authenticity of the
statements made in the paper read regarding the monkeys which were
taught to pull a punkha.

1880. ] M. L. Dames— Balochi Poems. yr

2. Remarks on the Afghans found along the Route of the Tal Chotiali
Field Force, in the Spring of 1879.—By Lisvur. R. C. Tremere,
B. 8. C., F. RB. G. S.. M. B. A. 8., &e. (With two maps and various
sketches.)

(Abstract. )

This is the last of a series of papers on subjects connected with the
Afghans, written by the author and communicated to various Societies.*
After a few remarks on the geography of the route, which is illustrated by
two maps, the author proceeds to review the well-known account of the
Afghans of their own origin from a Jewish source, and next to describe in
detail the history and peculiarities of the various tribes and clans of
Afghans. This is followed by several chapters on the distribution of the
Afghan tribes, their polity, their civilization, an their languageyf as illus-
trated by their place-names.

This paper will be published in the Journal, Part I.

3. Coins Supplementary to Thomas’ “ Chronicles of the Pathan Kings.”’—
By Cuas. J. Ropeers, Esq, Principal, Normal College, Amritsar.
(With two Plates.)

(Abstract.)

The Chronicles of the Pathan kings is a very full work, but naturally
it is not exhaustive. Continued search brings out further coins which from
time to time have to be described. In the present paper, the author de-
scribes about forty coins, which are believed to be as yet unpublished.

This paper will be published in the Journal, Part I.

4. Specimens of Balocht Poems, transcribed in Roman characters, and
translated, with Haplanatory Notes.— By M. LonewortH Damus,
EsqQ., c. 8.

(Abstract. )

These poems are wideiy spread in the Balochi country where they are
recited by the bards, called Doms or Loris, to accompanying airs or chants.
They are current in slightly differing versions. It is probable that they
are of considerable age ; for they contain many antiquated grammatical forms,
and their versification is loose and formless. The paper gives three of these
poems, entitled: “The Wanderings of the Rind Balochis,” “ The Quarrel of
Mir Chakar and Gwaharam,” and ‘“ Dostem and Shiren.” ‘The second is
only one part of an extensive cycle of poems relating to Mir Chakar, who
is the great legendary hero of the Rind Balochis and is represented by them

* See Journal, A. S. B., for 1879.
t+ The best Grammar on the Pashtu Language is one by Dr. Ernest Trumpp,
first published in the Journal of the German Oriental Society, Vol. XXI.

58 R. Mitra

Inscription from Bharhat. [Marcn,

as having led them into the countries they now occupy from Makran, and
as having founded a kingdom with its capital at Sevi (Sibi). The third
relates the romantic stery of Dostem, a young Balochi warrior, and his
bride Shiren.

This paper will be published in the Journal, Part I.

9. Remarks on a Pili Inscription from Bhérhat.—By RAsENDRATATA
VGRORIASS site ceD es CS Teg

Some time ago I translated for General Cunningham a Pali Inscription
in the Lat character found on the Hastern gateway of the Bharhat Sttipa.
I had then before me a reduced eye-copy, and was doubtful about some of
the letters. The last word of the record puzzled me most, and I suggested
a reading different from what the letters before me would warrant. The
gateway has since been removed to the Indian Museum, and I have had
several opportunities of studying the record as inscribed on the stone. ‘The
result of this study I now desire to lay before the Society.

The record occurs on the left pillar of the gateway. The pillar is a
compound one, made up of four shafts each having eight facets. The record
is inscribed on two facets of the front and on three facets of the hind shaft,
It is in a perfect state of preservation, and comprises four lines of matter
arranged in five columns, the second and the third line extending to the
fourth column and the fourth to the third. The words are :—

i 2 3 4 5
Line | gaia tH UH ara ga faaeaa
Suganam raje rajna Gagiputasa Visadevasa
1 2 3 4.
2 trae irate = -Waciata vad
3) 3 9 ou
pautena Gotiputasa Agarajusa putena
1 2 3 4
» 8 aeatuda waufaut || _HIf Ted acti
Vachhiputena Dhanabhutina karitam toranam
1 2 3
» & faaraaer a Bum.
silakammato cha upanna.

The first word of the first line is obviously the Pali form of the Sans-
krit Srwghna, the name of a country ; but the case-affix attached to it is in-
correct. In Sanskrit and in Pali the word is masculine, and in the nomi-
native case in Péli it should have no nasal mark after it. Assuming that
in P4li it was used in the neuter gender, still, the nasal mark for the neuter
nominative should not be used, for the sentence has a different nominative.
The word should be in the locative, suwgane ‘in Sugana.’ If it be assumed

1880. ] R. Mitra—Jnscription from Bharhat. 59

that it has been compounded with the second word raje which is in the
locative, the dot for the case-mark would not be wanted. It is, therefore,
obviously wrong, and is due either to the engraver having mistaken the
mark of the locative e, or itis a blot. The second word, raje for rdjye,
being in the locative, cannot qualify the nominative. The meaning of the
two words is: “in the kingdom of Sugana.” The third word, rajia for
raja, is in the genitive, and qualifies the fifth word Visadeva, which is
also in the genitive case. The fourth word is also an epithet qualifying
Visadeva. It means “son of Gagi.” The first word of the second line
is in the instrumental case, and qualifies the causal nominative Dhanabhu-
tind of the 8rd line. It means “by the grandson.” The second word is
clear enough ; it means “son of Goti,’ and is an epithet qualifying the
third word Agardjusa, a proper name in the genitive, governing the last
word putena, which is an epithet of the 2nd word of the third line. The
first word of the 8rd line is also an epithet of the same kind. It means
“by the son of Vachhi.” The second word is the causal nominative of
the sentence, and agrees with the causal participle which follows it, and
which governs the objective case represented by the last word. The dots
after the ard and the 4th words are very faint and appear to have been
produced by abrasion of the stone, but they are wanted.

In so far the grammatical construction of the sentence and its meaning
are perfectly clear; but the last line is very puzzling. Its first word is a
compound of Sila “astone” and Kamma “ work,” “ fabrication,” 7. e., seulp-
ture. The long vowel at the end of Sila, is so distinct that I cannot take the
word for Sila, “ good conduct.” It is true that in the Lat Pali writings the
vowel-marks are frequently neglected ; but the neglect is always shown
by omission of vowel-marks, as in raje for rdjye, and not by the insertion
of marks where none is wanted ; at least, I have nowhere seen an instance
of the kind. The word sila, moreover, never takes the long vowel at the
end, and, with it, it cannot mean good conduct, or moral merit. The meaning,
therefore, must be ‘stone earvings,’ and this corresponds very well with
the subject of the record. In the eye-copy I read the affix at the end of
the compound ¢é. ‘This is an affix commonly employed for the formation
of abstract nouns, and is not wanted here, but it is often used as an exple-
tive, as in- Devata, and does not disturb the sense,—at least I had no
hesitation in accepting it as such. The second word cha is a conjunction,
equivalent to the English and, and its effect is to bring forward the causal
nominative Dhanabhuti, who not only caused the torana to be erected, but
also added to it sculptured decorations. It can also bring forward the
causal verb karitam, but if a new verb be supplied it may be let alone. The
most puzzling word in the record is upanna. When I first read it in the
eye-copy I believed the dot over the p to be a mistake, and the word was

60 R. Mitra—Inscription from Bharhat. [Marcn,

updna, ‘a plinth.’ The dot, however, is perfectly clear and unmistakable,
and cannot be rejected without assuming an error on the part of the engra-
ver. If no such error be admitted, the word would be an incorrect form
of the Sanskrit utpanna = Pali uppanna, “ produced.’’ The inaceuracy
I allude to results from the omission of one of the p’s, but in the old Lat
character double letters were frequently, if not invariably, simplified, and
this I thought was an instance. I felt too that utpanna, as a neuter parti-
ciple, could not agree with the causal nominative Dhanabhutind. The writer
of the record had correctly used the causal form in kdéritam and could not
be accused of having been ignorant of the causal form of utpanna, which
is utpddita. It could not be made to correspond with the first word of
the line silakammata, for that would be opposed both to grammar and
sense. The use of the conjunction cha in prose brings forward the
nominative Dhanabhuti, and this has to be rejected, and the conjunction
declared to have been wrongly put. It had to be, moreover, assumed that
the donor did not care to associate his name with the sculptures. In short,
I had to accept either an error on the part of the engraver for having
accidentally put a dot over a letter where none should exist, or ignorance of
grammar on the part of the writer for not knowing the causal form of
utpanna, and for putting a conjunction where none was wanted. I had no
hesitation, therefore, in accepting the first branch of the alternative. An
error on the part of an engraver was much more likely than ignorance
of elementary rules of grammar on the part of a writer employed by an
unquestionably rich man, probably a king. Moreover, a mistake of the
kind was very lable to occur ; the long vowel after p, in upana is indicated
by a very short dash on top, and it may be confounded for a-dot.

My revision of upana, however, I now find, cannot be accepted, as the
only fragment of the plinth of the tope seen by General Cunningham, is
made of mortar and plaster, and not of sculptured stone, and the railing
and the gateway have no plinths. The apparent reading upanna must
therefore be accepted, deriving it from the Sanskrit wtpanna “ produced,
born, arose;’’ or from wpapanna “endowed or embellished,” or from
upaghna “that which is supported.” The second appears to me to be the
most appropriate, though the derivation is not quite satisfactory.

The correct reading of the first word of the last line I find is not szla-
kammata but silakammato for the Sanskrit si/ékarmatas, used in an
instrumental sense. Added to the last word it gives the meaning “ embel-
lished with stone carvings,” a very appropriate epithet for the torana; the
cha being reckoned a mere expletive. —

Putting the results of these remarks together I make out the follow-
ing meaning of the inscription :—

“Tn the kingdom of Sugana, (this) torana embellished with stone carv-

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ings was caused to be erected by Dhanabhuti, son of Vachhi and of
Agardju, the son of Goti, and grandson of king Visadeva, son of Gagi.”

It will be seen that in this the donor assumes no regal title, nor does
he assign any to his father. The word raju is the second member of a
compound word, and the two words together make up the personal name.
The omission of all titles in the case of the donor may be due to a sense of
humility, or to a desire to avoid the display of worldly greatness in a quasi
religious monument, but this cannot be predicated of the father, who had
probably then demised, as in the case of the grandfather the title has been
carefully put in.

It is observable also that the grandfather traces his descent from his
mother GAgi, and does not name his father. To Indians of the present day
nothing would appear more shocking than this. An adage is current
among them to the effect that “aman who is known by his own name is the
noblest, he who appeais to his father’s name to make himself known, is of
middling merit; but he, who has to appeal to his mother’s name for the
purpose, is vile, and he, who makes himself known by the name of
his wife, is the vilest of the vile.’* The feeling is so strong in this
respect that no gentleman will ever pronounce his mother’s name, except
when performing a religious rite, or in a legal document. Jn Bengal the
usual plan to indicate a lady who happens to be the wife of the master of
the house is to call her ginnz, “the mistress of the house.’ Should she
happen to have rivals, the fact is indicated by the use of the terms Badz,
Meja &e., ‘the eldest,’ the ‘second’ and so on, but on no account is the
name of any one recited. The same is the case with daughters-in-law, who
are described as Badabahu, Mejabahu, and so on. Sometimes when greater
precision is wanted the family name of the father of a lady is used thus,
Mitrer badir jhi, *« daughter of the house of the Mitras.” In the North-
Western Provinces, both among Hindus and Muhammadans, the same
custom is followed, and the ladies are ordinarily indicated by periphrasis.
This was, however, not the custom in former days ; and not only the names
of ladies of rank were freely used, but metronymics were formed extensively
to indicate their children. To judge from the instances so abundant in the
_ Ramayana and the Mahabharata the use of metronymics was ordinarily
restricted to children born out of wedlock, or what would be the same
thing, deserted by their fathers ; but unforsaken legitimate children were
sometimes so named. Long before the time of the Ramayana, Panini
formulated a great number of rules for the formation of metronymiecs.

From the examples accessible to me it appears that generally the per-

* @alar cease faearal F awa? |
Baa: Aearlal F Tatalalaatl aH il

62 R. Mitra—Jnseription from Bharhat. [Marcn,

sonal names of the mothers were used for the formation of metronymices,
but the names of their race or country were not invariably rejected. Of
the former class the instances at command are abundant. Thus Bhishma,
the great sage and general of the Kuru race, was called Gangeya, because
he was born out of wedlock of the River Ganges in a personified form.
Hanuman, the monkey general of Rama, is called Anjaneya, because he was
born of the storm-god Pavana by Anjana, wife of Kegari. Vyasa, the com-
piler of the Vedas, is called Satyavatisuta, ‘the son of Satyavati,’ a fisher-
woman whom Parasara seduced. The Pandava brothers Yudhisthira, Bhima,
and Arjuna, whose births are euphemistically attributed to Dharma, Indra,
and Vayu, are frequently addressed by their metronymie Kaunteyah, the
“sons of Kunti.” One name of Kunti was Prithd, and Arjuna called him-
self Partha in honour of her. Dhritar4shtra born of Ambika, wife of Vichi-
travirya by Vyasa, is called Ambikdsuta. Karna, another half-brother of the
Pandus, was born of Kunti before her marriage, and, having been brought up
by one Radha, bore the metronymic of Radheya. In the Chhandogya Upa-
nishad there is a remarkable instance of this kind. A boy, about to go to
a tutor, asks his mother what was his family gotra, and she replies: “I
know not, child, of what gotra you are. During my youth when I got thee,
I was engaged to serve many as a maid-servant ; I know not of what gotra
you are ; Jabala is my name, and Satyakéma thine; say therefore, when
asked, that you are Satyakama Jabdla (son of Jabdla).”’ The youth was
accepted as a Brahman for his boldness in telling the truth to his tutor, and
subsequently he attained great distinction as an expounder of theology.
The atheist Jabala, who figures so prominently in the Ramayana, was a
descendant of this youth. Of deserted sons taking the metronymic we
have an instance in the Aitareya Brahmana. ‘The first mother of the Aita-
reyins was Itara. Her husband deserted her and her infant son, and there-
fore the latter took the name of his mother, and called himself Aitareya.
Lakshmana, forsaken by his father, bore the metronymice of Saumitra, son
of Sumitra.

Of race names the only instance I can call to mind just now is Gautami,
the foster-mother and aunt of Buddha. Of names of females formed by
those of their native countries we have Madri, named after the country
Madra where she was born, and her sons born out of wedlock are called
Madreya: Gandhari, wife of Dhritarashtra, owes her name to her father’s
country Gandhara, modern Kandhar ; Baladeva, transferred from the womb
of Devaki to that of Rohini to save him from being destroyed by the In-
dian Herod Kafiga, bears the name of Rauhineya. Other instances of this
kind may be multiplied ad Mibitum; but I suppose they are not wanted.
Those I have cited will suffice to show that metronymics were formerly
largely used, and that in most instances they implied some flaw in the birth,

1880. ] Communication received. 63

or some difference with the male parent. Nor was the circumstance of
one’s being born out of wedlock, however unpleasant it may be to be told
so, held a bar to distinction in learning or social rank in ancient times.
Not to advert to modern Dukes, Marquisses, Lords, Baronets, Rajas, Navabs,
and others, the bar sinister on whose escutcheons has not in the least inter-
fered with their rising in social rank in our times, the renown of Vyasa,
Jabala and the Pandus suffices to show that none need doubt the fact of
metronymics having been derived from the personal names of mothers, and
of Indian people having used them without scruple.

The three female names given in the inscription, Gagi, Goti and
Vachhi, in their Sanskrit forms would be Gargeyi or Gargyi, Gautami, and
Vatsi, and these are largely used in race or Gotra names ; but there is no
reason to suppose that they have been used in the inscription to indicate
gotras. According to Hindu law no male person can inherit the gotra of
his mother, or wife. On the contrary every woman ceases to be of the
gotra of her father the moment she is married, and the marriage rite in-
eludes a ritual for effecting this change. No Hindu, therefore, can be
expected to appeal to the gotra of his mother’s father. Personal names
may be formed of gotra names; but when so formed they are strictly pro-
per names, indicating particular individuals, and not races or tribes. More-
over, a patronymic or a metronymic formed by an affix may indicate an
immediate descendant, or one, two or more generations removed ; and when
great precision is sought, itis usual to avoid affixes, and to compound the
name with the word putra, “son,” whereby the name becomes at once
specific, and the nearest relationship is implied. In the inscription this
specific form, Gagiputra, is used, and therefore no legitimate doubt can be
entertained of the names having been intended for particular individuals.

ce

6. A List of the Earthquakes recorded in Assam during the year 1879.
Communicated by the Meteorological Reporter to the Government of

Bengal.
This will be published in the Journal Part IT.

The following communication has been received.

Note on some copper Buddhist Coins.—By H. Rivert-Carnac, ¢. s.,

Cc. I. E.

B4 Library. [Marcn,

PI BRARY,

The following additions have been made to the Library since the Meet-
ing held in February last.

J RANSACTIONS, PROCEEDINGS AND JOURNALS,

presented by the respective Societies and Editors.

Berlin. K. preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften,—M onatsbericht,
November 1879.
Bombay. The Indian Antiquary,—Vol. IX, Part 108, February 1880.
Bordeaux. La Société de Géographie Commerciale,—Bulletin, Nos. 2 and
3, 1880.
Calcutta. The Mahabharata,—No. 43.
Cambridge (U. S.). Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College,—
Annual Report for 1878-79.
Dresden. Die Verein fir ate 207 Jahresbericht.
London. The Academy,—Nos. 402, 404—406.
Royal Astronomical Society,—Monthly Notices, Vol. XL, No. 2,
December 1879.
The Athenzeum,—Nos. 2726—2729.
Royal Geographical Society,—Proceedings, Vol. II, No. 1, Janu-
ary 1880.
Institute of Mechanical Engineers,-—Proceedings, No. 5, Octo-
ber 1879.
Royal Microscopical Society,—Index to Vol. II of the Journal.
Nature,—Nos. 245, 249, 250, 256, 444, 458, 461, 463, 467, 518,
522, 534, 535, 5387, and Extra Number published on the 6th of Febru-
ary, 1880.
Royal Society,—Proceedings, Vol. XXIX, No. 198.
Hennessey, J. B. N.—Further particulars of the Transit of Venus across the
Sun, December 9, 1874; observed on the Himalaya Mountains, Mussoorie,
at Mary-Villa Station, Lat. 30° 28’ N., Long. 78° 3” H., height above the sea
6,765 feet, with the Royal Society’s 5-inch Equatorial. Note III. Stewart,
Balfour and Dodgson, W.—Preliminary Report to the Committee on Solar
Physics on the evidence in favour of the Existence of certain Short Periods
common to Solar and Terrestrial Phenomena. Hannay, J. B. and Hogarth,
J.—On the Solubility of Solids in Gases. Galion, F.—The Geometric Mean
in Vital and Social Statistics. IJeAlister, D.—The Law of the Geometric
Mean.
Society of Telegraph Engineers,—Journal, Vol. VIII, No. 28.
Mance, H, C.—Remarkable Phosphorescence in the Persian Gulf, Ayrton,

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Paris. Journal Asiatique,—Vol. XIV, No. 3.
Schaffhausen. Schweizerische entomologische Gesellschaft,—Mittheilun-
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Turin. Reale Accademia delle Scienze,—Memorie, Vol. XX XI.
Vienna. Anthropologische Gesellschaft,—Mittheilungen, Vol. IX, Nos.
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Beiblatter,— Vol. IV, No. 1.
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Mind,—No. 17, January 1880.
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Checking Calculations.

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Sanskrit Series.

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Taittiriya Brahmana, 24 fasci. BERL ROLE OCAICHOC GEST IEO TE OOOO OL OOH AD
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Tandya Brahmana, 19 fasci. Sees oe CHOSE DHHS HHOD COO Cee Cees OHO OOOD
Gopatha Brahmana, 2 fasci. 280600 SF CTS HE HOO Ce TOPE Oe FOTO FO Le BAD eOESE D808
Atharvana Upanishads, 5 fasci. 5... .cce ccececce coccvcee cose ssrees cceecece
Agni Purana, 14 fasci. ecee eee CebeRTOe H2F LOH DESH EOHe B2O5 CHCTRS THEFT CO SEO
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Gobhiltya Grihya Sutra, 10. fasci. 2 50400808 Feoe Foe eee beeeee F1seeene seroen
Pineala Chhandah Sitra, 3 fascie PN Wenn ee eens cecceeee veteencrsers aces ccsees
Taittiriya Pratis‘4khiya, 3 fasci. Fone seed cu cece econ ceshes vesvveee sescoese cs
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Rajatarangini, os sccsecve cece cose cessed sven sscssees wseseete sens cece cece
Mahabharata, vols. lie and TV., BOC oH eS caer reese 264 F5H 2400 veered BFOe OOOe
Pur4na Sangraha, sores Ceveu’ Ce ever esse ee seeseenn @oscoe0G ceesee hove ee
P4li Grammar, 2 fasci,...seeee ee ee ees we teen ee cece ee aeteeeeeceteeesonens
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Dictionary of Arabic Technical Terms, 20 fascf., complete, cssses ot seevevee LS.
Risflah-i-Shamsiyah, (Appendix to Do. Do.), cccesececeee clesesea scenes
Fihrist Tiisi, 4 fasci. @eeereeee eeeeee es Ceeeese €eeeeees Ceeeee SHH eH SHEERS
Nukhbat-ul-Fikr, eenee we ee teeeee Ceee scesees esee @eeses CEeeese CHEHHHTe CHHE HEE
Futtih-ul-Shiam, WAqidi, 9 fasci. @eeeere eevee aeseeee eer eee Ceeete Cee He
Futth-ul-Sham, Azadi, 4 fasci. ee eheeseee ceeeee seeeeeee CHeeeeee @eeces esee
Magh4zi of Waqidi, 4 fasci. eeeeee ceeeee eee Bete eee eee Ratass: aaiaieaielere eeee
Isabah, 28 fasci., with supplement, @eteee ceeeeese eeeeree Coe aese Cees eee ee
Tarikh-i-Firtiz Shahi, 7 fasci. eereere Beeeee CH ee eeeeee CHee Ceee esses sees oeee
Tarikh-i-Baihaqi, complete in 9 fasci. eeee eee hee wees seer eee Cease CHO BEES
Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh, vols, I. I1. and IIT., complete in 16 fasci. ...seeees
Wis o Ramin, 6 fasci... ..sssees eeee eeeeee Ceereee wees eeee cree eere ee ee eee
Iqbalnémah-i-Jahangiri, complete in 3 fasci. Ceee eee ceeene SHeeeees sees veee
*Alamgirnimah, 13 fasci., with index, @eeeee CHRO H Ceeeee eee seoe eeeeesees
Padshahnémah, 19 fasci., with index, Cate eee ses nne Heese te Bees seoeee sees
Muntakhab-ul-Lubab, by Khafi Khan, 19 fasci., with index, Ceee ereeee eseeee
Ain-i-Akbari, Persian text, 4t0., 22 fasci... cca cecencesae tee suctscve vevece
Ain-i-Akbari, English translation by H. Blochmann, M. A., vol. I, ...seeee ss
Farhang-i-Rashidi, 14 fasci., complete,.s..c. cece seen stee sects susesurveves
Nizaémi’s Khiradnamah-i-Iskandari, 2 fasci. complete, Meee eeee cece ee eereenee
Akbarnamah, 17 fasci. with Index)... cecececs cottcesouectetes stetyeveue
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Monthly General Meeting ; in April...
Exhibition of a metal celt sent by Mr. Rivett- “Carnac .. Rrimers
Memorandum, by Mr. H. Rivett-Carnac, on Buddhist t copper ‘coins
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Memorandum, by Chevalier Hans Hildebrant, on Swedish Remains
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Pendulum observations and of their Reduction. By Captain J. P. Basevi,
and Captain H. J. Heaviside.

2. From Dr. R. Mitra,—Facsimiles of Inscriptions from the Great
Temple of Puri.

3. Frem Dr. G. Leitner,—Proceedings of the Anjuman-i-Panjab in
connexion with the proposed Bill for the appointment of persons to the
office of Kazi.

4, From the Home, Revenue and Agricultural Department,—(1)
Yajurveda Sanhita. (2) Scientific Results of the Second Yarkand Mis-
sion: Rhynchota. By W. L. Distant.

5. From the Superintendent, Marine Survey Department,—Charts of
(1) Jaygad and Entrance to Shastri River, (2) Chaul and Entrance to
Kundalika River, (3) Quilon Roads, and (4) Mullaitivu.

6. From the authors,—(1) Hrlauternde Angaben tiber den IV Band
der “ Reisen in Indien und Hochasien”’ nebst Bericht tiber die landschaft-
lichen Aufnahmen und die Tafeln. By H. von Schlagintweit-Saktnlinsk1.
(2) Account of the Incarnation of Govardhananatha. By Mohun Lall
Vishnu Lall. (8) The Toungoo God-language conspiracy. By Mrs.
Eleanor Mason.

70 A metal celt from Mr. Rivett-Carnace. [APRIn,

The following gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded at the last Meet-
ing, were balloted for and elected Ordinary Members—
W. Fiddian, Esq.
N. Elias, Esq.
Babu Bipina Chunder Rai.
Ananda Rama Gajapati, the Raja of Vizianagram.
The following are candidates for ballot at the next meeting—
1. R.H. McLeod, Hsq., C. S., Assistant Magistrate, Benares, proposed
by H. Rivett-Carnac, Hsq., seconded by P. C. Wheeler, Esq., C. S.
2. Rao Sahib Visvanath Narayana Mandalik, C. S. I., Bombay,
proposed by Dr. R. Mitra, seconded by J. Crawfurd, Esq.

3. Babu Tara Prasad Chatterjea, proposed by Moulvie Abdul Latif
Khan, Bahadoor, seconded by J. Crawfurd, Esq.

The Secretary reported that the Hon. C. D. Field, and Dr. V.
Richards had intimated their desire to withdraw from the Society.

The SrcreTaRy submitted the following Estimate of Income and
Expenditure for the year 1880.

INCOME.

Balancemn hands 4... tq wash ctacee. Gaia catageo ea ESO Olleemmonnence
Nulbsenipironsry 52.5 s-cessactqeaiin sar dashaciuconecdon sar aia 7,000 0 O
Dalevon iubplreatlons.--1a5 cod: asec coneaihaeanee meas cee 1,600 0 O
Mnterest on, Vested Funds...) hrc. ceccasacs se ouecek eae. 6,181 0 O

18,348 5 4

EXPENDITURE.

LEW NING} ti 0) 6 BRP ph oP PS Be 2 oe ce Rs. 7,000 0-0
Ui arya atc onic Sie naa ale ci teen es eR eae eee 3,000 0 O
iBook-Cases for Wibraryn.q.t0d-tac.qcaeoucsesee ecto. lL OOOm On -O
i stalolishnatenbs ses Geek cscnact coe neers ieartiere tenet gees 4,200 O O
WonbinSencies:7.2. -Aecucasawonees Men eect EO MORLO
Building and’ Purnitune jc. rasecesseeees ieesenccrsecon 1 OOM OMG
Goins: F os Baty ees eek Ne eT eee eit a So eee, aa OOM) Bam)
BRAK OS 185 8. ollie ck eye Rena nen aie EEO DU BEV F ARDY. 852 0 O

18,052 0 O

The Srecrerary exhibited a metal celt forwarded for the inspection

of the Society by Mr. H. Rivett-Carnac, and read a Memorandum by
him on the same.

1880. ] Copper Coins of the Sunga Dynasty. 71

Mr. Rivett-Carnac says:
I submit herewith for the inspection of the Society what appears to

be a metal Celt of the type well known in many collections in Europe.

The implement which was in all probability used as an axe-head or
hatchet, is 5¢ inches long by 4: inches broad. The metal is apparently
bronze, being too hard and heavy for copper.

It was found in the Hurdui District, Oudh, by Colonel Montague
Procter who has been good enough to place it at my disposal.

A reference to the sketch which accompanies my paper on Prehistoric
Remains in the Central Provinces will shew a similar implement of iron,
with the bands by which the axe head was fastened to the shaft.

- Dr. Horrnte exhibited a number of Buddhist copper coins, and read a
note on the same by H. Rivett-Carnae, Esq., C.8., C. 1. E., F.S. A. They
form a collection of 22 small coins, all belonging to Mr. Rivett-Carnac, and
kindly sent by him for the inspection of the Society. Most of the coins
are round ; but a feware square. The obverse generally shows some animal
(bull, elephant, or lion) ; the name of the king being inscribed above or be-
low the figure. The reverse generally shows some Buddhist symbols. The
names are not very distinct ; but such as they are, they have been read by
Mr. A. Carlleyle, as follow: Vatsakha Deva (2 square coins), Kamuda
Sena, Aja Varmma or Asha Varmma, Maphaba Varma, Maha Satama,
Satya Mitra, Ayu Mitra, Suya Mitra, Jaya Mitra, Vijaya Mitra,
Laranga or Larata or Ldjasa, Sigata Janapys.

Mr. Rivett-Carnac’s note with a Plate of the coins will be published
in Part I of the Journal.

Dr. Horrn te also exhibited 28 small copper coins of the Sunga Dynasty,
and read a Memorandum on them by H. Rivett-Carnac, Hsq., C. S., C. I. E.,
B.S. A. These coins also belong to Mr. Rivett-Carnac, they are mostly of
the same type as those which were noticed in the Proceedings for
January. The memorandum is principally occupied with a description
of the monograms or devices of the different kings, exhibited on the
reverses of the coins. On most coins the device is a standing figure
on a platform, between two staffs surmounted by three cross-bars;
the head surrounded by rays or flames. On others, however, the platform
and the side-poles are wanting ; on others again the figure is female.

Dr. Hoernle remarked that great credit was due to Mr. Rivett-Carnac
for his success in collecting so many new or as yet little known coins. As
to the device on the reverse of some of the Buddhist coins, which Mr.
Riveti-Carnae supposed to represent the trisi#la, it really was the Bud-
dhist symbol ¢rivatna or “three jewels,” on the two sides of which there
seemed to be represented bodhi-trees. On two coins he could distinguish
the figure of an elephant; on two others there was the cross-like symbol,

72 H. 8. Jarrett—Aneient Mosque in Koh Inam. [APRIn,

svastika. What Mr. Rivett-Carnac had supposed to be a pair of fishes,
might possibly be a conventional mode of figuring the sacred Buddhapada
or foot-prints of Buddha.

Mr. Rivett-Carnac’s Memorandum will be published in Part I of the
Journal.

The following papers were read—

1. Note on an Inscription on an ancient Mosque in Koh Inim, Zillah
Allahabad, sent by A. M. Marxuam, Esg., C. 8.—By Masor H. 8.
JARRETT.

An inscription on ruined Mosque in Koh In’im, Pergunnah Kara,
Zillah Allahabad, (a large village razed to the ground for rebellion in
1858,) sent by A. M. Markham, Esq., C. S., was shown by Dr. Hoernle
who read the following note of Major H. S. Jarrett on it:

The inscription is as follows :
yeh GD ole gld Ors yy asle os? ORLY

eels pd sly (silo 3 coil slaals do bo
oP Uy SUinrs O2.20 ws?) O92 5° wid whan, glo ples
VAY

(This) Glorious Jami Masjid was built
In the reign of the just king of the Seven Regions of the World.
King Firtz king of kings the Champion ;
By his command, the auspicious foundation of the Kazi.
Husdmu’ddin Hasan, chief of the age*
Whose eminence is a beacon in the world,
Was completed on the last day of Ramadan*¥
It was in the year 786 of the Hijrah.
This was in the reign of Firtiz Shah of the House of Tuglak.
I find a mention in the Tarikh i Firiz Shahi (of Zia’uddin Bami) of
a Husadmuddin Hasan who was Finance Minister or Examiner of Accounts
in the reign of Ghiasuddin Tughlak Shah who assumed the crown in 721}
A. H, (1821 A. D.) The Chief Kadhi during his reign and that of his son
Muhammad was Kamalu’ddin.
The Chief Kazi (Sadr Jahan or Sadr Zemana) in that of Firiz Shah,
was Jalalu’ddin Kirmini. There is no mention of a HusAmu’ddin in his

* A title given to the Kadhiu’l Kuzzdt or Chief K4zi,
+ Monday, 15th November 1584,

1880. ] J. C. Douglas— Use of Silver Filins. 73

reign—yet the inscription describes this person as a Kazi and the title
Sadr Zemdna confirms it. Probably one of the name succeeded Jalalu’ddin
on that Kazi’s death but there is no trace of this to be found in the works
I have con sulted.
2. The use of Silver Films in Improved Instruments of the Camera
Lucida class— By J. C. Dovcauas, Esa.

These instruments are divisible into two classes, vzz., that in which a
reflected image of the object is seen while the tracing point is seen direct,
and the other class in which the object or tracing point 1s seen by reflection,
but the tracing point or object is seen by light transmitted through a plate
which acts at the same time as a reflector. The forms in most common use
are the camera lucida, and the steel dise or Soemmering’s mirror of the first
class; and the parallel plate or tinted glass reflector of the second class.
There are other forms less common but each referable to one of the two
classes described above. Instruments of the first class give a brilliant and
well defined reflected image; but they are fatiguing to use, and some per-
sons experience great difficulty in using them. Instruments on the other
principle are far more easily used, they cause less fatigue, but the reflected
image is not so brilliant. In the case of the plane glass reflector the defini-
tion cannot be so good, as both surfaces of the glass reflect and there are
therefore two superimposed images which do not exactly coincide; the
second reflection is, however, weakened by using tinted glass, and this
colouring also serves to reduce the transmitted light which would otherwise
flood out the weak reflected image.

What is required in an instrument of this kind is the brilliancy and
clear definition of the camera lucida, combined with the simplicity and ease
in use, and the cheapness, of the tinted plane glass reflector ; with the
facility when desired, for using two reflections in order that the reflected
image may not be reversed. I believe these requirements are attainable by
the use of silver films on glass.

Silver films are so highly reflective that two or more successive reflec-
tions may be used if desired; by transmitted light the colour of the film
is suitable for tinting the glass. The thickness of the film may be regulat-
ed according to requirements, a thick film being used when reflection only
is required, and a thinner one according to the ratio desired between the
reflected and transmitted light. The reflective power of the thinnest film is
greatly superior to that of glass. The silver film is applicable to most
forms in use, and it may be used not only on plane but on curved surfaces,
€. g., % plano concave lens silvered on the plane side might be used by a
short-sighted person instead of the common plane reflector used in sketch-
ing microscopic objects, a slight curvature of the 1st or 2nd reflecting sur-

74 J. C. Douglas— Use of Stlver Films. [Arnrin,

face in the camera lucida might be used to render it unnecessary to employ
a lens to equalize the sensibly different distances of the images of the
object and plane of delineation. The cost of silver films on glass is very
trifling, and if taken care of they last for years; a number might be made
at intervals, or they might be supplied for a trifling sum by the opticians.

For many purposes the films might be deposited on thin glass and
varnished or protected by glass, when they would be very durable and would
bear handling. For some purposes the film might be thickened by electro
deposition and removed from the glass. As the films are so cheap, a num-
ber of graduated thickness might be kept, and a suitable one selected in
each case to adjust the relative brilliancies of the reflected and transmitted
light ; or the films might be applied as the dark glasses usually supplied
with the camera lucida, but this seems less simple and convenient than the
use of a thicker or thinner film as transmitting reflector. A silver surface
may reflect upwards of 90°/, of the incident light, a total reflecting prism
has been found to reflect only about 75°/, or less, the loss being due to
reflection at the first surface and absorption ; the superiority of the silver
surface is evident, particularly when several successive reflections are
required. Even if the highest attainable brilliancy be not generally requir-
ed, still the higher this is, the greater the range of adjustment without
alteration of the source of light. The strictest regularity in the film not
being essential, suitable films are very readily obtained. With strict clean-
liness, pure chemicals, care that the glass is wetted equally in every part
by water or alcohol at the moment of immersion in the silvering solution,
and care that the solution is properly mixed, 7. e., homogeneous, success is
readily attained.

I find* that ‘ Professor Govi of Rome has devised’ a form of camera
lucida in which a metallic film is used. He simply gilds the reflecting
surface of the camera luciila prism with a thin film of gold, and
cements to this surface with canada balsam another similar prism ;
M. Nachet has adopted this improvement in the construction of
various forms of camera lucida. The greater advantage of the silver
film are obvious. By the use of silvered glass, instruments of various forms
and of large size may be readily constructed for a trifling sum by any
ingenious person ; thus an instrument may be devised and readily construct-
ed for any special purpose. The following isa description of the instrn-
ments exhibited at the meeting :

1. An ordinary tinted glass reflector for use with the microscope. The
tinted glass usually used was replaced by a piece of glass covered with a
thin film of silver. The silvered side is turned towards the eye-piece and

* Annual Record of Science and Industry, 1875, p. 144.

Proceedings As. Soc. Bengal, 1880. Plate I.

Fig. 1.
Fig. 2.
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Zimcographed at the Surveyor General's Office, Calentta.

On the use of Silver Films in improved instruments
of the Camera Lucida Class by J. C. Douglas.

1880. ] J. C. Douglas

Use of Silver Films. 75

reflects the magnified image. In this form several reflectors differing in
the thickness of the silver film should be available for regulating the ratio
between the transmitted and reflected light, but a certain thickness of film
will be found which is applicable to most purposes so that change of reflec-
tor is seldom necessary. :

2. Camera lucida with double reflection, Plate I, ficure 1. The first
reflection is from a thick film of silver, the second is from a thinner film. The
thickness of the second film may be adjusted as described above. It will
be seen that the plane of delineation is seen through the second reflector,
not past it as in the ordinary instrument. In the diagrams the thick
oblique lines are the silver films, the thin lines the directions of the light,
the arrows the objects and the dotted line the paper on which the objects
are to be drawn.

8. A form of reflecting camera for sketching microscopic objects,
Plate I, figure 2. This instrument being fitted to the eye-piece of the
microscope, the paper and pencil point under the larger reflector appear in
the field of the microscope. The object is seen direct. The second mirror
in the instrument exhibited was an inch square. This instrument may be
used with the body of the microscope at any angle, it being merely necessary
to place the drawing paper in a plane parallel with that of the microscope
stage. In the figures 2 and 8 the mirrors are represented as parallel, they
should usually be slightly inclined to each other to increase distance between
plane of delineation and the object.

4. Another reflecting camera for sketching small objects is represent-
ed in Plate I, figure 3. In the instrument exhibited the larger reflector was
13” x 12” and placed 10” from the paper, the field was about 44 inches square.
This instrument may be used horizontal or inclined, and it is admirably
adapted for drawing such objects as insects, leaves, shells, &c. If the
vertical distances between the mirrors and the object and paper respectively
be constant in instruments of this form, the relative magnitudes of object
and drawing will obvious!y vary with the distance between the reflectors.
It is evident that by the use of reflectors in instruments of this class, the
reflecting surfaces may be larger and the distance between them greater
than if a prism were used.

The above are only examples of the application of silver films
to a particular class of instrument, it is evident they offer great
facility for giving this class of instrument its maximum develop-
ment. It is obvious also that silver films are applicable with advantage
in many other cases where prisms are used at present, particularly where it
is desired to divide a beam of light into two; e.g., if figure 3 be turned
upside down, and the two eyes of the observer be in the place of the arrow
and the dotted line, the diagram represents an arrangement suitable for a

76 R. Mitra—Inseriptions from Buddha- Gayd. [A prin,

non-stereoscopic binocular microscope, the inclination between the mirrors
being varied to suit the distance between the eyes; the loss of light in
such an arrangement would be very little, and the brilliancy of the two
images might be rendered very nearly equal.

To illustrate how cheaply such instruments may be made the mirrors
in the instruments exhibited were mounted in tubes of thin sheet zine which
is readily cut with ordinary scissors and bent into shape with pliers ; a coat
of asphalt varnish used for making shallow cells was applied for the sake
of appearance. The instrument, figure 2, was fastened to the eye-piece by
a piece of zine bent half round the eye-piece tube and held against it by a
small elastic rubber band. ‘The tinted reflector was supported by a bent
plate of zinc hung on the milled edge of the eye-piece by a groove passing
almost half round the eye-piece; this is a most convenient method of
attaching the reflector or camera to the eye-piece, as it is quite firm enough
and yet removable in an instant without disturbing the microscope.

3. TLranseripts and Translations of two Inscriptions from Buddha-Gayd.—
By Dr. RAsenprarsta Mirra, C. I. E.

Dr Mitra stated that during his last stay at Buddha-Gaya he tried
much to obtain copies of all the inscriptions that could be had there, but,
owing to various causes, a few escaped him. ‘Two of these had been lately
placed at his disposal by General Cunningham. They were not of any very
early age, nor connected with the history of the great temple at the place ;
but both of them were dated, and of interest. The larger of the two
records measures 19 x 12 inches, and comprises 17 lines of writing, parts
of which have been obliterated. The small one is limited to.7 x 6 inches,
and contains 8 lines of Sanskrit. The character used is in both the same,
the Kutila, but of different periods.

The language of the large record is high-flown, and very much involv-
ed. Metaphors and similes are scattered in it with no niggard hand, and
they are mostly very much over-strained, and difficult of reproduction in
plain English.

The purport of the monument is the commemoration of the excavation
of a cave (Guha), the dedication of the images of the “three jewels” of
Buddhism, and the performance of a sacrifice in a courtyard. The epithets
used to describe the three jewels are, as far as the words are concerned,
easy enough, but it is difficult to make out their bearings. The word used
for the sacrifice is Satra, which is a Vedie rite, which no Buddhist would
celebrate. Probably the word has been used in a restricted sense to imply
some Buddhist ceremonial the nature of which is not known. ‘The court-
yard is not properly defined ; it may mean the area before the cave, or that in
front of the Great Temple before the Bodhi tree—probably the former.

1880. ] R. Mitra—Inscriptions from Buddha- Gaya. 77

The author of the pious deeds was a hermit of the name Jayachchan-
dra, who was the spiritual guide of the king of Kasi, and a disciple of a
saint named Srimitra, whose eulogy fills more than one half of the record.
All the pious deeds were performed on the same day, 7. e., on Saturday,
the 5th of the wane, in the month of Jyaishtha, in the year of Vikramanka
124? The date is given in words of which the fourth has been obliterated.
The first three are clear enough, and the fourth must have been a word of
two syllables implying a figure from 1 to 9. This carries the record to the last
decade of the 12th century. A Kayastha, of the name of Manoratha, com-
posed the record ; one Purandara transcribed it, and Dharddhara engraved it.

The second record was inscribed on the 18th year of the reign of
Dharmapala, who was the 2nd of the Pala dynasty of Bengal. According
to Dr. Mitra’s calculation he must have begun his reign on or about 875,
and the record must, therefore, belong to the last decade of the 9th century.
It commemorates the consecration of a four-faced Mahadeva, and the exca-
vation of a tank by one Saka, son of a sculptor, at a cost of three thousand
Drummas.

The two records are separated by an interval of about three centuries,
and the earlier of them shows that Hinduism was flourishing at the time
at Buddha Gaya, and the later one proves that Buddhism had not lost all
influence there at the close of the 12th century, and that the excavation of
Buddhist caves had not ceased, as supposed by some, between 650 and 675
A. D., the uncertainty, instead of ranging within the narrow range of 25
years, extending to over five centuries. It, likewise, shows that in that
century the current coin of the place was called drumma, the Sanskrit form
of the Greek Drachma. Mention of this money has been met with in
other records. The drumma appears to be a sequel to the currency of the
dinar mentioned in an inscription on the Sanchi gateway.

Transcript in Devanagari of Inscription No. 1.

Vl ge aa SETH | VEa: GK sfeaqehecafamrargsratsed aR
zacfafaataveaicarg: aaa | HUMES Ia-

R | TH CATT AIT AILS daei wiaeqtanagrzaqume: fry a (2)
FORA SAA SASHA I AIG STS II CASTS

a) fsifaaica wegE sae) wie TEZIZCHETEAelagqar
ta: ate quia fexg a: Jawa a-

g1 Ou (2) walehqaeqeufaraaramasiaaaa ay ratia tera fafa-
eqifauaattaa ) fagafaaqeqmataa:

yj) attra faudieaenseeRnasgzaa Rates (8) ate fae
ate qasem: Hamar adsaya: | wasteerat-

“I

8 R. Mitra—Inseriptions from Buddha- Gayt. [ APRIL,

< | <aa atfaaarar qeaiaya: (8) frafiaaim ArataqimE-
aaIaaiy ITA + FAST FWHyIta al taafaqray-
OH) Sadstyarn aucacede Berquarcfeada: & (g) vara qara-
qe ay wats faaa i (4) fasictefaeeauqiearaea-
ci aw_a Sart afd car muanaratyat cfyat | ayiaaaar varia
ew gala qreraar staafaayraar-
Q) atta: eased i (¢) staweifa qa aagieete: waERTITH
qarsea | satrataqefasaatea faata a: ate.
ol Mata yal (9) we a axaryagaty faaweurT
fenwara| faarafufefmaziassr yfeaay ayaa 3 a
Wid (6) es qaqa: wquegTita
qu: Heferstaray | Feu garada afan yar-
Ql) WRIA alicgaag7a yal yaqarace i (¢) vfeasnauata:
wearers: waaty faataqaulag fae: | wa-
QQ | FCNAHIS ASA ata anaaada: slsraaget i (Xe) ala
wiaitarey wastes agentes | araiaetaae
Qe | RENTX Bt Waa MIGAHTATT: I (YY) PASSIATUTAeaTAAITAATTS |
arqarat fear afe eaaTcRaasAT (QR) STaTTTETTeas fea-
qui fb + acacia | alesis artes Sai at aera (4a) warfte
faeuy srararay facyu: | ae slasiafaa: weadtaaat+ ti (Xz)
I+ + aeartetaea**daagucteefad 1 famaFITTBAIMT
aware aaagetsaa il ( y ) RIWMINSSAMAMSGaT AAT:
89) ++ gad sufatat afeangcaqaAT: i (8s ) ateafauar-
aan alardat wee: | sgeafacate: facet wrcractfre i (Xo)

Translation of the above.

Om! salutation to Buddha.

1. May he, who is of smiling nature, who is of delightfully expanded
beauty, who is endowed with the radiance of the sprouts of his internal,
thriving, noble and mighty mass of merits, made manifest by the light of
the young moons of the large rows of his teeth, who, for the sake of glory,
has relieved the three spheres of all illness by bestowing on them the
S’astra—may he be to your welfare.

2. May that lord of regions, the lord, the autumnal moon-light of
whose heart is manifest by the resplendence of the glorious light of the
world-enlightening moon of knowledge, whose benevolent mind appears

1880. | R. Mitra—Inseriptions from Buddha- Gaya. 79

lustrous under the guise of the resplendent row of his pure, rose-coloured
nails—may he grant you blessings.

3. May he, of the one lock of matted hair, whose mind is engaged
in friendship for those who depend on him, who holds up, like a standard,
the white light of noble speech, who wields the beautiful scymitar of all-
pervading mercy which has made the world fearless—may he promote your
prosperity.

4 Here lived a noble hermit of the name of Srimitra, the chief of
the pure race of Sambuddha, renowned in the three worlds, who had im-
parted to all beings the secret knowledge (lit. the Mantra) of the noblest
sacrifice,

5. by whose friendly aid the ferocious, giving up their needless fero-
city, the passionate forsaking their superabundant anger, the timid aban-
doning their fear. Relying on the friendship of him who is the asylum
of radiance in this world, even (wild) animals, endowing themselves with
love, conversed with each other with affection, diffusing the nectar of
their delightful eyes. What a wonder!

6. HEnamoured by the maiden of emancipation in this life, that person
of undeviating mind, did not by the corner of his eyes, cast even a reproach-
ful glance at the eight Siddhis, who had achieved the exclusion of all creat-
ed evils, who were devoted voluntarily to their husband, who delighted in
the enjoyment of good qualities, and who lying at his feet.

7. Although devoid of all desires, he, thoroughly versed in all the
works of Buddha, and, always looking up for high enterprise, through his
benevolence, was anxious for the salvation of the creation. He, by his
teachings, made heterodox kings to betake to the worship of S’righana,
(Buddha).

8. He always bestowed freely even what did not cross the mind of
beggars; beholding which (the jewel) Chintamani, the greatest giver of
gifts, through shame hid itself in heaven.

9. The work of him who, bathing over and over in the river of end-
less felicity, had, from the day of his birth, taken the lord proprietor of
wealth and propriety for asylum, who, having repeatedly touched the
dignity of the highest Brahma, had ultimately become unrivalled among
wise men, and of thriving person ; his works had attained a wonderful
whiteness for ages.

10. S’ri Jayachchandra Deva, the adored of a hundred kings, the
benevolent from devotion, the perfection of whose glory had spread all over
this earthly globe, wishing something, became a disciple of one whose know-
ledge was transparent, and who had renounced the earth.

80 R. Mitra—Tnseriptions from Buddha- Gaya. [APRIL,

11. He, becoming the spiritual guide of the king of Kasi, and the
instructor of law, revived the lost ordinances and the endless scriptures of
the Mahabodhi.

12. The three Bodhis adorned in golden raiment, resplendent
as the garlanded cloud of twilight the adored of day with the
forehead decked with a bright star.

13. Bearing a refulgent star
pura,

14, 15. as also three sacrifices (satras) in the courtyard, the wifeless,
and of noble deeds. With reference to the three,—the friend of the world
with firm faith at once accomplished in the fortunate year comprising the
numbers—the Vedas, (4) the eyes, (2) the moon, (1) (and) (?) of
the era of the Lord of men, Vikramanka, in the month of Jyaishtha.

16. Manoratha, son of S‘risida, of the noblest of the Kayastha race,
a bee on the lotus feet of the learned, composed this eulogium.

this cave, in the auspicious Jaya-

17. Purandara, the adored of seribes, transcribed this, and the clever
artist, named Dharadhara, engraved it with his chisel.
Transcript in Devanigari of Inscription No. 2.

Q1 Lee (Q) + MraRNTE voy freee: uv +

R | MASA GSU aVSTGqY G: | AT +

eapattat + azaiufaafsa i arn +

g| + Saag 298 sfawiiva: veafe-

yu | wa(a) + a gal famuctaar | fara-

Ql Tava sant ati + ar ii

© | Nfgaiaad a8 griare avtytar

| WRISTIeAt Sais

e | carta i

Translation.

For endless virtue and for the good of the inhabitants of Mahabodhi,
an image of the four-mouthed Mahadeva was consecrated by S’aka, the son
of the noble sculptor, sayanabhara. (?) A tank, holy as the
river, born of the feet of Vishnu, was also excavated by him at a cost of
three thousand Drummas, on the 26th year of the great king Dharmapala,
on the 5th of the wane, on the day of the son of the lord of light,
(Saturday).

4, Description of a new Lepidopterous Insect belonging to the genus
Apatura.—By l. de Nicr’vinie, Esa.

This paper will appear in Part II of the Journal.

1880. | Library. 81

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PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL,
FoR May, 1880.

SS

The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was
held on Wednesday, the 5th instant, at 9°15 Pp. m.

H. B. Meputcort, Esq., F. R. S., President in the Chair.

The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.

The following presentations were announced—

1. From the Director, Cambridge Observatory,—Astronomical obser-
vations made at the Observatory of Cambridge under the superintendence of -
J. C. Adams, F. R.S., Vol. XXI, for the years 1861-65.

2. From the Royal Society of New South Wales,—(1) Report of the
Council of Education, New South Wales, for 1878, (2) Annual Report of
the Department of Mines, New South Wales, for 1877.

3. From the British Museum,—(1) Catalogue of the Oriental Coins
in the British Museum; by 8. L. Poole, (2) Illustrations of Typical speci-
mens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum,
Part III, by A. G. Butler, (3) Illustrations of Typical specimens of
Coleoptera in the British Museum, Part I, by C. O. Waterhouse.

4, From the authors :—

(1) Introduction to the Study of Sign Language among the North
American Indians: by Lieut.-Col. G. Mallery, (2) Sacred Books of the
Hast, Vols. I—III: edited by F. Max Miiller, (8) Le dixseptieme Chapi-
tre du Bharatiya-Natya-Castra, intitulé Vag-Abhinaya: by P. Regnaud,
(4) Miscellaneons Essays relating to Indian subjects: by B. H. Hodgson,
(5) Instructions for Testing Telegraph Lines and the Technical arrange-
ment of offices, Vol. II: by L. Schwendler.

5. From the Maharaja of Kashmir,—a Hindee Almanac.

6. From Lieut. R. C. Temple,—4 silver and 29 copper coins.

86 Election of Ordinary Members. [May,

7. From the Home, Revenue and Agricultural Department, (1) Ostin-
dische Kaste in der Gegenwart: by Dr. H. Schlagintweit, (2) The Chrono-
logy of Ancient Nations: translated by Dr. C. E. Sachau.

The PresteEnvT then laid on the table Volume II of the Antiquities of
Orissa, by Dr. Rajendralala Mitra, which had been recently presented to the
Society by the author, and in calling attention to this valuable contribution
to the Society’s Library, he said:

I have the pleasure of presenting a gift in which the Society may take
pride as well as interest. It is the second Volume of the Antiquities of
Orissa by Dr. Rajendralala Mitra, For five and thirty years Dr. Mitra has,
I may say, belonged to the Society. It was to him as a school before he
made himself a master in the studies to which he has devoted his life. Al-
though this work has been brought out quite independently of the Society,
we may truly say that but for the Society, it would never have appeared. I
am not competent to judge of the critical merits of a work of antiquarian
research—no doubt this volume will sustain in this respect the reputation
of its author—but of its form, I may venture to remark, that it seems
worthy of the important object undertaken, to make an adequate perma-
nent record of the wonderful monuments of a bygone attempt at civiliza-
tion in this country. For such investigation it is especially to be regretted
that so few of Dr. Mitra’s fellow countrymen have endeavoured to emulate
the conspicuous example he has set them, for it is surely to be presumed
that, with equal learning, a native must have a great advantage over a
foreigner in interpreting the symbols of a mythology and of a social phase,
the traditions and the residual customs of which formed the elements of his
earliest training. 'The Society can scarcely show a higher sense of the duties
of its position than by the encouragement of native learning.

The following Gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded at the last
Meeting, were balloted for and elected Ordinary Members—

R. H. Macleod, Esq., C. S.
Rao Sahib Visvanath Mandalik, C. §. I.
Babu Taraprasad Chatterjea.

The following Gentlemen are candidates for ballot at the next
Meeting—

1. The Rev. J. 8. Doxey, Multan, proposed by Col. C. C. Minchin,
seconded by J. Crawfurd, Esq.

2. G. MacDonald, Esq., C. E. Lala, proposed by H. Rivett-Carnac
Hsq., seconded by A. Pedler, Esq.

3. J. G, W. Sykes, Esq., LL. D., Barrister at Law, Lukhnau, pro-
posed by H. Rivett-Carnac, Esq., seconded by A. Pedler, Esq.

4, The Giridhararaj of Biswan, proposed by Dr. Rajendraldla Mitra,
seconded by J. Crawfurd, Esq.

1880. ] Amendments to Rules 4 and 46. 87

The SECRETARY reported that Mr. J. C. MacDonald and Col. H. A.
Browne had intimated their desire to withdraw from the Society.

The PrestpEentT announced that the Council propose certain amend-

ments to Rules 4and 46:
The object of these amendments will be seen from the following cir-

cular which was issued to all resident members in compliance with Rule
64 A.

Proposition to increase the strength of the Council.

The peculiar circumstances in which the Society is placed make it very desirable,
or even necessary to working efficiency, to increase the strength of the Council.

There are always attached to the Supreme and the Local Governments men whose
counsel it is important to secure. With the present limit of the number of the Council
to 15 members this advantage cannot be attained, owing to the removal of all the chief
offices to the hills during the hot season, whereby the administrative body of the Socie-
ty would then be left inefficient for the greater part of the year. This difficulty has
for some time been partially met by making frequent changes in the Council within
the year, but it is not always possible to effect a move of this kind, and the practice is
independently objectionable.

The law requiring that the Trustees of the Indian Museum appointed by the
Society shall be members of the Council has added greatly to the difficulty under consi-
deration : these four Trustees (or five, when the President is already a Trustee) should
be working {and some, at least, non-migratory) members of Council; and the office-
bearers of the Society (the 3 Secretaries) are not always those who can most fitly be
nominated as Trustees.

The rule whereby the President must be chosen from the Council has sometimes
been felt obstructively ; and, indeed, the object of such arule is not apparent. This
difficulty also would be neutralized if the Council had power to nominate some addi-
tional members to its body.

The appointment of these additional members should remain optional, the special
object being—to have power in emergent cases to bring in some particular individual
without requiring the immediate retirement of some actual member of Council; but
the member so appointed would be as fully and permanently on the Council as any
other. The desired relief could not be secured by a less number than five.

The change will require the following alterations of the Rules, (additions in
italics) :

Rule 4. “The administration, direction and management of the affairs of the

Society shall be entrusted to a Council composed of the
Soutien and officers of the officers of the Society—namely, a President, three Vice-

Presidents, and one or more Secretaries, including the
Treasurer—with as many other ordinary members, as shall with these officers make up
a minimum total of fifteen, or a maximum of twenty.”

“Not more than one of the offices of President, Vice-President or Secretary, shall
be held by the same individual ; but the Secretary if there be one, or one of the Secre-
taries, if there be more than one, shall ex-officio act as Treasurer. The optional vacan-
cies in the Council are intended to provide (under Rule 46) for emergent cases, such as are
occasioned by the frequent temporary absence of members, or otherwise.”

88 Appointment of General Secretary and Treasurer. [May,

Rules 46. “In the event of a vacancy occurring during the year in the oflice of
President, Vice-President, Secretary, or Member of Coun-

Gee of vacancies in the (3) it shall be competent to the remaining Members of

the Council to fill up such vacancy, subject to the con-

firmation of the next subsequent Ordinary General Meeting.

“The Council may also, for specified reasons aud subject to the same confirmation, elect
additional members, as occasion may require, within the sanctioned maximum number.”

The PrestpENT invited the members present to make any remarks or
suggestions on the proposed alterations, reminding them that under the
rules a statement of such objections would have to accompany the voting
papers, which would be sent round to all members of the Society.

No remarks or suggestions having been made on the proposals, the
President stated that the proposals would be circulated, and the questions
would come up again at the July meeting.

The PrestpENT on behalf of the Council then announced that Mr. A.
Pedler had been appointed General Secretary, Member of Council and Trus-
tee of the Indian Museum, on behalf of the Society, in the place of Mr. J.
Crawfurd who had gone to England.

The Prestpent also announced that Mr. H. F. Blanford had
tendered his resignation as Member of the Council, and Mr. Beverley as
Treasurer, and that Mr. J. C. Douglas had been appointed Member of
Council and Treasurer in their place.

The SECRETARY announced that the following works had been sane-
tioned for publication in the Bibliotheca Indica Series :

1. Chanda’s Prakrit Grammar ; edited by Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle.

2. Second Volume (English Translation) of the Ain-i-Akbari; by
Captain H. W. Clarke.

38. Maghazi el Waqidi; edited by Mr. C. J. Lyall.

4. Maitrayani Samhita; edited by Dr. L. Schroeder.

5. English translation of the Katha Sarit Sdgara, by Mr. C. H.
Tawney.

6. Vishnu Stitra ; edited by Prof. Jolly.

7. English Translation of the Charaka; by Dr. Mahendralala Sircar.

8. Kathaka Grihya Sutra; edited by Dr. G. Thibaut.

9. English Translation of the Tarikh-ul-Khulfa; by Major H. S.
Jarrett.

10. Nirukta, with commentary ; by Pandit Satyavrata Samasrami.

11. Third volume of the Akbar Namah ; edited by Maulvi Abdur-
rahim.

12. Continuation of the Isabah ; edited by Maulvi Abdul Hai.

1880. | R. Mitra—Wote on Coins. 89

Dr. A. F. R Horrnte exhibited four silver, and twenty-nine copper
coins, and some ornaments received from Lieut. R. C. Temple, and read the
following note on them by Dr. Rajendraléla Mitra.

“Two of the silver coins have been so worn out that the legends on
them have become illegible. The 3rd isa coin of Ala-uddin Muhammad
Shah A. H. 695 to 715. It has been figured by Thomas in his Pathan
coins of Delhi, Plate III, fig. 57, page 171. The legend on the fourth
is very faint, and I doubtfully take it to be of the same reign but of differ-
ent type.

“The copper coins are all of the same reign and type, but not of the
same date. Onsome I make out the date to be A. H. 896, in others 905,
914,917 and 918. They belong to the reign of Sikandar Shah Behlol
(Behlodi, Lodi,) and have been figured by Thomas, plate V, figs. 167 and
169, page 366.

“The large ornament is a necklet of a pattern common all over India.
The small ones are earrings. They are of no interest except that the like
of them may be seen in figures of ancient and medieval ornaments of the

kind.”’

Dr. A. F. R. Horrnte read the following Memorandum from Mr. H.
Rivett-Carnac, C.S., C. I. E., F.S. A., giving extracts from a letter from
Chevalier Hans Hildebrandt, regarding the resemblance between the Swedish
Remains and the Indian Pre-historic Tumuli and Markings.

“The following extracts from a letter from the Chevalier Hans Hilde-
brandt, Antiquary to the kingdom of Sweden, Director of the Royal Swe-
dish Academy of History and Antiquities, in which he notices the resem-
blance between the Swedish Remains, and the Indian Prehistoric Tumuli
and Markings described in the papers read by me before the Asiatic Society
will perhaps be of interest. Referring to the cup-marks, M. Hildebrandt
writes :

«The ancient sculpturings on the Indian rocks are highly interesting.
Regarded as a whole they are more like to the Scotch sculpturings than to
the Swedish ones, as you will see from the enclosed plate, showing some
very characteristic groups of the Swedish type.

“<The cup-marks occur in Sweden very oft, but seldom or never on
slanting surfaces, never, as far as I know, on natural rocks, generally on the
uppermost horizontal or quasi-horizontal surface of large or smaller blocks,
In one of the volumes of the monthly papers of our academy, which I sent
you to-day, you will find such a block with a certain number of cup-marks
figured. The cup-bearing blocks are called by the Swedish peasants elfste-
nor or stones of the elfies. The cups are used as receptacles of offerings.
They are greased and in them are deposited small gifts to the supernatural

90 H. Rivett-Carnac—Indian Prehistoric Tumult. [May,

beings, such as pins, farthings, &c. This custom is in some places retained
even to-day. Count G. Essen, who died some years ago, had placed in his
park, where only the families of his estate entered, an Elfstone, and after
a week he found several deposits in the cups. He took them away, but after
another week the cups were rich in small objects. No friend of supersti-
tion, he told his labourers that they were not allowed to deposit offerings
on thestone. The labourers obeyed but reluctantly. They were persuad-
ed, that the Count had taken the stone from the field and placed it in his
park only to have a place of offering continually at hand, and his prohibi-
tion to use it was regarded as a proof that he wished to use the said stone
only for himself.

«<The monoliths are very common in Sweden, but generally very rough.
I know only a single instance, where the stone shows a kind of ornament
(a spiral line) in the province of Halland.

* «Bf cups are often found in Sweden on the covering blocks of our
dolmens. The dolmens belong in Sweden exclusively to the Stone-age,
but I am not quite sure if the cup-marks on them can be ascribed to
so high an antiquity. The cup-bearing blocks could be visible in other
prehistoric periods as they are to-day, and in that way they do not neces-
sarily belong to the times of erection of the dolmen itself,”

“Tt is to be noticed that in some parts of India also flowers and offer-
ings are to be found on the sculptured stones and at Junapanee as in
Sweden the cup-marks were as in Sweden generally on the “uppermost
horizontal or quasi-horizontal surface of the large or smaller blocks.” In
India the rocks with the markings are attributed to the Pandus, who
although hardly to be regarded as elfs, represent in the minds of the people
a supernatural agency.

“ Referring to the Tumuli M. Hildebrandt writes :

« ¢ The likenesses between your Indian Tumuli and our Swedish ones
are of so general a kind, you will find the same arrangement everywhere,
that I fear no conclusions are thence to be drawn. But your finds are
of the highest interest. Your iron axes have exactly the same type as the
very fine metal axes of Europe, the only type seasonable in the age, when
man learned to have recourse to metal instead of stone for making an axe.
T think we have two ways of explaining this phenomenon. Hither your
Indian iron-implements have no connection at all with the development of
European civilisation, and then they are to be regarded as belonging to a
quite distinct civilisation, which, quite independently left the stage of the
stone-implements and made itself new ones of metal, of iron, which, to be
sure in some regions, for instance in South Africa, has been known and used
earlier than copper and bronze. Or your Indian finds belong to the same
great wave of civilization we have in Hurope, but in India iron was known

1880. | E. Lafont—FHvhibition of an Hlectrical Radiometer. 91

very early; already in the very first period of the knowledge of metals,
copper or bronze was given up and replaced with iron, a very interesting fact.
To choose between the two theories it will be necessary to have the exact
date of these finds, and to that end it will be necessary to have some research-
es more in the same direction.’ ”’

“Tt is impossible at present to give even approximately the date of the
Tumuli—all the people can tell you is that they are prehistoric.

“The following extract regarding the remains of snake-worship in Swe-
den will be considered interesting :

«‘¢ There is still in Sweden to be found a snake-worship in a tame way.
We have in Sweden a quite innocent snake, Swed-Snok (the same word
as in English!) which lives in heaps of stones, in the foundations of coun-
try-houses &c., and is regarded as a tutelary genius of the house. Asa
boy I killed a snok and was very proud of my bravery, till my old grand-
mother heard of it and made me so angry reproaches that I promised never
to do soany more. In Pompeii you will find almost in every house the
tutelary snakes painted, especially in the kitchens.’ ”

The Rev. Farner E. Laront, 8. J. read the following note on some
anomalies he had observed in one of Crookes’ Electrical Radiometers, and
exhibited to the members the difference in behaviour of this instrument,
and that of the ordinary form of electrical radiometer.

An Hlectrical Radiometer recently made for me by Mr. C. H. Giming-
ham the Assistant of Mr. W. Crookes, behaves in a manner so different from
that mentioned in the latter’s Lecture “On Radiant Matter,” that I
thought it might interest the meeting to have it exhibited to-night.

According to Crookes, the vanes of his Radiometer revolve when made
the negative pole of the Inductorium, but remain perfectly motionless when
the current is reversed, and when the vanes become positive. Now in this
particular instrument with a weak primary current, the phenomena take
place just as they were exhibited at Sheffield, but if more battery power be
added, it becomes impossible to prevent the rotation by reversing the cur-
rent, in both positions of the commutator the luminous appearances and the
rotatory movement remain unaltered, except perhaps in intensity.

The explanation of this anomaly is, I think, the following :

We have in the Secondary Coil of our Inductorium, a rapid succession
of two induced currents produced by the closing and the opening of the
primary or battery current ; but of these two induced currents, that pro-
duced at opening is far stronger than the one produced at the closing of
the primary. It follows from this, that if a great resistance be interposed
between the terminals of the Secondary Coil, the stronger current alone
passes, and it is from this that these terminals are usually called positive or

92 A. C. Carlleyle—Coins of the Mitras. [May,

negative.- In the present case an additional battery power very likely so
far increases the tension of the weaker current that on reversing the com-
mutator, that current plays the part which usually devolves upon the stronger
current alone. The vanes of the Radiometer contain always negative elec-
tricity, in one position of the commutator from the direct, and in the
other position from the zzverse induced current, and when that negative
electricity has sufficient tension it drives the vanes in both cases. This new
fact proves once more the comparative indifference of positive, and the pecu-
jiar energy of negative electricity in these highly rarified tubes.

The following papers were read—

Second Notice of the Coins of the Mitras.— By A. C. CaRLury1e, Esa.
Archeological Survey of India.
(Abstract.)

This paper mainly treats of a new device discovered by the author on
some of the Mitra coins, acquired by Mr. Rivett-Carnac on a subsequent
occasion, and noticed by him in a paper read at the last meeting of the
Society (see Proceedings for April). This device is the recumbent figure of
aman, which takes the place of the three symbols on the other coins. The
author identifies it as Buddha in his nirvana, in the same recumbent pos-
ture as represented by the colossal statue of the nirvana, discovered by
him on the site of Kusinagara. The paper further shows that all Mitra
coins may be divided into three classes, according to their devices on the
reverse. The first class has a bull standing ; the second, a peacock and
palm-tree ; the third, a chaitya or sttipa of three semicircular arches.
The two latter classes again, show the standing bull on their obverse,
while the first class has the Buddhist trigtila in its place. The author
states that 14 kings of the Mitra dynasty are now known, whose dates he
says range from B. C. 178 to A. D. 144,

This paper will be printed in the Journal, Part I.

2. Ona simple Method of identifying a submerged Telegraph Cable with-
out cutting it.—By W. P. Jounston, Esq., Officiating Electrician,
Indian Government Telegraphs.

(Abstract.)

This paper refers to a simple and very ingenious method for identify-
ing any submerged telegraph cable without making the highly objection-
able cut, when the cable has been raised to a boat. For instance, say that
there are two identical cables laid across a river, one of which has become
faulty, how can the faulty one be distinguished without cutting either
cable? Mr. Johnston uses for this purpose a telephone which, as is well

1880. ] W. P. Johnston—On testing Telegraph Cables. 93

known, is the most sensitive instrument at present available for indicating
small currents acting for very short intervals of time. After having given
orders on shore that signals are to be sent, only through the good cable,
Mr. Johnston attaches a telephone to the wire guards of the raised cable,
the distance between the two connecting points being not necessarily greater
than 6 feet; if then it should happen that the cable, to which the tele-
phone is attached, is the one through the copper conductor of which signals
are being sent, and into the wire guards of which small and opposite cur-
rents are consequently induced, and of which currents small portions pass
through the shunt formed by the telephone, then every signal-sent through
the cable can be distinctly read, and the Telegraph Engineer on board knows
that he has got hold of the good cable. If no signals can be heard in the
telephone, then it is the faulty cable that has been raised to the boat.

The reverse way may also be chosen, by connecting a telephone to the
conductor of the cable on shore, and sending signals from a battery on the
boat, through the wire guards; in this manner the Telegraph Engineer on
the boat has the means of communicating with the shore.

After the paper was read Mr. Louis Schwendler gave a lucid descrip-
tion of this ingenious method for applying the telephone to practical
purposes, illustrating his remarks by diagrams on the black board, and
carrying out some experiments with a piece of cable as used for Indian
rivers. The members present satisfied themselves as to the efficiency of
the method, and two signallers of the Government Telegraph Department
communicated with each other in the manner above described.

Mr. Schwendler further said that the telephone, although a very inter-
esting instrument and of great practical importance for physical research,
appeared to him a most dangerous one from a telegraph point of view, for
it could be used for taking off at any point, the messages passing along
a line of telegraph, and it could not be detected by the ordinary means of
testing. He said it was well known that during the cotton crisis in Bom-
bay, certain people interested in cotton messages, had started an interme-
diate office in the jungle, by which means they carried off the messages and
falsified them; but thatar a case of this sort happened now, it would be at
once detected by the nearest testing office, whereas by the application of a
telephone, acting as a shunt between any two points of a telegraph wire, no
such detection would be possible.

The paper will be published in the Journal, Part IT.

The following communications have been received :—

On some Points in the Dentition of Rhinoceros.—By Ricnarp
LYDEKKER, Esq., B. A.
On the extra-floral Nectar-glands of Aphelandra cristata, Robert
Brown.—By J. Woov-Mason, Esa.

On the Genus Cheradodis.—By J. Woov-Mason, Ese.

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Geological Society,—Quarterly Journal, Vol. XXXVI, No. 141,

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Hopeson, B. H. Miscellaneous Essays relating to Indian subjects.
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Matiery, Lirut.-Cot. G. Introduction to the Study of Sign Language
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Monthly General Meeting in June............sereeesaeee sibei pas Seba ce RrURKe 99
Exhibition, by Dr. Hoernle, of the impression and ne of a gold

medal sent by Mr. T. A. M. Gennoe . 100
Exhibition, by Dr. Hoernle, of a MS. of an Danlentyce Poa it Gear

TORTS 2 ees 101
Exhibition, by Dr. cHipseaict of tis coins ee oh Mr, ‘i. “Rive

Carnac oo iiics cc asa vad edaneee hehe eay 05 pee catia hae eR Te eae 102

Exhibition, by Mr. J. Wood-Mason, of Butterfliesfrom the Andamans 2b.
Papers—
1. Notes on the Dentition of Rhinoceros.—By R. LyprKKeEr,

B. A. (Title only) . 103
2. On the Extra-floral Nectar- Glands oe Aghelanine cogs
By J. Woop-Mason (Title only).............. Rae ab.

3. On the Species of Oheradodis, a pea of Maaigden common to
India and Tropical America.—By J. Woop-Masown (Title only) 2b.
4. Note to accompany some drawings of large Hail-stones by Cox.
H. H. Gopwin-Austen and Mr. S. E. Prau.—By H. F.
Branrorp, F. G. S., A. R. 8. M. (with two plates)... 103
5. Memorandum on Clay Discs, called Spindle Whorls, ae ites
Seals found at Sankisa, Behar ; and other Buddhist Ruins in the
North Western Provinces of toa —By H. Riverz-Caryac,

Cc. S., C. I. E., F. 8. A. (Abstract) . 104.
Heteuiaon of a Porieetin of Sonthal, Ghovtex: aan ai ‘Naga
weapons, &c., sent by Mz. RoBertson PuGHE ....4............. 105
Now Ready.
TSTEE ee Es os OF ent
BY

RAJENDRALA‘LA MITRA, LL. D.

VoLumE Ii.

*,* Containing detailed descriptions of the Temples of Bhuvaneswara,
Puri and Canarac. It extends to about 210 pages ee and is e ilaetmatod
with sixty photographs and eee

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL,

FoR puNE, 1880.

SS ee

The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was
held on Wednesday, the 2nd of June, at 9.15 Pp. um.

H. B. Mepticort, Hse, F. R. S., President, in the Chair.

The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.

The following presentations were announced—

1. From the Edinburgh Botanical Society,—Report on the Tempera-
tures during the winter of 1878-79 at the Royal Botanical Garden, Edin-
burgh.

2. From the Madras Government,—Standing Information regarding
the Official Administration of the Madras Presidency in each Department,
by C. D. MacLean.

3. From J. O. N. James, Esq., Assistant Surveyor General,—A Chart
of India, in two Sheets.

4. From the Home, Revenue, and Agricultural Department,—(1)
Jungle Life in India, by V. Ball, and (2) Select extra Tropical Plants
readily eligible for industrial culture or naturalisation, by Baron Ferdi-
nand von Miuiiler.

5. From the Trustees, Astor Library,—Thirty-first Annual Report of
the Trustees of the Astor Library for the year ending December 31st, 1879.

6. From the Royal Astronomical Society,—Memoirs, Vol. XLI. Ob-
servations made during total Solar Helipses, by A. C. Ranyard.

The following Gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded at the last
Meeting, were balloted for and elected Ordinary Members—

The Rev. J. 8. Doxey.

J. MacDonald, Hsq., C. EH.
J.G. W. Sykes, Esq., LL. D.
The Giridhararaj of Biswan.

100 Dr. Mitra—On a Gold Medal. [ JUNE,

The following Gentlemen are candidates for ballot at the next
Meeting—

1. P. Johnston, Esq., proposed by L. Schwendler, Esq., seconded by
J. Wood-Mason, Esq.

2. J. M. Coates, Esq., M. D. Principal, Medical College, (re-election),
proposed by J. Wood-Mason, Esq., seconded by H. B. Medlicott, Esq.

8. The Rev. Arthur Lewis, B. A., Dera Ghazi Khan, proposed by Lt.
R, H. C. Tufnell, seconded by A. Pedler, Esq.

The SrcreTary reported that Mr. W. E. Brooks and the Hon’ble G.
G. Morris had intimated their desire to withdraw from the Society.

Dr. Horrnte exhibited a sealing-wax impression and sketch of a curious
gold medal sent for the inspection of the Society by Thos. A. M.
Gennoe, Esq., of Fyzabad, and read the following note on it by Dr. R. Mitra,
addressed to the Philological Secretary. “ I can makenothing of Mr. Gennve’s
drawing and sealing-wax impression. ‘The letters are, as you say, too
modern to be of 57 B. C., and they do not convey to me the faintest idea of
Vikramaditya. I read them very doubtfully S77 R sdmijia janhu, perhaps
the name of a Gosain. The thing is not a coin but a medal. The idea of
Vikramaditya has probably originated from the skulls on the obverse, but I
feel satisfied that the medal has nothing to do with the originator of the
Samvat era. It is desirable that the authenticity and antiquity of the thing
should be carefully ascertained before it can be published. Mr. Gennoe does
not give its history. The Lat character copper-plate palmed on Mr. Smith
should put us on our guard.”

Dr. Hoernle explained that Mr. Gennoe had thought the object to be a
coin of Vikramaditya and of the first year of his era ; but that he believed,
with Dr. R. Mitra, that it was not a coin but, if anything at all, perhaps
a medal of comparatively modern, possibly of quite recent, date. He was
inclined to read the legend: 4Y 3 Tat sit aise (or size), the last word
occurring asa Rajput name, and the numeral probably being “2,” a com-
mon way of indicating the repetition of the preceding word. ‘The
medal is about 2 inches across. The obverse shows the walking figure of
a man, carrying two skulls, suspended by straps, one from each shoulder.
The reverse bears the above-mentioned inscription in large, somewhat
illegible, modern Nagari characters.

Dr. Hoernle exhibited a MS. of a hitherto unknown Prakrit Grammar,
called Prakrtananda by Raghunatha. He stated that the MS., which was
lent to him by his friend, Pandit Rama Misra in Benares, was a modern
Nagari copy of an original in Bengdli characters which once belonged to
the Bengali Head-Pandit, Trilochana Bhattdchdrya, at the Court of Dhulip

1880. | Dr. Hoernle—On a Prakrit Grammar. 101
Singh in Lahore. He had not seen the original, and did not know what
had become of it. The Nagari copy, which was very carefully written,
had been prepared for his own use by Pandit Ramadatta of Amritsar.
The MS. bears the following subscription: 72 sr¢ jyotirvit-sarasdimaja-
raghundtha-kavi-kanthirava-virachite prakrtanande dvitiyah parichchhe-
dah samaptah, prakrtanandas cha; samvat 1893. As this subscription
shows, the work is divided into two sections; but each section is divided
into a number of subsections, which are not numbered, but merely indicat-
ed by 22; e. g., ttt samdhih (1, 1), tty ajantah pumlingah (I, 2), ete. The
work contains no more than Vararuchi’s rules, but is not without interest,
inasmuch as it completely re-arranges Vararuchi’s sitras on a system
resembling that of the Laghu Kaumudi with regard to Panini. The first
section treats of Declension, with the exception of the first subsection
which is devoted to rules on sandhi. The second section treats of Conjuga-
tion. The subsection on sandhi contains the following seven sttras of
Vararuchi in the order indicated: Vr. IV, 1. 12.13. 14. 15.16.17. In the
last stitra, z. e. Vr. LV, 17, the MS. reads correctly wf4 (for af), which is
also the reading of the MS. mentioned in the Proceedings for March 1879
(here called F). It isa curious fact that the readings of that MS. of
Vararuchi, which also belonged to Pandit Ramadatta, as well as the
readings of Cowell’s MS. W, are found in this MS. of the Prakriténanda.
Thus, for Vr. 5, 16. this MS. reads HY Ytyqy ae with MS. F, and adds
Uistat g | He Sl at asa ae qq with MS. WT Again after Vr. IX, 10
it adds, with MS. W, the sitra yaqr gal. S:eraaqtaerqas, and adds
a long remark to explain the repetition of |e@T. Again for Vr. Vee
its commentary runs thus fa Wa) Geass Tale: Ura i Bata fase
fase | fasifasraga, asin MS. F; (or feast, faasis, fase; the letters
are not quite distinct. In Vr. VIII, 69 it reads fwHmR. For Vr. VIII, 7
it reads, with MS. F, wel aw: and example awe, but adds, with MS.
W, we <fa we wae. In Vr. VIII, 59 it reads Sfefate-azi
Sav feau-gaut: and examples Ssug feeas; the conjunct 4 is unmis-
takeable, seq being written very differently. These are only a few of
its noteworthy readings. The following may serve to show the ar-
rangement of the Grammar. The second subsection of the first sec-
tion treats of the declension of masculine nouns ending in vowels. It
eontains 145 of Vararuchi’s stitras in the following order: Vr. V, 1. II, 42.
INI, 2 Wd, CB, Ws We Tulle 1 Wyss Zi oe WE, GE ANE, WG, Gs 76 WS) Wp TB
Wo 100; W,, Bile IO, @s JE ly Sole AS OU Ge vues Ui JOUR ONO, If;
Ill, 15. 111, 64. II, 31. III, 2, &., &c. Then follows a subsection on
feminine nouns ending in vowels, and another on neuter nouns ending

in vowels. Then follow three subsections on masculine, feminine and

102 H. Rivett-Carnac—On Chinese Coins. [June,

neuter nouns ending in consonants ; and one more on indeclinables. ‘The
second section treats in six successive subsections on the following tenses ;
lat, lit, lut, Irt, lot (with lan, lin, asirlin), lun. Then follow ten subsec-
tions on the irregular verbs, arranged according to the 10 classes. Then
come two subsections on the formation of the Causal and the Passive.
Lastly there is one subsection on the derivation of words by nominal
suffixes ; this contains the following sitras: Vr. VIII, 2. VIII, 5. VII, 82.
VIII, 62. VIII, 55, IV, 23. VITI, 16. IV, 24. VII, 10. The last three
sections of Vararuchi’s Grammar on the subordinate Prakrit dialects are
omitted in the Prakritananda, which accordingly might be thought to be
incomplete, but for the final statement in the subscription above quoted. A
copy of the MS. of this work has been retained by Dr. Hoernle.

Dr. Horrnze exhibited some brass coins found in a well near the
Grand Trunk Road and read a memorandum on the same by H. Rivett-
Carnac, Esq.

Mr. Rivett-Carnac says :

I submit for the inspection of the Society specimens of brass coins
made over to me by Mr. D. T. Roberts, C. S,

Upwards of 13 maunds weight of these coins were recently found in
a well near the Grand Trunk Road in the Fatehpur District, N. W. P.

They were found in bulk, 7. e., loose, and not in a bag, or box or
earthen pot. Dr. Rudolf Hoernle to whom I sent two or three speci-
mens for identification has pointed out that they are Chinese coins of the
type described by Marsden p. 828 and are of king Kienlong, or Kaontsouz-
shen of the Manchu Dynasty who reigned up to 1795, A. D. and of King
Kiakung son of the preceding king.

T now send a considerable number, many of which seem to bear differ-
ent legends. On one side the letters are distinctly Chinese. On the other
they bear a striking resemblance to Arabic characters. It is difficult to
account for this large find of Chinese coins in a well on the Grand Trunk
Road.

Mr. Woop-Mason exhibited a small collection of Butterflies from the
Andamans and read some notes thereon by Mr. de Nicéville and himself.

Thirty-five species only are included in the present list, of which one is
an apparently new species of Papilio closely allied to the continental P. anti-
phates, of which it appears to be the Andaman representative, and from
which it differs in the much greater extent of the black bands of the fore-
wings, and the much more strongly expressed black markings, the more
extensive grey area, and the black-mottled median area of the hind-wings.

Ccleutta.

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Droww by S.F Peat. W. Newmar & C2 Lith Coleutta.

FIGURE AND SEQTIONS OF HAILSTONES nat suze) SAPAKAT TIE.

1880. ] H. F. Blanford—On Hazl-stones. 103

The name P. lestrigonum is proposed for the species, to indicate its affinity
to the mainland form.

These notes will be published in the Journal, Part II.
The following papers were read—
1. Notes on the Dentition of Rhinoceros.—By R. UYDEKKER, HsqQ., B. A.

2. On the Hatrafloral Nectar-Glands of Aphelandra tetragona—By
J. Woop-Mason, Hsq.

3. On the Species of Choeradodis, a Genus of Mantodea common to India
and Tropical America.—By J. Woop-Mason, Esq.

These three papers will be published in the Journal, Part IT.

4. Note by H. F. Buanrorp, Esq., F. G. S., A. R. S. M., &e., to accom-
pany some drawings of large Hail-stones by Cou. H. H. Gopwry-
AustTEN, and 8. H. Pran, Esa.

The figures of large hail-stones which accompany this note (Plates II
and IIT) were communicated to me at an interval of three years, by Col.
Godwin-Austen and Mr. Peal, and are of interest as affording characteris-
tic specimens of the form and structure most common in hail-stones of
large size in India, ‘The stones (Plate IT), figured by Col. Godwin-Austen,
fell at Calcutta on the 16th—17th March 1877, in a storm which was
remarkable for the unusual lateness of the hour. It commenced a few
minutes before midnight, and the hail continued to fall for about a quarter
of an hour, accompanied, as is usual, by rain, and violent gusts of wind.
In a paper by Dr. Buist, published in the British Association Report for
1855, the author quotes a remark of Dr. Spilsbury to the effect that of
380 storms recorded by him in India, only 3 occurred after dark and none
later than midnight, and in my own experience, I do not recollect any
previous instance of a hail-storm at so late an hour.* The stones present-
ed one somewhat unusual feature, v7z., radiating prominences of transpa-
rent ice, in some cases sub-angular and more or less conical, but in many
instances cylindrical or club-shaped, some striking specimens of which
form are represented in Col. Godwin-Austen’s figures. It is probable that
the rounded contours are due to the partial fusion of the ice; but I could
not detect in any of the more angular prominences the characteristic
hexagonal crystalline form of water. All the specimens figured, and those
obtained by myself in this fall had a large nucleus of opaque ice sur-
rounded by a thick transparent coating. Three of the stones figured are

* Since the above was written I have experienced a hail storm at Simla at three
o’clock in the morning. The above remark still holds good for the plains however.

104 H. Rivett-Carnace—On Spindle Whorls. [ JUNE,

larger than any observed by myself. Of those which I collected, five
yielded on fusion, three fluid ounces of water.

The stones figured on Plate III from drawings by Mr. 8. E. Peal,
fell on the 11th April 1880, at 5 Pp. um. at Sapakattie in Upper Assam, and
the drawings were accompanied by a few brief notes which I embody in
the following remarks :

Two stones weighed 700 and 720 grains respectively and measured 53
and 6 inches in circumference. Mr. Peal remarks that many were probably
far larger. In form they varied from globular to egg-shaped and oblate.
The surfaces were generally white and bluntly angular. Fig. 1 represents
the external appearance of an ovate-stone. Figs. 2 to 5 the appearance of
sections obtained by a man rubbing the hail-stone in his hands, and melt-
ing two sides only, until the mass was reduced to a thin lenticular disk.
Fig. 2 represents the internal structure thus developed, the shaded parts
being clear translucent ice with a radial structure, the white or whiter
portions more or less opaque, when held up to the light. The majority,
as in figs, 2, 3 and 4, had a dead white nucleus, surrounded by translucent
ice, with, in all cases, radial markings. Some, like fig. 5, showed concentric
lamination, consisting of white and translucent ice alternately in close
concentric layers ; and between 20 and 30 per cent. had a transparent central
nucleus about half an inch across. Mr. Peal further observes that the
majority appeared to be light, as judged by their size, and they fell with less
impetus than might have been expected. The wind was from the North
at the time.

I have already remarked that these stones exhibit for the most part
the form and structure most characteristic of such large hail-stones as
have come under my observation in India, All that I have ever seen are
more or less oblately spheroid or discoid, having sometimes a central depres-
sion on each of the flatter surfaces. Stones of a conical or conoidal form
which appear to be not unfrequent in Europe, and which one recent writer
has described as typical, I have never yet seen in India.

5. Memorandum by H. Riverr-Carnac, Esq., C. S., C. I. E., F.S. A, on
Clay Discs, called “ Spindle Whoris,’ and Votive Seals found at
Sankisa, Behar ; and other Buddhist ruins in the North Western Pro-
evinces of India.

The object of this paper is two-fold. It first describes minutely the
objects named in the title ; afterwards it points out many points of resem-
blance between them and the objects discovered by Dr. Schliemann in his
excavations at Hissarlik. For the latter purpose copious extracts are given
from Dr. Schliemann’s work on Troy.

~~...

1880. | Collection of Sonthal and other weapons. 105

Some conversation took place regarding the subject of this paper. The
general opinion seemed to be, that it would be desirable to have some
further information as to the authenticity of some of the objects, brought
in by the villagers as “ antiquities.”

This paper will be published in the Journal, Part I, together with a
Plate of discs and seals.

At the close of the meeting a collection of Sonthal, Bhootea, Garo
and Naga weapons &c., sent by Mr. Robertson Pughe was exhibited. The
collection was made up of the following articles.

Sonthals.

A. A Sonthaél bow and arrows. In some of the arrows the pith of a
plant is used instead of feathers. The arrow with a wooden head is used
for knocking over small birds.

B. Axes or “ tangis.”’

C. Flute.

D, Cymbals.

Bhooteas.

E. Bhootea helmet, the owner of this was killed at the attack on Cha-
moorchee stockade, December 1864.

F. Bhootea shield (probably bought in our territory) and

G. Bhootea straight sword worn on the right hip, This was captured
at Domohoni stockade, December 1864.

Garos.
Garo shield with tuft of bear’s hair.
The universal Garo sword.
Garo spears.
Garo pipe.

PRO

Nigas.
M. Naga “dao,” or sword, ornamented with goat’s hair.

N. Naga spear. At 40 yards the Nagas are dead shots with this
weapon.

O. Lepcha knife.

P. A knife belonging to one of the Upper Assam Hill Tribes proba-
bly the Khamptis.

106 Library. [JUNE,

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——-. Beiblatter,—Vol. IV, Nos. 4 and 5.
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Dyer, W. T. T.—The Coffee-leaf Disease of Ceylon. Siddall, J. D.—On WShe-
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Development of the Araneina. Waldstein, Dr. L—A contribution to the
Biology of Bacteria. Schiifer, H—Some teachings of Development. Parker,
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Smith, S. I—On some points on the Structure of a species of the “ Willemoesia
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Nineteenth Century,—Vol. VII, No. 388, April 1880.
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Wright, C. R. A.—On the determination of Chemical Affinity in terms of Elec-
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Glaciers.

The Publishers’ Cireular,—Vol. XLIIT, Nos. 1022 and 1023.
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Society of Arts,—Journal, Vol. XXVIII, Nos. 1430—1434.

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Benzene.

No. 1481. Vambery, Prof. Aa—Russia’s Influence over the inhabitants of Cen-

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obtaining materials in use by Artist Painters as compared with that of the
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~ No. 1434. Protection of Ships from Loss by Fire and from Loss by Sinking.
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Blast Furnace Slag.
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ques autres de ses caractéres. Pastewr, [.—De Vextension de la théorie des
germes a l’étiologie de quelques maladies communes. Zréeul, A.—Forma-
tion des feuilles et apparition de leurs premiers vaisseaux chez les Iris, Allium,
Funkia, Hemero-Callis, &c. Sylvester.—Sur la loi de réciprocité dans la
théorie des nombres. V%ezl/e, and Sarraw.—Recherches expérimentales sur la
décomposition de quelques explosifs en vase clos ; composition des gaz formés.

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CONTENTS.

Monthly General Meeting in July......... ec eseeesees VO rs OE 113
Amendments to Rules 4 and 46. eon. iid siete ceen tee bcsonscst races 114
Memorandum by Mr. H. Rivert-Carnac, on ee! Discs, Spindle.
Whorls 6.3; 005 ::: Kesh eervorncs eS
Exhibition of Bactrian oe South Tudian® Coie! ent by Masor-
GENERAL GG, PMARNELs criet<trotenp iv inlaxeroniweane trees teee lane: ab.

Note on the above by Masor-GenErat A. CUNNINGHAM............ 117
Exhibition of Roman, Indo-Scythian and Gupta coins, belonging to — .
Cou. BERKELEY, and sent by Mz. H. Riverr-Cannac......... ab.

Remarks on the above, by Dr. A. F. R. HOmRNLE .............00.4. APE Tes
Exhibition of coins sent by Mr. V. A. SMITH 2.0.0.0... ccc cecesscesees ab.
Note by Dr. Ra’senpRanA’LA Mirra, ona palm-leaf MS. of the

Setubandha, G72 years Old ss.0 2. dauvsie.e ab saver uses chee sees nubee 119
Exhibition, by the PrusmpEnt, of a specimen of Rock-salt from the

Chakmeny Territoryoca ss. cies trast cchasdens cine ob tne coe coven keewaeues 123
Exhibition, by Mr. J. Woop-Mason, of some butterflies from the

- Andamans, from Mussoorie and from Sibsagar ...........0..0.0000 1b.

Paper— |

Essay on the Siryaprajnapti—By Dr. G. Turpavt..... etek UP}
Library ......ssseeeees Noscgvavaneues veoh e¥eey «avi pire das ep ay Wesnns sah sbacsb¥acays 125

Now Ready.
THE ARTIS ULES 0 F ORISSA,
BY

RA’JENDRALA‘’LA MITRA, LL. D.

Votume It.

*,* Containing detailed descriptions of the Temples of Bhuvaneswara
Puri and Canarac. It extends to about 210 pages folio, and is illustrated
with sixty photographs and hogan, .

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

BOIAIIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL,

FoR puLy, 1880.

The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was
held on Wednesday, the 7th of July, at 9.15 BP. M.

H. B. Mepricort, Ese., F. RB. S., President, in the Chair.

The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.

The following presentations were announced—

1, From the Superintendent Marine Survey Department,—A Chart of
(1) Dabhol and entrance to Washishti river, (2) Kundari Island to Chaul,
and (8) Salaya or Seraia.

2. From the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia,—
Some Monetary Questions viewed by the Light of Antiquity, by R. N.
Toppan.

3. From the Editor,—Sanskrit Dictionary, by Hem Chandra, edited by
Dr, Ram Das Sen.

4. From the President of the Anjuman-i-Panjab,—(1) Proceedings of
the Anjuman-i- Panjab in connexion with the proposed bill for the appoint-
ment of persons to the office of Kazi, and (2) Report of the Oriental College,
Lahore, for 1879.

5. From the Madras Government,—(1) Three Maps and twenty-

three Photographs, and (2) Lists of Sanskrit MSS. in private Libraries of
Southern India, Vol. I, by Dr. G. Oppert.
6. From the Department of the Interior, U. S. America,—(1) Tenth
Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey
of the Territories for the year 1876, by F. V. Hayden, and (2) Catalogue of
the Publications of the U. 8. Geological and Geographical Survey of the
Territories. Third edition.

7. From the Comptroller of the Currency, U. S. America,—Annual
Report of the Comptroller of the Currency to the Second Session of the 46th
Congress of the United States, December Ist, 1879.

114 Amendments to Rules 4 and 46. [Juny,

8. From the Zoological Society of London,—List of the Vertebrated
Animals now or lately living in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of
London. First supplement, containing additions received in 1879.

9. From the author,—A comparative Grammar of the Gaudian Lan-
guages with special reference to Eastern Hindi, by Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle.

10. From the author,—Tenth Annual Report on the Health of Salford
for 1877-78, with statistical abstracts for 1869-78, by Dr. J. Tatham.

The following Gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded at the last Meet-
ing, were balloted for and elected Ordinary Members—
P. Johnston, Esq.
J. M. Coates, Esq., M. D. (re-election).
The Rev. Arthur Lewis, B. A.
The following Gentlemen are candidates for ballot at the next Meet-
ing :—
1. Pandit Mohanlal Vishnulal Pandia, proposed by Dr. R. L. Mitra,
seconded by A. Pedler, Esq.
2. The Hon. J. Gibbs, C. S. I, M. R. A. S., Simla, proposed by
H. Rivett-Carnac, Esq., seconded by Dr. G. Thibaut.
3. Raja Siva Prasad, C. S. I., Benares, proposed by H. Rivett-Carnac,
Esq., seconded by Dr. G. Thibaut.
4, J. A. Brown, Esq., C. S., Benares, proposed by H. Rivett-Carnac,
Esq., seconded by Dr. G. Thibaut.
5. W. Lambe, Esq., C. S., Jaunpur, proposed by H. Rivett-Carnac,
Esq., seconded by Dr. G. Thibaut.
6. H. W. W. Reynolds, Esq., C. S., Jaunpur, proposed by H. Rivetit-
Carnac, Esq., seconded by Dr. G. Thibaut.

The Secretary reported that the Hon’ble J. S. White had intimated
his desire to withdraw from the Society.

The PRESIDENT announced that, in accordance with the notice given
at the May meeting, the votes would be taken on the proposed amend-
ments to Rules 4 and 46.

Messrs. Waldie and Blackburn were appointed Scrutineers, and reported
that the votes were one hundred and eleven for, and one against the amend-
ments.

The PRESIDENT announced that the amendments were carried.

The Secretary laid upon the table the following publications of the
Society which had been published since the meeting held in June last :-—
(1) Journal, Vol. XLIX, Part J, No. 1, (2) Journal, Vol. XLIX, Part II,

1880.] Genl. Pearse—A gold Rama Tunka Coin. 115

No. 1, (8) Shaw’s Turki Vocabulary which has been issued as an Extra No.
of Part I of the Journal, and (4) Proceedings for April and May 1880.

Dr. A. EF. R. HoEernzeE read a Memorandum by Mr. H. Rivett-Carnac,
supplementary to the one read at the last meeting, on Clay Discs, Spindle
Whorls, &c. ;

This paper will be published with Mr. Carnac’s first paper on the same
subject in the Journal, Part I.

Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle exhibited four gold and four silver coins, Bac-
trian and South Indian, sent by Major-General G. G. Pearse.

GENERAL PEARSE writes—

I have the honor to forward for the inspection of the members of the
Society a gold Rama Tunka coin which I have lately procured here. There
are several of these coins in the Mysore country.

I trust it may be figured in our Journal, for if not now read, hereafter
it may be so. Unless it has already been published and is no novelty.

I believe that the flat Rama Tunkas are the most modern ones, and
that the cup-shaped ones are the oldest; these last I attribute to the age
when cup-shaped coins were prevalent in Byzantium, 2. e., from the 10th
to the 14th centuries A. D. The oldest Rama Tunkas, I believe, may be
attributed to the Jain or Hoysala Ballala dynasty of Hullabeed or Dwara-
vati or Dorasamudra in the present Mysore territory. This dynasty flour-
ished from the beginning of the 10th century till A. D. 13810, when the
Ghilzye Muhammadan General Kaftir from Delhi sacked the capital.

The Vijayanuggur dynasty arose after the fall of the Hoysalé Ballalas
in A. D. 1336, it lasted till A. D. 1565 when it fell before a Mubammadan
confederacy at the battle of Talikota, near Raichore, on the 25th January,
1565.

I attribute the later cup-shaped Rama Tunkas and all the flat ones to
this great Vijayanugeur dynasty.

From the Vijayanuggrr dynasty have indirectly sprung those of
Mysore and other Southern Indian ones. This explains why remains of
the Hoysala Ballala and Vijayanuggur dynasties are found in the Mysore
territories.

The last king of Vijayanuggur was Rama Raja, he was killed at the
battle of Talikota. Here, not knowing why, the people attribute this
enclosed Rama Tunka to this prince. They may have reason.

The coin is of considerable interest, for, as will be seen in the annexed
wood-cut, apparently characters of three different languages are figured on
it, none of which seemingly can now be read here.

116 Genl. Pearse—A gold Rama Tunka Coin. [Juny,

I describe the coin as follows :

Gold Rama Tunka, coin of Vijayanuggur.

Size, Mionnet’s scale, nearly 10.

Weight 12:281 grams or 189°52 grains.

Age, Cirea A. D. 1564.

Obverse. Rama and Seeta, seated on a throne, on the right a suppor-
ter upholds a royal umbrella; this is probably meant for Rama’s ally
Vibhishana the brother of Ravana. On the left, a lion and a monkey, this
last probably meaning a Dravidian or a Rakshasa, are supporters. Above
them may be letters or symbols? there is a star. Below them may be
letters or symbols? There are an altar, a necklace and stars.

Reverse. Here there are eight figures all upholding various kinds of
regal umbrellas of the peacock feather kind, such as are still in use in South-
ern India. These possibly depict the servants or followers of either Rama,
or the king who struck the coin. Above these eight figures is decidedly an
inscription, if looked at facingly, z. e, in the usual way, it looks like
Pehlevi: such I cannot conceive it to be. If the coin is turned upside
down, the inscription looks like blundered Persian. Below the eight figures
is what seems an inscription of a Javanese or Assamese type of Nagri.

The coin is in excellent preservation, every letter being perfectly legible.

Further I forward for the inspection of the members—three beautiful ~
gold coins, all are I believe unique. They were found in the year 1878 in
the river Oxus near Kunduz in an old deserted Fort.

1. A stater and a half(?) of Diodotus, King of Bactria, with emblems
of Antiochus.

2. <A stater of Odgoras, a Secytho-Greek king.

8. A stater with Arian inscriptions of a Scythic king.

In a second communication relating to the same subject, General Pearse
writes—

“In continuation of a late note of mine submitted when forwarding
some gold coins, I have the honor to inform you that several more gold
coins of the Oxus hoard are falling into my hands, amongst them that very
rare coin, the Stater of Enthydemus. ‘The specimen in my hands is in very
gocd preservation and is of beautiful workmanship, but it has seen some
circulation,

1880. ] Genl. Pearse—A gold Rama Tunka Coin. Tlyy

“The Staters of Antiochus and Diodotus are all new coins and in
perfect preservation.

**T have another of those Stater and a half coins of Diodotus and
Antiochus of which I have sent you one. I observe that like the one sent
you, it is much worn, 2. e., used; this is very worthy of notice. The one I
have with me is much more worn than the one with you.”

Impressions of these coins were submitted to General Cunningham
for his inspection, and his opinion of them will be gathered from the follow-
ing remarks which he has sent to the Philological Secretary.

“T am sorry, for General Pearse’s sake, to tell you that three of the
gold coins of which you have sent me impressions are forgeries. The large
Ramatanka is of course a genuine coin. Of two of his coins I possess the
genuine originals from which the forgeries have been made.

“No. i. Head of a king bearded, with victory in a 4-horsed chariot
in the reverse, and the legend OAT'OPOY. I have already seen five of these
forged coins. The forger luckily did not know Greek. My genuine coin
has the beginning of the name cut off, as follows:

PAF OPOY

ANA

“The forger took the remainder as the complete name, and made the
impossible name of OATOPOY.

“No. 2. Head of Alexander with lion’s scalp as Hercules. ev. Vic-
tory—AI—, [havea genuine large double stater of these types; and as I
know that forgeries have been made from it, I conclude from the evil com-
pany in which it is found, that General Pearse’s coin must also be a forgery.

“No. 3. Head of Parthian king—Victory in chariot—with 2 inscrip-
tions one on each side, not yet read. The original genuine coin is in the
British Museum. I take General Pearse’s coin to be a forgery from the
impression which you have kindly sent me. In this I see that the horse is
represented in outline which, as far as my experience goes, stamps the coin
as a rank forgery.

“ For several years past whenever a new coin has been found, it has
always been followed by a number of forged copies. I pay large prices for
the genuine coins—and so does the British Museum—and rare coins are
not to be obtained now, except by chance, for even moderate prices.”

118 Col. Berkeley—Eleven gold Roman, Indo-Scythian, Gupta Coins. [Juux,

Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle exhibited eleven gold coins, Roman, Indo-
Scythian and Gupta, belonging to Colonel Berkeley, sent by Mr. H. Rivett-
Carnac, C.S., C. Ll. E., &e.

Mr. Carnac writes the following note on these coins:—

“YT send for the inspection of the Society eleven gold coins, which
were discovered together with a quantity of gold mohurs by Col. Berkeley,
Political Agent, in a subterranean Treasury at Rewah soon after the death
of the late Maharajah,

“ One of these coins is a Gupta. Eight of them are Indo-Scythic, the
remaining two are Roman.

“ T confess that at first some of the coins seemed to have been cast. And
I supposed that they had perhaps been brought to Colonel Berkeley by
Bombay traders. In this case they would have been very suspicious. But
the manner in which they have been found, makes it I think, much less
probable that they are forgeries.

“Some of them too have been used for necklaces and are much worn on
one side.

“T should be much obliged if Dr. Rudolf Hoernle or Dr. Rajendralala
Mitra will examine these coins and favour Colonel Berkeley and the Society
with their opinions on thei.

“ Tf any of them are rare, Colonel Berkeley would I am sure be glad
that they should be figured as well as described in the Society’s Journal.”

Dr. Hoernle made the following remarks :—the Gupta coin is probably
one of Chandra Gupta II; it has the legend at faga Sré vikkrama (with
double &). The Indo-Scythian coins are of Kanerki and Hyverki, all well
known. Of the two Roman coins one is of the Hmperor Commodus, of
about A. D. 190, described in Akerman’s Roman Coins, Vol. I, pp. 303,
307. The other is of Clodius, the short-lived rival of the Emperor Severus
who perished in battle A. D. 197. The reverse of this coin shows a genius
with radiated head, and the legend SAECVLO FRVGIFERO Cos. II.
Akerman in his Roman Coins mentions no gold coin of this kind, but he
does describe a very rare brass coin, agreeing with this coin in every respect
(see Vol. I, p. 389) ; moreover he also describes a very rare gold coin, which
agrees with the present coin in every respect, except that, on the reverse,
it reads SAECVLIO instead of SAECVLO. Adding to this, that the
present coin still bears distinct traces of its having been cast in a mould;
there can be no doubt, that it is a forgery, a gold coin imitated from the
rare brass coin. The other Roman coin and one or two of the Indo-
Scythian ones also have a suspicious look, and having been found in com-
pany with an undoubtedly forged coin, their genuineness is questionable.

Dr. A. F. R. Horryze exhibited four coins of various sorts sent by
Mr. V. A. Smith who writes the following note on them:

1880. | V. A. Smith— Rare Chandel Ooins. 119

“ T enclose a gold coin which I hope you will kindly identify for me. I
believe it is one of the very rare Chandel coins but, after careful comparison
of it with a gold coin of Madana Varmma and a copper one of Jaya Varm-
ma (for which I am indebted to General Cunningham), I cannot make
out the Raja’s name.

“T also submit some other coins in hopes that they may be of some
interest.

“No. 2 is a curious looking old coin but so much damaged as hardly
to be recognizable.

“No. 3, with its Greek legend Meyas Bactdevs is, I suppose, Bactrian,
but whether common or not, I do not know.

“No. 4 is much worn, and its outline has been destroyed, but a few
lecible characters may suffice to identify it.

“No. 5, is a fine silver coin of Sher Shah’s.

“Should this or any of these other coins be desired by the Society,
they are at its disposal.”

The coins were sent to Dr. Mitra for identification, and he recognizes
them as—

No. 1. Gold. Old Hun Dinara. Carnatic.

No. 2. Varaha coin. 2laatfeaate.

No. 3. Soter Megas.

No. 4. Kota, Rao of 191 ? (the fourth figure is either 2 or 9) Samvat.

No. 5. Sher Shah.

The ParnoLocrcan SECRETARY, in Dr. Mitra’s absence, exhibited a
palm-leaf MS. of the Setubandha, 672 years old. Dr. Mitra has communi-
cated the following note on this MS. :—

The codex comprises 86 folia, each measuring 14 x 2 inches. Its
material is palin-leaf, having the edges rounded by the ravages of mice, and
the centre perforated for a string to tie the leaves together. Hach page
bears five lines of writing in the Bengali character, interspersed with in-
terlineations and marginal notes written in very minute but perfectly clear
and well-formed letters. The language of the work is Prakrit, but the
notes are in Sanskrit. Its subject is an epic poem on the invasion of the
Island of Ceylon, by Rama, as described in the Ramayana of Valmiki.
The work is ascribed to Pravarasena, of Kashmir, who reigned about the
middle of the 4th century. It is held in high esteem by Sanskrit scholars,
but MSS. of it are exceedingly rare. An excellent edition of it by
the learned Professor Siegfried Goldschmidt, of Strassburg, has, however,
lately made it easily accessible to students.

The name of the work is not always given in the same form. It is
usually quoted under the name of Setwbandha, or the ‘‘ Marine Causeway,”
but in the colophon of Professor Goldschmidt’s edition the homonym,
Setusarant, has been preferred. It is also known under the names of

120 Dr. Mitra—A palm-leaf US. of the Setubandha. [Juny,

Ravanavaho, the “ Destruction of Ravana,’ and Dasamukhavaho, “the
Destruction of the ten-headed monster.”’

There are three commentaries extant on this work, the first two of
which, by Ramadasa (Setupradipa) and Krishna (Rdmasetu-vivarana)
respectively, have been noticed by Professor Goldschmidt. The third, by
Kulanatha, is exceedingly rare, and of it the only MS. I have seen is
now in my possession; it is entitled Ravanabadha-tika. I intend shortly
to send a copy of it to the learned editor. The fourth occurs in the
Library of the Sanskrit College of Calcutta, and is entitled Setwehandrihd.
There is also in that Library a Sanskrit paraphrase of the work, but the
codex is very defective, wanting both the beginning and the end, and I
have not been able to ascertain its name.

The most important circumstance connected with the. codex under
notice is its date. This is given in Prakrit thus:

fafc WRaUW yasa Geet UH afaet |
qefaracaafa Goa yeas fers
area-fagma feteara} aratarearia

Two of the words in this extract are not intelligible to me ; but the
purport of the whole is clear enough ;—it means that the MS. was completed
by one Vaninatha, on Monday, the 16th of the waxing moon in the month
of Pausha, (/i¢. when the sun sojourned in the constellation Pusyha), of the
year of the king Lakshmana 102. The figures of the year are given in three
words dosa kha vissa which dosa means the ‘“‘ arms” = 2; the second kha
“sky” ==a cypher; and the third vissa, the “universe” = 1. They
have, according to the usual rule, to be read from the right side. I have else-
where noticed that the era of Lakshmana Sena begins from the year 1106,
(Journal, Vol. XLVII, p. 899), and the date, therefore corresponds, with
A. D. 1208. This gives to the codex an age of 672 years.

Of Nagari MSS. I have seen two or three works of an older date, but in
the Bengali character this codex is the oldest that has come under my notice.
It shows that seven hundred years ago, the Bengali letters were exactly of
the same type as they were a hundred years ago, or until they were modi-
fied by the type-founders of Serampur at the close of the last century.
The only peculiarities observable in the codex are—Ist, the formation of the
letter 4, which is indicated by a dot in the centre of <; 2nd, the letter ~,
which is shaped like the Nagari letter; and 3rd, the { which is formed by
putting a horizontal line within 4, thus q. This last form was current
even at the beginning of this century. This shows that the present Bengali
character, though formed on the model of the Nagari, has had a currency,
distinct and independent without any change, for a period of seven hundred
years, and looking to the uniform well-defined configuration of the letters
in the MS. it would not be unreasonable to suppose that it had an indepen-
dent existence for a considerable time before that period. It is impossible

1880. ] Dr. Mitra—A palm-leaf MS. 121

to believe that the character came into currency ready-formed and fully
developed in the time of Lakshmana Sena. Doubtless the Budal inscrip-
tion of the Pala era, and the Sena copper-plates hitherto discovered, are in
the Deva Nagari type of some kind or other, but not in the Bengali as it
appears in the MS.; but that must be accounted for on the supposition, either
that the Nagari was believed to be the most appropriate for Sanskrit
records, or that for lapidary purposes the angular NAgari was preferred
or better suited than the comparatively more cursive Bengali.

Looking to the unchanging currency of the Bengali character, for so
long a period, the question may be asked, were the durations of the char-
acters which had been current before it fully or nearly as protracted? The
question is a most important one for the satisfactory settlement of dates
from the forms of letters, and its solution 1s yet a desideratum. James
Prinsep was the first to notice the subject in connexion with his researches
into the dates of ancient inscriptions. He devised a system of paleogra-
phie chronology in which the style of the writing was taken as an index to
the age of the document in which it was found. His plan was matured
after a careful examination of a considerable number of ancient inscriptions
and coins, and recorded in two tables, (Journal, Vol. VII, plates XIII and
XIV,) in which different centuries were assigned each a particular set of
characters. ‘The materials available to him were, however, not large, and,
doubtless, he took his tables to be merely tentative, subject to considerable
corrections and modifications resulting from subsequent researches; for it
is difficult to believe that he took each particular set of characters to belong
to one particular century and no more, or assumed that the same character
was common over all the Sanskritic regions for a given period. Change
in the style of writing, like that in language, is a slow process, governed
by a variety of causes, which tend to retard or accelerate its course, and,
except in local and individual peculiarities, no marked divergence is per-
ceptible until after periods which must, in the ordinary course of human
progress and irrespective of cxtraordinary commotions or sudden changes
in the material or instrument of writing, be reckoned by centuries, and not
by years. Nor do the causes which produce the change operate with equal
foree every where, nor are the s@me causes in full operation in all places at
any given time. Some of them are in some places more potent than in
others, and various circumstances tend to accelerate or retard their action.
Hence it is that we find that a particular style of writing, while predomi-
nating in some places, is dying out in others. The history of the German
and the English characters in Europe affords a singular illustration of
this fact.

The number of Indian inscriptions discovered since Prinsep’s time is
large, but little has as yet been done to systematize the information collect-

122 Dr. Mitra—A palm-leaf MS. [ Jury,

ed. The only work of importance published since Prinsep’s days is
Dr. Burnell’s “Southern Indian Paleography;” but it has not con-
tributed much to elucidate this phase of the question. In fact, our
discoveries, though large, are not yet sufficiently varied and extensive to
admit of a satisfactory solution as to how far styles of writing may be
relied upon as guides to chronology. This has, however, not been borne in
mind by many orientalists, and much mischief and considerable misunder-
standing have thereby been caused in connexion with Indian dates. The
practice of taking a dated inscription as a guide, and assuming all undated
records written in its character to be of that date is becoming too common.
Some renowned antiquarians have adopted this course of proceeding, and I
must frankly confess, to my regret, I have myself sometimes followed their
lead. It is, however, not the less reprehensible on that account. It leads
to the same error, which would have resulted if the MS. under notice had
not been a dated one, and I had, comparing it with a dated MS. of the
17th century which I have now before me, pronounced it to be of that aye ;
and this is exactly the kind of mistake which has of late been committed
repeatedly in connexion with what Prinsep called the Cave and the Gupta
characters ; and, in the hands of persons who do not themselves read inscrip-
tions, the names become the veriest Will-o-the-wisps. With them every
inscription in the Gupta type must be of the 6th century, because some
one has discovered a dated record in that character. The Badami inscrip-
tions for instance. Others, taking the Manadeva inscription, dated Sam-
vat 386 = A. D. 329 Cndian Antiquary, IX, p. 163), or the Jayavarma
inscription of A. D. 356. (Samvat 413) or the Vasantasena record of
A. D. 378, (Samvat 435) as their guide, may put down the Gupta to the
4th century, and pronounce all records in that character to be of that
age. This can only lead to the confusion, and not to the elucidation, of
Indian history. Lately I had occasion to protest against an attempt to
determine the changes in the P4li character within the short periods of
twenty and thirty years (ante, p. 9) and what I said then fully applies
to the cases of the Gupta and the other types. Nowhere have I seen any
attempt made to ascertain the extent of difference which arises from the
difference in the grain of the stones on which inscriptions have been
inscribed.

It is the farthest from my wish to urge that, because, on the authori-
ty of the MS. now submitted, I hold that the Bengali character has now
had a currency of seven or eight centuries without any material change,
the leading groups of the Kutila, the Gupta, the Cave, and the Pali characters
must each have had as prolonged a currency. I would say nothing of the
kind, for as yet we have not data sufficient to determine that question ; but
I am convinced that the practice of assigning each of them to one or two
centuries is a mistaken and mischievous one, and should be guarded against.

1880. ] J. Wood-Mason— Butterflies from the Andamans. 123

The Prestpent than exhibited a specimen of Rock-salt forwarded to
the Society by Dr. Aitchison, and made the following remarks on the subject :

Tn continuation of the collection of rocks noticed in our Proceedings
for January, we have received from Dr. J. EH. Tierny Aitchison, botanist to
the Kuram field-force, “a piece of black or gray coloured rock salt that
was collected near the village of Pare-Angtiri in Chakmani territory, about
20 miles from Kuram Fort.” The specimen was given to him by Mr.
Christie, the Political Officer, and there is no mention of the conditions of
its occurrence. It may be presumed that the Political officer made a note
of whether the mineral was worked, and to what extent, but the informa-
tion has not been communicated. On the maps the Chakmani country lies
at some distance to the west of the fort, and south of the Kuram river.
The blackness is only superficial, and is apparently due to the accummu-
lation, in the process of melting, of the particles that give a grey tinge to
the salt. This impurity consists of very fine sandy calcareous earth blackened
by a small proportion of carbon, but the salt seems to be excellent, and fit for
ordinary use as it is. Seeing that on the border of these hills, in Kohat and
the Salt-Range, there are two enormous deposits of rock-salt, the latter
overlaid by palzeozoic rocks and the former overlaid by tertiary strata, there
is ample room for conjecture as to the geological position of the Chakmani
deposit. There is, however, some ground for surprise at its occurrence there
at all, at least if in any quantity, in the fact of the very large trade in
salt from Kohat to beyond the Frontier. In the published official account
of that trade, a copy of which I have placed on the table, it is represented
that Kabul itself is largely supplied with Kohat salt, and that the principal
route for the traffic lies up the Kuram valley.

Mr. J. Woov-Mason exhibited some Butterflies from the Andamans
collected by Mr. A. de Roepstorff.

The Naturan History Secrerary also exhibited some butterflies
sent from Mussoorie, N. W. Himalayas, by Mr. Cecil Templeton. These
butterflies consisted of —

A specimen of the female of Limenitis Danava, which sex is rarely
seen 1n collections.

A female of Weptis zaida, which it is believed has never before been
seen.

Two fine specimens of a large species of Meptis probably new to science.

The Natural History Secretary also exhibited a new species of butterfly
belonging to the family Morphide from Sibsagar collected by Mr. 8. E.
Peal,

The name of this new butterfly is mona Peali closely allied to 4.
Amathusia, but differing therefrom in the arched instead of sinuous-concave
outer margin of the forewing, and in other points which willbe found fully

°

124 Dr. G. Thibaut—Zssay on the Siiryaprajndpti. _[Juy,

described in the paper to be published with coloured illustrations in the
Journal.

The following papers were read—

1. Essay on the Stryaprajnaptti By Dr. G. Tursaur, Principal,
Benares College.
(Abstract.)

The Suryaprajnidpti is a well-known work on the cosmological and
astronomical system of the Jains. But until recently our knowledge of
that system was very limited, and founded only on the usual references
made to the Jain doctrines by orthodox Hindu writers on Astronomy. The
system was principally known as containing the peculiarly strange doctrine
of the existence of two suns, two moons and a double set of constellations.
In 1878 Prof. A. Weber published a short summary of the StryaprajDapti,
from which it appeared that the Jain system was not so fantastical as it
might have been expected and, at all events, was intimately related to the
ordinary system prevalent all over India, before it came under the influence
of Greek science. The object of the present Essay is, to submit the Strya-
prajiapti to a renewed, detailed investigation, in order to accurately
establish the points of agreement as well as those of difference between
the astronomical system of the Jains and the others generally accepted in
India.

This paper will be published in the Journal, Part I.

2. First List of Diurnal Lepidoptera inhabiting the Andamans based
upon a collection made during the months of May and June, by
Mr. A. bE Rorrstorrr.—By J. Woop-Mason, and L. pre Nicr’-
VILLE.

This paper will be printed in the Journal, Part II.

1880. | Library. 125

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d’Elefante, raccolti nella Liguria occidentale. Salvadori, T’—Catalogo di una
collezione di uccelli fatta nella parte occidentale di Sumatra dal Prof. Odoardo
Beceari. Dubrony, A.—E/numération des Orthoptéres rapportés par M. M.
J. Doria, O. Beccari, et L. M. d’ Albertis des régions Indienne et Austro-
Malaise. Vinciguerra, D.—Appunti ittiologici sulle collezioni del Museo Civico
di Genova. I. Enumerazione d’alcune specie di pesci raccolti in Sumatra
dal Dott. O. Beccari nel’anno 1878 Oberthur, R.—Notes sur quelques
Coléoptéres récoltés aux iles Sanghir par les chasseurs de M. A. A. Bruijn et
description de trois espéces nouvelles.

London. Academy,—Nos. 420—422.

Anthropological Institute,—Journal, Vol. IX, No. 3, February

1880.
Keane, A. H.—On the Relations of the Indo-Chinese and Inter-Oceanic Races
and Languages. Yule, Col_—Notes on Analogies of Manners between the

Indo-Chinese Races and the Races of the Indian Archipelago. Westropp, H.
M.—Notes on Fetichism.

Royal Astronomical Society,—Monthly Notices, Vol. XL, No. 5,
March 1880.
Hall, Prof. A.—Observations of the Satellites of Mars. Gledhill, J.—Pheno-
mena of Jupiter's Satellites, observed at Mr. H. Crossley’s Observatory, Ber-
merside, Halifax.

Athenzum,—Nos, 274:38—2746.

Royal Geographical Society,—Proceedings, Vol. II, Nos. 4 and
5, April and May 1880.

No. 4. Progress of the East African Expedition; Mr. Thomson’s Report on
his Journey from Lake Nyassa to Lake Tanganyika. Biddulph, Major-Gen.
Sir M,. A.—Pishin and the Routes between India and Candahar.

No. 5. Temple, Lieut. G. T.—Voyage on the Coasts of Norway and Lapland.
Hutchinson, #H.—Ascent of the River Binué in August 1879; with remarks
on the systems of the Shary and Binué. Thomson, J.—Progress of the
Society’s Hast African Expedition: Journey along the Western side of
Lake Tanganyika.

. Royal Microscopical Society,—Journal, Vol. III, No. 2, April
1880.
Nachet, A.—On a Petrographical Microscope. Record of Current Researches

relating to Invertebrata, Cryptogamia, Microscopy, &c.

Nature,—Vol. XXII, Nos. 551—554.
No. 552. Flower, Prof—Comparative Anatomy of Man. II. Stewart, Prof.

Balfour.—On Systematic Sun spot Periodicity. Primitive Man.
No. 553. Flower. Prof.—Comparative Anatomy of Man, III. Crookes, Wi—

Contributions to Molecular Physics in High Vacua. Geikie, Prof.—Rock-
Weathering.

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No. 554. Ovifford, Prof.—Energy and Force. Fayrer, Sir J.—LEchis carinata.
Crookes, W.—Contributions to Molecular Physics in High Vacua, II. Haugh-
ton, Rev. Dr.—On the Law of Fatigue in the Work done by Men or Animals,’
A Lacustrine Volcano. Dr. Siemens’s newest Electrical Results.

London. Royal Society,—Proceedings, Vol. XXX, No. 202.

Noble, Capt. and Abel, F. A.—Fired Gunpowder. Note on the Existence of
Potassium Hyposulphite in the Solid Residue of Fired Gunpowder. Siemens,
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and on certain Physical Principles involved. Haughton, Rev. Dr. C_.—The
Croonian Lecture. On some Elementary Principles in Animal Mechanics.
No. IX. The relation between the Maximum Work done, the Time of Lift- ”
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Tonicity of the Head and Arteries, Zittingshausen, Dr. Constantin Baron.—
Report on Phyto- Paleontological Investigations of the Fossil Flora of Alum
Bay. Schifer, Z. A.—On the Structure of the Immature Ovarian Ovum in
the common Fowl and in the Rabbit. To which is appended some observa-
tions upon the mode of Formation of the Discus Proligerus in the Rabbit, and
of the Ovarial Glands or “ Egg-tubes’” in the Dog. MacMunn, Dr. 0. A.—
Researches into the colouring matters of Human Urine, with an Account of
the separation of Urobilin. Geddes, P.—On the Coalescence of Amoeboid
Cells into Plasmodia and on the so-called Coagulation of Invertebrate Fluids.
Darwin, G. H.—On the Analytical Expressions which give the History of a
Fluid Planet of small Viscosity, attended by a single Satellite. Zhudichum,
Dr. J. L. W.—On the Modifications of the Spectrum of Potassium which are
effected by the presence of Phosphoric Acid, and on the Inorganic Bases and
Salts which are found in combination with Educts of the Brain. Zlphinstone,
Lord and Vincent, C. W.—On Magnetic Circuits in Dynamo- and Magneto-
Electric Machines. No. 2. Siemens, Dr. C. W7.—Some further observations
on the Influence of Electric Light upon vegetation.

Statistical Society,—Journal, Vol. XLIII, Part 1, March 1880.
Patterson, R. H.—Is the Value of Money Rising in England and throughout
the world? With Remarks on the Effect of the Fluctuating Conditions of
Trade upon the Value of Money. Bevan, G. P.—The Strikes of the Past Ten
Years. Welton, T. A.—On certain changes in the English Rates of Mortality.

Society of Telegraph Hngineers,—Journal, Vol. IX, No. 31,
April 1880.

Preece, W. H.—Remarks as to the General Use of the Microphone as a Tele-
phone Transmitter. Ayrton, W. EH. and Perry, J.—Note on the Electro-
Magnetic and the Electro-Static Induction from Wire to Wire in Telegraph
Lines. Stearns, J. B.—On a Fault in the Construction of Differential Instru-
ments. Siemens, 4.—On some Recent Improvements in Hlectric Light Appa-
ratus. Heaviside, O.—On the Electro-Static Capacity of Suspended Wires.
Ayrton, W. L.—Note on the Watkin Chronograph.

———, ———.. List of Members corrected to April 15th, 1880.
Zoological Society,—Proceedings, Part IV, 1879.
Forbes, H. O.—Letter on the distribution of the Badger-headed Mydaus (IMydaus

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tragus) withtwo pairs of horns. Zaczanowsk?, L.—Notice sur quelques Oiseaux
du Turkestan. Godwin-Austen, Lieut.-Col. H. H.—Note on the Female of
Lophophorus sclateri, Jerdon, from Hastern Assam. Ramsay, Lieut. R. G.
W.—Description of a new Oriole from Borneo. Goodacre, Dr. F. B.—On the
Question of the Identity of species of the common Domestic and the Chinese
Goose. Tegetmeier.—Exhibition of, and remarks upon, abnormal antlers of a
Deer (Cervus dama). Dobson, G. E.—Notes on some Species of Chiroptera
from Zanzibar, with Descriptions of new and rare Species. Godwin-Austen,
Tieut.-Col. H. H, and Nevill, G.—Descriptions of Shells from Perak and the
Nicobar Islands. Seebohm.—Hxhibition of, and remarks upon, a collection of
birds made by Capt. the Hon. G. C. Napier in the valley of the Atreck river.
Alston, £, R.—On a Four-horned Chamois. Seebohm, H.—On certain obscure
Species of Siberian Indian and Chinese Thrushes. olin, Marqwis de.—On
the Mollusea of H. M. 8. ‘‘ Challenger’”’ Expedition, The Cecide, comprising
the Genera Parastrophia, Watsonia, and Caecum.
London. Zoological Society,—Transactions, Vol. X, Part 138, Vol. XI,
Partinle
Vol. XI, Part 1. Garrod, A. H.—On the Brain and other parts of the Hippos
potamus (H. amphibius).
Moscow. Société Impériale des Naturalistes,—Bulletin, Vol. LIV, No. 3.

Milachévitch, C.—KH’tudes Paléontologiques: Sur les couches 4 Ammonites macro-

cephalus en Russie. Bedriaga, Dr. J. V.—Verzeichniss der Amphibien und
Reptilien Vorder-Asiens. Lindeman, Prof. K.—Monographie der Borkenkafer
Russlands. Die Gattung Dendroctonus. Ozerniavsky, V.—Spongie littora-
les Pontis Huxini et maris Caspil. Zrautschold, H.—Sur Vinvariabilité du
niveau des mers.

Miinchen. Repertorium fiir Experimental-Physik,—Vol. XVI, Part 5.

Ketteler, H.—Zur Vervollstandigung der Reflexionstheorie. Ergebnisse magne-

tischer Beobachtungen. Ausgeftihrt in Russlandim Sommer 1878 von Iwan
Smirnow in Kasan. Abde, Prof.—Ueber die Bedingungen des Aplanatismus
der Linsensysteme.
Paris. Société d’ Anthropologie-—Bulletin, Vol. XII, Part 4, July to
December 1879.

Broca.—Sur un foetus exencéphale Cerveau d’orang. Localisations cérébrales.
Maurel, H.—Bassin de femme coolie. Le Bon.—Capacité de cranes d’ hommes
célébres. -Ardowin.—Cranes de malfaiteurs. Durand, ?Abbé.—Tribu afri-
caine a peau claire.

Journal Asiatique,—Vol. XV, No. 2, February to April 1880.

Clermont-Ganneau..—La Coupe phenicienne de Palestrina. Maspero.—EH’tude sur

quelques peintures et sur quelques textes relatifs aux funérailles. Huarlez. C.
de.—Des Origines du Zoroastrisme. Sawaire, H.—Matériaux pour Vhistoire
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Note sur la forme du tombeau d’Hschmounazar. NSenart.—E/tude sur les
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Philadelphia. American Philosophical Society,—Proceedings, Vol. XVIII,
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Derby, Dr. O. .A.—The Geology of the Lower Amazonas. Sadtler, S. P. and
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Pisa. Societa Toseana di Scienze Naturali,—Processi Verbali, Adunanza

del di 9 Maggio, 1880.

Simla. United Service Institution of India,—Journal, Vol. VIII, No. 35;
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No. 35. Furse, Major G. A-—Various Descriptions of Transport. Gray,
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Vienna. Anthropologische Gesellschaft,—Mittheilungen, Vol. IX, Nos.
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Fligier, Dr.—Zur Anthropologie der Briten und Iren.

K. K. geologische Reichsanstalt,—Jahrbuch, Vol. XXITX, No. 4.

Tietze, Dr. Feil Mineral reichthtimer Persiens.

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Wioetincton: U. 8. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territo-
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Riley, C. V. and Monell, J—Notes on the Aphidide ofthe United States, with
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Relations of the Horizons of Extinct Vertebrata of Europe and North Ame-
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Berlin. Journal fiir reine und angewandte Mathematik,—Vol. LXXXIX,
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Frobenius, G.—Ueber das Additionstheorem der Thetafunctionen mehrerer
Variabeln. Hettner, G.—Zur Theorie des arithmetisch-geometrischen Mittels
aus vier Elementen. Pasch.—Uecber gewisse Determinanten, welche in der
Lehre yon den Kegelschnitten yorkommen, Hin algebraischer Satz nebst
geometrischen Anwendungen. Radichke, A.—Zur Theorie der Hulerschen
Zahlen. Frobenius, G.—Ueber die Leibnitzshe Reihe.

Bombay. Vedarthayatna,—Vol. III, No. 16.

Calcutta. Calcutta Review,—No. 141, July 1880.

Geneva. Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles,—Vol. III, No. 5,
May 1880.

Marignac, C.—Sur les terres de la Samarskite. Chappwis, P.—Recherches sur la
condensation des gaz a la surface duverre. Achard, A.—-La machine Siemens
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Gottingen. Gelehrte Anzeigen,—Stiicke 17—21. :
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Leipzig. Annalen der Physik und Chemie,—Vol. X, Part 1.

Kohlrausch, W.—Ueber Tone, die durch eine begrenzte Anzahl von Impulsen
erzeugt werden, Warburg, H—Ueber die Torsion. Kirchhoff, G.—Ueber
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Matern, A.—Ueber ein neues einfaches Condensations-hygrometer. Legebeke,
G. J.—Ueber einen allgemeinen Satz von Hrn. R. Clausius in Bezug auf
electrische Influenz. Holtz, W7.—Ueber eine Augentauschung beim Anblick
geometrischer Figuren. Lippich, F.—Reflexion und Brechung des Lichtes
an spharischen Flachen unter Voraussetzung endlicher Hinfallswinkel,

London. Society of Arts——Journal, Vol. XXVIII, Nos. 1485—1488.

No. 14386. Abney, Capt.—Some Recent Advances in Photography. Simmonds,
P, L.—Production and Commerce of Lac.

No. 14387. Stbree, Rev. J.—The Arts and Commerce of Madagascar ; its Recent
Progress and its Future Prospects.

No. 1438. Laurie, Col. W. F. B.—British and Upper Burma and Western
China; their Concurrent Commercial Interests. Simmonds, P. L.—Opium
Trade of India. Woolsorters’ Disease.

. Journal of Botany,—Vol. 1X, No. 209, May 1880.
Chemical News,—Vol. XLI, Nos. 1069—1072.

No. 1070. Proposed Society of Industrial Chemists. Jones, H. C.—On a Black
substance produced from Sulphur.

Ne. 1071. Gimingham, C. H.—On a Combination Blowpipe for Glass-working.
Kingzett, C. T.—Organic Matter in Water. Schunck, E. and Remer, H.—On
the Recognition of Alizarin, Iso-purpurin and Flavo-purpurin in Mixtures,
and on the Quantitative Determination of Alizarim. Parsons, H. B.—A
Method for the Proximate Analysis of Plants.

No. 1072. Warrington, R.—Observations upon Dr. Tidy’s paper on River Water.

Parsons, H. B.—A Method for the Proximate Analysis of Plants,

Edinburgh Review,—No. 310, April 1880.

Ritualistic Literature. Bigelow’s Life of Franklin. Mohammedanism in China,
The Schools of Charles the Great. Modern Horse-Racing. Catholic Rule
in Ireland, 1641-48. The late Professor Clifford’s Essays. Burton’s Reign
of Queen Anne. The New Parliament.

——. The Entomologist,—Vol. XIII, No. 204, May 1880.
. The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine,—Vol. XVI, No. 192,
May 1880.
Eaton, Rev. A. H.—Papilio Hector, L., roosting in flocks.
— —. The Ibis,—Vol. IV, No. 14, April 1880.

Seebohm, H.—Contributions to the Ornithology of Siberia. Gurney, J. H.—
Notes on a “ Catalogue of the Accipitres in the British Museum,” by R. Bowd-
ler Sharpe. Note on Sumatran Specimens of Accipiter stevensoni and Scops
lempiji. Forbes, W. _A.—Remarks on Dr. Gadow’s Papers on the Digestive
System of Birds.

Messenger of Mathematics,—Vol. IX, No. 12; Vol. X, No. 1,
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April. Webb, R. R.—Some applications of a theorem in solid geometry (con
tinued). Niven, Prof. C—On the vector potential and on some properties of
the solid harmonics.

May. Cayley, Prof.—A geometrical construction relating to imaginary quanti-
ties. Curtis, 4. H.—On free motion under the action of several central forces.
Taylor, C_.—Tangential Coordinates.

London. Annals and Magazine of Natural History,—Vol. V, No. 29,
May 1880.

Miers, E. J—On a Collection of Crustacea from the Malaysian Region. Part
III. Crustacea Anomura and Macrura (except Peneidea). Long, and Mer, B.—
On the Formation of the Shell in the Snails.

Nineteenth Century,—Vol. VII, No. 39, May 1880.
Philosophical Magazine,—Vol. IX, No. 57, May 1880.

Long, Dr. J. H.—On the Diffusion of Liquids. Capron, J. R.—Relative Inten-
sity of the Spectral Lines of Gases. Wright, C. R. A.—On the Determina-
tion of Chemical Affinity in terms of Electromotive Force. Part II. Cockle,
Sir J—Supplementary Paper on Primary Forms. Grant, W—On Inductioa
in Telephonic Circuits. Preston, S. 7.—On Method in Causal Research.
Cooke, J. P.—On Berthelot’s Thermo-chemistry. Bidwell, §.—The Influence
of Friction upon the Generation of a Voltaic Current.

The Publishers’ Cireular,—Vol. XLIII, Nos. 1024, 1025.
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David Hume. The English Flower Garden. The Marquess Wellesley. The
Book of Common Prayer. Memoirs of Madame Rémusat. The Chinese in

Central Asia. The Taxation of India, The Slavonic Menace to Hurope.
The Conservative Defeat.

——-. Journal of Science,—Vol. II, No. 77, May 1880.
Oliver, Capt. S. P.—Offensive and Defensive Torpedo War. The Soul: what is
it? Internal Enemies. The Antiquity of Mankind.

Westminster Review,—No. 114, April 1880.

The Marquess Wellesley. Artistic Copyright. Masson’s Life of Milton. The
Greek Humanists; Nature and Law. The Letters of Charles Dickens. Ani-
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Empire.

Paris. Annales de Chimie et de Physique,—Vol. XIX, April 1880.

Trouvelot, L.—Spectres fugitifs observés prés du limbe solaire. Seguin, J. M—
Sur les images accidentelles des objets blanes. Bowssingault.——Sur la décom-
position du bioxyde de baryum dans le vide, 4 la température du rouge som-
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Mesure optique des hautes temperatures. Wiewlafait.—Le cuivre, son exis-
tence normale en quantité sensible, dans toutes les plantes qui vivent sur les
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tion. Bertin, A—Sur la bobine @’ induction et le sonometre électrique de
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Paris. Comptes Rendus,—Vol. XC, Nos. 19—22.

No. 19. Tisserand, F.—Sur les transcendantes qui jouent un role fondamental
dans la théorie des perturbations planétaires. Clorzewu, des.—Sur la forme
cristalline du magnésium. Blanchard, H.—Sur une Cicadelle (Hysteropterum
apterum) qui attaque les vignes dans la département de la Gironde. Sylves-
ter.—Sur la loi de réciprocité dans la théorie des nombres. Gowy.—Sur la
théorie des phénoménes d’ interférence of intervient la polarisation rotatoire.

No. 20. Pehgot, H.—Sur la saccharine. Reset, J.—Recherches sur la propor-
tion de PV acide carbonique dansVair. MMuartin- Damowrette et Hyades.—Sur
quelque effets nutritifs des alcalins 4 doses modérées, d’ aprés l’expérimenta-
tion sur Vhomme dans l'état de santé. Rayet.—Positions de la cométe 6
de 1880, déterminées 4 l’ Observatoire de Bordeaux. Callandreau, O.—Sur des
transcendantes qui jouent un role fondamental dans la théorie des perturba-
tions planétaires. Kantor, S.—Sur le nombre des groupes cycliques dans une
transformation de espace. . ondesir, P. de.—LLes tensions des vapeurs satu-
rées ont des modes de variation différents selon qu’elles sont émises au-
dessus ou au-dessous du point de fusion. André, Ch.—Sur I’ interversion des
températures de Yair avec la hauteur. Ditte, A.—Sur les mélanges refri-
gerants formés d’un acide et d’un sel hydraté. Richet, Ch.—De TV influence
des milieux alcalins on acides sur la vie des écrevisses. Cowty.—Sur quel-
ques-unes des conditions de lexcitabilité corticale. Terril/on.—Anesthésie
locale et générale produite par la bromure d’éthyle. Thibaut.—Des varia-
tions de Yurée dans Vempoisonnement par le phosphore. Jfiintz, A.—De
Vinfluence de l’engraissement des animaux sur la constitution des graisses
formées dans leurs tissus. Pellet, H.—Sur la fixité de composition des végé-
taux. Analyses du Soya hispida ou pois oléagineux chinois. Viallanes, H.—
Sur l'appareil respiratoire et circulatoire de quelques larves de Diptéres.

No. 21. Faye.—Sur les variations séculaires de la figure mathématique de la
Terre. Berthelot.—Sur les mélanges refrigerants formés par un sel hydraté.
Debray, H.—Actions des acides sur les alliages du rhodium avec le plomb et
le zine. Callandreau, O.—Sur les transcendantes qui jouent un réle fonda-
mentale dans la théorie des perturbations planétaires. Bruno, F. de.—Sur un
théoréme général dans la théorie des covariants. Dedekind, R.—Sur la théorie
des nombres complexes idéaux. -Appell.—Intégraiion de certaines équations
différentielles & l'aide des fonctions 6. Paige, C. le.—Sur lJ élimination.
Mouchot, A.—Utilisatica industrielle de la chaleur solaire. Destrem, A.—
Combinaisons des alcools avec la baryte et la chaux ; produits de la décomposi-
tion, par la chaleur, de ces combinaisons. Nivet.—Des réactions qui se pro-
duisent entre les sels ammonicaux et le carbonate de chaux. Reynier et
Richet, Ch.—Expériences relatives an choc péritonéal, Couty.—Sur la forme
et le siége des mouvements produits par l’excitation corticale du cerveau.
Heéger, P.—Sur le pouvoir fixateur de certains organes pour les alcaloides
introduits dans le sang qui les traverse. Pietra-Santa, de.—Découverte de
vaccin “horse-pox.” Phipson, T. £.—Sur un phénomeéne de sensibilité
observé dans l’ Acacia. Vasseur, G.—Sur les terrains tertiaires de la Bretagne.
Environs de Saffré (Loire-Inférieure).

No. 22. Jamin.—Sur une lampe électrique automatique. Berthelot.—Sur la
chaleur de combustion des principaux gaz hydrocarbonés. Fwye.—Sur les

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idées cosmogoniques de Kant, & propos d’une réclamation de priorité de M,
Schlotel. Grimaux, E.and Adam, P.—Synthése de l’acide citriqus. Béchamp,
A.—Recherches sur les matiéres albuminoides du cristallin au point de vue
de la non-identité de celles qui sout solubles avec albumine du blanc d’couf
et du sérum. ov, G.—Surl’emploi des sables volcaniques dans la traite-
ment des vignes attaquées par le Phylloxera. Un rapide apercu des matiéres
contenues dans ?Ouyrage de M. Alph. de Candolle, intitulé: ‘“ La Phyto-
graphie, ou Vart de décrire les végétaux.”’ Radau, R.—Sur les réfractions
des Bessel. Picard, #.—Sur une extension aux fonctions de deux variables
du probléme de Riemann relatif aux fonctions hypergéométriques. Mathieu,
£.—Sur Véquilibre d’élasticité d’un prisme rectangle. -Ader.—Téléphone
a surexcitation magnétique. Jace, J. and Nicati, V.—HW’tude de la distribu-
tion de la lumiére dans le spectre. Leroy, C. J. A.—Sur l’astigmatisme.
Loguigrine, W.—Chaleur dégagée dans la combustion de quelques alcools
isoméres de la série grasse ainsi que cenanthol. Ditte, A.—Sur les mélan-
ges réfrigérants formés de deux sels cristallisés. Kessler.—Hydrate hydro-
fluosilicique cristallisé. Marangoni, C.—Fonctions de la vessie natatoire des
Poissons. Gérard, R.—Recherches sur la structure de l’axe au-dessous des
feuilles séminales chez les Dicotylédones. Magitot, #.—De la structure et du
développement du tissu dentinaire dans la série animale. Herrmann, G. and
Desfosses, I.—Sur la muqueuse de la région cloacale du rectum. Berliouw.
Sur le voyage d’exploration de M, Rohlfs dans le Sahara oriental.

Paris. Revue Critique,—Vol. IX, Nos. 20—22,

Revue des deux Mondes,—Vol. XX XIX, Nos. 2 and 3.

Journal des Savants,—May 1880.

Franck, A.—Histoire de de la philosophie de France. Eyger, E’.—la poésie de

Pindare et les lois du lyrisme grec. Quatrefages, A. de.—LLes cranes finnois.

Gruyer, A.—Le Jouer de violon, par Raphaél. Zsmein, A.—Un traité de droit

syro-romain au cinquiéme siécle.

Revue Scientifique,—Vol. XVIII, Nos. 47—50.
No. 49. Pdris.—Les Extincteurs. Huzley, Prof. Th.—Organes des sens et
fonctions de reproduction de l’écrivisse. Dastre.—Vie et travaux de Glisson
tapres M. Marion. Legoyt.—Statistique du suicide.
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Chaitanya-chandrodaya, Nataka, 3 fasci......... cecececsenes cose cosesees RB.
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Sankhya-sara, 1 fasci. .... 42.0. wa eee eee eas sheeenee sernce sesses senceeee
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Taittiriya Brahmana, 24 faset, 000200 C20 FFCCO BOO Derecho ee Bev ees DOOBED Oe
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Tandya Brahmana, 19 fasci. ....00 cescocce senpseee sree sees cccess seve sere
Gopatha Bradhmana, 2 fasci. ..sceeccsesecevessvacesescsssnesesscveee sees
Atharvana Upanishads, 4 fasci. SH CoCo Le BOHTOCHE C8 27H OOOO C880 e 2208 venD
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Gopala Tapani, 1 fasci. oe C08 OS COOH 2H5KHS C820 BHEGOH SEHC0ERO aieisieneee eves
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Prithir4j Rasu, by Chand Bardai, 4 fasci. oo cooeee eeeese co aces ©20200000@ ceeven
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_ Kamandaktya Nitisira, 4 fasci. (Fasci. 1 fons Of SHOCK.) silneie's eienece es cclan ts
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The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was
held on Wednesday, the 4th August, at 9°15 Pp. M.

H. B. Mepuicort, Esq., F. R. S., in the Chair.

The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.

The following presentations were announced—

1. From the authors,—(1) Valuations of coins which are now, or have
recently been current, by Col. J. F. Tennant, (2) The Indian Swastika
and its Western Counterparts, by H. Thomas, (3) Results of Meteorologi-
eal Observations, 1879, at G. V. Juggarow’s Observatory, Daba Gardens,
Vizagapatam, by A. V. Nursingrow, and (4) Lyttoniana, Vol. I, by Adhar-

lal Sen.
2. From the Batavian Observatory, —Rainfall in the Hast Indian Archi-

pelago, first year, 1879, by Dr. P. A. Bergsma.

3. From P. W. Sheafer, Hsq.,—Diagram of the Progress of the An-
thracite Coal Trade of Pennsylvania, with statistical tables &e.

4, From the Government of the Netherlands,—Bér6-Boudour dans
Vile de Java, by F. C. Wilsen and J. F. G. Brumund.

5. From the Bengal Secretariat,—The Flora of British India, Vol. II
by Sir J. D. Hooker.

6. From the Marine Survey Department—Chart of Port Mouat in
South Andaman Island.

The following Gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded at the last Meet-
ing, were balloted for and elected Ordinary Members—

Pandit Mohunlall Vishnulall Pandia.

The Hon. J. Gibbs, C. S. I.

Raja Siva Prasad, C. 8S. I.

J. A. Brown, Esq., C. S.

W. Lambe, Esq., C. S.

H. W. W. Reynolds, Esq., C. S.

140 Dr. Leitner—Photographs of Aryans and non- Aryans. [ Ava.

The following Gentlemen are candidates for election, and will be ballot-
ed for at the next meeting of the Council.

1. Richardson Walter Nicholson, Esq., Ghazipur, proposed by
Hi. Rivett-Carnac, Esq., seconded by Alex. Pedler, Esq.

2. Lieut.-Col. M. G. Clerk, Benares, proposed by H. Rivett-Carnac,
Esq., seconded by Alex. Pedler, Esq.

8. Babu Benod Behary Mullick, proposed by Babu Protapa Chundra
Ghosha, seconded by Dr. R. L. Mitra.

4. Babu Sib Chunder Nag, Personal Assistant to the Commissioner of
Chittagong, proposed by Babu Adharlal Sen, seconded by Babu Umesh
Chunder Dutt.

5. Khalif M. Hussan, proposed by Moulvie Kabiruddin Ahmad,
seconded by Alex. Pedler, Esq.

The PrestpenT announced that, in accordance with Rules 87 and 388
of the Society’s Bye-Laws, the names of the following Gentlemen had been
posted up, as Defaulting Members, since the last Monthly General Meet-
ine, and would now be removed from the List of Members, and published
in the Proceedings.

J. I’. Baness, Esq.

W. Porter, Esq.

P. Dejoux, Esq.

J.S. Gunn, Esq., M. B.

The Councrt announced that Dr. T. R. Lewis had tendered his resig-
nation as Member of the Council and Trustee of the Indian Museum, and
that Mr. H. F. Blanford had been re-elected Member of Council.

The SrcrETARY announced that H. H. the Viceroy Lorp Ripon had
consented to accept the office of Patron of the Society.

Dr. A. F. Rupotr Horrnte exhibited some photographs of groups of
Aryans and non-Aryans from the so-called ‘“ neutral zone’? on the North
Western frontiers of India, sent by Dr. G. W. Leitner, Principal of the
Government College at Lahore. ‘The photographs were taken at Lahore,
and represent men from Hanza, Nagyr, Chitral, Gilgit, Kolab, Gabrial and
Badakhshan.

Dr. Ra‘seypraza’ta Mrrra exhibited a facsimile of a Chinese in-
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Gaya. The stone which bore the record was found by Mr. Beglar in one
of the rubbish mounds around the great temple at Buddha-Gayaé at a depth

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of about 12 feet from the top of the mound. It had evidently been set up
by a Chinese pilgrim, very much in the same way in which the Burmese
inscriptions have found their way to the place. Dr. Mitra had sought the
aid of some Chinamen of Cossitollah to decypher the monument, but had
failed, the interpretation given him being of a character which could not
be verified by him. He had been told that the record was a thousand years
old. If so, it would be of the time of Hiouen Thsang; but it may be
older still, and may be the identical stone which Fa Hian is said to have
set up at Buddha-Gaydé. Dr. Mitra intends to send the facsimile to the
Rev. 8. Beal, London, to be decyphered.

Dr. Mrrra also submitted the following notes on two copper-plate in-
seriptions found in Sylhet and forwarded to him by Mr. Luttman-Johnson.

Iam indebted to Mr Luttman-Johnson, Deputy Commissioner of
Sylhet, for facsimiles, in duplicate, of two copper-plate grants, which had
been discovered several years ago, but lately brought to notice by
Pandit Srinivasa S/stri, brother of the renowned Sanskrit scholar and
poet, Rama Bai. Babu Rajanarayana Deva Chaudhuri, in whose estate they
were discovered, says ‘“‘ they were found about 15 years ago, in a tillah in
Bhatara, and dug up from a depth of about 8 feet, in the course of removing
old bricks from the foundation of an ancient building.” The tillah stands by
the highway, at a distance of a mile to the south-west of a market called
Bhatara bazar, and close by a hill also named Bhatara, Some call it Nao-
Jar tillah, others, Iter tillah (brick mound). According to tradition the
tillah is the palace which belonged to Raja Gauragovinda alias Govin-
da Siiha. He was a prince of great renown, and much devoted to Vedic
rites. A tillah at a short distance is shown in the centre of which he used
to perform the homa rite, in a large square vat lined with bricks.
This is called Homer Tillah. Close by, there is a place which bears the name
of Dakshina Kanda, and this is said to be the place where he distributed
alms, after performing the rite. A large tank in the neighbourhood is
also attributed to him. The prince was overthrown by Shah Jellal,
alias Jelal-uddin Khany, who, following the footsteps.of his predecessor
Mulk Yuzbek, led his army to the eastern parts of Bengal, invaded Sylhet
in 1257 A. D., and brought some of the petty independent rdjds under
his control. His success, however, was short-lived, for he was suddenly
called back to defend Gaur from the invasion of Irsilan Khan, and soon
after killed in battle. Babu Jagachchandra Deva Chaudhuri gives the
following details of the discovery: “‘ When in 1279 (B. 8S.) one of my tenants,
named Shaikh Katai, was engaged in digging out bricks from this tillah, he
found two copper-plates with letters engraved on them. These were
taken by my brother Kasichandra Rai Chaudhuri (now deceased), and

142 Dr. Mitra—Oopper-plate Inscriptions from Sythet. [Ava.

were with us for years together, until about two years ago Maulavi Hamid
Bakht Majumdar took them from me. The Maulavi made them over to
the Deputy Commissioner in whose office they are now preserved.”

Each grant is inscribed on two quadrangular plates of copper, having
a projection, on the top of which a hole was intended to be bored, but this
was not done. One set is much larger than the other, the former mea-
suring 12} x 11 inches, and the latter 8 x 63 inches.

The larger set has 27 lines of inscription on the first plate and 28 on the
second. ‘The small one 16 lines on each plate. The letters on the two are
of the same type, a cross between the Kutila and the Bengali, and, on the
whole, in a fair state of preservation.

No. I opens with a salutation to Siva, and then gives a genealogy of
four kings who are said to have belonged to the race of the moon. The
founder a the line was Navagirvana, inwhose favour the panygerist has
nothing to say beyond his having been the issue of prosperity personified.
His son Gokula Deva claims distinction for being the grandfather of the
reigning king. His son was Narayana, and from him descended Govinda
alias Kegava, who granted, for the adoration of a lingam of the name of
Vategvara, whose temple stood in Hattapataka (the great fair), probably
the Bhatara bazar of the present day, lands to the extent of 875 plough
measures, 296 houses, and a great number of slaves. One of the epithets
used for Siva is Sréhattegvara, or the lord of Sylhet.

The lands and houses given were scattered in different villages, and
their names as also the extent of land in each village, are given in detail,
but from want of local knowledge I am not in a position to identify them.

The most remarkable peculiarity in the record is the use of the word
hala ‘“‘a plough” for indicating a measure of land. I do not remember to
have noticed it in any other land-grant that I have seen. In old Smritis
it is, however, often referred to. Thus in Manu, (VII, 119), “Let the
lord of ten towns enjoy the produce of two plough-lands ; the lord of twenty,
that of ten plough-lands ; the lord of a hundred, that of a village or small
town; the lord of a thousand, that of a large town.” The word used is
kula, which in ordinary Sanskrit means a herd, buf the commentator
Kulluka Bhatta explains the term by the words “as much ground as can be
tilled with two ploughs each drawn by six bullocks.”*

This technical meaning is recognized by Harita, who says, “ the hata
(plough) drawn by eight bullocks is the most virtuous, (dharmahala, i. e.,
the best) ; that of six bullocks belongs to men of consequence; that of
four for ordinary householders ; and that of two for Brahmanicides (for
whom bare subsistence is all that is needed).”’+

= aise gaa qaat ufaarge ae gefata sete |
t sera Yass seas sitraartant i
agua weqrai faad aquifaara

1880. ] Dr. Mitra—Copper-plate Inscriptions from Sylhet. 143

In the Smriti of Pardsara the verse occurs with slight variations,
changing “householders” into wicked men, and “ Brahmanicides” into
tauricides.*

I have failed to find out the exact area of the land the term indicated.
But looking to the original meaning of the word u/a I am disposed to
think that it is closely related to the Anglo-Saxon hyde and its Latin con-
gener hida or hyda, with its various corruptions in most of the modern lan-
guages of Hurope. It originally meant as much land as could be tilled with
one plough, and was thus equal to a ku/a of Manu and a hala of Harita,
though subsequently it came to mean a family possession, and has been dif-
ferently estimated by different authors from 60 to 120 acres. Hume has a
passage quoted from Spelman, which reads very like a paraphrase of Manu’s
verse, it runs thus: “ Four hydes made one knight’s fee, the relief of a ba-
rony was twelve times greater than that of a knight’s fee,” (Azstory of Eng-
land, If, p. 116.) Ihave nowhere seen any attempt made to account for the
use of the word hyde meaning cvwfzs, to indicate a plough ; I fancy it isa meto-
nymy for a bullock which stands for a plough. ‘This idea, however, had
been long ago forgotten, for even in the Greek story of Dido, when she asked
for a hide of land, she was understood to mean as much land as could be
covered by a hide, and she cut up the hide into thongs to cover a large area to
found the city of Byrsa: no idea of a plough or bullock was then enter-
tained. It may be conjectured that a bag made of an entire hide was
natuzally a hide, and as much land as could be cultivated by seed contained
in that bag was also called a hide; but there is no proof of any kind to
support it, and it must therefore be rejected as unwarrantable. Anyhow
there is sufficient similitude between hala and hide to suggest the idea of
a common origin.

The date of the record has been read by Pandit Srinivasa S/Astri, to be the
year 2928 of the era of the first Pandava king : qrwaqreatfeqiates © VeRa.
But in the original the first figure is very unlike the third, and has been
moreover scratched over, and is abundantly doubtful. The second is also
open to question. J am disposed to take the first for a 4, and the second
for 3, which would make the date equal 4328 — A. D. 1245, or about the
time when Shah Jellal invaded Sylhet. That the Govinda of the Tillah
is the same with that of the record I have no reason to doubt.

No. II is a Vaishnavite record. It opens with a salutation to Naré-
yana, the husband of Kamala; and gives a list of four kings, who belonged
to the lunar race. The first was Gokula, who is said to have been as muni-
ficent as the kalpa tree. His son was Nardyana, who was followed by

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144 Dr. Mitra—Oopper-plate Inscriptions from Sylhet. [Ava.

Kesava Deva, who dedicated a temple to the destroyer of Kafga, and
performed the rite of weighing himself against gold, silver and other
articles which he presented to Brahmans. His son was I’sina Deva. He
erected a lofty temple for the enemy of Madhukaitabha, a form of Vishnu,
and, by the advice of his minister Vanamali Kara, a Vaidya by caste, and the
concurrence of his commander-in-chief Viradatta, presented two ploughs
of land forits support. The deed was engraved by one Madhava of the Dasa
tribe, on the Ist of Vaisakha in the year 17. The word used for the year
is ¥e, which is an abbreviation of Samvat, a word ordinarily used for the
era of Vikramaditya, but not unoften also for any era, and here it is obvious-
ly intended for the era of the king’s reign.

It is obvious that the first prince of this plate is the same with the
second of the first plate, the next two are likewise the same, for there is no
reason to doubt that Kegava of the second plate is the alias of the
Govinda of the first grant, and the new name [sana Deva, is the fifth from
Navagirvana. The genealogy will accordingly stand thus—

1. Navagirvana alias Kharavana.

2. Gokula.

3. Narayana.

4. Kesava alias Govinda.

5. sana.

These rajas were sovereigns of Kachar, and professed to be of the
dynasty of Ghatotkacha, son of Bhima, one of the Pandu brothers, by
Hidimba, the daughter of an aboriginal cannibal chief. It is extremely
doubtful, however, if the Pandus ever came so far to the Hast.

If the date assigned to the first plate be accepted, the second will be
a little over 17 years after it, or in the last quarter of the 13th century.

Translation of Inscription, No. L.

Om! Salutation to Siva. Salutation be unto him, who is the lord of
the three worlds, by whose body, represented by the earth,* is this
universe upheld, who is known as the supreme lord, and as one who, though
verily one alone, has the threefold names of Brahma, Upendra, (Vishnu)
and Mahega, and as the receptacle of the three qualities, the leader of
creation.

2. He prospers—he the crown-jewel on the head of the destroyer of
Tripura, the silver pitcher for the bath of the mistress of Cupid, the whet-
stone for sharpening the arrows of the flowery-bowed god, the cool-rayed

ornament of night.

* The body of S/iva is described to represent the earth, water &c., in eight forms.

vara fafaana aa: &e.
t Hpithets for the moon.

1880. ] Dr. Mitra—Copper-plate Inscriptions from Sythet. 145

3. In his race were born many valorous kings whose eulogiums are
extant on the land of Bharata.

4. Now was born the noblest of kings Navagirvana,* (the new god,)
of fierce arrow, (kharavana) of great renown, the issue of the goddess of
royal prosperity.

5. His son, the king of the name of Gokula Deva, was the grandfather
of the (reigning) king. It is wonderful that the sunlight of his glory
caused numbness in inimical kings (instead of exciting vivacity as sunlight
should).

6. From him descended king Narayana, who, like Lakshmi, was
churned from the ocean of antagonistic kings, with the Manddra mountain
of valiant arms, and who rivalled the Lord by taking his shelter in enjoy-
ment (nanda).+

7. Of him was born Kegava Deva of unmeasured hymn of merit and
glory, whose feet were decorated with the jewels of royal crowns, who was
the ornament of earthly sovereigns, the destroyer of rival kings, even as
Govindat himself.

8. He prospers—he the ultimatum of wonderful manliness, the
abode of fame, the asylum of beauty, the dwelling place of all kinds of
learning, the shelter of justice—he the centre of all light, the source of
charity, the home of enjoyment, the jewel of all speech, the store-house
of goodness, the personification of all good qualities.

9. He, having by his arms protected the land of dependant kings,
became the protector of the good,§ and revived the festivity of the de-
stroyer of Kafiga. This Kesava Deva (alias Govinda), who had whirled his
discus at his enemies, has, through his anger, brought to an end all the
children of the race of his antagonists ; (or who has destroyed the Sisupala
of his enemies).||

* The words Navagirvana and Kharavana are so placed that either of them may
pass for a proper name, or both may be epithets. I take at random the first for the
proper name. The second may be an alias.

+ There is a double entendre here in the word Nanda. Even as Lord Krishna
took shelter with Nanda, the cowherd, so did he betake to nanda (pleasure).

¢ The god Krishna. The two words Kesava and Govinda have been so introduced
as both may stand for proper names, one in illustration of the other. Probably both were
the names of the same person, and the poet has availed himself of the fact to play upon
them.

§ Sadvrindavana. There is a play upon this word which once means the town
Vrindévana near Mathuré where Krishna dwelt in his childhood, and once the good
people—sat good, and vrinda collection.

|| Sisupdla, king of Chedi, was an enemy of Krishna, and killed by him ina
single combat. The word means a number of children—sigw ‘“‘child” and pdla “a herd.”’

146 Dr. Mitra—Copper-plate Inscriptions from Sylhet. [Ava.

10. He has, by the vigour of his arms, brought this earth under one
royal umbrella, wishing not to allow the existence of any foreign
possession.

11. He has appointed his hands to replace the Kalpa tree, his valour
to replace the sun, his fame to serve the purposes of the moon, and his arms
to supply the place of Ananta (in upholding the earth). His eyes alone
have the courage to override his ears (z. e., his eyes were so long that they
extended as far as the ears; or that his virtuous course—the course founded
on the observance of Vedic rules—none dared to disturb).

12. Having effected the gratification of all well-disposed people,
having, by the play of his sword, subjugated all sides, and having cast far
away all other kings, this king governs as the chief of eastern kings (or
greater than all former kings).

13. His well-earned white glory, bright as the moon, has made the
earth white ; it has blighted the bud of the inimical lotus ; it has blown the
lily of enjoyment. Is it giving delight by moving on constantly, or by
remaining fixed? Is it the result of any cause, or is it eternal? It is
wonderful.

14. The unrivalled fire of the king’s vigour flourishes How wonder-
ful it isP It becomes manifest by the vapour of inimical kings, (though
vapour is no characteristic sign of fire) ; it is not blown out by the tears of
enemies (though ordinary fires are extinguished by water) ; it causes torpi-
dity in hostile potentates, (while ordinary fires dispel torpidity). It has
enveloped the quarters of the earth (even as ordinary fires envelope wood; a
play upon the word késhtha, which means both wood and quarters). It licks
the sky (even as the flame of a large fire does).

15. That king, engaged in battle, caused two prominent things to be
bent low by his two qualities, (yuna strings)—by one string his bow, by
the other, perceivable by the great, the host of his enemies.

16. By the glory of that king, bright as the rays of the laughing
moon, and of illimitable might, the whole earth has been overpowered—a
glory that has leaped across many oceans,

17. Now, Bhagavan Vatesvara, of form without a beginning, the
source of the earth, the lord of the three worlds, unwilling to abide in
Kailasa, descended on earth and dwelt at Hattapataka.

18. That king, whose feet are emblazoned by the crest-jewels of
kings, and who is the noblest of all kings, presented to that crescent-
crested divinity, in different villages,

19. Lands to the extent of 375 plough measures and 296 houses.

20. He, the devotee of Siva, gave to Siva, the lord of S’rihatta, many
slaves and men of various races. In Chatapadadeva 35 ploughs, and houses
110. In Badagrdma, ploughs 18. In Mahavdpura, plough 1. In Hadhi-

1880. ] Dr. Mitra—Copper-plate Inscriptions from Sylhet. 147

thanaka, ploughs 7, houses 6. In the north of Degigaf, plough 1. In
Navapanchana, ploughs 5, house (?). In Ayatanika, ploughs 7. In Siddava,
house 1. In Amanata Bhavika, ploughs 6 (?) In Gudhavayika, houses 3.
In Katavachha, ploughs 3. In Konarka (some epithets unintelligible),
house 1. In the town of Yithayi, ploughs 17, houses 4, In Nenrivataga,
houses 8. In Odhatitharka, ploughs 3, houses 11. In Kaivama, ploughs ?,
house 1. In Balusigrama, ploughs 5. On the west of Navachha, ploughs
5, houses . In Athinahatika, ploughs 5, houses 8. To the south of
Kadhadhiya, to the east of Gosyaya, to the north of Govata, to the west of
Babani, ploughs, 18. To the south of the river Savaga, ploughs 5, houses
3. To the north of that river, ploughs 35, houses 13. To the north of
that river and the east of Vatisasta, house 1. To the north of that
river, west of Ghatibhti, and south of Sarvabhti, ploughs 7. To the
north of the river Kiniyani and the east of Yegamyaganiya, ploughs 83,
houses 7. To the south of the river, the east of Thabasonti and
the west of Bhaskaratenkuri, ploughs 15, houses . In the two
villages of Natayana within Jagayé, ploughs 5, houses 30. In Sand-
gayadaka, to the east of Amikathi, and the west of Sdgara (sea ?),
ploughs 10. To the south and north of Kaniyani river, ploughs 84. To the
south of the Nagayiriver, ploughs 6, houses 10. In Bhogadhaopada, to the
north of Badhadha (a hollow), ploughs 9, houses 9. To the west of Tatho-
gasana and the north of Hattavava, ploughs 7, houses 10. In Badasochasa,
to the south of Satakopa, ploughs 10. In Chedgambudika, ploughs 3, house
1. In Adanakathi, houses 8 * * * *. In Nadyanika, ploughs 8 house
1. In Bhika, to the east of Upamsivo and the north of Athavi, ploughs 80,
houses 13. In the village of Nadakuti, houses 8. In that village to the
north of the river Thaga, houses 6. In Bhika, to the east of Gosvepapota,
to the north of the cattle-path, to the south of Hadi Ganga (tank) to the
west of Dhanukundodhi, ploughs 5. In Pochhaniya, ploughs 10. In Deva-
gasana, ploughs 5. In—-to the north Jopdbasuya, house 1. In Bhata-
ghada 10, also house 1. in Badagopagada, 1. Also there—house for—7.
In Bhaétapad4at———(unintelligible) house 1,————house 1,
houses 5. Also in Nidova—cooking houses 5. In Nido—cook-
ing houses 3. In Bhaétapadi—houses for cooking—3. In the town of
Pidpi houses for—3. In the village of Sihadava—cattle-shed 1 (a line
unintelligible) are given. By Sagara and many other kings land has
been given; to whomsoever the land belongs for the time being to him
belongs the reward (of such gifts). Whoever resumes land, whether given
by himself or by others, becoming a worm in ordure, rots therein along
with his ancestors. In the era of the first king of the Pandava race 4328.

148 Dr. Mitra—Copper-plate Inscriptions from Sythet. [Ave.

“Dranseript of Inscription No. I.

Ql gaa: fears ae ai waaay aaiufey slearfehaee fea
a Sat sia Qar-

Ri WaMIG | dwsaia wT Asila Srwdehhar aaqagaeacha aM-
aratara

g) aa aw faocecitcfadizra acqadchtatuge: gentafne-
STUNT a A

a | safe frmifamneTtits ll dite afar: afer a freredrear STATE |
aut am- |

a) sufeifs urcadfeaafe | qe faaaqura: saa: @RUIMAATTT |
ausite aaitear- ;

C1 WUC Beat sel agras untwaae4wa avlafagaza-
ara |) aq yat-

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waneaie fat fenraiceafasr saga || AMIRHRUSTHR CAA ATA
su fuartaa-

c| wuRsagaat | arcaussita aetafacaatt ya aa a Waar faaa-
Aq || AAeat-

€| anuntcattaatinigeataateaicagadia: star, fadtsfaaar
frqust-
qo | WU atta canta ANaSs Ua! dlargaarera quat aaraar-
aaa tage .
Wl atasaaae fast warnearwe | wagaad faqrevad age |
Hara tare | |
qr | aawe fatad fanaa aT TUTAT AT: Il Ze Ra aus afatazat |
Sty TawS-
Qe | Wsceraaaiecy frend vieqnaigay| alvaanaeg wi fara
GASIRG VT F-
qe | Fa feuanfege faufiaa za ae Ga ASIST agauataata-
qaita-
Wat wrasfeatuaga fanfaaraaitaarctata: | wie: amate We
fea: aa-
Ai waa aw wtainitses Qaifa waaretufant wer ahaa aaa

fateaiar-

1880. ] Dr. Mitra—Oopper-plate Inscriptions from Sylhet. 149

yo! feavtqaetaa aula) afavaagareaneta ararenaa yw

GCdA-

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faatang-

Wid aeexfaatal qweaaqteasafedt ateqat alereanaite
teuzafadsit- i

RR | MIAtsaara: | aera waraley acqraaaat @awaaqawaa-
gat sata az-

RR ae aie das: I arty BM eIIFIA Taare aaa
TUZAT UA

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acl qauice | ats qa Yeast AAG | waza” arelay waar
watad il aTat-

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So; BRAN set Wo sagas Yea ce quay? set a wlgrana wee ©
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150 Dr. Mitra—Copper-plate Inscriptions from Sylhet. [Aua.

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ge | Gal a + Wafe Gees amaary afae Y agara Arqa|r y
aa a Braq-

y® | aratfearaa eS © Saisaita faataga | a TSS WSISTRSTHAT | FT +
waeraita 7S

ee | we agraaqe | aauarate faaraaratieera aes weg fadarar-
fe a1 ass We

ge | Weltasiiga afar | WEY qaataqaiwe i araiqaita dararerla

uraHifa we Y

uo| aarl fast +++ ale wey sae | fas X we qafe we
@ Wize Ger far arqaq ate

a ae el

1880. | Dr. Mitra—Copper-plate Inscriptions from Sylhet. 151

uy | fe eefeaze 2 fasift ant Greg afaar + fe we e faersagra eua-
faasifa m1 wey

ue | Rigt SPAT ALTTSET Atat-aeu sratat wat at <faygqya
gitar a fawar

¥2 | Bifaara we + S ea gales: Gea | aSiaager ear usta: aa-
tfefuaw ay

ws | Far wea Ty Aer FS ll Gant wani a a Beta aqui a fasrai
afadar fa
ay | Cf aS Tad lo TiwaHerfeqTEss vera |

Translation of No. LI.

Salutation to Narayana. May Kamalakanta (the husband of Kamala),
blue as the precious sapphire, (or) as the lightning-streaked cloud, and
arrayed in charming golden drapery, protect you !

2. The lord of nectariferous beam* prevails—he the lion that de-
stroys the herd of elephants formed of lofty and even more lofty masses
of darkness,—he the crest-jewel of Mahadeva.

3. In his race was born the crest of the earth. By his birth the
noble deeds (of his race) became radiant. He was the all-giving tree
(Kalpa tree) to the desires of all who bore arms: he was Gokula, the
protector of the earth.

4. His son, the noblest among wielders of arms, the Manddra moun-
tain in the great ocean of arms, by beauty and loveliness made most charm-
ing in appearance, was Narayana.

5. He was the receptacle of all arts, the home of all merit, the assem-
blage of valour, the substratum of civility, the ocean of gentlemauliness.
He was of prominent beauty, and of renowned deeds, the crest-jewel of the
universe.

6. Unto him was born as son Kesava Deva, the lord of mighty vigour,
the oppressor of enemies, a hero like Govinda,f great as the lord of trees,
(Kalpa tree,) whose feet were adorned with the crest-jewels of kings.

7. By his merits, delightful to hear, were attracted hosts of learned
Brahmans, who, having got all their desires gratified, thought not again of
their own native places.

8. When he ruled the earth kings never slept even at night, always
thinking what precious wealth they should present to him.

9. He, the great king, master of an army of innumerable war-boats,
infantry, cavalry, and lines of rutting elephants, made the earth glorious
by his fame, white as Kunda flowers.

* The moon, + This may be the proper name and KeSaya Deva the epithet,

152 Dr. Mitra—Copper-plate Inscriptions from Sylhet. [Ava.

10. He, the mighty, presented to the destroyer of Kafia, a lofty stone
temple, the discus on whose towering crest so cut up the clouds of heaven

that they fell in showers of rain.
11. By (his performance of) the rite of Tulapurusha* the Bréhmans

got so much wealth that they were covered with golden jewels, and became
like unto the all-giving tree of desire, (Kalpa tree).

12. From him descended, even as Rahuleya (Kartika) from Maheka,
(Siva), or the victor light from the son of Rohini (the moon), Isanadeva,
of glorious deeds, the moon among kings.

13. When his mighty army of infantry, cavalry and elephants issued
forth, on victory intent, the dust raised on earth eclipsed the glory of the
sun.

14. When his war-boats plied on the aqueous highway, the water
was so splashed in masses that it soothed his chariot horses, fatigued by
the oppressive rays of the sun.

15. That glorious king built, for the enemy of Madhukaitabha, a
mansion which licked the clouds, and the flags flowing on its towering
erests looked like flowers on aereal trees.

16. Under this lord of the earth there was an able ministert of the
name of Vanamali Kara, a brilliant light in the race of. Vaidyas.

17,18. By his advice this patent (sésana) for two ploughs of land
with its dwelling land and corn-fields was issued by the king. It should be
upheld by the kindly disposed, by the childless eldest prince, as also by the

virtuous wife of the dead prince and his infant son.
19. This was suggested by the commander-in-chief Viradatta, the

noble lord of battles, the valiant, and the patient, whose fame had spread

to the limits of the quarters of the earth.
20. Whoever resumes land, whether given by himself or another,

rots as a worm in ordure along with his ancestors.
21. This eulogium was composed by the learned Madhava, the noblest
of the Dasa tribe: may it last unchanged as long as the ocean, the hills and

the earth remain in existence. 1 Vaisakha, Samvat 17.

Transcript of Inscription No. LI.

Q) ge aa aaa aetwatwaa: ganafqcaqe g-
Ri ga avai: afagies afte: | Qe Faaeraara-
81 gawafaT | ifeca weny sameacttata: 1 azqay
8) gaarade: Staree Teaeaiiaie | weesas avaqe-
* A rite in which a donor weighs himself severally against gold, silver, rice &c.,

and presents those articles to Brahmans.
¢ Pattanika equal to the Patnaik of Orissa and Pattandyaka of other inscriptions.

— SS ee

1880. ] Dr. Mitra—Copper-plate Inscriptions from Sylhet. 153

Y) BFA THMNATS: | Taras: Wea] fale: sarawear-
-€ | daaxute: | “Paar Sel aFaAsAraa aqITaUN| as: | fate: a
© | wral waa awa TAA aerSeee ate: | araaqqerfaree-
=| gaat: aennal iaaarade: ll TATWAST Fegusrwat aiifa=
C1) matt geass | waa gratwatcanhy: Ta TH
Qo | aeq]ea: Il aasete sami facia Crea eaTaT aft aw-
QQ) aad | Wag saAqaacaiyg 4 aaa aT east il
Ql Bla at Wala Ainarear fag wiqata afusry |) afa-
QR | mam qicaeacay faautag waa | frdtaaraicag-
Qe | Taafsftaenaed gam! 8 USTs HUA aTaIR-
U1 fad! faawtgarc i a abet dafaacay frarfresaed
Qf | ASIST | GUL A YAIGAIMTI AIT Away FAT [eae II
RO | GeIAqaay Vay Riaategan: | AUsaT Tata Laiee
YS | RICH | AGIA ies SSIs: TAIT (ca Tifa l
ve | faraefadaat er factarrea: fataqrass: ll asyarary-
Re | quayettaquwemaqaaate: | canfaecar: gfcawuarTazR-
Rll Wa vayfadiwen: welqarsrzaatagaaaraaaiichre -
Rae | Taacecihawafg: emai gacaefan fafa
23 | WaaT ayazwres Haale ee staat; 1 GUT FIFA TAA
Re | qwMtastag aia ll we sfeshitosagiaa: wat aaqd-
R41 Wale ataaateatraad i se fase Wes HaaTATA | TIsTy-
R21 ST Slat Vas Sead i we SCEEEI aay Fy sea
Ro | BAY UA oat at Fewest | fay aay Tar weaqsy aa-
Ro | UTT th wre tanta wargate: atattan: ya aitaara: | fea-
RC | MSGAIAMAUINTS!: sara afsabayertie l @ant qcent ar ar
ao | Ba agai! a fasrai ‘wtader fuefa: ay waa ll vat safe faces fa
QQ dal starr <ragarada: | aaa saat facag arasatarea faat ata-
feag waall JY Fem x

The following papers were read—

1. On the Calcutta Water-supplies, past and present.—By A. PEDLER,
18; On thy 105 dls Cat cies

(Abstract. )

This paper was divided into three parts. The first was devoted to the
consideration of the quantity and quality of the old supply which ex-

se

154 A. Pedler—On the Calcutta Water-supplies. [ Ava.

isted before the introduction of the present hydrant water. In speaking of
the old supply it was assumed to be to a great extent confined to the various
tanks and shallow wells distributed throughout the town, for though there is
no doubt that the river water was used considerably by the inhabitants who
lived near the river, yet the greater number of the inhabitants, living as
they did at a distance from the river, must have depended for their supply
of household water on the tanks and wells nearest to them. As to the
quantity of the old supply, even if it be assumed that- it was possible to
store up the water which fell in the rainy season for use during the dry
months of the year, and granting that one-fifth of the rainfall found its
way into the tanks and shallow wells, then each inhabitant of the town
could not have had more than 6 or 7 gallons of fresh water daily, and an
inhabitant of some parts of the northern division could not have had more
than 3 or 4 gallons. The conclusion seems to be inevitable, that, at the
time when Calcutta depended for its water supply on its tanks and wells,
the inhabitants must have used the same water over and over again,
though of course without knowing it.

The state of affairs as to quality was even worse than as to quantity,
and the analyses which have been made show at the very lowest estimate that,
of the 200 samples of Calcutta tank and well waters examined, forty-four
per cent. were true sewages, twenty-two per cent. were dilute sewages,
twenty per cent. of the waters were contaminated with considerable quan-
tities of sewage, nine per cent. were “ dirty waters,” and about four or
five per cent. only were moderately safe waters. These last consisted
principally of the well kept tanks on the maidan, and two or three others
in the southern part of the town. A detailed examination of the results
also showed that the tanks and wells of the northern divisions are much
more impure, than those of the southern sections of the town.

The second part of the paper dealt with the present water supply of
Calcutta which consists of the Hooghly water pumped from the river at
Pultah, where it is collected in settling tanks, and after subsidence it is
filtered through sand and supplied to Calcutta.

It appears that the total daily supply of filtered and unfiltered water
in Calcutta for the past year was 8,556,025 gallons, equivalent to 19:92
gallons per head of population, or practically there were 20 gallons of water
available for domestic and sanitary purposes for each inhabitant. ‘This
though perhaps not an abundant supply is a fairly liberal one, and is very
much larger in quantity than the old supply from tanks and wells. It is,
however, not equal to the quantity allowed in most European towns, for
the average daily water supply of English towns is about 25 gallons per
head of population. In this country, however, it would appear that a more
liberal supply would be required than in a European climate, and it is

1880. ] A. Pedler—On the Water-supplies of Calcutta. 155

therefore proposed to double the present supply of filtered water, in which
ease Calcutta would receive a daily supply of 16,000,000 gallons, equivalent
to 37:2 gallons per head. If this proposal is carried out, the supply of
filtered water will be most abundant, and it will be amply sutflicient for
every possible want of the town so long as it keeps to its present dimen-
sions. |

From the analyses of the hydrant water, it appears that the Calcutta
water falls just outside the class of waters of “great organic purity,”
but that it is well within the class of waters of “fair organic purity.”

On comparing the hydrant water with the average composition of
wunpolluted upland surface water as given by Dr. Frankland, it is found that
it is scarcely so pure as unpolluted water should be, and it must therefore
be admitted that the Hooghly water has been slightly contaminated before
it reaches Pultah. The amount of contamination is, however, not very
great and, as pointed out before, the Calcutta water falls well within the
elass of waters of medium purity. ‘That the Calcutta water must be con-
taminated to a certain extent must be obvious to any one who is acquainted
with the customs of the inhabitants of India, and more particularly of
the inhabitants of villages and towns on the banks of the rivers. This
contamination is a drawback to the complete safety of the water supply,
for a water once contaminated is always more or less dangerous as a water
supply. It does not, however, at present appear to be possible to cut off
these sources of contamination, and the hydrant water though good is not
a pertect supply.

The third part of this paper was devoted to the consideration of the
extension of the present water supply. It has been proposed to collect the
water from the river within 8 or 4 miles of Calcutta, but it is shown
by the analytical numbers that water collected from these places would
be decidedly impure, and a strong opinion is expressed that the water
for the extension of the supply should be collected at Pultah as has been
hitherto done. i

Dr. Mitra remarked that the paper read would prove valuable to the
Municipal Commissioners of Caleutta, who were engaged in considering a
project for the doubling of the water-supply of the town, and hoped that
it would be published early. He was glad to notice that great emphasis
was laid on the inadequacy of the present supply, and on the necessity of
increasing it largely. He did net, however, entirely agree with Mr. Pedler
in the conclusions he had come to with regard to the extent of the water-
supply in former times. There was never any want of water; there was
enough and to spare. The sources of the supply were not limited to tanks
and wells, as statedin the paper: the river yielded the largest supply. Ail
along the western side of the town, the people depended mainly on the

156 Dr. Mitra—Remarks on the Water-supplies of Calcutta. [Aua.

river ; they bathed there, and drew their supply for domestic consumption
entirely from it, limiting the well-water available in their homes to washing
of floors and courtyards, and other coarse purposes. People in the centre
and the eastern parts also drew their supply of drinking water from the same
source. There was a great number of people who earned their living by ear-
rying river-water in banghis from house to house, and they not only carried
the water all over the town, but also to the suburbs, and water was purchased
at the home of the speaker, three miles to the east of the town, at two annas
per banghi load. For bathing and washing of clothes there were numerous
tanks, and no want of water was ever felt in the town. ‘The real difficulty
was the guality, and not the guantity. The well-water was, as it is now,
horribly stinking, and tanks frequently could not but contain very
filthy water, utterly unfit for potable purposes. River-water too was
muddy, and at times saline. The practice, therefore, was for all well-to-do
people to obtain the river-water in the month of January, during the second
quarter of the moon, and at ebb tides, and to store it in large jars for the
consumption of the whole year. Those who could not afford to do this,
drew their supplies fora fortnight at a time, on the 6th, 7th or 8th of the
moon during ebb-tide. The water in such cases was invariably clarified by
the addition of a small quantity of an emulsion prepared by rubbing the
nut of the Strichnos potatorum, (z2rmalz) on a stone, or by the addition
of a little alum. This promoted the precipitation of all earthy matter
contained in the water. This clarification was resorted to even by those
who drew their supplies daily, and in such eases the water was allowed to
stand for 24 hours before it wasdrunk. ‘The higher classes used porous
sandstone filters, for improving their drinking water; and many collected
rain water and stored it for use. It was a common practice among rich
Hindus and Europeans to set up large sheets on housetops, or on open
courtyards, to catch the rain-water in gumlows, whence it was transferred
to jars for use during the rainless months. ‘The practice ceased since the
importation of carbon filters from Europe. All these expedients were,
however, troublesome, and not at all accessible to the poorer classes, who
suifered greatly from unwholesome water. The filtered supply from Pultah
has, therefore, proved a great blessing to them. The complaint now
is that that supply is insufficient, and nothing short of a very large increase
will suffice to remove it. In this respect a common mistake is the accep-
tance of European data for the calculation of the wants of a tropical
population. The habits, customs and wants of the latter bear no relation
to those of the former. The loss sustained by excessive heat during the
greater part of the year, and the necessity of frequent washings and bath-
ings, are such that even the doubling of the European datum would not
cover them; and it is of the utmost importance that this should be fully

~1880.] R. Bhattacharya—On the Identity of Upello with Upaplava. 157

borne in mind by those who are engaged in devising a scheme for increas-
ing the water-supply of Calcutta. As shown by Mr. Pedler most of the
existing tanks were very offensive, and should be obliterated as soon as
possible, and this cannot be done until the pure supply is greatly increased,
for in a tropical climate nothing can be a greater calamity than scarcity
of water, and it is far better to have an abundance of impure water than
a scanty one of pure water. No man, however intelligent he may be, will,
when impelled by heat and thirst, abstain from impure water when he has
nothing better at command. Europeans in this country did not always
bear this fully in mind, and hence there was a great difference of opinion
among them, and the people of the town.

Mr. Waldie said that he had listened with much interest to the state-
ments that had been made. His own experiments, made many years ago,
just before the new processes for the examination of potable waters had
been published, were, notwithstanding the imperfection of previous pro-
cesses, quite in accordance with those obtained more fully and perfectly by
Mr. Pedler. He had found the tank waters he had examined generally
very bad; even the waters of the best maidan tanks were decidedly inferior
to the river water.

The paper will be published in full in the Journal, Part IT.

2. On the Identity of the place Upello near Delhi with Upaplava, men-
tioned in the Mahabharata.— By Panpit RISHIKESH BHATTACHARYA
of the Lahore Oriental College. Communicated by Dr. G. W. Letr-
NER, Principal, Government College, Lahore.

(Abstract. )

The author, after rejecting various conjectures, made by different per-
sons, as to where the kingdom of Virata (to which Upaplava belonged) was
situated, examines several passages of the Mahabharata, bearing on the
subject and comes to the conclusion, that it must have been situated to the
south-west of Delhi, and that, consequently, Upello on the Delhi and Agra
road may be the Upaplava of the Mahabharata.

Dr. Mitra took exception to the statement of the Pandit that the
people of Midnapur consider their district to have been Virata, and thought
that the Pandit must have confounded Midnapur with Dinajpur, which has
often been described as the Virata of the Mahabharata. Dr. Mitra was satis-
fied that neither the one nor the other had any claim to that name. Ac-
cording to the Mahabharata the Kurus went on a cattle-lifting expedition
to Virdta, and it would be absurd to suppose that they could do so from
Hastinapur, their capital, to either Midnapur or Dinajpur. Phonetic
similitude has led some people to identify Virdta with modern Berar, but

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that too was for the reason assigned untenable. The province must have
been close to Delhi, and Mr. Talboys Wheeler had taken it to be modern
Hariyana, noted for its superior cattle, or some place near it.

Dr. Hoernle said that General Cunningham, too, in his “ Ancient
Geography of India” had determined the position of Virata in the
south-west of Delhi, where the town of Bairat is now. He also thought
that on linguistic grounds there might be some difficulty in the proposed —
identification.

The paper will be published in full in the Journal, Part I.

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Tennant, Cou. J. F. Valuations of Coins which are now or have re-
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Tuomas, H, The Indian Swastika and its Western Counterparts. 8vo.,
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Caleutta. Indian Medical Gazette,—Vol. XV, Nos. 7 and 8.
Curran, W.—My Contribution towards a Clinical History of Hepatitis in
India. A personal Sketch. O'Neill, J7—A New Lithotomy Forceps. Roy,
G. C.—Remarks on the so-called Typho-malarial Fevers and their treatment.
Hume, T.—Dyressings. Iackeddie, G. D.—On Examination for Colour-
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Léman et d’autres lacs d’eau douce. Lombard, Dr. H. C.—lLa Maladie des
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Explosions par congélation. Candolle, C. de,—Sur une pluie jaune observé
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1878.

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No. 2. Quincke, G.—Ueber electrische Ausdehnung. Wiedemann, #.—Ueber
das thermische und optische Verhalten von Gasen unter dem einflusse elec-
trischer entladungen. Kuwndt, A. und Rontgen, W. C.—Ueber die electro-
magnetische Drehung der Polarisationsebene des Lichtes in den Gasen.
Exner, Fr—Zur Theorie der inconstanten galvanischen Elemente. Waitliner,
A.—Ueber die specifische Warme des Wassers. Reiss, WM. A, vow—Ueber
die specifische Warme der Gemische yon Essigsaure und Wasser. Meyer, O. L.
—Ueber eine veranderte Form meines Beweises fiir das Maxwell sche
Gesetz der energievertheilung. Weber, H. F.—Unter suchungen iiber die
Warmeleitung in Flissigkeiten. Hundt, A.—Ueber Anomale Dispersion im
glihenden Natriumdampf. Strowhal, V. und Barus, C_—Ueber eine einfache
methode der galvanischen Calibrirung eines Drahtes. Hagenbach, H.—Spreng-
wirkungen durch His. Holtz, W.—Ueber das Trichterventil in evacuirten
Rohren.

: . Beiblatter,—Vol, IV, No. 6.

London. Society of Arts,—Journal, Vol. XXVIII, Nos. 1489-1442,
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No. 1441. Annual General Meeting. Improved Lights for Light-houses.
Jamin Automatic Electric Lamp.
No. 1442. Annual Conference on Progress of Public Health.
London. Journal of Botany,—Vol. IX, No. 210, June 1880.

. Chemical News,—Vol. XLI, Nos. 10738-1074; Vol. XLII, Nos.
1075-1077.

No. 1073. Crookes, W7.—On a Fourth State of Matter. Post, Dr. J.—On the
composition and analysis of the Weldon Mud. Sern, X—Some Remarks
on Siemens-Martin Steel. Vortmann, G.—Detection and Determination of
Chlorine in presence of Bromine and Iodine.

No. 1074. A New Patent Bill. Mott, H. A.—The Absorption of Sugar by
Bone-black.

No. 1075. Dewar, J.—On the Lowering of the Freezing-point of Water by
Pressure. Gladstone, J. H. and Tribe, A.—The Aluminium-lodide Reaction.
Pasteur.—On Virulent Diseases, and especially on the Disease commonly called
Chicken Cholera. Artificial Indigo.

No. 1076. Dewar, J.—On the Critical Point of Mixed Vapours. Leeds, Prof.
A. &.—On the Formation of Hydrogen Peroxide and Ozone during the Action
of Moist Phosphorus upon Air.

No. 1077. Nickels, B.—Detection of Cotton-seed Oil in Admixture with Olive.

Dwight, G. S.—Strong’s Water-gas System.

Entomologist, Vol. XIII, No. 205, June 1880.
Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine,—Vol. XVII, No. 193, June

1880.
Messenger of Mathematics,—Vol. X, No. 2, June 1880.

——. Annals and Magazine of Natural History,—Vol. V, No. 30,
June 1880.

Nineteenth Century, No. 40, June 1880.

Numismatic Chronicle,—Vol. XX, No. 77, Part 1 for 1880.
Greenwell, Rev. Canon.—On Some Rare Greek Coins. Colson, Dr. Al.—Notice
sur une monnaie de 'Tarente au revers de laquelle on a cru voir un personnage
plagant un fer au pied @un cheval. Thomas, H.—The Indian Swastika and
its Western Counterparts. Gardner, P.—Ares as a Sun-god and Sclar Sym-
bols on the Coins of Macedon and Thrace. Creeke, Major A. B.—On Silver

Coins of Hanred and Kthelred II., of Northumbria. Pownall, Rev. Canon A.—
Coins of the Stafford Mint.

London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine,—Vol.
IX, No. 58, June 1880.

Clausius, Prof. k.—On the Behaviour of Carbonic Acid in relation to Pressure,
Volume and Temperature. Zong, J. H.—On the Diffusion of Liquids.
Ridout, R. H.—On some Effects of Vibratory Motion in Fluids; on the attrac-
tion due to the Flow of Liquids from an expanded Orifice; and Laboratory
Notes. Wild, H—Complete Theory of the Bifilar Magnetometer and new
Methods for the Determination of the Absolute Horizontal Intensity of the
Harth’s Magnetism as well as of the Temperature and Induction-coefficients
of magnets. Herschel, J.—On the Determination of the Acceleration of Gra-

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vity for Tokio, Japan. Challis, Prof—Supplement to Researches on the
Hydrodynamical Theory of the Physical Forces, including a Theory of the
Microphone.

London. Publishers’ Circular,—Vol. XLIII, Nos. 1026-27.

Journal of Science,—Vol. II, No. 78, June 1880.
Insanity and its difficulties. Zeeds, 4d. R.—The History of Antozone and
Peroxide of Hydrogen. Morris, C—The Origin of Falling Motion.

New Haven. The American Journal of Science,—Vol. XIX, Nos. 112
and 113, April and May 1880.

No. 112. Hunt, T. Si—History of some Pre-Cambrian Rocks in America and
Europe. Venill, A. E—Synopsis of the Cephalopoda of the North-Eastern
Coast of America. Sherman, O. T.—Observations on the Height of Land and
Sea Breezes, taken at Coney Island. Lockyer, J. N—New Method of Spec-
trum Observation. Carmichael, H.—Presentation of Sonorous Vibrations by
means of a Revolving Lantern. Rowland, H. A. and Barker, G. F.—Efficiency
of Edison’s Electric Light.

No. 118. Hunt, T. S—Chemical and Geological Relations of the Atmosphere.
Penfield, S. I.—Apatites containing Manganese. Hunt, T. S.—Recent forma-
tion of Quartz and Silicification in California, Photographic Spectra of Stars.
Cooke, J. P.—Atomic Weight of Antimony.

Paris. Annales de Chimie et de Physique,—Vol. XX, May and June 1880.

May. Ogier, J—Recherches thermiques sur les combinaisons de lhydrogene
avec le phosphore, l’arsenic et le silicium. Riemsdyk, A. D. van.—Le pheno-
méne de V’éclair dans les essais d’or et l’influence exercée sur ce phénoméne
par les métaux du groupe du platine. Bourgoin, E.—H/lectrolyse de Vacide
malonique. Pellet, H.—EH’tudes sur le réle du noir animal dans la fabrication
du sucre. Cochin.—Sur la fermentation alcoolique. Govi,—Les muroirs ma-
giques des Chinois. Nouvelles expériences sur les miroirs chinois. Ayrton,
W. £. et Perry, J—Sur les miroirs magiques du Japan. Bertin, A. and
Duboseg, J—Production artificielle des miroirs magiques.

Comptes Rendus,—Vol. XC, Nos. 23-26; Vol. XCI, No. 1.

No. 23. Cahow's, A. et Htard, A.—Sur les dérivés bromés de la- nicotine.
Boiteaux, P.—Résultat des traitements effectués sur les vignes atteintes par le
Phylloxera. Cabanelias, G—Mesure directe de la résistance intérieure des
machines magnéto-électriques en mouvement. Pothier, H—Transformations
des poudres de guerre dans les étuis métalliques des cartouches d’infanterie.
Magnier de la Source, L.—Sur Voxyde de fer colloidal. Marguerite, P—Sur
un nouveau sulfate d’alumine (sulfate d’alumine sesquibasique). MJégnin.—
Sur une modification particuliére d’un Acarien parasite.

No. 24. Wurtz, A—Sur la papaine. Contribution 4 Vhistoire des ferments
solubles. Hésert.—Histoire géologique du canal dela Manche. Quatrefages,
A, de.—Craniologie des races négres africaines. Races non dolichocéphales,
Chaveau, A.—Nouvelles expériences’ sur la résistance des moutons algériens
au sang derate. Decquerel, H.—Recherches expérimentales sur la polarisation
rotatoire magnétique dans les gaz. Hennessey, H.—Sur la figure de la planéte
Mars. Certes, 4.—Sur Vanalyse micrographique des eaux.

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No. 25. Faye.—Sur la réduction des observations du pendule au niveau de la
mer. Janssen, J.—Sur les effets de renversement des images photogra-
phiques par la prolongation de action lumineuse. Berthelot.—Sur la chaleur
de formation des oxydes de l’azote et de ceux du soufre. Auggins.—Sur le
spectre lumineux de eau. Faye.—Rapport sur un Mémoire de M. Peirce
concernant la constance de la pesanteur a Paris et les corrections exigées par
les anciennes déterminations de Borda et de Biot. iiiot—Sur le probléme
de Vinversion. Sebert.—Sur un appareil destiné A enregistrer la loi du
mouvement d’un projectile soit dans ’dme d’une bouche & feu soit dans
milieu resistant. Darboux, G.—Sur les transcendantes qui jouent un role im-
portant dans la théorie des perturbations planétaires. orcrand, de.—Sur un
hydrate d’iodure de méthyle.

No. 26. Desains, P. et Curie, P.—Recherches sur ia détermination deg lon-
gueurs d’onde des rayons calorifiques & basse température. Berthelot.—Sur
quelques relations généralles entre la masse chimique des éléments et la
chaleur de formation de leurs combinaisons. Milne-Hdwards, A.—Sur une
nouvelle espéce du genre Dasyure, provenant de la Nouvelle-Guinée. Qua-
trefages, A. de, et Lamy, L,—Craniologie des races négres africaines ; races
dolichocéphales. Chauveaw, A.—Des causes qui peuvent faire varier les résul-
tats de linoculation charbonneuse sur les moutons algériens. Influence de
la quantité des agents infectants. Applications 4 la théorie de ’impunité.
Mares, H.—Résultats obtenus dans le traitement des vignes par le sulfocar-
bonate de potassium. Gostinsky.—Sur une nouvelle forme de galvanométre.
Sebert.—Sur un appareil destinéa enregistrer la loi au mouvement d'un
projectile soit dans ’ame d’une bouche a feu soit dans un milieu résistant.
Te Bon, G. et Noel, G.—Sur lexistence dans la fumée du tabac, d’acide
prussique, d'un alcaloide aussi toxique que la nicotine et de divers principes
aromatiques. Bonchardat, G.—Sur la transformation de Vamyléne et du
valéryléne en cyméne et en carbures benzéniques. Diewlafait, L.—La zinc:
son existence a l’état de diffusion compléte dans toutes les roches de la forma-
tion primordiale et dans l’eaux des mers de tous les ages. Peuch, F—Sur la
transmissibilité de la tuberculose par le lait.

No. 1. Janssen.—Sur la photographie de la chromosphére. Chevrewl.—Sur la
vision des couleurs. Berthelot.—Sur quelques relations générales entre la
masse chimique des éléments et la chaleur de formation de leurs combinai-
sons, Thalén, R.—Svr les raies brillantes spectrales du métal scandium.
Troost, L.—Sur la densité dela vapeur @iode. Nilson, L. F.—Sur les poids
atomique et sur quelques sels caractéristiques de ’ytterbium. JIfquel, P.—
Des bactéries atmosphériques.

London. Revue Critique,—Vol. IX, Nos. 24-28.
Revue des deux Mondes,—Vol. XXXIX, No. 4; Vol. XL,

Nos. 1 and 2.

No. 1. Cantacuzéne-Altiert, O. la princesse.—Le Mensonge de Sabine. I, Va-
cherot, E.—\es nouveaux Jacobins. Boissier, G.—L’empereur Julien,
d@apreés de récentes publications, Fowillée, A.—La morale contemporaine. I.
La morale de Péyolution et du Darwinisme en Angleterre. Blerzy, H.—
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London. Journal des Savants,—June 1880.
Franck, A.—Histoire de la philosophie en France. Quatrefages, A, de.—Les
erfnes finnois. Zévégue—L’expression musicale. Gruyer, A.—Le Jouer
de violon, par Raphaél.

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CONTENTS.

Page
Monthly General Meeting for November ............060 2. seseerseseeesee 167
PRESCH EAM, Sex ch sarks bn ccee meres’ pop an dyes te omeabas cane vee Vag ienaeeeeEe 168
Puerto be. aVrember ss v2. Se hie ic ate cea cake tec eds Obie Pena Re RaS hans 169
Proceedings of Blochmann Memorial Committee.................00... 170
Exhibition of Afghan helmet.. Sidiacoastesates searey Lethe cette pete a ae
Dr. Mitra on Budha Gaya Inscriptions. BT TT RS Fey eer re 172

Papers—
1. On some experiments instituted to supply all the lines terminat-
ing at the Calcutta Telegraph Office with currents tapped from
the main current produced by a Dynamo-Electric Machine.—
By Lovis Scuwenpirr, M. I. C. E., &e.. ale
2. Ona Celt of the Paleolithic type, found at Thandiani, Punjab,
September 10th, 1880, by Charles Massy-Swynnerton. ages the

Rey, Cartes SwYNNERTON . 175
3. Contributions to the History, “of Bundelkhand. —By ah

Sacre MOE CASA) SS inci cccpananv nee shee enter eat icine & ab.
4, English Translations of some Baloochi Poems. Part II.-—By

M.: Lonaworts - DAs) OC. 8.6 tice t ee csneanv ces eekeateetw ees oe Le
5. Coins Supplementary to Thomas’ Chronicles of the Pathan

Kings of Delhi. Part II. With two Plates—By Cuas. J.

Ropeers, Principal of the Normal College, Amritsar (Abstract) 1b.
6. Copper Coins of Akbar. With two plates. —By Cuas. J. Rop-

ars, Principal Normal College, Amritsar (Abstract)............. ab.

7. Notes on and Drawings of the Animals of various Indian Land
Mollusea (Pulmonifer a).—By Lirvt.-Con. H. H. Gopwin-
Austen, F. R.8., F. Z. 8. (Abstract) .. ab.

8. Ona Species of Tp ochalopterum from Travancore. —By Ww. T,
BuaAnrorn, t's B:S,\ (Abstract) tags Seven cones poke eto ohare des 184

9. On a new Species of Papilio from South India, with remarks
on the Species allied thereto.—By J. Woop-Mason (Abstract) 7b.
10. Description of the Female of Hebomoia Oe we oe J.

‘Woop-Mason Man pinch ie BM):
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Now Ready.
LE ANTIQUITIES 0 F ORISSA,
BY ‘s

RA‘JENDRALALA MITRA, LL. D._

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*,* Containing detailed descriptions of the Temples of Bhuvaneswara
Puri and Canarac. It extends to about 210 pages folio, and i is illustrated —
with sixty aa ee ——

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL.

oR NovEMBER, 1880.

I

The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was
held on Wednesday, the 8rd November, at 9 o’clock P. M.

H. B. Mepatcort, Esq., F. R. S., in the Chair.

The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.

The following presentations were announced—

1. From the British Museum,—A Catalogue of the Greek coins ia
the British Museum (5 Vols.), edited by R. S. Poole.

2. From the Society of Telegraph Hngineers,—Catalogue of Books
and Papers relating to Electricity, Magnetism, the Hlectrie Telegraph &c.,
including the Ronalds Library, by Sir F. Ronalds, edited by A. J. Frost.

3. From the Zoological Society of London,—Catalogue of the Libra-
ry of the Zoological Society of London.

4. From the Marine Survey Department,—(1) General Report on
the operations of the Marine Survey of India, for the year 1878-79, (2)
Return of Wrecks and Casualties in Indian Waters for the year 1879, and
(8) Charts of the Samuie Strait, Langsuen Roads and Approaches, cad
Lacon Roads.

5. From the St. Xavier’s College Observatory,—Observations taken
at the Observatory from January to June 1880.

6. From the Home, Revenue and Agricultural Department,—A
Grammar of the Eastern Hindi compared with the other Gaudian Lan-
guages, by Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle, (2) The Life of Alexander Duff, D. D.,
LL. D. (2 Vols.), by G. Smith, and (3) The Cave Temples of India, by
James Fergusson and James Burgess.

7. Fyrom the Sanskrit Text Society,—(1) Vaiiina Sttra, the Ritual
of the Atharvaveda, edited, with Critical Notes and Indices, by Dy. R.
Garbe, and (2) Vardhamana’s Ganaratna Mahodahi, with the Author's

168 Presentations. [ Nov.

Commentary, Part I, edited, with Critical Notes and Indices, by Julius
Eggeling.

8. From the Authors,—(1) The Kings of Kashmir, by Jogesh
Chandra Dutt, (2) Kaiser Akbar, Ein Versuch tiber die Geschichte In-
diens in sechzehnten Jahrhundert (Part I), by Graf. F. A. Noer, (3) A
Brief Account of the Early History and Antiquities, Castes and Traditions
of the Hamirpur District, by V. A. Smith, and (4) On the mode of Occur-
rence and Distribution of Diamonds in India, by V. Ball.

9. From the Boston Society of Natural History,—Contributions to
the Geology of Hastern Massachufetts, by W. O. Crosby.

10. From the University of Athens:—(1) Catalogus Systematicus
Herbarii Theodori G. Orphanidis, Fase. I, Leguminosz, by Th. de Held-
reich, and (2) Synopsis numorum veterum qui in Museo numismatico
Athenarum publico adservantur, by A. Postolacea.

11. From the Munich Academy of Sciences,—Ignatius von Loyola
an der Rémischen Curie, by A. von Druffel.

12. From the Madras Government,—(1) A classified Index to the
Sanskrit MSS. in the Palace at Tanjore (Part III), by A. C. Burnell, and
(2) some lead coins found in the Kistna District.

13. From the Maharaja of Kashmir,—2 copies of Chapters 5—21 of
the Prayaschitta Bhag, with commentary.

14, From the Department of the Interior, U. 8. America,—Report
of the U. S. Geological Survey of the Territories, Vol. XII.

15. From the Society of Agriculture &c. of Lyons,—Monographie
Géologique des Anciens Glaciers et du Terrain Erratique de la partie
moyenne du Bassin du Rhone (Atlas), by A. Falsan and E. Chantre.

16. From the Foreign Department,—Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh, by
Major J. Biddulph.

17. From R. L. Jack, Esq.,—Geological Sketch Map of the District
between Charter Towers Goldfield and the Coast.

18. From the Meteorological Reporter to the Government of India,—
Report of the Meteorology of India in 1878.

19. From the Government, N. W. P.,—(1) Mathura, a District
Memoir (second edition), by F. 8. Growse, and (2) The Ramayana of Tulsi
Das, Books ILI—VI, by F. S. Growse.

20. From the Secretary of State for India,—Vols. 59, 60 and 62 of
the Hakluyt Society’s publications—(1) The Voyages and Books of John
Davis the Navigator, (2) The Natural and Moral History of the Indies, by
Father Joseph de Acosta, Vol. I, (8) The Commentaries of the Great
Afonso Dalboquerque, Vol. IIT.

21. From the Trustees Indian Museum,—Indian Museum. Annual
Report, Lists of Accessions, aud Selected Extracts of Minutes, April 1879
to March 1880.

1880. | Election of Members. 169

22. From the Batavian Observatory,—Observations made at the
Maenetical and Meteorological Observatory at Batavia, Vol. IV.

The following Gentlemen duly proposed at the September meeting of
the Council were balloted for and elected Ordinary Members—

J. Lieut. R. R. N. Sturt, B.S. C., proposed by G. Hughes, Esq,,
C. S., seconded by P. Johnstone, Hsq., C. S.

2. Babu Kshiroda Chandra Raya, proposed by Dr. R. L. Mitra,
seconded by A. Pedler, Hsq.

3. Rev. Charles Swinnerton, propesed by H. B. Medlicott, Esq,.,
seconded by Alex. Pedler, Esq. .

4. Babu Pramatha Nath Bose, B. Se., F. G.8., proposed by H. B.
Medlicott, Hsq., seconded by W. T. Blanford, Esq.

The PrEesiDENT announced to the meeting that, in accordance with
Rule 7, the following Gentlemen had been balloted for and elected Ordi-
nary Members by the Council during the recess—

1. RK. W. Nicholson, Esq.

2. Lieut.-Col. M. G. Clerk.

3. Babu Benod Behary Mullick.

4, Babu Sib Chunder Nag.

5. IKhalif M. Hassan, Khan Bahadur.

6. E. M. Sage, Hsq., proposed by R. Gordon, Esq., seconded by A.
Pedler, Esq.

7. RB. C, Lees, Hsq., proposed by L. Schwendier, Hsq., seconded by A.
Pedler, Esq.

The elections were confirmed by the general meeting.

The following Gentlemen are candidates for ballot at the next meeting.

1. W. Griezson Jackson, Esq., C. S., Mirzapur, proposed by H.
Rivett-Carnac, Esq., C. 8., seconded by Dr. G. Thibaut.

2. Dr. Kirton, proposed by Dr. J. M. Coates, seconded by J. Wood-
Mason, Esq.

3. RK. D. Oldham, Esq., A. R. 8. M., proposed by H. B. Medlicott,
Hsq., seconded by W. T. Blanford, Esq.

4, Moulvie Dilawur Hasein Ahmad, proposed by Moulvie Kabir-
uddin Ahmad, seconded by A. Pedler, Hsq.

5. J. R. Napier, Esq., proposed by L. Schwendler, Esq., seconded by
A. Pedler, Esq.

6. HW. McCann, Hsq., D. Sc. etc., proposed by Dr. Hoernle, seconded
by A. Pedler, Esq. |

The Secretary reported that Dr. D. O’Connell Raye and Mr. HE.
O’Brien had withdrawn from the Society, and that Pandit Mohanlal
Vishnulal Pandia had compounded for his future subscriptions.

170 Proceedings of Blochmann Memorial Commitéee. [ Nov.

The Srcrerary reported that 4 gold coins from the Collector of
Budaun had been acquired under the Treasure Trove Act.

With reference to the notice, at the May meeting, of works sanction-
ed for publication in the Bibliotheca Indica, the Secretary announced that
Dr. L. Schroeder had been permitted to withdraw his edition of the
Maitrayani Samhita and that in its place the Apastamba Sutra had been
substituted, to be edited by Dr. R. Garbe. The Apastamba Sutra is a very
rare and important work connected with the Black Yajur Veda. It con-
sists of three sections, divided into 80 chapters. The first section of 24
chapters contains the Srauta Sutras. It is this section that will be edited
by Dr. Garbe. The section on the Dharmastitras has already been edited
by Dr. G. Biihler, and that on the Grihya Sitras is in the hands of Dr.
Eggeling. Dr. Garbe’s edition will give the text accompanied by the
commentary of Rudradatta. The edition will be based on a collation of
two or three complete and several fragmentary manuscripts of the work.

The Secrerary read two letters from Major J. Waterhouse regarding
the proceedings of the Blochmann Memorial Committee in England.

Major Waterhouse states in a letter, dated July 16th, that Mr. W. T.
Blanford and himself had consulted with Mr. Grote, and that they had
visited the studios of various sculptors in London. They had decided on
entrusting the commission to Mr. E. R. Mullins, who has already executed a
bust of the late Mr. Woodrow, which is now in the Calcutta University.
Mr. Mullins is to receive one hundred guineas for making the bust of the
late Mr. Blochmann. In a further letter received from Major Waterhouse,
dated September 8th, he states that the model of the bust is making satis-
factory progress, and Mr. Mullins had, in the opinion of Mr. Blanford and
himself, secured a very fair likeness of the late Mr. Blochmann.

1. The Philological Secretary exhibited some gold and silver coins
forwarded by Mr. H. Rivett-Carnac, and read some remarks by him on the
same.

Mr. Rivett-Carnac says—

“T have the pleasure of forwarding for the inspection of the Society
2 silver and 4 gold coins recently dug up near Jellalabad, and procured for me
there by Lieut. A. Durand of the Central India Horse.

“The two large silver coins are of Kucratides of a well known but I
believe not common type. It will be noticed that they are in beautiful
preservation.

“The other two silver coins are of Antiochus; on the obverse will be
noticed what seems to be a ‘ horned Horse.’

“T have also obtained a gold coin of Antiochus of the same type anda
gold one of Euthydemus which are both sent for the inspection of the
Society. These coins are in beautiful preservation.

1880. } Exhibition of Afghén helmet. 171

“7 should be glad to know whether all these coins are known to the
Society. Unfortunately I have no books with me to which I can refer.

“‘T have mentioned 2 silver coins of each but I send one only, as there
is no object in sending two exactly the same.

“ By this opportunity I also send 2 gold Roman Coins feund by Col.
Berkeley, Political Agent at Rewah, in the Maharajah’s subterranean Trea-
sury. ‘The one appears to be of Septimus the other of Pertinax. Col.
Berkeley has very kindly permitted me to submit them for the Society’s
inspection; and I am confident that his courtesy in the matter will be
much appreciated by the members.

“Tn continuation of former correspondence I now send 2 gold coins,
apparently Roman, found by Colonel Berkeley, Political Agent, Sutna, in
the subterranean Treasury of the late Maharajah of Rewah after his death.

“Col. Berkeley to whom the credit of the discovery of these interesting
coins is due, is good enough to desire that the Asiatic Society should have
an opportunity of seeing these coins, and he would wish for the opinion of
Dr. Rudolf Hoernle and General Cunningham thereon.”

2. The Philological Secretary exhibited a photograph of 3 Indo-
Aryans, sent for the inspection of the Society by Dr. G. W. Leitner.

3. The Secretary exhibited an Afghan helmet sent for the inspec-
tion of the Society by Lieut. R. C. Temple, and read a letter descriptive
of it.

“T have the pleasure to send herewith a brass helmet sent down from
Kabul by an officer at the front.

“It has no marks of age about it except the polish of the brass and the
date on the plate which I read as 882 or 677 according to which side of
the rim of the plate is considered uppermost. H. 882 would give us A. D.
1478 cire. and H. 677 cire. A. D. 1280. I should not be inclined from its
appearance to ascribe this age to the helmet.

“The chain appears to be English and not to belong to it.

**T read the plate thus inside

5! 9s)! co iladity? Sol
and round the rim
Wis ulblet (4) 59 SIE yl
date AAP”

Mr. Westland pointed out that the helmet was so distinctly modern
and European in shape (regular Ellwood pattern), that there must be the
gravest doubts as to its antiquity. The ornamentation too was the regular
British idea of a lion-face and had nothing oriental about it: The only
argument for its antiquity was the fact that in a factory-mark upon it the
figures 8, S, 2, appeared in contiguity, but they might represent any num-

172 Dr. Mitra—Buddha- Gaya Inscriptions. [Nov.

ber of other things besides the Hijra date. In fact, even taking them as
intended for a date, there was another unaccounted for figure beside the
2, namely anf or an alif. He could not pretend himself to any knowledge
of such subjects, but he had been informed on enquiry that writers of
Arabic characters sometimes reversed their usual practice of writing the
figures thus—units, tens, hundreds, thousands, and wrote them like the
English, vzz., thousands, hundreds, tens, and units. And if the figures upon
this inscription were thus read, it gave the date 1288, exactly twelve years
ago. .
He also pointed out that the inscription referred the helmet to the
“ arsenal of the Sultan of Kabul,” and said that it was very doubtful if a
potentate existed, except in recent times, who could claim that title.

A few remarks were made by several other members present on the
manufacture and present appearance of the helmet, and the general opinion
seemed to be that it was of very modern manufacture.

4. The Philological Secretary read a letter from Mr. C. Girdlestone
regarding the legend on Mr. Gennoe’s medal, which was exhibited at the
June meeting.

Mr. Girdlestone writes—

“JT have just been looking through the Asiatic Society’s Proceedings
(No. VI), for June 1880, and it appears to me that the legend on Mr.
Gennoe’s medal quoted at page 100 means to convey the words Sri 2 (do)
Swami Ji Jalh (or Jalhu).

“The use of Sri with a numeral after it to express the degree of honour
is common in Nepal. Thus in official parlance the Maharaj Adhiray (Sove-
reign) of Nepal is Sri Panch (5) and the Prime Minister Sri.Tin (3). The
British Resident is also sometimes addressed as Sri Tin.”

Dr. Hoernle remarked that he was glad to see that Mr. Girdlestone’s
reading of the inscription on the medal was a confirmation of that already
given by Dr. Mitra and himself at the meeting of June.

5. A letter was read from Dr. Mitra forwarding an extract from
a letter from General Cunningham on the locale of the two Buddha-Gaya
inscriptions noticed in the Proceedings for April last.

Dr. Mitra says—

“Tn my remarks on the two Buddha-Gaya inscriptions, published in the
Proceedings for April last, there is an omission which should be supplied.
When I exhibited the inscriptions I knew not the exact locale where they
had been found. General Cunningham has now favoured me with the infor-
mation. In a letter, dated Simla, August 30, he says: ‘The two inscrip-
tions which: I brought from Buddha Gaya and which you have translated,
were found in different places. The larger one was found in the mound to
the north of the Taradevi temple, where an excavation was made to furnish

PLATE VIII.
Proceedings, Asiatic Society, 1880.

PHOTOZINGOGRAPHED AT THE SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, OALOUTTA,

FACSIMILE OF AN INSCRIPTION FROM BUDDHA GAYA,

PLATE VIII.

PHOTOZINOOGRAPHED AT THE SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, OALOUTTA,

1880.] Use of a Dynamo-Electric Machine for Telegraph purposes. 173

bricks for the Burmese dwelling house. The other smaller inscription was
found on the opposite side of the great temple; that is to the south of it.
But neither of the inscriptions was 7 situ.’ The statement that the
inscriptions when found were not ém sitw is of great importance. It shows
that they had been brought from somewhere else, and unless this is ad-
mitted the cave mentioned in one of them would be inexplicable. It is
certain that the rubbish mounds did not exist when the cave was cut, and it
could not therefore have been a cutting in a heap of earth, even if it could
be assumed that such a cutting would be deemed worthy of an inscription.
The record gives thé locale of the cave to have been Jayapura, the site
of which I have not yet been able to identify. A reduced facsimile of the
record is annexed for ready reference. (Plate VIII.)”

The Narurat History Srcrerary then exhibited the skin and skull
of a male tailless rat which had been sent to the Society by Dr. J. E. T.
Aitchison. The animal is recognized as the Lagomys rufescens which was
first described by Dr. Gray from Afghanistan, and which was afterwards
rediscovered by Mr. W. T’. Blanford near Kohrad north of Ispahan in Persia,
where it lives at elevations exceeding 8,000 feet. The present specimen was
obtained by Dr. Aitchison at an elevation of from 11,000 to 12,000 feet
amongst boulders on the Safed Koh Range, Mt. Sika Ram in the Kuram
valley.

The following papers were read —

1. On some experiments instituted to supply all the lines terminating at
the Calcutta Telegraph Office with currents tapped from the main cur-
rent produced by a Dynamo-Hlectric Machine.—By Lovuts ScHwenp-
tee, Hisq,, Mor CC: i., &e.

Mr. Schwendler gave an outline of his paper explaining the latest
experiments he had made in order to prove the practicability of his new
method of supplying signalling currents. This method was published in
the Journal of the Asiatic Society, Part II, Vol. XLIX, 1880, and in the
- Philosophical Magazine, No. 52, December 1879, Supplement. After certain
incidental delays, the final trial came off on Sunday, the 29th August, 1880.

One of the Dynamo-Hlectric Machines, employed for lighting the sheds
at Howrah Railway Station, produced the required strong main current, and
the signal currents were conveyed from Howrah to the Calcutta Telegraph
Office by an ordinary Telegraph line about 2 miles in length.

In all eleven long main circuits were supplied with telegraph currents
in this manner, vz., the lines to Bombay, Madras, Kurrachee and Ran-
goon. ‘The currents sent from Calcutta, and the currents received at the
out-stations were measured, and by it the satisfactory result was established
that in all the lines, even in the longest, the tapped or machine currents were

174 Use of a Dynamo-Electric Machine for Telegraph purposes. (Nov.

considerably stronger than the currents produced by the ordinary signalling
batteries at present in use.

The trial lasted for 8 hours under the direct supervision of Mr. C. B.
P. Gordon, the Superintendent of the Bengal Division, who carefully watch-
ed the working of the office. The traffic was sicespaucted with regularity in
the ordinary manner.

At the beginning of the trial the main current was produced through
an iron wire of 0:21” diameter, offering a resistance of 1:5 B. A. U. This
main current was carefully measured, and found to be equal to 86801 milli-
oersteds. At the end of the trial the main current was produced through
the are of an electric lamp, giving a light of about 6000 Standard candles
when measured under an angle of 45° with the horizon. In this latter
case the main current amounted to 45706 milli-oersteds.*

‘I'he total current tapped from the main current (when all the eleven
lines were simultaneously sending) equalled 129 milli-oersteds, quite an
insignificant fraction of the large main current.

Mr. Schwendler stated that this practical trial of the method had shown
that it was perfectly reliable, and no practical Telegraph Engineer would
doubt that it was very convenient to produce the currents in this manner.
It was therefore under consideration to introduce the system at the Calcutta
office. Mr. Schwendler concluded his paper with some suggestions for utiliz-
ing the larger portion of the current not required for Telegraph purposes,
saying: “ The useful work for the main current at night would most conve-
niently take the shape of an electric light to illuminate very efficiently
the Signal-office. The electric light would produce at least 50 times less heat
than if the same quantity of light was obtained by combustion, and this is
no doubt a great advantage in a hot climate like that of India. During the
day time the main current might be used for pulling the punkhas, lifting mes-
sages, or, more generally, for working a pneumatic system of despatching
messages between the Head Telegraph office and local centres in Calcutta.
Tf Calcutta had the good fortune to possess a colder climate, it might be sug-
gested to use the heat developed by the main current in a coil of iron wire, for
warming rooms. It would then only be necessary to lead the wire along
the walls in a manner similar to that in which rooms are often heated by hot
water pipes; only the electrical method would be far more economical. The
quantity of heat given out by sucha wire is by no means small. In one case
it was equal to 20473 Q ergs per second equal to 488 Grm. degree-centigrade
per second. ‘This is about equal to the heat produced by an ordinary Ger-

* One Oersted is equal to one Weber per second,
One Milli-Oersted is equal to one Millie Weber per second,

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aguiasgeS ‘uojrauudaLsy Asswpy sisuoag SaatvyD dg ‘qolung ‘wuovipuoyy 7p pesanorsip ‘2g Z rtyjuoanjog ay fo 77a)

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1880. ] V. A. Smith— History of Bundelkhand. 175

man Stove consuming 6 tbs of coals per hour, supposing that the loss of
heat when coals burn under a steam boiler is about four times greater than
when they burn in a German Stove. It appears therefore that the heat
emanating from the wire should suffice to keep a moderately sized and
ordinarily ventilated room at a comfortable temperature even when situated
in the highest latitude.”

The paper will be published in full in Part II of the Journal.

2. On a Celt of the Paleolithic type, found at Thandiani, Punjab,
September 10th, 1880, 6y Charles Francis Massy-Swynnerton. By the
Rry. CHARLES SWYNNERTON.

This unmistakeable relic of the Stone Age is especially interesting as
being, I believe, only the second of its kind which has yet been discovered.
in the Punjab.

The first was found in the vicinity of Attock by Mr. W. Theobald,
and a description of it appeared in the Records of the Geological Survey,
Vol, XIII, Part 3.

A front and a side view of the present specimen, exactly the size of
the original, are given in Plate IX. The stone out of which it was chip-
ped is black close-grained limestone. Its weight is thirteen tolas. Its
edges and angles are considerably worn from the effect of soft pressure, or
from exposure. It was found by my little son. The peculiarity of the
shape of this interesting curiosity attracted his fancy in one of his daily
walks, and he brought it back with him to the bungalow as a plaything,
not of course knowing its nature or its value.

It should be added that the geological formation of the locality in
which it was found is almost uniformly light grey limestone (not of the
character of that cf which the celt is fashioned), and that the elevation is
about 8,400 feet. *

8. Contributions to the History of Bundelkhand.—By V. A. Siru, C.S.
Abstract of Part I.

Mahoba traditions assert that a Gaharwar Raj at some undefined date
preceded the famous Chandel dynasty.

The traditions are indistinct, and little is known of the dynasty except
that many tank embankments were made in its time; a list of eleven of
these is given, all of them being situated within a radius of 15 miles from

Mahoba.
This circumstance indicates that the Gahawar principality was a small

one.

It is conjectured that it was established in the seventh century, after
the dismemberment of the kingdom of Harsha Varddhana king of Kanauj,
which doubtless included Makoba.

176 V. A. Smith— History of Bundelkhand. [ Nov.

The Gahawar rulers of Bundelkhand may have been connected with
the Gahawar dynasty of Kanauj.

According to the Mahoba traditions the Gaharwars were succeeded by
Parihar chiefs, who were displaced by the Chandels.

General Cunningham is quoted to show that the little state of Ucha-
hara or Nagod, between Allahabad and Jabalpur, which is still ruled by a
Parihar chief, is a fragment of the larger Parihér kingdom which included
Mahoba.

The traditions of several places in the Hamirpur District affirm the
former existence of a large Parihar State.

The traditional dates assigned for the establishment of the Chandel
dynasty are then examined.

These dates are variously given as 204: 225: 661: 677: and 682,
Samvat.

The writer believes that the dates 204 and 225, should be, as General
Cunningham suggested, referred to the era of Sri Harsha in 607 A. D.;
and, differing from General Cunningham, suggests that the dates 661, 677
and 682 should be read 561, 577, and 582, and referred to the newly dis-
covered Chedi or Kulachuri era beginning in 249 A. D.

The date 831 A. D. is assumed as the date for the overthrow of the
Parihars by the Chandels.

Some miscellaneous traditions relating to early Parihdr immigrations
into Bundelkhand are then given.

Abstract of Part IT.

The general outline of the Chandel genealogy and chronology having
been already settled, this essay deals with disputed and doubtful points,
and the collation of the published and translated inscriptions of the Chan-
del dynasty is carried further than has yet been attempted. °

The writer also aims at setting forth in an intelligible and concise
form all that is now known regarding the reign of each of the Chandel
kings.

The appended chronological table sets forth the principal conclusions
which have been reached, and will be found on examination to differ consi-
derably from any hitherto published.

Kirtti Varmma I (alias Deva Varmma Deva alias Bhimipala), who
reigned from about 1149 to 1150 A. D., is held to have been the conqueror
of Kamer Kulachuri king of Chedi circa 1095 A. D., and to be the Kirat
Brahm of tradition. :

Gaya Varmma of the coins and of the Man-Chhatarpur and Kaling

No. II inscriptions is shown to be the same as Kirtti Varmma (the second)
of the AngAsi copper plate.

1880. | V. A. Smith— History of Bundelkhand. 177

It is further proved that only one Sallakshana Varmma reigned, not
two, as has been supposed.

The prominent position of the Jain sect in the reign of Madana Varm-
ma (c7rca 1130-1165 A. D.) is noticed.

The second conquest of Chedi by Madana Varmma is discussed ; the
writer believing this event to have occurred about the year 1160 A. D.

Reasons are given for believing that about that time the Chandel
dominions extended to Bilhari near Jabalpur, the territory now known as
the Sagar and Damoh districts being administered by a chief still remem-
bered as Raja Belo or Bela.

Madana Varmma Deva was succeeded by Paramardi Deva, commonly
known as Parmal or Parmar, who died in 1202.

Attention is called to the fact that none of the coins of this king are
known, and that no building can with certainty be ascribed to him, and
that only one inscription appears to be known as certainly dated in his

reign.

Reason is shown for believing that little credence can be given to

Chand’s account of the war between Parmal and Prithiraj of Delhi.

Event.

Chronological Table of the Chandel Dynasty 831—1182 A. D.

No Raja A. Dy Authority.
1 | Nanika. 831 | Accession, and over-| Tradition and calculation.
throw of Parihars at
; Mahoba.
2 | Vakpati. 850 | Accession. | Date calculated.
862 | Bhoja king of Kanauj) Inscription at Chanderi, Arch,
in possession of Seport, IX, 84,
Chandert.
3 | Vijaya. 870 | Accession. Date calculated.
4 | Rahila. 890 | Accession. eves
5 | Harsha. 910 | Accession. pone
6 | Yaso Varmma. 930 | Accession. 9000
7 | Dhanga. 950 | Accession. POBCGH
954 | Building temple at Chaturbhuj inscription,
Khajuraho.
978; Assisted in battle of} Farishta,
Lameghan.
998 | Grant of land. Nunama, No. II inscription.
999 | Death at Prayag. Lalaji inscription.
8 | Ganda Deva. 999 | Accession. Ditto and Man Chhatarpur
inscription.
1008 | Assisted Raja Jaipal) Farishta.
of Lahore against
Mahmud of Ghazni.
1011 | Raja Kokalla. Inscription at Khajuraho.
1021 ; Conquered Kanauj. | Farishta.
1023 | Surrendered Kalanjar
to Mahmad of
Ghazni.
9 | Vidhyddhara De-| 1025 | Accession. Date calculated.
va.

[ Nov.

178 V. A. Smith— History of Bundelkhand.
No. Raja. | rae | Event. Authority.
1080 | Gingaya Deva king) Abii Rihan.

of Chedi ruling at

Tripuri.
10 | VijayaPala Deva.| 1035 | Accession. Calculated date.
11 | Kirtti Varmma)| 1049 | Accession, Date calculated.
Deva the First,
alias Deva Varm-
ma Deva alias
Bhimipala.
1050 | Grant of land by Deva} Nunama, No. I inscription.
: Varmma Deva.
circa.
1080 | Defeat of Karna of} Exact date conjectured.
Chedi. First issue
of Chandel coinage.
1097 | In possession of fort| Inscription at Deogarh.
of Deogarh.
12 |}Sallakshana 1100 | Accession. Date calculated.
Varmma Deva.
13 | Jaya Varmma)| 1110 | Accession. Date calculated.
Deva alias Kirt-
ti Varmma Deva
the Second.
1116 | Lalaji inscription re-) L4laji inscription.
| written.
14 | Prithvi Varmma) 1120 | Accession, Date calculated,
Deva.
15 |Madana Varmma} 1130 | Accession. Date calculated.
Deya. 1131 | Image of Varada set) Maisey’s, No. IV inscription.
up at Kalinjar.
1133 | Grant of land. Angasi copper plate.
circa.
11438 | Construction of Bela} Tradition.
Tal at Jaitpur.
1154 | Jain image set up at Neminath inscription,
| Mahoba.
1158 | Ditto ditto. Sumatinath ditto.
9 Ditto, at Khajuraho. | Sambhundth ditto.
circa.
1160 | Conquest of Chedi. Date conjectured.
1163 | Jain image set up at| Ajitandth inscription.
Mahoba.
1164?) Inscription set up at] Sir Wm. Sleeman.
oat Kondalpur ?
1160 | Raja Bels built Singor-| Ditto, and Central Provinces
to garh. Bilhari held) Gazetteer.
1165 by a Chandel gover-
nor.
16 | ParamarddiDeva,} 1165 | Accession. Date calculated.
known as Par-
mal or Parmar.
1167 ; An inscription record-| Inscription.

ed ‘

Kalinjar.

P1171 Inscription recorded at} ? Inscription.

1182 | Capture of Mahoba by| Inscription of Pirthiraj (anpub-

Pirthir4j of Delhi.

lished).

1880. ] V. A. Smith— History of Bundelkhand. igs)

Inscriptions of the Chandel Dynasty of Bundelkhand.

Date.
No. Inscription. Reference.

Saaasatil A. D.

2

ns —

1 | Chaturbhuj. 1011 | 954 | The inscription is ona large slab built ”
into the wall on the right side of the
entrance to the Chaturbhuj temple at
Khajuraho. It has never been pub-
lished nor translated. Noticed in

Arch. Report, II, 426.
|
|

2 | Jinanath. 1011 954 | On left jamb of door of Jinanath’s temple -
at Khajuraho. Never published nor
translated in full. Abstract trans-
lations in Arch. Report, Il, 433 and
J. A. S. B. XXIX, p. 395. See also
Jo Alo (Sho 1B 2MONWIUOL, 1ebsae IL, 70.| 2S?

and plate.

Nunama, No. II. 1055 | 998 | Copperplate ; original in Indian Museum.
Transcribed and translated in full in
J. A.S. B, XLVI, pp. 80 seqq.

Lalaji or Visvanath, 1056 | 999 | On a large slab built into wall inside
entrance of Lalaji or Visvanath tem-
ple at Khajuraho. Translated by Mr.
Sutherland in J. A. 8S. B. for 1839.
Vol. VIII. p. 159, but with many
errors, some of which were corrected
by General Cunningham in Proce, A.
S. B. for 1865 (1) p. 99.

Nunama, No. I. 1107 | 1050 | As No. 3.

Deogarh. 1154 | 1097 | Hneraved on rock. Neither published

nor translated; referred to in Arch.

Report, LX, 108.

— | Gave genealogy from Dhanga to Kirtti

lon ex!

7

Inscription at Mahoba. —
Varmma. Mentioned in Arch. Re;
port, II, 447, but never published nor
translated, and the original not now
to be found.

8 1116 | As No. 4.

Supplement to Lélaji| 1173
inscription.

9 | Maisey’s No. IV. 1188

|
1131 | Original at Kélinjar, near figure of
‘ Mahadeo ka putra’ ; letters very faint.
Transcribed and translated in J. A. 8.
B. XVII. (1) pp. 191 and 321-322.
Text and translation require revision.
Erroneously mentioned dated in 8S.
1288 in Arch, Report, II, 448, num-

ber 33.

1183 | Copperplate ; original with Mr. A. Cadell,
C. 8. Facsimile and transcript and
translation in J. A.S. B. Vol. XLVII,
Part I, pp. 73 seqq.

1154 | Jain Statue at Mahoba. Noticed by
General Cunningham in Arch. Re-
port, II, 448. The position of the
statue 1s not known.

|
10 | Angasi, - 1190

11 | Neminath. 1211

Jain statue at Khajuraho. Translated
in Arch. Report, II, 485 and noticed
ibid. p. 448. Position of statue now

Jain statue lying in water under em-
bankment of Kirat Sagar at Mahoba.
Facsimile of part of inscription in J.
A. S. B. Vol. XLVII, Part I, Plate

Jain statue at Mahoba, position not now
Known. Noticed in Arch. Report, I,

Translated by Lieut. Price in Asiatic

Mentioned as existing at a temple in
Kondalpur, Central Provinces, and
said to be dated 815 Samvat by Sir
Wm. Sleeman in J. A. 8. B. for 1837.
Vol. VI, (2), p. 627 note. Vide supra
discussion of reign of Madana Varmma,

Inscription at Mahoba, mentioned in list
Arch. Report, II, 448, but nature of
inscription and precise locality not
mentioned, Original not now forth-

Gazetteer N. W. P. Vol. I, p. 15 note.

Unpublished inscription of Prithir4j, re-
ferred to by Genl. Cunningham, Arch.
Report, TX, 153, andin private letter-
records defeat of Parmal by Pirthiraj.

; Abstract given in Proc. A. S. B. for

1879, p. 248. Original at Engineer’s

bungalow near Mahoba. Full text

Arch. Report, II, 455. Im No. 384 of
table bid. p. 448, the name of the
Raja is wrongly given as Vira Varmma,
Neither original nor copy forthcoming,

180 V. A. Smith— History of Bundelkhand. [ Nov.
Date.
No. Inscription. Reference.
Samvat.| A, D.
12 | Sambhunith. 1215 | 1158
is not known.
13 | Sambhunath. 1215 | 1158
XV.
14 | Ajitandth. 1220 | 1163
448.
15 | Man-Chhatarpur. — —
Researches, XII, 351.
16 | Kondalpur. (?) ? 915 | 1164
of
Chedi
era.
17 | Mahoba. 1224 | 1167
: |. coming.
18 | Maisey’s No. I, P 1228! ? 1171) J. A. S. B. XVII, (1) pp. 313-317.
Arch. Report, II, 448.
Original at K4linjar.
19 —_— 1239 | 1182
20 | Mahoba, inscription at | 1240 | 1183
bungalow.
i and translation not yet published.
21 | Dahi copper plate. 1337 | 1280
nor translation.
22 | Jayadurga, (? Ajegarh | 1845 | 1288

23

or Kalinjar) Inscrip-
tion.

Maisey’s No. II.

J. A.S. B. VI, 881, and Part III of this
essay.

J. A. S. B. XVII, (1) 317-320, trans-
cript and translation; original at K4-
linjar. No date; but quoted in No. 36
of table Arch. Report II, 448 as being

\ dated 8. 1872 = A. D. 1815.

1880. | V. A. Smith— History of Bundelkhand. 181

Abstract of Part IIT.

The statement of General Cunningham and other writers that Kutb-
ud-din Aibak attacked Kalinjar twice, that is to say, in 1196 A. D. as well
as in 1202 A. D., is shown to be erroneous and to rest on a misinterpreta-
tion of Farishta.

The passages in Farishta and the contemporary Taj-ul-Maasir relating
to the attack on Raja Parmal Chandel in 1202 A. D. are quoted and dis-
cussed, and Chand’s stories about the end of Parmal are proved to be
untrue.

The Mahoba Kanungo’s traditions relating to the events which follow-
ed the defeat of Parmal by Prithiraj in 1182 and the rise of the Bundelas
in the 14th century are recited at length as a basis for the following dis-
quisition.

The evidence relating to the existence of powerful Bhar chiefs at
Mahoba and in the neighbourhood of Kalinjar is fully discussed, with the
result that the Bhar rule in Bundelkhand may be dated approximately
between the years 1240 and 1293 A. D. ‘The identification of the Dalaki-
Malaki or Dalaki-wa-Malaki who was, according to the Muhammadan
historians, defeated by Ulugh Khan in 1248 A. D., with the Tiloki and
Biloki or Dal and Bal of Audh tradition is accepted, and this personage is
further identified with the Bhar chieftain in power at the time.

The identification of Dalaki-Malaki with the Malika of the Jayadirga
(or so-called Ajegarh) inscription dated 1345 Samvat is rejected.

His identification with Raja Trailokya Varmma Chandel is also shown
to be impossible.

The conjecture is hazarded that the Bhars were originally one of the
hill and forest tribes of Central India.

The genealogy of the Chandel princes who succeeded Parmal as Rajas
of KAélinjar is discussed in connection with General Cunningham’s notice
of Col. Hilis’ Dahi copper plate inscription dated 8. 1337.

According to tradition the Bhar rule at Mahoba was overthrown by
a Musalman attack. Reason is shown for believing that this attack pro-
bably occurred in the year 1293 A. D., when Ala-ud-din defeated the Hindis
of Bhilsa. :

About that time the government of Mahoba appears to have been
entrusted by the Muhammadans to the Khangars of Garh Kurar.

The Khangars were displaced by a Gaharwar adventurer, the date of
which event is shown to be approximately 1340 A. D.

From this Gaharwar adventurer the Bundelas are descended, bemg
apparently the offspring of a marriage between the Gaharwar and a Khan-
garin.

The following chronological table summarizes the results of the inves-
tigation.

V. A. Smith— History of Bundelkhand.

Chronological Table 1182—1352.

Defeat of Parmal by Prithiraj, ..........

Capture of Kalinjar, Kalpi and of Mahoba
“ capital of the principality of Kalpi,’ by
Kutb-uddin Aibak, ...

Death at Kalinjar of Raja Parmél Chandel,

Accession at Kalinjar of Raja Trailokya
Varmma Chandel, Seeoeee Geese essseses

Mahoba held successively by Taur Stba,’

the Mewatis and the Gond,...... wseoe.

Capture of Gwaliar and defeat of Parihar |

Raja by Altamish,
Accession at Kélinjar of Sandhira Varmma
Chandel,
Defeat of Chahada Deva of Narwar, ..eces

CD eeee

Occupation of Mahoba by a Bhar chief,

Occupation of Mauze Bharwara in Pamvari
by Lodhis during reign of Raja Bhar of
Mahoba,

Occupation of villages on tank of “Dhasdn

nC

river by P arihars from Gw TALS aieisiceie .
Kirat Pal Raja at Kalinjar,...........06
Foundation of shrine of Pir Mobarik Sh: th

at Mahoba,

ey

Defeat of Dalaki-Mals fa eee eee and |

Kalinjar by Uligh Khan,
Uligh Khan ‘marches towards’ Kalinjar,..
Raja Sandhira Varmma Chandel makes a

fermening Oe IER AGG UG

Raja Kirat Singh Bhar makes at Kaélpi a
grant of land in Mahoba,

Raja Bhoja Varmma Chandel, probably at
Kalinjar,
Nana Kayatt iret minister,
Ala-ud-din’s expedition against the Hindus
Ot Islets Sadoaus
Defeat of the Bhar Raja of Mahoba by Malik
Hasn Shah, . :
Khangars of Gath “Kurar appointed gover-
nors of Mahoba by Delhi oourt,
Conquest of Malwa by Ain-ul-Mulk Mul-
GATT yer sy cmeeie S000 ObOGlab bogs B05
Erection of mosque at Bhainsa Darwaza,
Mahoba, in reign of Ghiyas-ud-din ee
lak,
Khangars of Garh Kurar and Mahoba over-
thrown by a Gaharwér adventurer, found-
er of Bundela clan,
Malik-us-Shark Nasir-ul-Muik governor of
Mahoba, Karra and Dalaman, .

eree se eee

seeee eee cereces

eeeee eeeee

CC ed

eeeeeeee seeoee eve seer

eaves

eevee se ee ee ce es ewes tee eee oe ees

[ Nov.
Date.
Hijri or Reference,
Samvat. ahs 2D
1239 S.| 1182 | Unpublished inscrip-
tion of Prithiraj.
(Cunn.)
) 599 H. | 120 Farishta and Ta4j-ul-
j Maasir.
ee ee Taj j-ul-Madsir,
e a Dahi copper plate.
circa
120:
| we ee Mahoba tradition.
1239
L630 H|f 1939 «| Ferishta and T4j-ul-
J nee Maasir.
\ 62 {circa | Conjecture and Dahi
(1234 copper plate.
632 H.) 1234 | Tabaqat-i-Nasivi.
{circa | Tradition and conjec-
¥ \ 1240 ture.
1300 S.| 1243 | Local tradition.
1303 || 1246 | Local tradition.
1309 8.| 1252 | Mahoba tradition,
oe os Ditto.
} 645 H.| f 1948 Farishta and Tabaqat.
it i-NAsiri,
aie 1251 | Tabaqat-i-Nasiri.
1337 8.) 1280 | Dahi copper plate.
a Copy of sanad belong-
ee oe ing to Kanungo of
Mahoba.
13845 S.| 1288 | Jayadirga inscription,
692 H.| 1293 | Farishta.
Ye ditto (?)) Local tradition.
\ ac { 7aaR Local tradition.
704 H.) 1804 | Farishta.
722 H.| 1322 | Inscription on mosque.
circa
1400 8.| 13840 | Tradition.
\ (ae Tarikh-i-Mob4rik-
iy panes 1352 Shahi.

1880. ] C. J. Rodgers—Copper Coins of Akbar. 183

4, English Translations of some Baloochi Poems. Part II.—By
M. Lonaworrn Dames, Esq., C. S.

This paper will be published in the Journal, Part I.

5. Coins Supplementary to Thomas’ Ohronicles of the Pathan Kings of
Delhi. Part II. With two Plates.— By Cuas. J. Ropers, Hsq.,
Principal of the Normal Oollege, Amritsar.

- (Abstract.)

This paper is a continuation of the author’s article, which was publish-
ed in No. 2 of the Journal of this year. It describes 33 hitherto unpub-
lished coins, beginning with Khusrau Malik; among them several gold and
silver coins,

This paper will be published in the Journal, Part I.

6. Copper Coins of Akbar. With two Plates. By Cuas. J. Roparnrs,
EHsq., Principal, Normal College, Amritsar.

(Abstract.)

This paper describes 28 copper coins of the Emperor Akbar. The
author discusses the value of the coins called dim and tanke respectively,
and comes to the conclusion that 200 tankes and 160 dams must have been
severally equal to 1 Rupee. Accordingly he calculates, that Akbar’s revenues
must have been equal to Rs. 32,000,000 or £3,200,000, according to the
statement of Nizdm-uddin, or to Rs. 35,400,000 or £3,540,000 according
to Abu’l Fazl; a calculation which differs widely from that of Mr. Thomas
who gives £32 millions and £86 millions respectively. .

This paper will be published in the Journal, Part I.

7. Notes on and Drawings of the Animals of variows Indian Land-
Mollusca (Pulmonifera)—By Lievur.-Con. H. H. Gopwiy-Austey,
IDS Teh Seg 1 WAS 1S
For some years previous to his appointment to the Second Yarkand
Mission, Dr. Stoliczka had been working at the anatomy of Indian land-
molluscs, and had enriched this Journal with many valuable papers. Amongst
the numerous drawings made by native artists under his superintendence
were found, after his death, some excellent coloured sketches from life of the
animals of various species, with descriptions of the colours of the soft parts
written in pencil on the margins of the paper. The author has pasted these
drawings in a scrap-book, and, as they were fast becoming illegible, has
transcribed the notes, names, and localities as well as he was able to decipher
them.
As it may be some~years before many of these species are obtained
again by a naturalist with the means and ability correctly to delineate

184 W. T. Blanford—Species of Trochalopterum from Travancore. [Nov.

them, the author has thought that lithographed copies published in this
Journal would be not only preserving, but in a measure continuing the labours
of so good an observer, and has accordingly prepared two plates illustrating
certain species of the family Zonitida. Stoliezka’s identifications and re-
marks are given in full for each species figured in the present paper, and
some notes from the author’s field-book, with a few identifications of
Messrs. Blanford and Nevill, have been added.

The paper will be published in full with two plates in the forthcoming
number of the Journal Part IT.

8. On a Species of Trochalopterum from Travancore—By W. T.
BuanrornD, F. R. S.

In this paper the author describes a new species of Zrochalopterum
obtained by Mr. F. W. Bourdillon in the S. Travancore Hills. The species,
which is named Z. meridionale, is distinguished from 2. Fairbank, its
nearest ally, by the much shorter white’ superciliary stripe terminating
above the eye, by there being no brown band behind the eye, by the middle
of the abdomen being white, and by other characters.

The paper will be published in the Journal, Part II, No. 3, for the
current year.

9. Ona new Species of Papilio from South India, with remarks on the
Species allied thereto—By J. Woop-Mason.

In this paper the author describes a new species of rhopalocerous
Lepidoptera belonging to the genus Papilio. The new species is nearly
allied to P. Mahadeva, Moore, from upper Tennasserim, and is distinguish-
ed therefrom by having a submarginal row of spots in the fore-wing in
both sexes, and by other characters; it is named P. Dravidarum. The
paper concludes with some general remarks on allied species; it will be

published with illustrations in the forthcoming number of the Journal,
Part II.

10. Description of the Female of Hebomoia Roepstorffii— By J.
Woop-Mason.

The male of this species was described in the last number of the Jour-
nal. For the opportunity of describing the opposite sex, the author is
indebted to the kindness and courtesy of Captain G. F. L. Marshall, R. E.

Coloured figures of both sexes will eventually be published in the
Journal. ;

1880. } Library. 185

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Sitzungsberichte, math. physik. Classe, Nos. 3 and 4, of

1879 and No. 1 of 1880.

Philos. philol. Classe,—Vol. I, No. 4 and Vol.

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Munich, Repertorium fiir Experimental-Physik,—Vol. XVI, Nos. 9, 10,
and 11.

London. The Academy,—Nos. 428—441.

Anthropological Institute,—Journal, Vol. IX, No. 4, May 1880.

Royal Asiatic Society,—Journal, Vol. XII, Parts 2 and 3.

Royal Astronomical Society,—Monthly Notices, Vol. XL, Nos.

7 and 8, May and June, 1880.

The Athenzeum,—Nos. 2752-2764.

Institution of Civil Engineers,—Minutes of Proceedings, Vol. LX.

Royal Geographical Society,—Proceedings, Vol. II, No. 8,

August 1880.

Geological Society,—Quarterly Journal, Vol. XXXVI, Nos. 142

and 143.

No. 148. Jeffreys, Dr. J. G—On the Occurrence of marine shells of existing
species at different Heights above the present Level of the Sea. Solas, W.
J.—On the Genus Protospongia. Seeley, Prof. H. G.—On Psephophorus poly
gonus von Meyer.

Institution of Mechanical Engineers,—Proceedings, April 1880.

Royal Microscopical Society,—Vol. III, Nos. 3 and 4.

No. 3. Duncan, Prof. P. M@—On a Parasitic Sponge of the order Calcarea.
Cooke, M. C—The Genus Ravenelia. Gibbes, H—On the Double and Treble
Staiming of Animal Tissues for Microscopical Investigations: with a note on
cleaning Thin Cover-glasses. Record of Current Researches relating to Inver-
tebrata, Cryptogamia, Microscopy, &e.

No. 4. Record of Current Researches relating to Invertebrata, Cryptogamia,
Microscopy, &e.

Nature,—Vol. XXI, Nos. 524, 535, 6555, 560—567, 570, 571.
Royal Institution of Great Britain —Proceedings, Vol. [X, Parts
1 and 2.
Part 2. Huxley, Prof.—Sensation and the Uniformity of Plan of Sensiferous
Organs. Galton, F. Generic Images.
Royal Society,—Proceedings, Vol. XXX, Nos. 2083—205.
: Philosophical Transactions,—Vol. CLXX, Parts 1 and
2; Vol. CLXXI, Part 1.

ee List of Members, 1st December, 1879.

Statistical Society,—Journal, Vol. XLIII, Part 2, June 1880,

Society of Telegraph Engineers,—Journal, Vol. IX, No. 33,

June and July 1880.

Zoological Society,—Proceedings, Parts 1 and 2, 1880.

Part 1. Ramsay, R. G. W.—Contributions to the Ornithology of Sumatra. Re-
port on a collection from the neighbourhood of Padang. Heysham, Ool.—Ex-
tract from a letter addressed to the President containing remarks upon two
cases of elephants breeding in captivity.

Part 2. Forbes, W. A.—Contributions to the Anatomy of Passerine Birds.

Part 1. On the Structure of the Stomach in certain Genera of Tanagers.

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Butler, A. G —On new and little known Butterflies from India. Butler, A.
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Beddome, Col. R. A.—Description of a New Snake of the Genus Plectrurus
from Malabar. Parker, W. K.—Exhibition of, and Remarks upon, the eges
and embryos of some Crocodiles.
London. Transactions, Vol. XI, Part 2.

Murie, 7—Further Observations on the Manatee. Parker, T. J.—On the In-
testinal Spiral Valve in the Genus Raia.

Lyon. La Société d’ Agriculture, Histoire Naturelle et Arts Utiles,—An-
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New Haven. American Oriental Society,—Journal, Vol. X, No. 2.

Hali, J. H.—The Cypriote Inscriptions of the Di Cesnola Collection in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City. Avery, J.—Contributions
to the History of Verb-Inflection in Sanskrit. Zanman, C. &.—A Statistical
Account of Noun-Inflection in the Veda.

Paris. La Société d’ Anthropologie,—Bulletin, Vol. III, Nos. 1 and 2
No, 1. Inventaire des monuments mégalithiques de France. Broca.—Méthode

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La Société de Géographie,—Bulletin, April and May, 1880.

Pisa. Societa Toscana di Scienze Naturali,—Atti (Processi Verbali), 4th
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Prague. K.k. Sternwarte,—astronomische, magnetische und meteorolo-
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Rome. Societa degli spettroscopisti Italianii—Memorie, Nos, 1-5, Janu-
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Roorkee. Professional Papers on Indian Engineering,—Vol. IX, Nos. 37a
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St. Petersburg. L’Académie Impériale des Sciences,—Bulletin, Vol. XXV,
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—.. Mémoires,—Vol. XX VII, Nos. 2-4.

Simla. United Service Institution of India,—Journal, Vol. IX, No. 44.

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Chemical News,—Vol. XLII, Nos. 1078—1090.

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2. On the Eastern Frontier of Thibet. —By M. (Dasadnrwe A
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new species.— By J. Woop-Masoy, ........ — 202
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February, 1879.—By S. E. Puat (Title only)... “203

6. List of Mollusca from the Hills between Mari and Phandiani —
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PROCEEDINGS

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ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL.

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The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was
held on Wednesday, the 1st December 1880, at 9 P. M.

H. B. Mepricort, Esq., F. R. S., President, in the Chair.

The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.

The following presentations were annonnced—

j. From the British Museum,—Catalogue of Oriental Coins, Vol. V,
by 8. L. Poole, edited by R. S. Poole.

2. From the Surveyor General of India,—Synopsis of the Results
of the Operations of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, Vols. VIII
and IX.

3. From the Home, Revenue and Agricultural Department,—the
Industrial Arts of India, by Dr. G. C. M. Birdwood.

4, From the Superintendent, Government Central Museum, Madras,
—10 goid Viraraya Fanams.
; 5. From the Superintendent, Geological Survey of India,—Popular
Guide to the Geological Collections in the Indian Museum, Calcutta.
No. 3—Meteorites, by F. Fedden.

6. From the Author,—a Collection of Gesture-signs and Signals of
the North-American Indians, with some comparisons, by Lt.-Col. G.
Mallery.

The following Gentlemen duly proposed and seconded at the last
meeting were balloted for and elected Ordinary Members—

W. Grierson Jackson, Hsq., C. S.

Moulvie Dilawar Hasein Ahmad.

J. R. Napier, Hsq.

196 C. Swynnerton—Specimen of Yusafzai Sculpture. [Dxc.

H. W. McCann, Hsq., D. Se.
Dr. Kirton.
Rk. D. Oldham, Esq., A. R. S. M.

The SrcrRETARY reported that the following Gentleman had intimated
his desire to withdraw from the Society—
W. T. Webb, Esq.

The Sucrerary reported that the elections of Raja Siva Prasdd and
of Mr. W. P. Johnston had been cancelled under Rule 9.

The Srcrerary read a letter from the Rev. C. Swynnerton forward-
ing a sketch of a sculptured stone pendant, with a note on the same.

Mr. Swynnerton writes:

“T bee to enclose a rough pencil- sete of a curious relic which I find
among my specimens of Yusafzai sculpture. If you will kindly exhibit
it to the meeting of the Society I shall feel greatly obliged.

“‘ Last winter I visited two very singular boulders in the neighbourhood
of the Indus at Attock. One is of granite, the other of limestone. They
are enormous in size, and they both exhibit ‘ cup-marks’ or ‘ elf-cups’ on
their upper surfaces. These marks are very perfect and some of them are in
regular lines. The granite specimen was first seen by Mr. 'T. Barlow, of
the Inland Revenue, the other of limestone was discovered by me.

“T shall be glad to send you, later on, sketches and descriptions of these
two relics if the Society would care to have them.”

The sketch sent was of a sculptured pendant or jewelled ornament worn.
from the neck, and was the size of the original. The sketch was
taken from a piece of sculpture, in slate, which belongs to the ancient
Buddhist remains of the Yusafzai valley. Attention was directed to the
winged Cupid with which the ornament terminates. The figure is that
of a boy. The hands have been broken, but they appear to have been
joined together in the usual position of prayer, or adoration, so common
among these sculptures. Mr. Swynnerton is doubtful whether there is
any such idea of Eros or Cupid, winged, in Hindu mythology, or whether

this figure is another proof of the former influence of Greek art in the
Punjab.

The Naturat History Sucrurary then exhibited some specimens of
Papilio from South India, representing a new species P. morgant.

The following papers were read—

1. Description of a new species of Brackish-water Mollusca.—By
G. Nrevitt, C. M. Z. 8

This paper will appear in the Journal, Part IL.

Proceedings Aa. Soc. Bengal, 1830.

PLATE X.

7 a : Lithographed at the Surveyor Gonaral's Office, Calcutta, January 1881.

EASTERN FRONTIER OF THIBET BY M. DESGODINS.

198 M. Desgodins—LKastern Frontier of Thibet. [Drc.

Thibet, the Yar-kiou-tsangpo can flow if it goes down to the Irrawaddy. I
have, however, been told over and over again by natives well acquainted with
the country, that there is no large river flowing through it but only small
ones. If so, the TSangpo cannot be the upper course of the Irrawaddy.

A little below 28° N. lat. the frontier of Thibet crosses the Lou-
tse-kiang (Salwen), and ascending a very steep spur on the left bank,
reaches the main ridge of the mountain range, which separates the Salwen
from the Mekong, which is called Lan-tsang-kiang by the Chinese and
Dakio by the Thibetans. This range is very narrow, steep, and rocky, the
rivers being at a height of about 60006 feet, the passes more than 12,000
feet, and the numerous snowy peaks from 18,000 to 20,000 feet above the
sea. Its direction is south to north inclining a little to the west. One of
the more southern snowy peaks called Dokéla is most important, not only
on account of its being a celebrated place of pilgrimage for the Thibetan
devotees of eastern Thibet, but also because it may be considered as the
most southern boundary of Thibet proper; the true boundary line of the
Yunnan Chinese provinee and of the Thibetan country being only a few
miles below the peak.

Some fifty years ago the boundary wall followed the ridge of the
main range as far to the north as 29° 20’ N. Lat., but owing to the
encroaching propensities of the Thibetan government, to the weakness of
the Bathang chief, and perhaps to the wickedness of some Chinese official,
the Thibetans took possession of the eastern declivity of the mountain from
the 28° 30’ up to 29° 20’, so that the Mekong itself becomes the
frontier. We must, however, except the two villages of Kiata and Dachu
situated at 29° 02’ on the right bank, which are kept by Bathang and China,
on account of the salt-pits which, on both banks of the river, are the centre
of an extensive and fruitful trade. On the left bank, the Yun-nan
province reaches nearly to 29° N. Lat., and then comes the territory governed
by Bathang which is part of the Se-tchuen province.

About 29° 20’ the boundary crosses to the left bank of the Mekong,
ascends a branch of the chain of mountains up to the main range, then, fol-
lowing a direction east-north-east, passes between the two villages of Bom
and Lanten, the first being the last village of the Bathang territory, the second
being tne first of Thibet proper, both being on the high road which goes
from China to Lhassa through Ta-tsien-loo, Lythang, Bathang, Kiangka,
etc. This last small town which is nearly due west of Lanten is the
residence of the Tiguié or Governor-General of the Kham _ province.
Previous to the beginning of the 18th century, this province extended
as faras 102° or 103° E. Long. At that time an attempted rebellion
of the Thibetan Lamas having been quickly put down by a Chinese
army, the consequence was, that the twenty-two Hastern Thibetan prin-

1880. ] M. Desgodins—Hastern Frontier of Thibet. 199

cipalities were united to the direct government, either of the Se-tchuen or
of the Yun-nan province

From about the 30th degree N. Lat., the boundary of Thibet runs
northwards between the Mekong and Kin-cha or Yangtse rivers; but as
the steep, narrow, well-defined ranges of mountains which we encountered
south are succeeded northerly by undulating table-lands the boundary is
not so well traced as below. ‘This is a perpetual cause of disputes and riots
between the shepherds of Bathang and those of Thibet. However, geo-
graphically, we can draw the boundary of Thibet by following the watershed
as far as33° N. Then it turns to the north-west as far as 35° N. lat.
and 95° E. Long. where it crosses the Yang-tse. From this point it
takes a north-easterly direction till if reaches the mountains encircling
Kookoonor, and the main range of the Kuen-len mountains. Last of this
_ boundary is, Ist, the principality of Bathang, and 2nd, more to the north,
that of Dégué, both under the direct administration of Se-tchuen. West
of the same limit and north of Kiang-ka, are the principalities of, Ist,
Tchraya; 2nd, Techamtou; 8rd, San-che-kieou-tso; 4th, Réoukhié ; 5th,
Nongkine. By right these five principalities do not belong to Thibet
proper whose civil government they do not acknowledge. They have chiefs
of their own under the direct superintendence of the third Chinese
ambassador residing at Lhassa. It would have been nothing but just,
if from the 30th degree N. Lat. I had drawn the eastern boundary of
Thibet proper about two degrees longitude more to the west. However
I do not regret having shown myself more generous, first, because these five
principalities have not been put under the direct administration of Se-
tchuen ; secondly, because their real Chinese governor is residing at Lhassa ;
thirdly, because iz fact the civil Thibetan government of Lhassa, being more
powerful, behaves there nearly as the lion of the fable.

Before closing this note I may add that east of the eastern frontier
of Thibet proper there is an area of at least four degrees of Longitude and
six degrees of Latitude, which is peopled by the Thibetan race, under the
direct Chinese administration. From this most certain fact, some con-
sequences could be drawn, but as they are beyond the dominion of geo-
eraphy I refrain from mentioning them.

M. Desgodins concluded by saying that the real eastern boundary of
Thibet proper was that which he had just given and which was indicated
in the map which he had prepared. The map will be found at Plate X.

The President said that M. Desgodins had conferred a great favour on
the Society by giving the results of his extensive experience in an almost
unknown region, and he was sure that the information which he had laid
before the Society would prove of the utmost value. In the course of his
remarks, Mr. Medlicott asked—

200 M. Desgodins—uastern Frontier of Thibet. [Duc.

Whether some of the Thibetan countries directly governed by China
bordered on the province of Assam, to which M. Desgodins replied that such
was not the case, the whole of Assam being encircled to the north and
east not only by savage tribes, but also by districts directly governed by
the Lhassa government, but that being part of Thibet proper they were,
épso facto, tributaries to the Chinese Empire.

General Walker observed that this Society had much reason to be
indebted to Father Desgodins for his interesting and very valuable com-
munication. The Father has resided for many years on the confines of
Thibet in a region which is of the utmost importance from a geoeraphical
point of view, as there a breadth of not more than 4° in longitude is
crossed by several rivers, running parallel to each other, which have long
been known to be the highland sources of some of the greatest rivers in
Asia. Up to the present time, however, there has been considerable un-
certainty as regards the individual identity of the rivers in the highlands
with those in the lowlands; and until Father Desgodins communicated
the information he had obtained about them to the Geographical Societies
of Paris and Lyons, there was not a single map in which errors more or
less gross had not been committed in the assignment of their sources to
the several great rivers. We are indebted to him for the information,
recently corroborated by Captain Gill, that the Lou-tse-kiang river, which
has been supposed to be one of the sources of the Mekong or Cambodia
river, is in reality the source of the Salween river which debouches into
British territory in Martaban. Thus the Salween has a course which
is generally parallel to that of the Irrawaddy river below the 27th degree
of latitude ; but whereas the Irrawaddy is believed by most geographers
to have its sources not higher than the 28th degree of latitude, the
Salween has been conclusively shown by Father Desgodins to have a much
higher origin, probably in Lat. 33°, and this is a discovery of great geogra-
phical importance. *

During a residence of some years at Bathang in the valley of the
Kincha or Yang-tse-kiang (Captain Gill’s River of Golden Sand) Father
Desgodins endeavoured to proceed to Lhassa, but he was unsuccessful in
the attempt—as all other Europeans have been of late years. Eventually
he moved to the south-west, crossing the valley of the Lan-tsang-kiang
or Mekong river, into that of the Lou-tse-kiang or Salween river, in which
he resided for three years, about the parallel of 25° of Latitude, and at a
distance which he estimates as not exceeding 100 miles from the point
where the Brahma Kund river enters upper Assam. Here he was ina
very favourable position for making enquiries whether any large river
flows through the region between the head of the Assam valley and the
valley of the Salween river; this must be the case if the Sanpo, the great

1880. ] M. Desgodins—Hastern Frontier of Thibet. 201

river of Western Thibet, flows into the Irrawaddy, as was formerly
supposed, and has latterly been again urged by Mr. Gordon of the Public
Works Department in Burma. But the invariable reply to Father
Desgodins’ enquiries was that there was no such river; and this streng-
thens the probability that the Sanpo river is one with the Brahmaputra, as
has for many years been believed by the generality of geographers, and is
in accordance with the latest information obtained by the Trans-Himalayan
explorers of the Indian Survey Department.

M. Desgodins then gave some explanations on the point that General
Walker had raised as to the great probability of the Tsangpo not being
the upper course of the Irrawaddy but that of the Bramaputra: in this
opinion M. Desgodins fully coincided.

The reasons which he put forward are these. He -had been told
that the district of Dza-yul is a rather rich agricultural country: there-
fore a low one, very likely not exceeding 6,000 feet above the level of the
sea. ‘That at the south of this district of Dza-yul there is the district of
Djrouba a high uneultivated tableland peopled by shepherds living in
tents. If the Tsangpo flowed through Dza-yul (and it could not flow
elsewhere) to the Irrawaddy, it would be necessary, for it either to ascend
this high tableland, which is absurd, or to flow through an immense cutting
or ravine of three or four thousand feet. Though he has had many
opportunities of wandering through tablelands in many other places, he has
never observed such a feature of plateaux.

2. If there were two high tablelands divided by a large river, this
could not escape the notice of the natives of the country. Pagansas well as
Christians, who had gone for purposes of trade to Dza-yul, unanimously say
there is no large river. Amongst our first Christians were men belonging
to several savage tribes of upper Burma. They had been made prisoners
of war and sold as slaves to the Thibetans before coming to the mission-
aries. They also unanimously say that in their own country there are no
large rivers. One of them taken prisoner in Assam by the Abords had to
cross their country along a large river, which he called Dihong or Dibong
(M. Desgodins did not remember exactly which). He thought that it was
the Tsangpo flowing through stupendous and fearful precipices.

3. A Lama had travelled all over Thibet on a pilgrimage. He went
to worship the sacred lake Tsomapang (Mansarowar of our maps), where
the Tsangpo has its source, descended the river as far as Lhassa where he
lived for many years, then coming down to Bathang his native country,
where he was met by M. Desgodins, he followed again the lower part of the
Tsangpo as far as a savage tribe called by Thibetans Lhopa (inhabitants of
the south) or Lho-kha-tchra (tattooed inhabitants of the south.) From
what he stated about this tribe, M. Desgodins has no doubt they are the

202 M. Desgodins—LEastern Frontier of Thibet. [Due.

Abords. There the Tsangpo takes a southerly direction, through an awful
split of the hills where it flows overhung by fearful perpendicular rocks.
This Lama’ was told by people of the country, that after flowing for some
distance through this precipitous channel, the whole of the Tsangpo ended
in an immense waterfall, which was so deep that looking from the top to
the bottom makes a man’s head giddy at once. This Lama held out most
stubbornly against M. Desgodins’ objections, and maintained that the
T'sangpo flowed to the south not to the east, not towards Dza-yul which
he knew well, but through the Abord tribe. M. Desgodins observed that
all this information from the natives had reference to the country below
and above the 28° N. Lat. where the maps generally indicate the sources of
the Irrawaddy. M. Desgodins believes this is correct if the native inform-
ation is reliable, because about this parallel there is a high tableland which
separates small rivers to the south and to the north. M. Desgodins thinks
it is a water-shed of the Irrawaddy and of a small branch of the upper
Bramaputra.

4, In answering the objection that the body of water of the Irra-
waddy is so great (at least as great as that of the Salwen) that its sources .
must be much higher up to the north than the 28° lat. N., M. Desgodins
remarked, Ist, that the Irrawaddy beginning by 28° lat. N. is entirely in
the zone of very rainy countries, 2nd, that the melting of snow in Thi-
bet sends very little water to the great rivers Salwen, Me’kong and
Yangtse. The snow melts at the end of April or beginning of May, at which
time the rising of the rivers is only beginning, the great rising commenc-
ing only in July and August with the rains. 3rd, M. Desgodins remarked
that Capt. Gill, who had pointed out to him the very same objection,
acknowledges, Ist, that the Irrawaddy is indeed very large but not very
deep, 2nd, that the small river which he followed from Tenyue to Bahmo
had suddenly swollen so much in consequence of some rainy days that he
understood how the Irrawaddy could have its source only in 28° lat. N.,
the whole surrounding country being situated in the zone of tropical
rains. This observation of Capt. Gill’s M. Desgodins could corroborate
by pointing out some villages at about 28° lat. N. on the banks of the
Salwen and of the Mékong, which are at the very limit between dry and
damp countries. There is no middle zone. The cause of this phenome-
non is apparently owing to the snowy ranges which, from the 25° lat. N.,
run in a northerly direction, and stop the rains coming from the Bay of
Bengal. :

At the conclusion of M. Desgodins’ remarks, the President said he had
much pleasure in conveying to him the thanks of the Society for the very
valuable paper with which he had favoured them that evening.

3. On the Lepidopterous Genus Aimona, with the Description of a
new species.—By J. Woop-Mason.

1880. ] Library. 2038

4. Contributions to Indian Malacology, No. XII—By W.'. Buan-
FORD, F. KR. S.

5. Report on a visit to Nongyang Lake, on the Burmese Frontier,
February 1879.—.By 8. H. Puan.

6. List of Mollusca from the Hills between Mari and Thandiant.—
By W. TuEoBaLp, Dy. Supdt., Geological Survey of India.

These papers will be published in the Journal, Part II.

Pi BRARY.

The following additions have been made to the Library since the
meeting held in November last.

J RANSACTIONS, PROCEEDINGS AND JOURNALS,
presented by the respective Societies and Editors.
Berlin. K. preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften,—Monatsbericht,
July 1880.
Bombay. ‘The Indian Antiquary,—Vol. IX, Part 112, November 1880.

Bordeaux. Société de Géographie Commerciale,—Bulletin, Nos. 19-21,
October and November 1880.

Calcutta. Geological Survey of India,—Palxontologia Indica, Series IT,
Fossil Flora of the Gondwana System, Vol. I.

Mahabharata, No. 51.

Dublin. Royal Dublin Society,—Scientific Proceedings, Vol. I, Parts I-III;
and Vol. II, Parts I-VI.

———— , —Scientific Transactions,—Vol. I, Nos. I to

MIT; Vol. II, No. I.

Leipzig. Kunde des Morgenlandes herausgegeben von der deutschen mor-
genlindischen Gesellschaft,—Abhandlungen, Vol. VII, No. 3.

London. Academy,—No. 4:42.

Atheneeum Nos. 2765-2767.

——. Nature,—Nos. 573 and 575.

Royal Geographical Society,—Proceedings, Vol. II, Nos. 9 and

10, September and October 1880.

Institution of Civil Engineers,—Minutes and Proceedings, Vol.

LX.

. . Zoological Society of London,—Proceedings, Part III, 1880.
Munich. MRepertorium fir Hxperimental-Physik,—Vol. XVI, No. 12.
Paris. Société de Géographie,—Bulletin, Vol XIX, June and July 1880.
Simla. United Service Institution of India,—Journal, Vol. 1X, No. 45.
Zagreb. Arkeologickoga Druztva,—Viestnik, Vol. II, No. 4.

204 Library.

BOOK,

presented by the Author.

Mattery., Garrick. A Collection of Gesture-Signs and Signals of the
North American Indians. 4to., Washington, 1880.

MiscELLANEOUS PRESENTATIONS,

Catalogue of the Oriental Coins in -the British Museum, Vol. V. 8vo.,
London, 1880.
British Museum.
Popular Guide to the Geological Collections in the Indian Museum, Cal-
cutta, No. 3, Meteorites, by F. Fedden. S8vo. Calcutta, 1880.
GEOLOGICAL SuRVEY or Inpra.
The Indian Antiquary, Vol. IX, Part CXII, November 1880.
Records of the Geological Survey of India, Vol. XIII, Pt. 4.
Brrpwoop, G. C. M. The Industrial Arts of India. 8vo., London, 1880.
Home, Rev. anp Aqgrit. Dept,
Waker, Cou, J. T. Synopsis of the Results of the Operations of the
Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, Vols. VIII and IX. 4to., Dehra
Dun, 1878.
Surveyor GENERAL or Inpra.

PERIODICALS mo RCHASED.

Bombay. Vedarthayatna,—Vol. IV, No. 2.
Caleutta. Indian Medical Gazette,—Vol. XV, No. 11.
Geneva. Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles,—Vol. IV, No. 10.
Gottingen. Gelehrte Anzeigen,—Nos. 43-46.
. Nachrichten,—No. 16.
Leipzig. Annalen der Physik und Chemie,—Vol. XI, No. 10.
: Beiblatter, Vol. IV, No. 9.
London. Society of Arts,—Journal, Vol. XXVIII, Nos. 1457-1459:
. Nineteenth Century,—No. 44, October 1880.
——. Microscopical Science,—Quarterly Journal, Vol. XX, No. 80.
. Journal of Science,—Vol. II, Nos. 81-82, September and Octo-
ber, 1880.
Annals and Magazine of Natural History,—Vol. VI, No. 84,
October 1880.
Carter, H. J—On the Antipatharia (Milne-Hdwards), with reference to Hydra-

dendrium spinosum.
Thomas, O.—Description of a new species of Arvicola from Northern India,

Mind,—No. 20, October 1880.

1880.] Library. 205

London. London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine,—Vol.
X, No. 62.

Messenger of Mathematics,—Vol. X, No. 5, September 1880.

Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine,—Vol. XVII, Nos. 196-197,

September and October, 1880.

No. 196. Hagen, Dr. H. A.—On the mode of respiration in the larvae of the
Genus Luphea.

Entomologist, Vol. XIII, Nos. 208-209, September and Octo-
ber 1880.
Journal of Botany,—Vol. IX, Nos. 213-214, September and
October 1880.

No. 218. Hance, H. F.—Spicilegia Flora Sinensis: Diagnoses of New, and
Habitats of rare or hitherto unrecorded Chinese Plants.

London. ‘The Publisher’s Circular,—Vol. XLIII, Nos. 1028 and 1034-

. The Chemical News,—Vol. XLII, Nos. 1090-1093.
——-. Hdinburgh Review,—No. 312, October 1880.
———. Westminster Review,—No. 116, October 1880.
Quarterly Review,—No. 300, October 1880.
. American Journal of Science,—Vol. XX, No. 117, Sept. 1880.
Paris. Comptes Rendus,—Vol. XC1, Nos. 15-17.
———. Revue Critique,—Vol. X, Nos. 41-44.
——. Revue des deux Mondes,—Vol. XLII, No. 3.
——, Journal des Savants,—October 1880.
———. Revue Scientifique,—Vol. XIX, Nos. 17-19.

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PROCEEDINGS, ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL,

For 1LS80.

Page

Actinometer, Balfour Stewart’s 6
Aimona ap 203
» Amathusia 123

on RCHUIG 123
Afghan helmet, exhibition of VAL
Afehanistan, geological specimens from 3
Afghans found along the route of the Tal Chotiali Field Moree 57
Agni-mitra, coins of 7
Agni Purana, completion of 26
Abichhatra, coins from ie, im
Ahmad (Moulvie Dilawar Hasein), elected an donque Member 195
Ahmad (Kabiruddin), member of Philological Committee 32
Ain-i-Akbari, Translation of 2nd volume of 22, 88
Aitchison (Dr. J. H. T.), geological specimens sent by... 3
- rat sent by ; 173

iy specimens of rocksalt sent by i23

Aja Varmma, coin of 71
Akbar, coins of 183
Akbarnamah, progress of ee 26, 88
Ala-uddin Muhammad Shah, coin of ar 89
Amendments to Rules vee aisle ... S7, 114
Andamans, butterflies from the abe 102, 123, i24
Annual Meeting eCen 21
» Report 236 21
Antiochus, coins of Pelee AO
Apastamba Sutra — ee 170
Apatura, description of an iiticect belonging 1 the Genus 80
103

Aphelandre tetragona

208 Index.

Page
Arakan Coins ae a re 53
Arcot, megalithic monuments in North xs 4:3

Armstrong (Dr. J.), member of Natural History Commnites 136 52

Arsacidan dynasty, coins of the 508 me 5
Aryans, photographs of ous ae ose 140
Asha Varma, coin of et ae a ee ff
Asia, on the Barometer in She 300 12
Assam, List of Earthquakes during 1879 i DEW Gon ast 63
Australia, on the Barometer in nee oe aie 12
Ayumnitra, coins of pe SS Ar eines
Bactrian coins ... ay ee Pee Ways
Bairat ... 50 te Aces 158
Baloochi Poems, eanelanions of as BSA, Akers}
ae (Rev. K. M.), member of Philological Gomnniiees si 51
Baness (J. F.), removed from Member List under Rules 37 and 88 140
Barhal, or Blue Sheep of Thibet ae 42
Barker (Dr. R. A.), compounds for future sebeeiproes ae AL
Barton, inscription sent by Mr. 53 Bc 140
Barometer in Asia and Australia, on the ers 12
Bateman (W. E.), resignation of Asst. Secretaryship ba 355 26
Beames (J.), member of Philological Committee ee as 51
Berkeley (Col.), coins sent by aes ital
Beverley (H.), member of Finance and Tienes Committees ... 51
4 » re-elected Treasurer and Member of Council a 40
» resignation of Treasurership ... 550 88
Shad ne hace, coins i: ee sa ee 7
Bhamati, progress of ee cise jae Bil
Bhanu-mitra, coins of fae a os 7
Bharhat, inscription from se ae 58
Bhootea weapons aa Lee 208 105
Bhumi-mitra, coins of 200 ves ore 7
Bibliotheca Indica Series, report on So 26
» works sanctioned for publicaconk in the ... 88, 170
Biddulph (Maser J.), specimen of verdeantique marble sent by ... 4,
Bion (W. A.), appointed Asst. Secretary 43 cee 26
Biswan (Raja of), elected an Ordinary Member oe 300 99
Blackburn (J.), appointed Scrutineer 200 580 114
Black Yajur Veda aes 170
Blanford (H. F.), exhibition of a Balkour Stewart’s Aemomene 6
: is member of Library and Physical Science Com-

mittees ae Big 155) Lena

a -

Index. 209

Page
Blanford (H. F.), on drawings of Hailstones bo 103
=) ‘5 on the Barometer in Asia and Rastealin, and on
the Sun-spot Cycle 586 38 12
A a re-elected member of Council wee sus 40, 140
x resignation as member of the Council as 88
Blanford (W. T.), on Indian Malacology as 500 203
ms Fe on Trochalopterum from Travancore se 184
Blochmann memorial : a 170
Bose (Pramatha Nath), elaoted an Ordinary Ne Taber Bo 00 169
Brahmaputra, source of the a 200
Brandis (Dr. D.), member of Natural Elieone commities 500 52
Branfill (Lieut.-Col. B. R.), on Rude Megalithic monuments in
North Arcot 43
= fi on the Great Siva Temple of Genta
Kondapuram wate il
Brooks (W. H.), member of Natural History Committee an 52
53 withdrawal of 500 100
Brovch (R. 8.), papers published in the prececdines by Bap 22
Browne (Col. H. A.), withdrawal of ie bt 87
Browne (J. F.), member of Philological Gonmnietes Ep “as 52
Brown (J. A.), elected an Ordinary Member app 189
Budaun, coins from ae at 170
Buddha Gaya, Chinese inscription from a 3 140
» inscriptions from ae Mee 76
maditanads Se ie ee 72
Buddhist coins 506 500 ane dal
Building, report on : 500 24,
Bundelkhand, ehacabutions 4g the History ae bb6 seh 175
Bysack (G. D.), member of Philological Committee 200 51
Calcutta water supplies 060 6 155
Carlleyle (A. C.), elected an Onions Member one 50
Sates » oncoins of the Sunga or Mitra Dynasty .../, 43, 92
Camera Lucida class, instruments of the up a 73
Cappel (A.), member of Physical Science Committee ned 52
Carnatic Coin a OE ue 119
Celt from Hurdui ac ; ae at 70
Chakmani territory, rocksalt from 000 200 128
Chandel Coins... 500 A Sd 119
Chanda’s Prakrit Grammar os ase 88
Charaka, translation of the : és non. AAS), tsk)
Chatterjea (Taraprasad), elected an Gudinary iene Noe soe 86

Chaturvarga Chintamani, completion of second volume of ah 27

210 Index.

Page

Chaudhuri (Govinda Kumar), re-elected an Ordinary Member _... %
Chaudhuri (Kshiroda Ch. Raya), elected an Ordinary Member ... 169
Chinese Inscription from Buddha Gaya eee es 140
Cheradodis es cia 103
“Chronicles of the Pathan Kane a a 57
Clarke (Capt. H. W ), member of Philological Gomihibiee a of 52

‘! 55 translator of the second volume of the

Ain-1-Akbari 3653 ses 29

Clay discs ee 104:
Clerk (Lt.-Col. M. G.), abate an Ordinary Member fae ae 169
Clodius, coin of A 118
Coates (Dr. J. M.), re- ieee an Ordinary iMetnber so 114
Committees, appointment of Be she wie 51
Commodus, coin of ms! sia 118
Constable (A.), Persian inscription cant lye ore sis 54

Coins 4, 7, 12, 24, 40, 48, 53, 57, 71, 85, 89, 92, 100, 102, 115,
168, 170, 183, 195

» Cabinet, report on Ac or 24

» Committee nae Ses tes 53

Council, abstract of proceedings of ... a es 31

i election of 40
Crawfurd (J.), re-elected Gonint ‘Secmtery and mentee OE

Council ou 40

5, resignation of General Secrstee yin by oe 88

Croft (A. W.), member of Library Committee bei Ae 51

ss re-elected member of Council a 40

Gisokes’ Electrical Radiometers... 91
Cunningham (Dr. D. D.), member of Library, aba cto)

and Physical Science Committees a . 6&1, 52
Cunningham (Maj.-Gen, A.), member of Elileloeeal and Cis

Committees be bv blyiog

n r- on coins of the Mitra dynasty ... as

re rs on coins sent by Gen, Pearse ... 117

Cup marks ts. OO LOG

Dames (M. L.), feanclation ce some Baloochi Poems by ... 57, 183

Dasamukhavaho .. wee 200 ns 120

Defaulting rienabes oc 140

Dejoux (P.), removed from Member List ender Rules 37 and 38 140
Desgodins (M. l’Abbé), on the Eastern Frontier of Thibet 500 196
Deva, coins of Triloka Chandra __,. cae 200 12

5 » samanta ... a

Index. Oilel:

Page
Dharma-Chandra, coins of sas ee ay 54
Diodotus, coin of We nee Me eA LOL
Doms : ise Oe 57
Douglas (J. C.), Ee sonted ivraveoes ; as 40
B » appointed. Treasurer and abiabat of Council ... 88

rf », member of Finance, Library and Physical Science
Committees ... tae OL om

. » on the use of Silver Films in wleetatuents of the
Camera Lucida class on aa 73
Doxey (Rev. J.S.), elected an Ordinary Member ae 99
Dynamo-electric machine for tclegraphie purposes, on the use of a.. 173
Earthquakes in Assam during 1879 43s wee 63
Hetvelde (KE. van), appointed Scrutineer 600 SOC 21
Electrical Radiometers ae Hos 60 91
Elfstenor in Sweden 600 200 ae 89
Elf-cups see doe ... 89, 196
Elias (Ney), elected an Ordinary Member ais 3 70
Eliot (J.), member of Library and Physical Science Chintnittecss 51, 52
Estimate of Income and Expenditure for 1880 coc es 70
Eucratides, coins of Has it ore 170
Huthydemus, coins of nee Eivses ...116, 170
Fa Hian io 600 14:1
Fatehpur district, coins ron 686 dbo be 102
Fedden (F.), member of Physical Science Committee 52
Feistmantel (Dr. O.), member of Library, Natural History aie
Physical Science Committees ... ont sco 53 BH
Fiddian (W.), elected an aay Member ... Bes 70
Field (Hen. C. D.), withdrawal of . ee Use 70
Finance Committee a BO S00 51
» report on 200 500 23
Gajapati (Ananda Ram), elected an ‘Onis y member aoe 70
Ganjai-Kondapuram, on the Great Siva Temple of nae fee 11
Garbe (Dr. R.), edition of the Apastamba Sutra by re 170
Garo weapons ae We nes 105
Gennoe (T. A. M.), impression of medal sent by . 172
Geological specimens from Afghanistan : 3
Ghesha (P. C.) member of Library and Philological Comaiiices 51, 52
- re-elected member of Council We Tee 40
Gibbs (Hon. J.), elected an Ordinary Member ai 139
Girdlestone (C.), on Mr. Gennoe’s medal ae ae 172
Gobhilya Grihya Sutra, progress of ers Be 27

212 Index.

Page
Godwin- Austen (Col. H. H.), drawings of hail-stones by of 103
7 3 on animals of various Indian Land
Mollusca one 580 183
Grand Trunk Road, coins found near the Bee 5 102
Growse (EF. 8.), member of Philological Committee... = 51
Gunn (Dr. J. 8.), removed from Member List under Rules 37
and 38 505 140
Gupta (Beharilal), states an Oueaam y I Member ae ae 41
Gupta period, coins of the bie ... 438, 118
Hailstones, drawings of cae ate ss 103
Hanssen’s Lunar Tables... ste AL
Hassan (Khalif M.), elected an Ordinary eee see tak 169
Hebomoia Roepstorffiit ... ae 184
Hemadri’s Chaturvarga Chintamani, pomlenee of second vol. of 27
Hewitson’s Lepidoptera, Moore and nis ots) eau
Hildebrandt (Chevalier Hans), letter from eee s¢i4 89
Hiouen Thsang use 141
Hoernle (Dr. A. F. R.), seston of Nae: coins wee 53

exhibition of coins found by Col. Berkeley 118
exhibition of coins found near the Grand

Trunk Road... 102

a 5 exhibition of coins sent by Gen. G. G.
Pearse 115

‘ ws exhibition of coins sent by “Mr. Vv. is.
Smith ef “ish 118

a3 5 exhibition of an inscription from near
Keoti Kunda 55

* ea exhibition of impression of miedal sent ie
Mr. T. A. M. Gennoe 100

i 3 exhibition of photographs of Aryans nl
non-Aryans 140

rh 3 exhibition of the MS. of a Beart Grane
mar 205 100

gs os exhibition of the rabbine of an inscrip-
tion from Kashmir Su 54

> 5 exhibits coins and ornaments sent by
Lieut. Temple ... 89

s 5 re-elected Philological Secretary and mem-
ber of Council .. ee 40
45 os remarks on coins of the Mitra dynasty... 8, 10

33 55 remarks on paper on identity of Upello
with Upaplava ss Nee 158

ee ee

a a

Index. 213

Pa ge

Holroyd (Major W. R. M.), withdrawal cancelled sae 50
Hume (A. O.) member of Natural History Committee 52
Hun Dinara : 119
Hurdui, celt from 70
Hverki, coins of ae ote 118
Indian Land Mollusca ae co¢ 183
Indian Museum, report on cos : 23
= z coins from doc 53
Indian Prehistoric Tumuli oe 89
Indo-Aryans, photograph of boc 171
Indo-Scythian coins 606 118
Indra-Mitra, coins of 500 pe soe 7
Inscriptions aR cee 10, 54, 55, 58, 72, 76, 188, 139, 172
Isabah, continuation of 200 88
Jackson (W. G.), elected an Ordinary Member 195
Jarrad (Lieut. F. W.), member of Natural History Committee ... 52
Jarrett (Major H. 8.), member of Philological Committee one 52
pe m2 note on an inscription from Koh Iném .., 72

5 6 on an inscription from Kashmir 54

‘ 6 translator of the Tarikh-ul-Khulfa 28
Jaya Mitra, coin of 71
Jellalabad, coins from near 170
Johnstone (Lieut. W. H.), elected an oxnae Member Ac 2
Johnston (W. P.) elected an Ordinary Member pias 114
Ms » election cancelled : 196

= » on testing Telegraph Cables eae 92
Junapanee, cup-marks in eee 90
Kachar, sovereigns of 144:
Kadu, coins of ... 54:
Kamuda Sena, coin of 71
Kanerki, coins of 118
Kangra, on the Coins of the iWemager of nero 12
Kaontsouzshen, coins of 102
Kashmir, inscription from... 54
Katantra, completion of 60c 27
Katha Sarit Sagara, translation of 29, 88
Kathaka Grihya Sutra occ nce 88
Khusrau Malik, coins of .., eS 183
Kiakung, coins of 102
Kienlong, coins of 102

King (W.), reply to Prof. Schvinausen’ s Blmolonical queries sent i 2

214 Index.

Page
King (Dr. G.), member of Natural History Committee 52
Kirton (Dr.), elected an Ordinary Member fe a 196
Kisch (H.), elected an Ordinary Member ... ove 2
Koh Inam, inscription from a : : 72
Kota, coin of aan ave ane 119
Kulu-Eli, inscription in ae eee — 10
Ladakh Mammals : sek 1l
Lafont (Rev. E.), on Grace Hlectmcal Race a 91
Lagomys rufescens oe 173
Lajasa, coin of . ee : 71
Lambe (W.), sabe an Ordinary Mathber Sa: a 139
Land Mollusca ... ees ce bs 183
Langur Monkeys ins ca 55
Laranga, coin of va ee sus it
Larata, coin of , fi

Latif Khan Bahadur (Monlvi ie Abdul), saunas of Eiabtoeeal
Committee aes 3 52
Lees (R. O.), elected an Ordinary Member ae ; 169
Leitner (Dr. G.), photographs of Aryans and Non-Aryans sent by 140, 171
Lepcha Knife “y ae 105
Lepidoptera, ex hs Bt oe 184
+ (Diurnal), from the Andamans ... se 124
Lewis (Dr. T. R.), elected member of Council 40

F ‘3 member of Library and Natural Tetons Gaee
mittees Soh milton

es 55 resignation as member oF Connell and Trustee
of the Indian Museum nce 140
Lewis (Rey. A.), elected an Ordinary Member ee 114
Library, additions to the ... 138, 44, 64, 81, 94, 106, "195, 158, 185, 203
Es Committee : aS 51
. report onthe ... ie 8 24
Limenitis Danava, female of 123
London Agency, report on the 23
Loris 57
54

Lunka Island, ecnition from

Luttman-Johnson (H.), facsimiles of sane enlate aerineone
sent by ns 141

Lydekker (R.), a History of the Fossil Tehayete of India by ... 42

member of Natural History and Physical Science
Committees ... be By 52

on some Ladak Mammals _... aa 11

7 ”

” ”

Index.

215
: Page
Lydekker (R), on the Dentition of Rhinoceros eee 103
» onthe Zoological position of the Baal i 4.2
MeCann (Dr. H. W.) elected an Ordinary Member oe 196
MacDonald (J.), elected an Ordinary Member 99
MacDonald (J. C.), withdrawal of 87
MacLeod (R. H.), elected an Ordinary Miombar “0 86
Maghazi-el- Waqidi ae 88
Mahabharata 157
Mahana, inscription from Keofi Keune on the river 55
Maha Satama, coin of que "00 606 71
Maitrayani Samhita 29, 88, 170
Malacology, Indian “D0 ae 203
Maliah (Ramesvar), elected an @rdivare Member 500 50
Mammals from Ladakh ane 2 11
Mandalik (Rao Sahib Ne elected an Ordinary Member ... 86
Mantodea ae 103
Maphaba Varma, coin of ocs “i950 71
Mari and Thandiani, mollusca from between .,.. 203
Markham (A. M.), inscriptions sent by 55, 72

Marshall (Capt. G. F. L.), member of Natural Eeeeora Com-
mittee ee eee ee 52
Mauritius, coin of 5

Medlicott (H. B.), exhibition of “Cases epeniiens fon
Afghanistan 8

3 3 exhibition of specimen of Rock salt from
Afghanistan sie 300 123
5 Bs remarks on M. Desgodins’ paper .. ao 199
ey BS remarks on 2nd vol. of Dr. Mii ae s “ Orissa” 86
55 re-elected President and member of Council 40
Meets. Monthly General . 1, 40, 49, 69, 85, 99, 118, 1389, 167, 195
Megalithic monuments in fore Arcot ECO 43
Members, election of 2, 41, 50, 70, 86, 99, 114, 139, 169, 195
Mimansa Darsana, progress of ee aa 27
Mitra coins ... 7, 43, 92

Mitra (Dr. R. L.), exhibition of Chinese inscription from Buddha
Gaya nb 140

s . exhibition of some very old “aa eae Mss.
and some ancient coins A

Fe . member of Finance, Library, Philological oe
Coins Committees Bie 51, 52, 53
note on Arakan coins 53

OE EE

216 Index.

Page
Mitra (Dr. R. L.) on an inscription from Bharhat —... eae 58
- 5 on coins, &e., sent by Lieut. Temple 509 89
i 3 on coins sent by Mr. V. A. Smith ... sr 119
‘3 ;; on copper-plate inscriptions from Sylhet cos 141
i 3 on inscriptions from Buddha Gaya ... cod Oy Lae
s as ona MS. of the Setubandha : ese 119
2d ze on medal sent by Mr. T. A. M. Gennoe 00 100
bs 5 re-elected Vice-President and member of
Council ... Soo 40
M4 remarks on coins of the Mitra agnasty Br 8
5 - remarks on paper on Calcutta water supplies ... 155
a e remarks on paper on identity of Upello and Upa-
plava whe 363 os 157
Mollusca... ome so sci3 183
se from between Mari and Thandiani nee a 203
- new species of Brackish-water ... 340 196
Monoliths in Sweden ak aoe ‘Ws 90
Moore and Hewitson’s Lepidoptera bce ses
Morphide a ee ree 1235
Morris (Hon. G. G.), withdrawal of 4s 390 100
Mullick (Benod Behary), elected an Ordinary Member re 169
Mussoorie, butterflies from oi 906 an 123
Naga weapons ate 105
Nag (Sib Chunder), aerted: an Ordinary Member Sat 169
Napier (J. R.), elected an Ordinary Member So5 se 195
Natural History Committee 6 205 hac 52
Neptis, 2 specimens of a large species of ae ee 123
» aida, female of 255 123
Nevill (G.), member of Library and Natural History Commnttseel 51, 52
s » on new species of Brackish-water Mollusca A 196
Newcomb (Prof.), “Astronomical Papers for the use of file
American Nautical Almanae’”’ by ; 41
Nicéville (L. de), list of Diurnal eepdontoral om the Amino 124
= - on a Lepidopterous Insect belonging to the
Genus Apatura ie Ee 80
oe Pe on Butterflies from the Andamans ae 102
Nicholson (R. W.) elected an Ordinary Member 508 ae 169
Nirmali 350 500 500 156
Nirukta 550 io aoe 50 88
Nongyang Lake, visit to .. ite 203

Obituary ee . eat 550 oe 22 |

Index. 217
Page
O’Brien (E.), withdrawal of 169
Odgoras, coin of 502 Bo mor 116
Officers, election of 40
O’Kinealy (Hon. J.), member of Philological ail Physical Soienes
Committees ay E 51, 52
Oldham (R. D.), elected an Outi Member 196
Paleolithic celt from Thandiani 175
Pali Inseription from Bharhat oe 58
Pandia (Pandit M. V.), compounds for his negrs subscriptions .., 169
af ss elected an Ordinary Member 139
Pandit (Prannath), member of Library and Philological Gant
mittees ss ce Bo 51, 52
Panjab, celt from the 175
Papilio antiphates 102
» Dravidarum : : ae 184
» irom South India das ab ... 184, 196
» lestrigonum 102
» mahadeva 184:
» morgant 196
» new species of 102
Pare-Angutri, rock-salt from near 123
Pargiter (F. E.), elected an Ordinary Mcmahon 08 tae 2
Parry (J. W.), elected an Ordinary Member ... eas 2
Parry (R.), withdrawal of 2
Pathan Kings, chronicles of the 183
Patron of the Society, Lord Ripon accepts ais OIE oo 140
Peal (S. E.), butterflies sent by 123
3 . drawings of hailstones by 103
7 member of Natural History Committee 52
Rs 55 on a visit to Nongyang lake 203
Pearse (Maj.-Gen. G. G.), on Bactrian and South Indian coins 115
Pedler (A.), appointed General Secretary, member of Council and
Trustee of the Indian Museum ‘ 88
a », member of Library and Physical Science Gommttcss 51, 52
5 » on the Calcutta water supplies 153
Pertinax, coin of a Bic ial
Phaguni-mitra, coins of dem I
Phayre Museum, coins from 53
Philological Committee ae oe BOC 51
Physical Science Committee 52
Porter (W.), removed from Member List andes Rules 37 and 38. 140

918 Index.

Page
Prakrit Grammar, exhibition of . At J 100
Prasad (Raja Siva), elected an Ordinary Member vbe 159
5 election cancelled 196

Praead Sing (Thakur Garur anise raja of Bikes, elected
an Ordinary Member . 506 ; 99
Pravarasena sic bee soe 119
Prehistoric Tumuli, Indian wae a 89
Presentations ... 1,40, 49, 69, 85, 99, 118, 1389, 167
President’s Address sei eal 35
Prithiraja Rasau, progress of 55 27
Pseudois vee ai i 42
Publications, report on a8 oe 24:
Pulmonifera at 183
Pughe (Robertson), weapons eae by 105
Radiometers, Crookes’ electrical Set 91
Rai (Bipina Chandra), elected an Ordinary Member Asc 70
Ramasetu-vivarana ee oat 120
Rama Tunka, a gold 115
Ramnagar, coins from ee 7
Ravanabadha-tika 120
Ravanavaho ans 120
oe Chaudhuri (htote Chantiea), elected an Ordinary Member 169
Raye (Dr. D. O’C.), withdrawal of BPs 169
Rewah, coins from : oa BLS, Ayal
Reynolds (H. W. W.), seca an Ordinary Mernber 139
Rhinoceros, on the dentition of 103
Richards (Dr. V.), withdrawal of 70
Rind Balochis 57
Ripon (Lord), Patron of ie Society 140
Rishikesh (Pandit), on the identity of Upello and Upaplind 157

Rivett-Carnac (H.), member of the Philological and Coins Com-
mittees .., 52, 53
Fs » Mitra coins sent by 7
4 » ona celt from Hurdui te 70
an », on Buddhist coins : 3 71
ie », on clay discs, spindle whorls, &c. ... 115
pe », on clay discs and votive seals S00 104
z », on coins found by Col. Berkeley . 118
os »» 00 coins found near the Grand Pride Roni 102
a », on coins from near Jellalabad and Rewah 170
a » on coins of the Sunga Dynasty 71

oe

Sircar (Dr. M. L.), member of Titres and | Phillogien Gon:
mittees ; eee

Index. 219
Page
Rivett-Carnac (H.), on letter from Chevalier Hans Hildebrandt ... 89
Rodgers (C. J.), on coins supplementary to Thomas’s “ Chronicles
of the Pathan kings” S60 . 57, 183
: »» on copper coins of Akbar 183
» on the coins of the Maharajas of Kangra 12
Rector (A. de), Butterflies sent by 123
5 56 Diurnal Lepidoptera collected by ... 124
Roman coins es ach Sea Sl fal:
Rudradatta, commentary uf 170
Rules, amendments to ... 87, 114
Safed Koh, Lagomys rufescens from... 173
Sage (H. M.), elected an Ordinary Member 169
Sankisa, clay discs, &c., from : 104
Sanpo River 200
Sassanians, coins of the 5
Satya-mitra, coin of ae ane 71
Schaffhausen’s (Prof.) ethnological queries . ae ae 2
Schroeder (Dr. L.), editor of the Maitrayani Samhita ron) ORLA)
Schlich (Dr. W.), member of Natural History Committee 550 52
Sconce (Lt.-Col. J.), appointed Scrutineer 21
Scott (Mr.), geological specimens sent by 3
Schwendler (L.), elected member of Council 40
AE » member of Natural History Committee 52
- », on the telephone .., 93
ui », on the use of a dynamo-electric Taneliine ue
telegraphic purposes 173
55 » Zoological notes by oo 50 55
Secretary’s Office, report on she 25
Semnopithecus entellus 55
- Septimus, coin of eel
Setubandha, MS. of the 119
Setuchandrika 120
Setupradipa 120
Setusarani : 119
Sherring (Rev. MC. A.), member of Gait Committee 53
Sher Shah, coin of ie 119
Sibsagar, butterflies from’ on 123
Sikandar Shah. Behlol, coin of 89
Siiver films 73

51

220 Index.

Page
Sirear (Dr. M. L.) translator of the Charaka tae ae 29
Siva Temple of Ganjai-Kondapuram oye 11
Smith (V. A.), on the History of pandelichanal eae 300 175
Ls » coins sent by are S50 118
Snake-worship in Sweden 5 ae 91
Societies, &c., exchanging publications! list of Be 29
Sonthal weapons £2 350 500 105
Soter Megas sec oie Ese 119
South Indian coins ee cee = 115
Spain, coin of ate veh ee 5
Spindle whorls ... ose oa: 5a 104
Srauta Sutras “53 aan Gis 170
Srayan-mitra, coins of = Bi 500 a
Stewart (Major), geological aaeuinene sent by 4

Stokes (Hon. Whitley), member of Library and Philological Gone
mittees a a a3 = 51
Strichnos potatorum Ea bis 156
Stubbs (Col. F. W_), TASaN: of Coins Gbmmittes bis 409 53
Sturt (Lieut. R. R. N.), elected an Ordinary Member sts 169
Sugdta Janapya ... uh isd 7 71
Sultanpur, inscription at ... 490 ha 10
Sunga dynasty, coins of s, sere condi Asal
Sun-spot cycle 5 ae ae 12
Surya-mitra, coins of an se oot ae Chae:
Stryaprajnapti ae seh a 124
Svastika si ay se atk 72
Swedish Remains ae 89
Swynnerton (Rev. C.), sins an Ordinary Mesiber 203 a4) 169
55 5 on a sculptured stone pendant ae 196
5 on a paleolithie celt from Thandiani ae 175
Sykes . G. W.), elected an Ordinary Member ‘00 pee 99
Symbolical coins of Arakan ro ee
Tabaqat-i Nasiri, progress of ws ae ane 26
Taittiriya Samhita, progress of 27

Tal Chotiali Field F orce, on seek, found along the route
of the ise si ahs 57
Tanner (Major), geological Secumene sent by boa 3
Tarikh-ul-Khulfa 5) Pash (Shs)
Tawney (C. H.) member of Tabrary: and “Philological Comimnittecs 51
. », re-elected Vice-President and member of Council 40

_ » translator of the Katha Sarit Ségara, ae 29

Index. 221
Page
Taylor (Com. A. D.), member of Physical Science Committee 52
Telephone ile Aco 93
Temple (Lieut. R. C.), coins, &e., sent by 89
a A on an Sein helmet 171

5 7 on Weenane found along the rate of he
Tal Chotiali Field Force 57
= rf on an Inscription at Sultanpur 10
Templeton (C.), butterflies sent by ... 123
Ten-chandra, coins of f 53

Tennant (Col. J. F.), member of Library, Physical Science al
Coins Committees ‘ 51, 52, 53
as us on Newcomb’s ‘“ Astronomical Papers AL
3 3 on the verification of weights 600 42,
Thandiani, celt from 175
. mollusca from between Mari and 903
Theobald (W.), on mollusca from between Mari and Tanda 203
Thibaut (Dr. G.), member of Philological Committee ... 51
a on the Stryaprajnapti 124
Thibet, Blue Sheep of 42
», on the eastern frontier of ce see 196

Thomas’ “ Chronicles of the Pathan kings,” coins supplementary
to ae . 57, 183
Travancore, trochalopterum from 184:
Trochalopterum, from Travancore 184
As Sairbanke 184
meridionale 184
Tumuli, Indian prehistoric¢ oe 89
Tufnell (Lieut. R. C.), elected an Ordinary Member ue 50
Upaplava, on the identity of Upello with 157
Upello with Upaplava, on the identity of 1 157
Vaisakha Deva, coins of ee 71
Vaisali dynasty, coins of the Oi 53
Varaha coin : 119
Varmma, coins of 71
Vayu Purana, progress of rf
Viceroy, Patron of the Society 600 140
Vijaya, coins of as 5A
Vijaya-mitra, coin of ae all
Vijayanuggur dynasty, coins of re 115
Virata -: 157
Vishnu Sutra 88
Vizianagram (Raja of), deed an Ordinary Member 70

299, Index.

Votive seals
Waldie (D.), appointed Soeutneer
2) ”
Committees soe
re-elected member of Council is dn
», remarks on paper on Calcutta water supplies
Walker (Maj.-Gen. J. T.), member of Library and Physical Science

” 93

Committees
5 * re-elected member of Gouna
5 remarks on M. Desgodins’ paper
Waller (Dr. W. K.), member of Library Committee... see
Waterhouse (Major J.), letters regarding the Blochmann Memorial
from oars
Water supplies of Caleta bo tee
Webb (W. T.), withdrawal of
Weights, verification of standard... ee ay
Westland (J.), appointed Auditor Af aa
. » member of Finance Cammittes A
= », re-elected Vice-President and member of Gauci
a » remarks on an Afghan helmet sent by Lieut.
Temple ove 913
White (Hon. J. S.), withdrawal of . ot S35

Wilson (Hon. A.), elected an Orava y Member

Wood-Mason (J.), exhibition of Butterflies from the Adlaivanees

exhibition of Butterflies from the Andamans,
Mussoorie and Sibsagar *

exhibition of rat from the Safed Koh Rade bb

exhibition of specimens of Papilio from South
India

list of Diurnal Lepidopteta! fr om the Andamans

on Papilio from South India a

on the female of Hebomoia Roepstorffii see

ord Pr]

As » on the Lepidopterous genus Aimona :
. » on the nectar-glands of Aphelandra Be
es » on the species of Choeradodis sh
sf », Yve-elected Natural History Secretary and mem-.
ber of Council —
Woolar Lake, inscription from ae oh i,
Yusafzai valley, fragment of sculpture from ... 260
Zontide ee tee os

Zoological notes “ae ee tee

member of Natural History and Biya Science .-

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114

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200

170
153
196
42
40
51
40

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102

125
173

196
124
184
184
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_ [APPENDIX. ]

LIST OF MEMBERS

OF THE

ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL.

Pr THE 31ST PECEMBER_1879.

List OF (ORDINARY (VE MiBEinveS:

eee

Oo

R. = Resident. N. R. = Non-Resident. N. S. = Non-Subscribing.
L. M. = Life Members. F. M. = Foreign Members.

OO Oe

N. B.—Members who have changed their residence since this list was drawn
up, are requested to give intimation of such a change to the Secretaries, in order

that the necessary alteration may be made in the subsequent edition.
\ A q

Errors or

omissions in the following list should also be communicated to the Secretaries.

Members who are about to leave India and do not intend to return, are parti-
cularly requested to notify to the Secretaries, whether it be their desire to continue
as members of the Society, otherwise, in accordance with Rule 40 of the Bye-laws,
their names will be removed from the list at the expiration of three years from the
time of their leaving India.

Date of Election.

1860 Dec.

5.
1868 Sept. 2.

1878 Mar. 6.
1860 July 4.
1872 April 3.
1860 April 4.

LS alerrune nese
1878 Mar. 6.

1874 June 3.
1865 Jan. 11.

1875 June
1875 Feb.

1877 June
1877 July

1869 Feb.
1870 Feb. 2.
1873 Aug. 6.
1862 Feb. 5.
i

1865 Nov.

co bo

6
4
1871 Sept. 6.
3

R.

N.R.

R.

N.R.
N.R.
N.R.
N.R.

N.R.

N.S

ELM.

N.R.

ev eu

N.R.
N.R.

N.RK. |
N.R.

EM.

Abdul-Latif, Khan Bahadur, Maulawi. Caleuwtta.

Adam, R. M., Depy. Commissioner, Salt Revenue.
Madras.

Adharlal Sen, B. a., Babu. Calcutta.

Ahmad Khan Bahadur, Sayyid, c. s. 1.

Ahsan-ullah, Nawab. Dacca.

Aitchison, J. E. T., Mm. D,, Surgeon-Major, 29th N. I.
Talagong.

Alexander, J. W., Mayo College.
tand.

Allen, G. W., c. 1. E, Pioneer Press, Allahabad.

Amir Ali, Sayyid, Barrister at Law.

Anderson, John, M. D., F. R. 8., F. L. 8., Superintendent,
Indian Museum. Hurope.

Apear, J. G., Barrister at Law. Calcutta.

Armstrong, J., Surgeon, Beng. Army. Marine Survey
Department.

Arnold, Henry Kerchever Walter. Calcutta.

Ashgar Ali Khan, Nawab Diler Jang Bahadir, c. s. 1,
Calcutta.

Atkinson, Edwin Felix Thomas, B. a., c. s., Offg. Acct.
General, N. W. PR. Allahabad.

Attar Singh Bahadur, Sirdar, c.1.8., M.u.¥., Chief of
Bhadour. Ludiana.

Aligarh.

Ajmere, Rajpoo-

Baden-Powell, Baden Henry, oc. s., Conservator of
Forests. Lahore.

Badgley, Major William Francis, s. c., Offg. Deputy
Superintendent of Surveys. Shillong.

Baisak, Babu Gaurdas, Depy. Magistrate. Burisal.

Ball, Valentine, M. a., F. G. s., Geol. Survey of India.
Geological Survey Office. Europe.

Date of Election.

1860 Nov. 1.
1876 June 7.

1878 July 3.
LS CIMDec aa
1879 Aug. 28
1860 July 4.

1859 May 4.

1878 June 5.
1878 Feb. 5.

1864 Sept. 7.
1878 Sept.25.

1862 Oct. 8. !

1872 Aug. 7.
- 1876 Nov. 15.

1878 Oct. 4.
1879 Mar. 5.

1875 July 7.
Noa} IDee. 3).

1857 Mar. 4.
1859 Aug. 3.
1873 April 2.
1879 Aug. 28.
1877 May 2.

1876 Nov.15.
1868 Jan. 15.

1876 May 4.
1860 Mar. 7.
1872 June 5.
1879 Jan. 8.
1866 Nov. 7. |

N.R.
N.R.
N.R.

LL.M.

N.R.

N.R.
N.R.

N.R.

NR.
NR.

L.M.
F.M.

N.R.

N.S.
N.S.

N.R.

R.
N.R.

N.R.

ill

Banerjea, Rev. Kristno Mohun, tn. p. Culeutta.
Baness, John Frederick, Chief Draftsman, Surveyor

General’s Office. Calcutta.
Barbe, H. lL. St. c. s. Indore.
Barker, R. A., Mm. a., Civil Surgeon. Bogra.
Barkley, D.G., mu. a., co 8s. Jullundur.

Batten, George Henry Maxwell, c.s., Barrister at Law.
Calcutta.

Bayley, Edward Clive, The Hon. Sir, B. c. 8., K. c. 8. L,
Cc. 1. E. Hurope.

Bayley, C.S.,0.s. HRaneegunge.

Bayne, R. R., M. B. I. B. A., Draughtsman, Chief En-
gineer’s Office, H. I. Railway. Calcutta.

Beames, John, B.c.s., Magistrateand Collector. Hughli.

Beighton, T. D., c. s., District and Sessions Judge.
Beerbhoom.

Bernard, Charles Edward, c. s., Secy. to the Govt. of
India, Home, Rev. and Agril. Department. Calcutta.

Beverley, Henry, Mm. A., c. 8., Offg. District and Ses-
sions Judge, 24-Pergunnahs. Calcutta.

Beveridge, Henry, c. 8., District and Sessions Judge.
Patna.

Bhakta, Babu Krishna Gopal. Calcutta.

Biddulph, Major J., B. 8. c., Officer on special duty.
Gilgit, Kashmir.

Black, F. C., Asst. Hngineer. Hamirpur, N. W. P.

Blackburn, J., Manager, Oriental Gas Company.
Calcutta.

Blantford, H. F., a. 8. 8s. M., F. @. 8., Meteorological
Reporter, Govt. of India. Calcutta.
Blanford, W. T., a. RB. 8. M., F B.8., F. é. 8., Depy.
Supdt., Geological Survey of India. Hurope.
Blissett, T., Superintendent, Telegraph Stores. Magpur.
Blyth, W.D.,B.4.,0.8., Magte.,24-Pergunnahs. Calcutta,
Bovrdillon, James Austin, c. s., Offg. Inspector Ge-
neral of Registration. Culcutta.

Bowie, Major M. M. urope.

Boxwell, John, c. s., Offg. Deputy Commissioner,
Hurope.

Bradshaw, Surgeon-Major A. F.,
Commander-in-Chiet. Svmla.

Brandis, Dietrich, pH. D., Inspector General of Forests.

Surgeon to the

Calcutta.
Brooks, W. E., c. £., Supdg. Engineer, H. I. Railway.
Muddapur.

Browne, J. F., c. 8., M. BR. A. S., Offg. District and Ses-
sions Judge, 24-Pergunnahs.. Calcutta.

Browne, Col. Horace Albert, Commissioner of Pegu.
Ltangoon.

iv

Date of Election.

1871 Sept. 6.
5.

1879 Mar.

1879 April 2.
1869 Jan. 20.
5),

1873 Mayr.

1876 Noy. 15.

1875 April 4.
5.

I,

1879 Nov.
1861 Mar.

1874 Aug.
1877 Aug.
1878 Feb.

1878 May.
1877 Mar.

1874 Nov.
1876 Mar.
1877 June

1874 Mar.
1877 Feb.

1873 Aug.

1847 June

18783 Dec.

1877 June
1865 June
1871 June

5.

30.

o>

- ND

=

Sadar ae stl

o

1879 April 2
1869 April 7.
1856 June 4.
1872 Aug. 7.
1869 Oct. 6.

SUSU GD . oe

N.R.

e~

a
Ey

ze :

N.R.
N.R.

.| Cadell, Alan, B. A., c. s., Settlement Officer.

Wn bm Ron By

.| Das, Raja Jaykissen, Bahadur, c. s. 1.

Buckle, H., Deputy Commissioner. Zounghoo, Burmah.
Buckland, C. E., c. s. Caleutta.

Caleutta, The Rt. Rev., the Lord Bishop of. Calcutta.

Banda.

Cappel, A. J. L, Depy. Director General of Tele-
graphs. COaleutta.

Cayley, Surgeon-Major H., Surgeon, Mayo Native
Hospital. Calcutta.

Chambers, Dr. E. W. Calcutta.

Charles, T. E., M. D., F. B. Cc. P. Calcutta.

Chaudhuri, Babu Harachandra, Zamindar.
Maimansingh.

Chennell, A. W., Asst. Surveyor, Survey Dept. Hurope.

Clarke, Capt. Henry Wilberforce, nr. £., Depy. Con-
sulting Engr., Govt. of India, for Guaranteed
tailways. Calcutta.

Clarke, Colonel the Hon’ble Sir A., 8. E., KC. M. G.,
c.B,¢C.1.E. Calcutta.

Cockerell, The Hon’ble H. A. Calcutta.

Colvin, The Hon. Bazett Wetenhall, c. s., Member of
the Governor-General’s Couneil. Calcutta.

Constable, Archibald, Personal Asst. to Chief Engi-
neer, Railway Dept. Lucknow.

Crawfurd, James, B. A., C. 8., Barrister at Law, Re-
eistrar, High Court. Calcutta

Croft, A. W., m. 4., Director of Public Instruction.
Calcutta.

Crombie, Alexander, M. D., Civil Surgeon. Dacca.

Crooke, William, c. s., Offg. Joint Magistrate. Glo-
rakhpur.

Cunningham, David Douglas, M. B., Special Asst. to
the Sanitary Commissioner with the Govt. of
India. Calcutta.

Sherpur,

.| Dalton, Major-General Edward Tuite, c. 8.1, 8. c.

(retired). Queen Anne’s Mansions, St. James’s
Park, S. W. London.

.| Dames, Mansel Longworth, c. s., Asst. Commissioner.

Rajanpur, Punjab,
Darbhanga Maharaja of. Darbhanga.
Moradabad.
Das, Babu Ramkrishna. Calcutta.
Das, Babu Ram Saran, mM. a. Hyzabad, Oudh.
Day, Dr. Francis, F. t. 8., F. z. 8. Hurope.
DeBourbel, Lieut.-Col. Raoul, Rk. u. Hurope.
Dejoux, P. Kurope.
Delmerick, J. G., Extra Asst. Commissioner,
balla City.

Am-

Vv

Date of Election.

nS dee
1862 May 7.
1853 Sept. 7.
1870 May 4.
1875 Mar. 38.
1878 May 2.
1875 Mar. 3.
1879 Feb. 5.
1873 Aug. 6.
1877 Aug. 30.

1873 April 2.

1870 Mar.
1863 May

1879 Mar.
1874 Dec.

1871 Dee.
1871 Oct.
1859 Dee.

8.
6.

5.
2.

2.
4
Ue

1863 Jan. 15.

1876 Jan.

1876 July
1868 May

1879 July

1869 Sept.

1872 Dee.

1869 Sept.
1867 Sept.

1873 Dec.

1871 Aug.
1874 July

5.

heer en

os

Fea,

N.R.
N.R.

N.S.

ME
N.R.

R

N.R.

N.R.
N.B.

N.R.
N.R.

N.R.
N.R.

NS.

Dennys, H.L., Dist. Supdt.of Police. Sambalpur, C. P.

Dhanapati Singh Dughar, Rai Bahadur. Azimgany.

Dickens, Major-General Craven Hildesley, RB. a., C. 8. 1.,
Hurope.

Dobson, G. H., B. a. M. B., F. L. 8., Royal Victoria
Hospital. Netley. Southampton.

Dodgson, Walter. Aangpur.

Donaldson, P. Calcutta.

Douglas, J., Offg. Supdt. of Telegraphs. Calcutta.

Duthie, J. F., Superintendent, Govt. Botanical Gar-
dens. Saharunpore.

Dutt, Babu Jogesh Chunder. Calcutta.

.| Dutt, Babu Kedarnath, Personal Asst. to the Raj-

shahye Commissioner. ampore Bauleah.
Dutt, Babu Umesh Chunder. Calcutta.

Edinburgh, H. R. H. The Duke of. Hurope.

.| Edgar, John Ware, c. 8., c. 8S. 1, Offg. Magistrate

and Collector. Shahabad, L. P.
Ketvelde, Evan, Consul General for Belgium. Calcutta.

.| Egerton, The Hon. Robert Hyles, c. 8., K. c. 8. L.,

c. I. E., Lieut.-Governor of the Panjab. Lahore.
Eliot, J., m. a., Meteorological Reporter to Govt.
of Bengal. Calcutta.

.| Hvezard, Col. G. E. Deesa, Gujarat.

Fath Ali, Maulawi. Calcutta.

Fedden, Francis, Asst., Geological Survey of India.
Geol. Survey Office. Calcutta.

Feistmantel, Ottokar, Mm. p., Palaontologist, Geologi-
eal Survey of India. Calcutta.
Foulkes, The Rev. Thos., Chaplain. Bangalore.
Field, Charles Dickenson, M. A., LL. D., c. s., Barrister
at Law, District Sessions Judge. Burdwan.
Finucane, M., c. s., Settlement Officer. Darbhanga.
Fisher, John Hadden, c. s., Depy. Commissioner.
Jabalpur.

Forbes, Major John Greenlaw, rn. 5., Supdg. Engineer,
N. W. P. & Oudh [rrigation Branch. Lucknow.

Fryer, Major G. E., Depy. Commissioner, Tavoy
District. 8B. Burmah.

Fyfe, The Rev. W. C., m. a., Principal, Free Church
College. Hurope.

R.| Gamble, J. S., B. a., Asst. to Inspector General of

%.) Gangaprasad, Munshi, Depy. Collector.

Forests. Darjiling.
Jaunpur.
Gardner, David Mason, c. s., Offg. Magistrate and

Collector. Azamgarh.

vl

Date of Election.

1879 Mar. 5.
1859 Aug. 3.
1867 Dec. 4.
1877 Aug. 30.
1871 May 3.
1877 Dec. 5.
1869 Feb. 3.
1870 May 4.
1875 July 7.
1861 Feb. 5.
1862 July 2.
1869 July 7.
1875 July 7.

1863 Nov. 4.

1879 Jan.

Su ee)

1877 Nov.

1876 Nov. 15.
1861 Sept. _4.
1878 May 2.
1861 Feb. 6.
1875 Jan. 6.
1867 July 3.
1879 Mar. 5.
1861 Feb. 2.
1877 Sept. 27.
1875 Mar. 3.
1879 Mar. 5.
1875 Aug. 4.
1872 Dec. 4.
1878 Mar. 6.

N.S.

L.M.
N.R.

R.

N.R.

R.
R

N.R.
FM.
NR.
NR.

N.S

FM.

N.R.
L.M.

N.R.
N.R.

N.R.
N.h.

N.S.

Garrett, A. W., mM. A., Inspector of Schools, Presy.
Circle. KHurope.

Gastrell, Major-General James Eardley (retired).
7, Landsowne Road, Wimbledon.

Gay, EH. mM. a., c. s., Depy. Comptroller General.
Bombay.

Ghosha, Babu Jnanendra Chandra. Calcutta.

Ghosha, Babu Kaliprasanna. Calcutta.

Ghosha, Dr. Krishna Dhana. Rungpur.

Ghosha, Babu Pratapachandra, B. a. Oaleutta.

Ghoshal, Raja Satyanand. Calcutta.’

Girdlestone, Charles Edward Ridgway, c.s. Resi-
dent. Katmandu, Nepal.

Godwin-Austen, Lieut.-Colonel H. H., F.z.8.,F.R. G8.
United Service Club, St. James’, London.

Gordon, Robert, c. ©., Executive Engineer, P. W. D.,
Henzada, B. Burmah.

Gordon, James Davidson, c. s., ¢. 8. 1., Offg. Chief
Commissioner. J/ysore.

Gouldsbury, J. R. EH. urope.

Gowan, Major-General J. Y. Woodlands, Wimbledon,
London.

Gowan, Capt. W. E., 21st Nat. Infy. Karam Valley.

Grant, Alexander, mM. Tt. c. E., Director of State Rail-
ways. Hurope.

Grierson, George Abraham, c. 8., Offg. Joint Magis-
trate. Mladhubani, Darbhanga.

Griffin, Lepel Henry, B. c. 8., Depy. Commissioner
and Offg. Secy. to the Govt. of the Punjab. Lahore.

Griffith, R. Allahabad.

Growse, Frederick Salmon, M. a., c. 8., c. I. E., Joint
Magistrate. Bulandshahr, N. W. P.

Gunn, John Sutherland, m. B., Surgeon, 4th Bengal
Cavalry.

.| Hacket, Charles Augustus, Asst., Geol. Survey of

India.
Harraden, 8. Calcutta.

.| Harrison, A.S., B. a., Principal, Muir Central College.

Allahabad.
Hart, J., Attorney at Law. Calcutta.

.| Hendley, Dr. Thomas Holbein, Residency Surgeon.

Jaipur, Rajputana.

.| Herschel, Major J., Survey of India. Dehra Dun.

Hewitt, James Francis Katherinus, c. s, Commis-
sioner. Chota Nagpur. —

Hoernle, Rev. A. F. R., pH. p., Cathedral Mission
College. Calcutta.

.| Hoey, W. Lucknow, Oudh.

Vil

Date of Election.

1873 Jan. 8.
1863 Jan. 15.
1867 Aug. 7.
1866 Jan. 17.
1878 Sept. 25.
1870 Jan. 5.
1872 Dee.

1866 Mar.
1871 Mar.

1874 Feb.
1878 May

PI i> = Woes

1876 July 5.

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1879 Mar.

1879 Aug.
1866 Feb.
1862 Mar.

Pe NES

1867 Dee.

1878 Aug.
1873 Dec.

wy

1873 April
1875 Nov. 3.
1869 April 7.

1878 Mar. 6.
1874 Dee. 2.

1867 Dee. 4.
1862 Jan. 15.
1875 Dec. 1.

1877 Jan. 17.

L.M.| Houstoun, G. L., F. a. s. Johnstone Castle, Ren-
Srewshire, Scotland.
N.R.| Howell, Mortimer Sloper, c. s., Joint Magistrate.
Hamirpur.
N.R.| Hughes, T. H., a. B. 8. M., F. a. 8., Asst., Geol. Survey
of India. Autnd.
N.R.| Hughes, Captain W. G., mu. 8. c., Depy. Commissioner,
Hill Tracts. Arracan.
N.R.| Hughes, G., c. s., Assistant Commissioner. Montgo-
mery, Panjab.
R. | Hume, Allan Octavian, c. B., c. 8. Calcutta.
N.R.| Ibbetson, Denzil Charles Jelf, c. s., Asst. Commis-
sioner, Karnal, Panjab.
N.R.| Irvine, William, c. s., Joint Magistrate. Ghazipur.
N.S. | Isaac, T.S., c. =. Hurope.
N.S. | Jackson, Surgeon Major Charles Julian. Hwrope.
R. | Jackson, The Hon’ble L. S., Judge, High Court.
Calcutta.
N.R.| Jarrad, Lieut. F. W., 8. N., F. R. A. S., Depy- Super-
intendent, Marine Survey Dept.
Jarrett, Major H.S., B. s. c., Secy. to the Board of
Examiners. Calcutta.
F.M.| Joest, Herr W. Cologne.
N.R.| Johnson, W. H., c. £., Barrackpore.
N.R.| Johnstone, Major James William Hope, Offg. District
and Sessions Judge. Peshawar.
N.R.} Johnstone, Lieut.-Col. James, Political Agent. dZanz-
pur, Assam.
W.R.| Johnstone, P. DeLacy, Depy. Commr. Svalkote.
N.R.| Johore, H. H., Maharaja of, k.c. 8.1. New Johore,
Singapore.
N.R.| Jones, Frederick, c. s., Magistrate and Collector.
Tipperah.
N.R.| Jones, Samuel Simpson, B. a., c. s., Asst. Commis-
sioner. ajmehal,
R. | Kabiruddin Ahmad, Maulawi. Calcutta.
INR. | Keene, G. Hl, cosy » Agrax
N.R.| Khudabakhsh Khan, Maulawi. Patna.
R. | King, G., Mm. B., F. L. 8., Supdt., Royal Botanical
Gardens. Szbpur, Calcutta.
N.R.| King, W., Jr., B. A., F. G. 8.. Depy. Supdt. for Madras,
Geol. Survey of India. Geol. Surv. Office.
R. | Knight, Hon'ble J. B., oc. 1.8. Calcutta.
N.R,} Kashor, Kumara Radha Deb, Juvraj of Hill Tipperah.
Tipperah,

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Date of Election.

1877 Sept. 27.
1878 Aug. 7
1879 Dee. 3
1870 July 6
1879 Mar. 5
1873 Feb. 5

1864 Novy.
1866 Jan.
1869 July

1876 May 4.
1875 Jan. 6.
1870 April 6.
1866 June 6.
1876 Dec. 6.

1879 Feb.
1873 Dee.

1848 April 5.

1879 Aug.28.
1865 Dec. 2.

1874 Jan. 7.
1867 April 3.

1876 Dec. 6.
1878 April 3.

1864 July 6.
1869 Sept. 1.
1872 Nov. 6.
1877 Dee. 5.
1869 July 7.
1873 July 2.
1873 Aug. 6.

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L.M.
N.S.
N.R.
N.R.

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N.R.

N.R.
| N.R.

.| Low, James, Surveyor, G. T. Survey.

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.| LaTouche, James John Digges, B. a., c. s., Offg. Joint

Magistrate. uttra.

.| Lawrie, Dr. E. Lahore.
.| Leonard, G. 8., Asst. Traffic Supdt., N. B. State Ry.

Saidpur.

Lethbridge, E. Roper, M. a., ©. 1. E. Europe.

Levinge, H. C., c. £., Joint Secy. to the Govt. of
Bengal, D. P. W. Calcutta.

Lewis, Timothy Richards, M. B., Special Asst. to
Sanitary Commissioner with Govt. of India.
Calcutta.

Locke, H. H., Principal, School of Art. Caleutta.

B. Burmah.

Lyall, Charles James, B. A., c. s., Under Secretary,
Govt. of India, Home, Rev. and Agril. Dept.
Europe.

Lyall, John M., Messrs. Lyall, Rennie and Co.
cutta.

Lydekker, Richard, Asst., Geol. Survey of India.
Geological Survey Office, Calcutta,

Lyman, B. Smith. Japan.

Oal-

Macdonald, Lieut.-Col. J., B. s. c., Depy. Superin-
tendent of Surveys. Hurope.

Macdonald, J. C., Supdt., Tarai District.
Tal.

Macgregor, Lieut. C. R. Shillong.

McLeod, Surgeon-Major Kenneth, m. p., Secretary to
the Surgeon-General, Indian Medical Dept. Ca/-
cutta.

Maclagan, Major-General Robert, B.5.,F.R.S.B., F.R.G.S.
Europe.

Maconachie, R., c. s., Settlement Officer. Delhi.

Macauliffe, Michael, zB. a., c. s., Depy. Commissioner.
Muzaffargarh, Punjab.

Magrath, Charles Frederick, B. a., c. s., Joint Magis-

Nynee

trate. Hurope.
Mainwaring, Lieut.-Col. George Byres, s.c. Seram-
pur.
Malleson, Col. G. B., c. s.1. Europe.
Mallet, F. R., Geological Survey of India. Europe.
Mallik, Babu Devendra. Calcutta.
Mallik, Babu Yadulal. Calcutta.

Man, E. H., Asst. Supdt.
Mandell, L. Darjeeling.
Markham, Alexander Macaulay, c. s., Offg. Magistrate
and Collector. Allahabad.
Marshall, C. W. Gonatra, Synthea.
Marshall, Lieut.-Col. William Elliot.

Port Blair, Andamans.

Ferozepore.

Date of Election.

1877 Feb.
1876 Jan.

1860 Mar.
1877 Mar.
1871 Sept.

1870 July
1874 May

1875 Aug.
1856 Mar.

1876 Dee.
1874 July

1854 Dee.

1878 May
1864 Nov.

1879 May
1867 Mar.

1876 May

1865 Feb.
1869 July

1871 July

1879 Mar.
1874 Oct.

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7
5.
5
4,

1879 Aug.28.

1873 Aug.

1873 Aug.

1862 May

1879 Mar.
1871 Dec.

6.
6.
Oe

5.
6.

.| McGregor, W., Supdt. Telegraphs.

.| Muir, J. W., M. A., c. 8., Barrister at Law.

.| Nursing Rao, A. V.

.| O’Brien, E., c. s., Settlement Officer.

Marshall, Capt. Geo. Fred. Leycester, pr. u., Asst.
Secy., Govt. of India, P. W. D. Calcutta.

Dhubri, Assam.

Medlicott, H. B., M. a., F. RB. 8., F. 4. 8., Supdt., Geo-
logical Survey of India. Calcutta.

Medlycott, The Rev. Adolphus Edwin, pu.
3, Cullen Place, Howrah.

‘Ds,

.| Miles, Lieut.-Colonel S. B., s. ¢., Consul-General.

Bagdad.
Miller, A. B.,B. a., Barrister at Law, Official Assignee.

Calcutta.

.| Minchin, F. J. V. Aska, Ganjam.

Minchin, Lieut.-Col. C. C., Political Agent and Supdt.,
Bahawalpur State. Murope.

Mitra, Rajendralala, Babu, Rai Bahadur, ¢. 1. 5, Lu. D.

Calcutta.

Mockler, Major H., Political Agent. Europe.

Molesworth, G. L.,c.&., Consulting Engineer to Govt.

of India for State Railways. Calcutta.

Morris, The Hon’ble George Gordon, B. c. s., Judge,

High Court. Calcutta.

Moyle, J. C., Barrister at Law, High Court. Calcutta,

Mukerjea, Babu Bhudeva, Inspector of Schools.

Chinsurah.

Main-

puri, VN. W. P.

Mukerjea, Babu Pearimohan, m. a., Pleader, High

Court. - Uttarpara.

Nash, A. M., m. a., Professor, Presidency College.
Calcutta.

Nevill, G., c. M. z. s., Indian Museum.
‘izagapatam.

Calcutta.

.| Oaves, E. W., c. E., Engineer, P. W. D., Garrison

Div., Sittang Canal. Bangoon, Pequ.

Muzaffargarh.

O’Kinealy, The Hon’ble James, c. 38., District and
Sessions Judge, 24-Pergannahs. Calcutta.

Oldham, Surgeon-Major C. F., r.R.4.8., c/o Messrs.
Grindlay and Co. Calcutta.

.| Olpherts, W. J., c. E., Resident Engr., H. I. Railway. ~

Benares.

Parker, J. C., Custom House Agent. Calcutta.

Partridge, Surgeon-Major Samuel Bowen, mM. D.
Hurope.

Pawsey, R., c. 8., Collector. Cuttack.

Peal, 8. H., Manager, Sapakati Tea Estate. Hurope.

Date of Election.

1860 Feb.

iI
1873 Aug. 6.| R.
1864 Mar. 2. | N.R.
1865 Sept. 6. | N.R. |
1877 Aug. 1. | F.M.
1868 May 6.|N.R.
1835 July 1. | F.M.
1875 Feb. 3. | N.R.
1872 Dec. 4.| R.
1878 Feb. 6.| R.
1874 Dec. 2.) N.S.
1878 Aug.29. | N.R. |
1877 May 2.|N.R.
1868 April 1. | N.R.
1876 July 5.| R.
1877 Aug. 1.| N.R.
1871 July 5.| N.S.
1872 April 3. | N.R.
1860 Jan. 3. |N.R.
1863 April 1. | N.R.
1878 Sept.25. | R.
1865 Feb. 1.| R.
1876 Dec. 6.| N.S.
1870 Jan. 5. | N.R.
1877 May 2.|N.R
1878 Jan. 2.| R.
1870 May 4.|N.R
1879 May 7:| N.S.
1869 Feb. 3.| R.
1879 Feb. 5.| BR.
1876 July 5. | N.S.
1874 July 1. |N.R.
1874 Dec. 2. | N.R.
1879 Jan. 8.| F.M.

CO

N.R.| Pearse, Lieut.-Col. G. G. Bangalore.

Pedler, Alexander, Professor of Chemistry, Presidency

College. Calcutta.
Pellew, Fleetwood Hugo, c. s., Offg. Commissioner.
Dacca.

Peppe, T. E. Ranchi.

Peters, C. T., M. B., Offg. Civil Surgeon.

Peterson, F. W., Bombay Mint. Bombay.

Phayre, Lieut.-G., Sir Arthur Purves, K. c. 8. I., Cc. B.
Mauritius.

Porter, W., Asst. Supdt. of Police. <Ahyab.

Prannath Sarasvati, Pandit, mM. a.,B.u. Bhowanipur

Prinsep, the Hon’ble H. T., Judge of the High Court
Calcutta.

Protheroe, Major M. Europe.

Zanzibar.

Rangoon, Right Rev., Bishop of. Rangoon.

Ravenshaw, Thomas Edw., c. s., Commissioner of
Burdwan Division. Chinsurah.

Rai, Raja, Pramathanath. Dzgapati.

Raye, D. O’Connell, m. p., 1st Resdt. Surgeon, Presi-
deney General Hospital. Oalcutta.

Rees, J. C., Asst. Engr. P. W. D. Phonzai, B. Burmah.

Reid, James Robert, c. s. Hurope.

Richards, Dr. Vincent. Goalundo.

Rivett-Carnac, John Henry, ¢. 8., ¢. I. E., Opium Agent.
Ghazipur.

Robertson, Charles, c. s., Secretary to the Govt.,
N. W. P. and Oude. Allahabad.

Robertson, Rev. J., Principal, Doveton College.
cutia.

Robinson, 8S. H. Calcutta.

Rodon, Lieut. G. S., Royal Scots. Hurope.

Ross, Major Alexander George, Staff Corps, 2nd in
Comd., Ist Sikh Infy. Dera Ghazi Khan, Panjab.

Cal-

Sandford, W., Assistant Traffic Manager, Nizam’s
State Railway. Secunderabad, Deccan.

Sawyer, Capt. H. A., Military Department. Calcutta.

-| Schlich, Dr. W. Darjiling.

Schroder, J. Hwrope.

Schwendler, L., Telegraph Store Department.
cutta.

Sconce, Lt.-Col. J., B. 8. c.

Scott, Ross, c. s. Hurope.

Scully, Dr. John, Residency Surgeon.
mir.

Sen, Dr. Ram Das.

Sewell, R., M. 8. c.

Cal-
Calcutta.
Gilgit, Kash-

Berhampur.
Europe.

Date of Election.

1878 May 2.
1879 May 7.
1878 April 3.
1876 April 5.
1878 Oct. 4.
1869 Feb. 3.
1853 Dec. 7.
1859 Aug. 3.
1877 Aug.30.
1867 April 3.
1872 Aug. 7.

1864 Sept. 7.

1875 Feb. 8.
1865 July 5.
1874 June 3.

1879 Mar. 5.
1878 Mar. 6.
1877 April 4.

1872 July 3.
1879 Oct. 2.
1875 July 7.
1876 Aug. 2.
1861 Sept. 4.
1869 Heb. 3.
1859 Mayr. 2.

1864 Aug.11.
1871 Mar. 1.
1871 Jan. 4.
1868 June 3.
1865 Sept. 6.
1865 April 5.
1874 Mar. 4.
1860 May 2.
1878 June 5.
1876 Feb. 2.

1875 June 2.
1869 Oct. 6.

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N.S. | Sharpe, C. J. Hurope.
N.R.} Sheridan, C. J., c. &. Jhansi.
R. | Simson, A. Calcutta.
R. | Singh, Kumara Kantichandra. Calcutta.
N.R.| Singh, Raja Lachman. Bulandshahar.
N.R.| Singh, Giriprastd, Thakur. Biswan Fort, Allighar.
N.R.| Singh, Raja Isvariprasad, Bahadur. Benares.
R. | Sinha, Babu Balaichand. Calcutta.
N.R.| Singha, Pratapanarayan, Deputy Magte. Bankoora.
R. | Sirkar, Dr. Mahendralala. Calcutta.
N.R.| Skrefsrud, Rev. L. O., India Home Mission to the
Santhals. Dumka, Santhal Purgunnahs.
N.S. | Sladen, Lieut.-Col. E. B., um. s. c., Commissioner,
Arracan Division. Hurope.
N.S. | Smidt, John. Hurope.
R. | Smith, David Boyes, u. p., Medical College. Calcutta.
N.R.| Smith, Vincent Arthur, c.s., Asst. Settlement Officer.
Hamirpur, N. W. P.
R. | Someren, Capt. G. J. van. Calcutta.
R. | Souttar, W. M., Chairman ofthe Corporation Calcutta.
N.R.| Spens, The Rev. A. N. W., Chaplain. Sta/kot.
N.R.| Stephen, Carr, B. u., Judl. Asst. Commr. Lwdianah.
R. | Sterndale, R. A., F. B. G. 8., Asst. Comr. of Currency.
Calcutta.
R. | Stewart, M. G. Calcutta.
N.R.| St. John, Major Oliver Beauchamp, RB. E., c. 8. I,
Frontier Expeditionary Force. Quettah Column.
R. | Stokes, The Hon’ble Whitley, c.8.1.,¢.1.8. Calcutta.
R. | Strachey, The Hon’ble Sir J., K.c.8 1.,¢.1.5. Calcutta.
N.R. | Stubbs, Lieut.-Col. Francis William, Royal Artillery.
Lucknow.
R. | Swinhoe, W., Attorney-at-Law. Calcutta.
R. | Tagore, Babu Dvijendranath. Calcutta.
R. | Tagore, Babu Gunendranath. Calcutta.
R. | Tagore, The Hon’ble Jotendra Mobhun, c. s. 1., Ma-
haraja. Calcutta.
R. | Tawney, C. H., mu. a., Principal, Presidency College.
Calcutta.
N.S. | Taylor, R., c. s. Hurope.
R. | Taylor, Commander A. D., late Indian Navy. Calcutta.
N.R.| Temple, The Hon. Sir R., Bart., K.c.8.1., C.LE., B.C.s8.
Bombay.
N.R.| Temple, Lieut. R. C., 8. c., Cantonment Magte. Fe-
pore, Punjab.
R. | Tennant, Col. James Francis, R. E., F. R. 8., C. I. E.,
Mint Master. Calcutta.
N.R.| Thibaut, Dr. G., Prof. Sanskrit College. Benares.
N.R.! Thomson, A., The College, Agra.

Date of Election.

1875 Nov. 3.

1847 June

1865 July

1871 April 5.

186] June 5.
1872 July 3.
1873 April 6.

1863 May 6.

1869 Aug. 4.

1865 Nov. 1.
1861 May 1.

1875 April 7.
1863 Oct. 7.
1865 May 3.

1874 July 1.

1876 Dec. 6.
1879 Mar: 5.
1869 Sept. 1.
1867 Feb. 6.
1862 Oct. 8.
1878 Aug.29.
1878 Sept.25.

1875 Feb. 3.
1878 Aug.29.
1873 May 7.
1867 Jan. 16.
1870 Aug. 3.

1878 Mar.
1866 Mar.
1867 July

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N.R.
L.M.

N.R.
N.R.
N.R.

L.M.
N.R.

.| Trefftz, Oscar.

| Wall, Dr. Alfred John.

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Thomson, Robert George, c. s., Asst. Commr. Jhelum,
Panjab.

Thuillier, Major-Genl. Henry Edward Landor, R. A,
C.8.1,F.R.8. Care of Messrs. Grindlay and Co.,
55, Parliament St., London.

Tolbort, Thos. Wm. Hooper, c. s., Offg. Deputy
Commissioner. Gujranwala.

Care of Messrs. BH. D. Keilhorn and
Co., 16, St. Mary Awe, London.

Tremlett, James Dyer, M. a., c. 8. Hurope.

Trevor, Lieut.-Col. William Spottiswoode, r.z. Hurope.

Turnbull, Robert, Secretary to the Corporation. Cu-
cutta.

-R.| Tyler, J. W., M. D., F. B. Cc. 8., Supdt., Central Prison.

Agra.

Wahid Ali, Prince Jahan Qadr Muhammad, Baha-
dur. Garden Reach.

Waldie, David, Fr. c. s. Calcutta.

Walker, Major-Genl. James T., R. E., C. B., F. B. 8.,
Surveyor General of India. Calcutta.

Europe.

Waller, Walter Kerr, m. B. Calcutta.

.| Waterhouse, Major James, B. 8. c., Dy. Supdt., Survey

of India. Hurope.

.| Watt, Dr. George, Professor, Hughli College. Chzn-
surah,
Webb, W. T., m. a., Prof., Dacca College. Europe.
2.| Weekes, A., c. s., Collector. Chumparun.
Westland, James, c. s., Accountant General. Calcutta.
Westmacott, Edward Vesey, B. A., c. 8. Hurope.
.| Wheeler, James Talboys. Europe.
.| Wheeler, P. C., c. s., Asst. Magistrate. Ghazipur.

White, The Hon’ble J. Sewell, Judge, High Court.
Calcutta.

.| Whiteway, Richard Stephen, c. s., Asst. Settlement

Officer. Muttra.

.| Whittall, R., Forest Dept. Toungoo, British Burmah.
.| Williams, George Robert Carlisle, B. a., c. 8., Offg.

Joint-Magte. and Collr. in charge of Ballia. Gha-
zipur.

Wallianison Capt. William John, Inspr. Genl. of Po-
lice. Shillong, Khasi Hills.

Wilson, Robert Henry, B. a., c. 8., Offg. Secy. to
Board of Revenue. Calcutta.

Wilson, J. Gurgaon, Punjab.

Wise, Dr. J. F.N. Rostellan, County Cork. Ireland.

Wood, Dr. Julius John, Supdt. of Vaccination.

Ranchi.

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Date of Election.
1870 Jan. 5.; R. | Wood-Mason, James, Offg. Supdt., Indian Museum.
Calcutta.
1873 Aug. 6. | N.R.| Woodthorpe, Capt. Robert Gossett, rn. u., Asst. Supdt.,

Survey of India. Frontier Expeditionary Horce.
Kurm Valle y Column.

HONORARY MEMBERS.

1821 Mar. 6.; Sir John Phillippart. London.

1826 July 1.| Count de Noe. Paris.

1834 May 6.| Professor Isaac Lea. Philadelphia.

1847 Sept. 1.) Col W. Munro. London.

1847 Nov. 3. | His Highness the Nawab Nazim of Bengal. Europe.
1848 Feb. 2.| Dr. J. D. Hooker, B. N., F. B. 8. Kew.

1853 April 6. | Major-Gen. Sir H. C. Rawlinson, k. c. B. London.
1858 July 6.| B. H. Hodgson. Hurope.

1859 Mar. 2. | The Hon’ble Sir J. W. Colvile, Kt. Europe.
1860 ,, 7.| Professor Max Miller. Oxford.

1860 Nov. 7. | Edward Thomas. London.

1860 ,, 7.| Dr. Aloys Sprenger. Bern.

1860 ,, 7%.| Dr. Albrecht Weber. Berlin.

1868 Feb. 5.| General A. Cunningham, c.s.1. India.
1868 ,, 5.| Professor Bapu Teva Sastri. Benares.
1868 ,, 2.) A. Grote. London.

1871 ,, 7. {Charles Darwin. London.

1872 ,, 1.!/SirG.B. Airy. London.

1872 June 5. Professor T. H. Huxley. London.
1875 Nov. 3. Dr. O. Bohtlingk. Jena.

1875 ,, 3. Professor J. O. Westwood. Ozford.

1876 April 5. | Col. H. Yule, R. £., c. B. London.

US7G 5, & | Dr. Werner Siemens. Berlin.

1877 Jan. 17.) Dr. John Muir. Edinburgh.

1879 June 4. | Prof. H. B. Cowell, vp. c. u. Cambridge.
1879 ,, 4.| Dr. A. Giinther, v. p. zn. 8. London.
1879 ,, 4. | Dr. J. Janssen. Paris.

41879 ,, 4. | Prof. H. Milne-Edwards. Paris.

1879 ,, 4.| Prof. P. Regnaud. Lyons.

1879 5, 4 | M. HE. Renan. Paris.

CORRESPONDING MEMBERS.

1844 Oct. 2.| Macgowan, Dr. J. Europe.

1856 June 4.) Kramer, Herr A. von. Alexandria.
SEG 5, ab |p Letosnnene. Rev. J. Damascus.

W856 .,, 4. ' Schlagintweit, Herr H. von. Munich.

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1856 June.

Smith, Dr. E. Beyrout.

1859 __,, Tailor, J., Esq. Bussorah.

1857 Mar. Nietner, J., Esq. Ceylon.

1858 _,, Schlagintweit, Herr R. von. Giessen.
1859 Nov. Frederick, Dr. H. Batavia.

1860 Feb.
1861 July
1852 Mar.

Baker, The Rev. H. £. Malabar.
Gosche, Dr. R.
Murray, A., Esq. London.

SUSU ST = Col eC

1863 July Barnes, R. H., Esq. Ceylon.

1866 May Schlagintweit, Prof. E. von. Munich.
1866 _,, Sherring, Rev. M. A. Benares.

1868 __,, Holmbée, Prof. Christiania.

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS.

Dall, Rev. C. H. Calcutta.

Schaumburgh, J., Esq. Caleutta.

Lafont, Rev. Fr. E., s. 5.,¢.1. 5. Calcutta.
Bate, Rev. J. D. Allahabad.

Maulawi Abdul Hai, Madrasah. Calcutta.

1865 May
1874 Feb.
1874 April
1875 Dee.
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LIST OF MEMBERS WHO HAVE BEEN ABSENT FROM INDIA
THREE YEARS AND UPWARDS.*

* Rule 40.—After the lapse of 3 years from the date of a Member leaving
India, if no intimation of his wishes shall in the interval have been
received by the Society, his name shall be removed from the list of
Members.

The following Members will be removed from the next Member List
of the Society under the operation of the above Rule.
J: Smidhy -HSqs 2iscerconcoceeeat eo See eee Oe oO
Ru Mamior, Wsgidhact wen bertsitak oa~cd beac aneeeaaeee 1877.

LOSS OF MEMBERS DURING 1879.

By ReErIREMENT.

A. H. Anthony, Esq. Calcutta.

Lt.-Col. E. G. Clark. Sultanpur.

W. Duthoit, Esq. Shahjehanpur.

Babu Uday Chand Dutt. Serampur.

Major W. R. M. Holroyd. Punjab.

W. Mackay, Esq. Nusseerabad.

R. Parry, Esq. Caleutta.

H.S. Reid, Esq. Allahabad.

Major W. L. Samuells. Lohardugqga.

E. White, Esq. Allahabad

I. J. Whitty, Esq. Garidhe.

C. H. Wood, Esq. Calcutta.

A. Wilson, Esq. Calcutta.

A. Smidt, Esq. Calcutta,

XV

By DEATH.
Ordinary Members.

Nawab Amir Ali Khan Bahadur. Calcutta,
R.S. Brough, Esq. Calcutta.

G. H. Damant, Esq. Naga Hills.

R. B. Shaw, Esq. Mandalay.

H. C. Sutherland, Esq. Bachkergunge.
Maharajah Mirza Vijayanagram. Benares.
G. Robb, Esq. Calcutta.

F. L. Beaufort, Hsq London.

F. Wilcox, Esq. dLanbhum.

Capt. C. J. F. Forbes. B. Burmah.

Honorary Members.

Prof. Henry. Princeton, U.S.
M. Stanislas Julien. Parvs.

By REMovAL.
Onder Rule 40.

Surg.-Maj. J. Ewart. —
Lt.-Col. J. G. Forlong.
G. W. Hoyle, Esq.

Dr. W. W. Hunter.

Col. H. Hyde.

Sir W. Muir.

Lord Napier of Magdala.
Isaac Newton, Esq.

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Sanskrit Series.

Chaitanya-chandrodaya, Nataka, 3 fasci... v..csseecas eeceee asus eceuseee LO.
Sraptar ouuram Asya ayalian ll tascioumcce te ted tava gave dota Nela seve. tea sielolaicrsiatere oie
Pakudy ating Meme cco eee ee, Se Ae petra Gee Dun gabe Ae
MS ATL RAP AEN TRV oy LANCE ects atete lle eigsare eras GONe Salts oilere ca acearemia err cecavatenTs

Pee tipay i assis eon ee me ets ee Veen ee ae
Kaushitaki Brahmanopamishad, 2 fasci. 1.0.0. si secere delatecesivecdee's see
- Sankhya-sara, 1 fasci. Oe ee re ae RAT a a ere eer
Lalita-vistara, 6 fasci. Si AU AS, RT Ln MN SS Syn ARs
Vaittiriya Brahmana, 24 fascis: ..iescee veeceees nie Mae 2 Same aectan aed
Taittiriya Safhita, 31 PLASC E aioe Cee en ie alee soa eau eis eae Ran Saou KG
Taittiriya Aranyaka, A Uagen eee ue ky Moma een eeme Te aeEe

raat iri Upatiic bad: cOesASCle> sie weciehe Gie'v'v cecee Va wen gelaLe¥ a nals pisie'n’ e's ys Ovie Ge ele 6

Asvalayana Gribya Stitra, 4 fasCi.. ss see een essen se ceeeee cece en eesteenece
‘Mimafisa Darsana, 14 fasci..... soe caecsece eevee sense sn veevee cncses eves
Tandya Brahmana, 19 fasci. BP UNERESE COURiEor Druk caak Ge near tein ena:
Gopatha Brahmana, 2 fasci. Enea ne ene e ee cert ere ce tens errecseseeee ones
Atharvana Upanishads, 5 fasci. . tieielefev 6c i Gleneie eles, se'sialecis @ 0 vivic seins y «nsleis ees
Agni Purana, 14 fasci. Maes wee ceen eee accrces secseeee seen asveeeretetseres
SAma Veda Saihité, ExUn LU Ole wea oreisete ole Naleiiata nice a wielels (eleva ei cievetercisierecico te lcoe st ee
i ao UE sees ee et ge
Nrisiiiha Tapani, 3 faset. ....ces0 ceccncce vec cee ceecee sees wecsesesee esses
Chaturvarga Chintdémant, 36 fasci... ices. esse ascnsecccesccsvetetseecssvee
Opa cortyasSUira, LO fasCh ye wel lcc e's cceelrnies vecaccnnee sts asisk ts sii
Peieaia On inden Supriss (auchce Cis seeiyeeetecocoee ti ceive ears) aes
Taittiriya Pratis’akhiya, 3 fasci. “8 8228208 000060 HHS Boe be DFO FFE Oe DHL2OH OM 08
Prithiraj ee
‘Bajatarangini, sa seus veee acne seer cerens 000 reeecees serree ee erin cree eens |
- Mahabharata, vols. IIL. and TV, secccece cevcecee verses sree teens seen cece
Purana Sangraha, sees d ee eee Caner a trance ceaccene sondeeee sevens cacteece
‘Péli Grammar, 2 fasci. dels udecieino's weebedelviscesslsvevieeenarvelve cineceaceene

Aitareya Aranyaka Oring: Fue Vid ays Oy TASCla tas wena cclare slaves wlelelo a's ta Wisieeletee ale i

_ Chhandogya Upanishad, Enolish, BELA BUL: Waa at ata teres fa nie ela aleja ala waters avin eid wae

Saakhya Aphorisms, Tnelish, SB Ise a ASO a nya DO Pong PG Gate
Sahitya Darpana, English, LB CIS Oe ih LSS OCDE IC MOICLIC RIMS LIC ROE
Brahma Stitra, English, sec e nena cree sreree consesee ce eotseeseseceee cance

Katantra, 6 fa8Ch. i vive ce wsccec ven Seba Ce divi s cel eis'e'd sie @aiertenicels eMaiaeir sete
Kamandakiya Nitisdra, 4 fasci. (Fasci. TOU OL BLOCK.) sea wes etecea sees s cpt
. Bhamati, 8 fasci. ... HEEB RCEOROR CAR PCL CBOR SC ACSC. BEI EAR OESAE NC ARSE
é Aphorisms of Sandalya, “English, “Fasci. Tony, & wleiciv'e,0) aiace's'e\e\e #:'vie'el0.e/bis's ola c'6/s 0's 6)
Vayu Purana, 6 fasci, Batata AS RMR Barry ie CR he iia a

ae Sarit Sagara, English Translation, OVP ASCIA we eng ns se Wice mee wisi hclieele 6

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Dictionary of Arabic Technical Terms, 20 fasci., complete, .s.se0 ee aeeseeee RB.
Risdlah-i-Shamsiyah, (Appendix to Do. Do.), eneeee cee eee CHEE HHO EE
PihTvistsd asi, 4 SASCh Wee vase eee ek eee aes ee
Nach abt Wake FS makes aap nies y ote rey ail eee cbs WE AISI Meee eiets Lie eR ea tes Rise ee
Futth-ul-Sham, Wadqidi, 9 fasci. eereere eeee eeeeee eeereee eee eee C88 HHHE
Hutcoh-pl-ShamiA ads, 4 TACs i oie weletielenulelecceie ie ta kidit'e.e winks ohh cles tp ess on che ie
Ma oliaai Of Wag, OSASCL Sd sc) cs ¥cwtten ele meatiieie’s Sulina cry vba ree tenet
ish bab; 28 fasci with supplement, <2 .ecah bs 'epipe baN eee ea as se ples eee
PatiK bai imu SHAY LAC ect su oak ans o'eco le Mpieghiaceis helo ais te SNe
Trikh-i-Baihani, complete in'9 ascii) avlnss desde aos sis eeMMW NS None awh 4s
Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh, vols. I. 1. and III., complete i 1 "DD, PASC. Sy ies ove othe
WAS, 0 ARAL ASCI? y-ciea tale yuck aale ie) mtn eae Ce ARNE etiele @ Slaw Silo ete SRa eno T erie ese ste
Iqbéinémah-i-Jahéngini, complete in 3 fasci. he smieecssigebes.o ween saunas b O's ses
*Alamgirnamah, 13 fasci. Sita SMAGK AOL iby ow cle b ava eee as HON vee bee et eS
Pédshahnamah, 19 fasci., with index, A er ing Sins NA aa ps
Munfakhab-ul-Lubéb, by Ihafi Khan, 19 fasci,, with ee RVigie Casemletiel's exiet @
Ain-i-Akbari, Persian text, 4to., 22 fasci.. Ts ASO cicicemaericee
Ain-i-Akbari, English translation by. H. Blochmann, M. AS “vol. dM Ae
Farhang -i-Rashidi, 14 fasci., complete, .. SARE Sao rae Be OR a OEIC IE ie HOOTERS
Nizémi's Khiradnémah- i-Iskandari, 2 fasci.:complete, oo caseced eset s vtvcecee
Akbarnamah, 17 fasci. with Index, FE Ra. SOR i? hey Reo cae Ue 42 wees
Maasir-i- *Momeiri, by Muhammad Saqi, complete, 6 fasci., “with index, .. Sala whatte
Haft Asman, history Of PhS: Pérsian Nasna wails 3 2:1 vice Teves oP caer eR es
Tabaqat-i-Naciri, English translation, by Raverty, UL DE TT o Sey rmce rata sce woos
Tabaqat-i-Naciri, Persian text, 6 fasci. 1... ...... te bese wee eee weeeee veenne
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