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MP yd weg Php “rlele ae +a § = ' “ oe 5 f oo “ "are eee Pa I Oe ae ae he Ply ae siete Kot" oo CC Ce i oat : rx, ba Sa Bg is ee Aah h phy oteter * bt Lh, 4 terete ; bee ~ tee err 4 + z x3 *, * 3 ; ie bad SPs Pe Nah ae , + Wt Fe we en 4 ¢ @ oe hath A A he ph NIK EM A AL hot f9% Saale ey em ee ee. i me As ea se oe si * CAM ater el A oh 2 ECLA A (aM, SSR eye ty getat peace » ERG ha EAL po tcanactrne tes Chg Poe ee Ph Re Bata lant rots ' s SoseSatotalt se an his yh Bide | at \ Caan ) } Vip 4 pt ite ih wy LAY We i NP Ry oe Bie rn, ah BS PROCEEDINGS ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL JHE JIONORARY PECRETARIES, =<» 8 oe JANUARY TO DECEMBER, 1591. CALCUTTA : PRINTED AT THE BAPTIST MISSION PRESS, AND PUBLISHED BY THE ASIATIC SOCIETY, 57 PARK STREET, 1LSO2. CONTENTS. Proceedings for January 1891 Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto List of Members of the Asiatic Society on the 3lst December 1890 (Appendix to the Proceedings for February 1891) Abstract Statement of Receipts and Disbursements of the Asiatic Society for the year 1890 (Appendix to the Pro- 2 xvii — xxix for February ,, (including ihnat Report) ... for March a for April re for May . for June for July “i for August for November , for December ,, ceedings for February 1891) I.—Leaves from a Birch-bark manuscript found in an under-ground ancient city near Kuchar, Hastern LIST OF PLATES. Turkestan II.— Paradise of the Northern Beehitee IIJ.—Copper Buddhist Chaitya from Ashrafpur in Boao OOOO TE OE O oO eeeeeee5re ee eee’ s Pages 1—12 13—44 4.5—52 53—80 81—92 93—100 101—110 111—128 129—152 158—180 1——Xvl (p. 54s) (p. 70) (p. 119) do SE Fal v Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from California Academy of Sciences Library http://www.archive.org/details/proceedingsofasi1891 asia PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. FoR pANUARY, 1801. CAD The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was held on Wednesday the 7th January 1891, at 9 p. mu. H. Brveripgs, Hsq., C. S., President, in the chair. The following members were present :— Babu Nobin Chandra Bural, Babu Gaurdas Bysack, Babu Sarat- chandra Das, P. Donaldson, Hsq., Maulvi Golam Sarwar, Babu Jogen- drachandra Ghose, Babu Rajanikanta Gupta, F. G. Hickson, Hsq., Dr. W. King, C. J. Lyall, Esq., R. D. Mehta, Esq., Babu Asutosh Mukho- padhydéy, T. R. Munro, Hsq., A. Pedler, Esq., Dr. D. Prain, W. L. Sclater, Esq., Pandit Haraprasad Shastri. The Minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed, Forty presentations were announced, details of which are given in the Library List appended. The following gentlemen are candidates for election at the next meeting : Hon. Lala Bunbehari Kuppur, Manager, Burdwan Raj, proposed by H. Beveridge, Esq., seconded by Asutosh Mukerjee. Duncan J. Macpherson, Hsq., C. S., proposed by Babu Hara- prasad Shastri, seconded by Dr. Crombie. The following gentlemen have expressed their wish to withdraw from the Society : F. 8. Growse, Hsq., C. S. A. O. Hume, Esgq., C. 8. bo President—Translation of a Sanad by Akbar. [ JAN. The Prestpent announced that Lieut. Petley had kindly presented to the Society the old gun containing an inscription recently dug up at False Point, a description of which was published in the Proceedings for May 1890, together. with the carriage on which it has been recently mounted. The gun has been placed in the Society’s grounds on the west side of the building. The Srcretary read a letter from the Government of Bengal con- veying approval to the manner in which the Government grants-in-aid of the Oriental Publication Fund, and the Sanskrit Manuscript Fund were applied during the year 1889. The Prestpent read a translation of a Sanad said to -have been granted by Akbar to Heer Bijoy Suri, an Acharj of the Jains, for Girnar, Mount Abu, Parisnath, &c. It was dated {th Ardi Bihisht or Rabi-al- awal of the 37th year of the reign (1593). The President said that he offered no opinion about the genuineness of the document, but it cer- tainly was in Akbar’s style, as recorded by Abul Fazl. The Sanad has been produced in the case about Parisnath which is now pending on appeal before the High Court. It is said to have been first produced about 1867, The President had thought it right to notice the document because, if genuine, it was a very interesting one, and it might be lost sight of if not now referred tg. Professor Bihler’s paper in the Epigraphia Indica, Part VI, p. 321, shows Akbar’s inclination towards Jainism. He is there said to have granted a firman to Jinachandra suri. The Presipent exhibited rubbings of an inscription of Ghiydgu-d- din Balban (A. H. 664—686, A. D., 1265—1237). The inscription,* which consists of four lines in relief, originally stood over the gateway of a dismantled fort at Manglaur in the Saharanpur district, N.-W. P., and is now placed in the Khangah of Makhdim Shah Wildyat at the ° same place. Manglaur is the chief town of the pargana of the same name, distant 6 miles due south from Rurki, and 16 miles south-east from Saharanpur. It is chiefly inhabited by Muhammadan juldhas (weavers), and is a poor place, having suffered much from fever since the water- level of the country was raised by the Ganges Canal. An imperfect copy of the inscription was sent by Mr. W. Irvine, C.S., Magistrate of the District, in February 1887, and the rubbings now produced were subsequently obtained by Dr. Hoernle. The inscription is imperfect, and therefore difficult to read and * This account has been kindly drawn up by Mr. C, J. Lyall, C. I. E. 1891. | President——Inscription of Ghiydsu-d-din Balban. 3 translate. The initial portion of each of the four lines, which no donbt occupied a slab to the right, is wanting, and something also appears deficient at the end of the third line. The following is the text : bt gt wiolts Wott Bhs abed! wldig [ SJ wots A Syl Sho it &sy) is? aslblic, a slaigudt Grol) Ele} x8 ot ale alo Colds S5lg daw y opis , CMS Kino oS) prod al} yee Ere yl} € (1.) “The mighty Shahanshah Ghiyasgu-d-dunya wa-d-din, father of the Victorious (2.) [May God perpetuate his glory] and his rule: in the time of the governorship of the King of the Kings of the Hast and China (3.) * * * (May his lofty dignity be eternal!) the Shahanshah gave the order for (the erection of) this secure building (4.) On the tenth of the silent month of God, Rajab, in the year 683.” Only two other inscriptions of Balban have yet been described. One is on the walls of the Jami’ Masjid at Garhmuktesar in the Merath district, and is dated 682. Its text will be found at p. 126 of Mr. E. Thomas’s ‘‘Pathan Kings of Delhi.” In it the king is styled wr pebty wits Lio &las pbaelt (read slight!) xlasls abey cylbled Crdogelt pret gel Gibb The other is the inscription on the Minar of Koil (now preserved in the Aligarh Institute, N.-W. P.) of which a facsimile and reading are given at p. 129 of the same work. The translation of a more correct reading, furnished by Mr. Blochmann, will be found at p. 486 of the late Mr. EH. T. Atkinson’s Statistical Account of the Aligarh District (Vol. II of his ‘‘ Statistical, Descriptive and Historical Account of the N.-W. Provinces of India.”) The latter, which is dated 10th Rajab 652, was set up during the reign of the preceding king, Nasiru-d-din Mahmud, whose minister and brother-in-law Balban was. The Aligarh inscription also contains the curious expression, applied therein to Balban though he was then only the king’s deputy (Naibu-s-saltanah), “ maliku muliki-sh-shargi wa-s-Sin ”—“ King of the kings of the East and of Chi- na ’’—which occurs in the second line of the Manglaur inscription.* In the latter it probably also refers, as is indicated by the words ULt 4&3 is, * This expression is used by the Arabic historians and geographers with re- ference to Alexander’s conquests in Asia; see, e. g., Kazvini’s geography (ed. Wiistenfeld) s. v. Herdt. It amounts, therefore, in an inscription like the present, to a description of the person named as “ the Alexander of his age,” 4 Votes on alteration of Rules. [ Jan. to a Deputy, not the king himself—perhaps to his much-loved eldest son Muhammad Sultan, called Khan-i-Shahid, who fell fighting against the Mughals at Lahor in the following year 684. This prince was Governor of Multén during the later years of his life, but exercised authority over the whole of the western portion of the Empire during Balban’s absence in Bengal in the operations against Tughrul Khan. The word of which a fragment occurs at the beginning of the second line may be either Je or ale, The commencement of the third line is not legible without a knowledge of what comes before. The group of letters may be plols wed instead of as printed above. The construc- tion of the y~! is faulty ; we should expect %32 sly yl or 8d) srt - Opvod| is perhaps a mistake of the stone-cutter for 4, but the dot of the wis clear. ql, as a participial adjective with a passive signification of the form Uys, may be appended in the masculine form to a feminine noun. The word s&44J} is doubtful. The’, which is placed above the second cw, looks more like ¥, which, however, gives no sense. Neither of the (»s is pointed, and the w seems to be written before instead of after the first ¢. The word of which there is a fragment at the beginning of the fourth line is probably Be. only . being visible. The name ed, “the deaf and dumb,” given to the sacred month of Rajab is an old epithet of Arabian paganism, indicating that in that month (which stands by itself alone in the midst of the Arabian year, the other three sacred months being consecutive) the noise of battle is never heard. The alterations in the Rules which had been proposed by Council were brought up for discussion. A letter from Raja Rajendraldla Mitra strongly objecting to the alterations was read, and then remarks were made by several members. Dr. W. King supported Raja Rajen- draldila Mitra’s objections, and Messrs. Mehta and Donaldson and Babus Asutosh Mukharjia, Gaurdas Bysack, Jogendrachunder Ghose, Rajinikanta Gupta and Nobin Chundra Burdal spoke against the pro- posals to increase the subscriptions and to substitute annual for quar- terly payments. Messrs. Munro, Sclater and Pedler approved of the proposal to increase the subscriptions. The alterations were then put to the vote, one by one, with the following result : For. Against Result. I. Alteration of Rule2 (a) 1 All other present Rejected. Tf. do. Rule 14 (¢) 5 6 Rejected, Hil. do. Rule 16 3 7 Rejected. 1891. | W. Theobald—Description of a two Cowree picce. 5 For. Against. Result. IV. do. Rule 17 a 8 Rejected. M. do. Rules 18, 19, 22 Rejected. VI. do. Rule 24 Unanimously agreed to. Carried. bo Be do. Rule 25 do. do. MILI, do. Rule 28 do. do. IX. do. Rules 32 and 35 Rejected. X. do. Rule 37 First alteration rejected, second alteration whereby six months are altered into two months was carried. XI. do. Rules 38 and 39 Carried. AIT. do. Rules 20, 21, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 40 The abolition of Rules 26 and 27 was carried. The proposal to abolish Rules 21, 29, 31, 32 and 40 was rejected. Tbe President stated that the result of the voting would be report- ed to the Council who would consider what further steps should be taken. The following papers were read :— 1. Onan inscription of the 7th Century A. D. relating to the reign- ing family of Meywar, found at Kundé near Udaipur. By Mandmano- pApHyd< Kavir4sa SuyamaupAs, M. R. A.S., F. R. H.S., (with an ink impression and photograph). 2. Notes on some of the Muhammadan coins collected by the Afghan Boundary Commission, from an historical point of view. By Masor H. G. Raverty. Communicated by H. Beverivcs, Hsq., C. 8S. The papers will be published in the Journal, Part I. 3. Description of a two Cowree piece, the lowest denomination of the Hindu system of Copper Coinage.—By W.Turopatp, Esa. Communicated by Dr. W. Kina. Among the coins dispersed lately in London, at the sale of the Da’ Cunha collection was one, now in my possession, which goes far to prove the extreme minuteness of some of the copper coins, into which the unit of the whole system, the ‘ pana’ was divided. In the concluding chapter of General Sir A. Cunningham’s ‘ Coins of Alexander’s successors’, page 18, a table is given of the subdivisions of the ‘ pana,’ which I have reproduced, neglecting the trifling variations in weight to which copper coins are more subject than are coins of the less oxidizable metals. 6 W. Theobald—Description of a two Cowree piece. [ Jan. In addition to the ‘pana,’ there are slso recorded pieces of 14, 21, 3¢ and 5 panas in value, the last ranging as high as 720 grains. The ‘ pana’ was subdivided as follows :— Pana or 20 ganda piece = 80courees = 140 grains. a Abs Shae 4 AND, celia Ore rae ee o 4, (or Skakimi ’) = 920 “i 35 "3 3 ” oe ” G ‘kakini 7) = 10 ” 17 5 70 ” Zo 8 ” 14 a ” i ” G ‘kakini ’) = 5 ” 8 rie) 30 ” 1 ” 4, a) 7 In this table no smaller coin is mentioned than the twentieth part of a ‘pana,’ of 7 grains weight and the value of four cowrees, but in General Cunningham’s paper on the coins of the Nine Nagas, in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for 1865, page 115, reference is made to a coin of 45 grains, but from the context it would appear to be a worn specimen, as it is regarded as a quarter ‘kakini,’ the mean weight of which is taken as 7 grains, These quarter ‘ kakinis’ are, it may be well to remember, round coins, whose weight, especially in the smaller denominations, is less easy to adjust with accuracy, than in the case of square coins, and whose value is too trivial to render such accu- racy important. | The coin now under consideration is square, quite unworn and in excellent preservation, and weighs 4°5. It is symmetrically shaped, and each side measures 0°25 of an inch. From its weight I was at first inclined to regard it as the eighth part of a kakini or the equiva- lent of 2% courees, but Sir Alexander Cunningham, whom I consulted, is of opinion, it is rather the fortieth part of a ‘pana’ or two couree piece ‘that division being more likely than one involving the fractioual part of acouree. The highest weight of the pana is 144 grains, so that the calculated weight of ~ of a pana should be no more than grains 3°6 which makes the piece under consideration not quite one grain in excess, but as before remarked, in such minute pieces exactness can hardly be looked for, and the present piece is in exceptional preserva- tion. Four pieces in Sir Alexander’s cabinet from Hran weigh no more than 12 grains, ranging between 2°75 to 3°75 grains, so that it may fairly be concluded, that a two couree piece of the ideal weight of 3°6 grains was a recognised issue of the Hran and Ujain mints. The obverse displays part of two circles, which in all probability constitute a portion of the symbol of Ujain, sometimes called the ‘ four-balled chakra’, consisting of four circles usually united by a cross. There is also a circle, or wheel, surmounted by two ‘ chattras’ a symbol analo- 1891. ] Tibrary. cI gous to the ‘ broad arrow’ of the present day, and it does not seem that more were ever represented on the ‘die’ though three and seven of these ‘ broad arrow’s or ‘chattras’ are more commonly represented on this symbol on the punch-marked coins, which were the prototypes of the later issues of Ujain. There is yet another symbol of two semi- circles, Symmetrically united by their convex surfaces, but whether this is but a portion, owing to want of space on the die, of the common ~ symbol of a ‘chaitya’ surmounted by a crescent, which is so common on punch-marked coins, or a symbol complete in itself, is not easy to say. 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Philosophisch-philologischen und His- torisches classe, Band II, Heft 2 und Heft 1, 1890. Almanach, 1890. Naples. La Societa Africana D’ Italia,—Bollettino, Anno IX, Fasc. 7—10. Paris. Société Asiatique,—Journal Asiatique,—Tome, XV, No. 3. L —_—_—— ° 1891.1] Inbrary. 9 Paris. La Société Zoologique de France,—Bulletin, Tome. XV, No. 7. Philadelphia, The Journal of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary Archives, Vol. IX, No, 11. Shanghai. China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society,—Journal, Vol. XXIV. St. Petersburg. L’ Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Péters- bourg,—Meémoires, Tome XX XVII, Nos. 8—10. Taiping. Government of Perak.—The Perak Government Gazette, Vol. IIT, Nos. 32—34. Vienna. Der K. K. Geologischen Reichsanstalt,—Abhandlungen, Band XV, Heft 2. —-. ———. Verhandlungen, Nrn. 10—18, 1890. ——. Des K. K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums,—Annalen, Band, V, Nrn. 1—2. 7 Washington, United States Geological Survey,—Bulletin, Nos. 54—57. Pooks AND AMPH LETS, presented by the Authors, Translators, Sc. Hayter, H. H. Victorian Year-book for 1889-90. Vol. I. €vo. Mel- bourne, 1890. Pico, M. Pueuist. Consigli ai Cattivi Poeti. Poema Indostanico. 8vo. Palermo, 1891. Rady, Pratspa Cuanpra, C. I. EH. The Mahabharata, translated into English Prose, Part LXIII. Canti Parva. 8vo. Calcutta, 1890. MiscELLANEOUS PRESENTATIONS, Griechische Miinzen. Neue Beitraige und Untersuchungen von F, Imhoof-Blumer. (Abhandlungen der bayer Akademie der Wiss, 1 Cl. XVIII, Bd. Il], Abth), 4to Munchen, 1890. AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN, Monicu, A Guide to the Exhibition Galleries of the department of Geology and Palxontology in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). Part I, Fossil Mammals and Birds; Part il, Fossil Reptiles, Fishes, and Inverte- brates. S8vo. London, 1890, Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum, Vol XIII, Sturniformes, containing the familes Artamide, Sturnide, Ploceide, Alaudide, also the families Atrichiide and Menuride. By R. 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A Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts existing in Oudh Provinces for the year 1888. By Pandita Devi Prasada. 8vo. Allahabad, 1890. Report on the Horticultural Gardens, Lucknow, for the year ending 31st March 1890. Fecp. Allahabad, 1890. GovERNMENT OF N.-W. P. Anp Oupu. Progress Report of the Archeological Survey, Madras, from July to September, 1890. By Mr, A. Rea. Fep. Madras, 1890. GOVERNMENT OF MApRAs. 1891.] Library. 11 Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada for the year 1889. Vol. VII. 4to. Montreal, 1890. Royat Sociery of CANADA. Highth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey 1886-87. By J. W. Powell. Parts I—II. 4to. Washington, 1889. Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, Vol. XV. The Potomac or Younger Mesozoic Flora. By William Morris Fon- taine. Text and Plates, Parts I—II. 4to. Washington, 1889. Vol. XVI. The Paleozoic Fishes of North America. By John Strong Newberry. 4to. Washington, 1889. 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London. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History,—Vol. VI, Nos. 33—34. The Chemical News,—Vol. LXII, Nos. 1617—1620. The Entomologist,—Vol. XXIII, Nos. 328—329. The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine,—Vol. XXVI, Nos. 316—317. The Ibis,—Vol. II, No. 8. 12 +. tae (Jan. 1891.] London. The Journal of Botany,—Vol. XX XVIII, Nos. 333—334, The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, —Vol. XXX, Nos. 184—185, The Messenger of Mathematics,—Vol. XX, No. 4. ——. The Nineteenth Century,—Vol. XXVIII, No. 166. The Numismatic Chronicle,—Vol. X, No. 39. The Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science,—Vol. XXXI, Part 3. ———. The Quarterly Journal of pure and applied Mathematics,— Vol. XXV, No. 97, ———. Rhopalocera Exotica,—Part 14. October 1890. ————-—, The Society of Arts,—Journal, Vol. XX XIX, Nos. 1983— 1986. New Haven, The American Journal of Science,—Vol. XL, Nos. 237— 238. Paris. L’ Academie des Sciences,—Comptes Rendus des Séances, Tome CXI, Nos. 7—15. ——. Annales de Chimie et de Physique,—Tome XXI, Septembre et Octobre 1890. ——. Journal des Savants,—Aott et Septembre, 1890. ——. Revue Scientifique,—Tome XLVI, Nos. 21—24. ——. Revue Critique d’ Histoire et de Litterature,—Tome XXX, Nos. 34—42. Philadeiphia. Manual of Conchology,—Vol. XII, Part 2 and Vol VI, (2nd Ser.) Part 2. Pooks Ff URCHASED, Dosson, G. HE. A Monograph of the Insectivora, Systematic and Ana- tomical, Part III, Fasc. I. 4to. London, 1890. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, FoR FEBRUARY, 18091. a The Annual Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was held on Wednesday, the 4th February 1891, at 9 P. mu. H. Beveripes, Hsq., C. S., President, in the Chair. The following members were present : Babi Nobinchand Bural, W. Connan, Hsq., Hon. Sir A. W. Croft, Dr. D. D. Cunningham, Babi Saratchandra Das, Most Rev. Dr. Paul Goethals, Babi Rajanikanta Gupta, Colonel H. S. Jarrett, Dr. W. King, Rev. Father H. Lafont, C. Little, Esq., C. J. Lyall, Esq., Kumar Rameswar Maliah, Babi Asutosh Mukopadhydy, L. de Nicéville, Esq., J. D. Nimmo, Esq., M. H. Oung, Esq., Hon. Dr. Mahendralal Sarkar, W. L. Sclater, Esq., Pandit Haraprasad Shastri, C. H. Tawney, Esq., Dr. J. H. Tull Walsh, Colonel J. Waterhouse, J. Wood-Mason, Esq. According to the Bye-Laws of the Society, the President ordered the Voting papers to be distributed for the election of Office-Bearers and Members of Council for 1891, and appointed Messrs. de Nicéville and Donaldson to be Scrutineers. The Prestpent then called upon the Secretary to read the Annual Report. ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1890. The Council of the Asiatic Society have the honor to submit the following report on the state and progress of the Society’s affairs during the past year. 14 Annual Report. [ F Ep. Member List. During the year under review 23 Ordinary Members were elected, 14 withdrew, 5 died, and 8 were removed from the list under Rule 40, being more than 3 years absent from India ; of the 23 Members elected 3 were old Members who rejoined. The total number of Members at the close of 1890 was thus 303 against 307 at the end of the preceding year; of these 105 were Resident, 142 Non-Resident, 10 Foreign, 21 Life, 23 absent from India and 2 special Non-Subscribing Members, as will be seen from the following table, which also shows the fluctuations in the number of Ordinary Members during the past six years. Paying. Non-Paying. z Year. 2 a ; Qs = 8 ae] e g \sa te fe = TS oO . ’ ec 2 18%.) ,8 3) Bo) 1848 1B Sel eae am | 4 ey 4 4 ,0:- 0 Meeting hs ove oe a 838 0 0 Contingencies ee se vee tc 150 0 0 Books sid iti ai vp 1,800 0 0 Local Periodicals... ve A? ie SL 0-0 Binding an ve ose a> 450 0 0 Journal, Part I ; Journal, Part I rc a Re ey Proceedings ; ~ tes T,000° G50 Printing Circulars, &e. Ses es as 1007 “0"=.6 Total Rs. 14,323 0 0 London Agency. Messrs. Tribner’s statement of account with the Society for 1888, which has been so long overdue, was received just before the close of 18 Annual Report. (Fes. the year. The only reason assigned for the great delay was, that it had evidently been sent and miscarried. The statement shows a debit balance of £369-6-4, of which £109-19-7, the balance of account for 1887, was remitted in April 1889, leaving a net debit balance of £259-6-9 on the transactions of the year. The sales of the Society’s publications effected by Messrs Tribner in 1888 amounted to £24-5-0 and of the Bibliotheca Indica to £16-13-0. The number of copies of parts of the Journal, of the Proceedings, and of the Bibliotheca Indica sent to the Agents during 1890 for sale was 799, 450 and 1307 respectively, valued at Rs. 1,650. Nine invoices of books purchased, and of publications of various Societies sent in exchange, were received during the year. The value of the books purchased amounted to £80-14-6. A further remittance of £100 was made to Messrs, Triibner early in the year towards their accounts for 1888. Their accounts for 1889, have not yet been received. Library. The total number of volumes, or parts of volumes, added to the Library during the year was 2,168, of which 747 were purchased, and 1,421 presented or received in exchange for the Society’s publications. The first fasciculus of the Catalogue of the Persian works in the Oriental Library has been published; the remaining portion of the work is in the press and expected to be ready very shortly. Publications. There were published during the year, ten numbers of the Proceed- ings containing 268 pages of letter press and 3 plates; four numbers of the Journal, Part I, (Nos. 3 and 4 of 1889 and Nos. 1 and 2 of 1890) containing 325 pages of letter press and 13 plates; and three numbers of the Journal, Part II containing 270 pages of letter press and 8 plates. Two numbers of the late Mr. Atkinson’s Catalogue of the Insecta of the Oriental Region containing 325 pages of letter press were also issued as a Supplement to Part IIT; and the indexes to the Journal for 1888 and 1889, the latter containing two plates belonging to the Journal for that year. Building. An unforeseen expenditure of Rs. 193-5-9 had to be incurred in carrying out certain alterations in the drainage of the grounds connect- ing with the sewer, consequent on a notice from the Municipality. The approval of the Municipality was obtained to the estimate for the work, as also to the manner in which it had been carried out. 1891. ] Annual Report. 19 Coin Cabinet. During the year 87 coins were added to the Cabinet, of which 2 were of gold, 21 of silver, and 64 of copper. One of the gold coins was presented by the Govt. N.-W. Provinces, all the rest were acquired under the Treasure Trove Act, and were from the Bengal Presidency. They all belong to ordinary types and detailed notices of them have been given in the Proceedings for May, June and July. Office of the Secretaries. Dr. Hoernle carried on the duties of Philological Secretary until June, when he went on leave and Major Sadler took them up until Sep- tember when he left Calcutta temporarily and made them over to Dr. Solf, who carried them on until the middle of December, when he was obliged to leave India owing to ill health. Mr. Tawney has agreed to carry on the work till Dr. Hoernle’s return. Mr. Wood-Mason resigned the editorship of the Journal, Part ITI in June and Mr. Sclater was appointed Natural History Secretary and editor. He went on short leave in September, and Col. Waterhouse took charge of the Journal during the interval. Dr. W. King carried on the duties of Treasurer during the year except for two periods of about two months each, when he had to leave Calcutta on duty, and Mr. Sclater took charge of the work. Mr. H. Ronaldson was Assistant-Secretary throughout the year. Mr. J. H. Elliott rejoined his post of Assistant-Librarian on the expiry of his leave in March. There were no changes in the posts of Cashier, Pandit and Copyist, which were held by the permanent incum- bents Babu Nritya Gopal Bose, Pandit Hari Mohan Vidydbhishan and Babi: Joges Chandra Chatterjee respectively. Bibliotheca Indica. Forty-five fasciculi were published during the year, of which twelve were in the Arabic-Persian, twenty-seven in the Sanskrit, and six in the Tibetan series. They belong to twenty-one different works, of which three are in the Arabic-Persian, fifteen in the Sanskrit, and three in the Tibetan series. There was one new publication in each series, viz., the Riydzw-s-Salatin, in the first series, the Nydyavindu Tikd (com- plete in one fasciculus) in the second, and the Pag Sam Thi sin in the third. Six works were completed of previous years, of which two, the Tartkh-i-Firtz Shahi, and the Riydzu-s-Salatin, belong to the Arabic- Persian, and the Advaita Brahma Siddhi, the Kurma Purdna, the Manu Tika Sangraha, and the Uvdsagadasao to the Sanskrit series, It was stated in the Annual Report for 1890 (p. 22) that 44 fasci- 20 Annual Report. [ Fes. culi had been estimated as the out-turn for the year at a probable cost of Rs. 16,588: the actual out-turn has been 45 fasciculi, as stated above. The expenditure out of the Oriental Publication Fund during the year amounted to Rs. 15,206 which includes printing charges for 38 fasci- culi, and editing charges for 28 fasciculi, and gives an average of Rs. 460 for each fasciculus. For the year 1891 the out-turn may be reckoned at 36 fasciculi. No new works were sanctioned for publication during the year: On the other hand it has been decided not to publish the translation of the Riydzu-s-Saldtin, which was sanctioned in 1887, and to discontinue the translation of the Tuzuk-i-Jahdngirt, of which one fasciculus has been published. The translation of the second volume of the Ain-i-Akbari, which was mentioned in the report for 1887 to have been taken up by Colonel Jarrett, has been well advanced, and is expected to be completed in the present year. Of the following works of which fasciculi had appeared in pre- vious years, no fasciculi were published during the year under review. 1. Tapagdt-1-NAstrf, (Index of persons and places); 2, PRAKRITA LaksHANA (English translation and Notes) ; 3, KAranrra (introduction) ; 4, Stsruta Samuits (English translation) ; 5, ApastamBa Sravra SUTRA (Text) ; 6, Latita Vistara (English translation). Of the following works sanctioned in previous years, no fasciculi have as yet appeared. 1. Pr&krirdpuyAyva (Text and translation) ; 2, Cuaraxa (English translation, with Notes); 3, Nagarp-uL-Farazpaq-Jerin (Text with English translations in prose and verse) ; 4, KALA VivEKA (Text) ; 5, Vepdnta SUTRA, Commentaries on, (Text); (two of these, viz., AnuBaé- suyam and SrisHdsHyamM, have been commenced) ; 6, Yootni’ Tanrra (Text); 7, Karaya GranTHa (Text); 8, Munraksapu-1-Tawari’kH, Vol. I, (English translation) ; 9, TAs-ut-Madsir (Text); 10, TArixn- 1-Wassar (Text); 11, TAriku-1-YAmini (English translation, with Notes); 12, J&AvApHARMAKATHA and Vipdxa Strra (Text); 13 Sap- DHARMA Punparixa (Text); 14, An Tasrizi’s Commentary (Text) ; 15, SvavamBpd Purdya (Text); 16, Baupwdyaniya Sravra Surra, and HiraAnyaKkEsi SRAUTA Surra (Text); 17, Ain-1-Axpari, Vol. II, (English translation) ; 18, RiydAzu-s-SauAtin (Text and English trans- lation) ; 19, BuATTOTPALA’s Commentary on Vardua Minira’s Brinat SAMHITA. No new works were sanctioned for publication during the year. 1891. ] Annual Report. 21 The following is a descriptive list of the publications issued during 1890, A. Arabic and Persian Series. 1, Ma’Astru-t-UmArd or memoirs of the nobles of the Mughal Court of Delhi by a nobleman of that Court, compiled during the early part of the last century. It contains biographical accounts of those great men who worked hard for the establishment and the consolidation of the Mughal empire in India. Nos. 740, 750, 751, 756, 762, 769, 778. Vol, II, Fasc. 9, Vol. III, Fasc. 1, 2,3, 4,5, 6. Total, seven Fasc. 2. Ruivdzu-s-Satdtin, by Ghulam Husain, called Salim, a native of Zaidpur. It is a history of Bengal to which is prefixed a short geography of Bengal. The work of editing and translating the work was entrusted to Maulvi Abdul Hak Abid, B. A., but the translation has been abandonned for the present. Nos. 755, 764, 771, 775, Fasc. 1, 2, 3,4. Total four Fasc. 3. TArixu-1-Firtz Sadui, a history of the reign of Firiz Shah Tughlag of the Tughlaq dynasty of Delhi by Shams-i-Siraj-i-’Afif, has advanced by one fasciculus only, No. 738, Fasc. 5, There is another work on the same subject by Ziya-i-Barani. B. Sanskrit Series. 1. ApvarTa-BrauMa-Sippui by Sadananda Yati has been completed. It contains four chapters designated ‘‘ blows witha club.” It refutes the various philosophical doctrines that obtained currency in ancient India and establishes the non-dual theory. The Vedanta Dindima, a short work on the Vedanta philosophy, in verse, has been added to the work as an appendix. The editor Pandit Vaman S/astri, Upa- dhyaya of Islampur in Bombay, has added a very large number of foot- notes which have the rare merit of really elucidating the text, No. 747. Fasc. 4. Total one Fasc. 2. Brinap-Devats, a very ancient work attributed to Saunaka Acharya. It is an index to the Rig Veda giving the devata, the deity praised, i. ¢. the subject-matter of every sukta, and rich of that Veda. Itis one of those works which enabled the ancient rishis to preserve the purity of the Vedic text. Hdited by Raja Rajendralala Mitra, LL. D., C. 1. B. The work has advanced by one fasciculus only. No. 760, Fasc. 2. 3. CHATURVARGA CHINTAMANI is an exhaustive work on Hindu rituals by Hemadri the Court Pandit of one of the Yadava kings of Devagiri during the thirteenth century. The author is reported to have been a great friend of Vopadeva, the celebrated author of the Mugdha- 22 Annual Report. (Fx. bodha. Two volumes of the work have been completed and the first part of the third volume. The Editors, Pandits Jogesvara Smritiratna and Kamakhyanatha Tarkavdgiga are now engaged with the second part of the third volume which relates to the Srdddha ceremony. Nos. 746, 763, 774, Vol. LII, Pt. II, Fasc. 5, 6, 7. Total three Fasc. 4. KUrua Pourdya, edited by Babu Nilmani Mukhopadhyaya, Professor of Sanskrit, Presidency College, Calcutta, has been com- pleted. It contains a learned preface by the editor in which the char- acter and nature of the Puranic literature has been fully discussed. No. 743, Fase. 9. Total one Fasc. 5. Mapana P&risdra, written under the patronage of Madana Péla Deva of Kashth4 or Kachchhé a city near Delhi on the Jamuna. Madana Pala was a great patron of learning and a large medical work was also compiled under his patronage. The Parijdta quotes from the Chaturvarga Chintémani and the Mitékshara and appears to have been written about the fifteenth century. It has advanced by two fasciculi. Nos. 757, 770, Fase. 7, 8. 6. Manv-Tixs Samerana, edited by Dr. Julius Jolly, Professor of Sanskrit, Wiirzburg, contains extracts from six of the well-known commentaries of Manu. These extracts are meant simply to explain the texts of the original, all additional matter and arguments having been excluded. The work has advanced by one fasciculus, which brings the extracts to the end of the third chapter of Manu. It has now been stopped by agreement with the editor, owing to the publication of all the Manu commentaries by the late lamented Rao Vishvanath Mandalik. No. 728, Fasc. 3. Total one Fasc. 7. Nydya-vinpu Tix4, a commentary to the Nydya-vindu. A work on the Buddhist system of logic, edited by Professor Peter Peter- son, M. A.,of Bombay. It is a solitary example of a Buddhist work pre- served in the Continent of India in a Jaina Library. The learned editor has succeeded during the course of his edition in getting a copy of the original work, the Nyaya-vindu. The present commentary is by Dharmottaracharya who is reputed to be the founder of the Dharmot- tariya school of the followers of Buddha. The learned editor is now engaged in making a translation of both the text and the commentary. No. 741, complete in one Fasc. 8. Nydva KusumAngatr Praxkaranam by Udayanacharya. This work is to be distinguished from the metrical work of the same name by the same author, edited some time ago by E. B. Cowell, Esq. The edition is in the hands of Mahaémahopadhyaya Chandrakanta Tarka- lankaéra. It is accompanied with the commentary of Varddhamana, copiously illustrated by extracts from the gloss of Ruchidatta. It has 1891.] Annual Report. 23 advanced by four fasciculi. Nos. 745, 749, 765, 768. Vol. 1V, V, VI and Vol. II, Fasc. I. . 9. Pardsara Smriti by the same learned editor, has advanced by - three fasciculi, two belonging to the second volume treating of Prdyas- chitta, and one to the third volume treating of Vyavahdra. The work is accompanied with the commentary of the great M4dhavacharya and is the standard work on Hindu Law and Rituals in Southern India. Nos. 759, 761, 766, Vol. II, Fasc. 3, 4, Vol. III, Fasc. 1. Total three Fasc. 10. Sdémxadyana S’ravta Sérra edited by Dr. Alfred Hillebrandt, Professor of Sanskrit in the University of Breslau. The second volume has advanced by one fasciculus. This volume contains the commen- tary by Anarttiya, the son of Varadatta, on the text of Sdmkhayana. No. 754, Vol. II, Fase. 2. Total one Fasc. 11. Sri-paAsHyam edited by Pandit Ramnath Tarkaratna is a com- mentary on the Vedanta aphorisms of Vadardyana by Ramanuja- charya, the founder of a Vaishnava sect in Southern India who flourished about the thirteenth century A. D. This commentary adopts the non-dual theory of Samkara with certain modifications. No. 737, Fasc. 2. Total one Fasc. 12. Tarrtiriya SamuirA edited by Mahaémahopadhyaya Mahesa- chandra Nyayaratna, C. I. E., has advanced by one fasciculus. It is the text of the Black Yajur Veda and is accompanied with the com- mentary of Madhavacharya. No. 744, Fasc. XXXIV. Total one Fasc. 13. TAarrva-CHINTAMANI, edited by Pandit Kamakhydnatha Tarka- vagisa, has advanced by four fasciculi. The editor is now going on with the second volume of the work which treats of Inference. Nos. 735, 748, 758, 772, Vol. II, Fasc. 3, 4, 5,6. Total four Fasc. 14, Tuxsi Sarsai, 7. e., seven hundred verses by Tulsidas the great Hindi poet. Hach verse contains a riddle and a double entendre, one meaning of which is a praise of Rama. The work is being edited by Pandit Bihdérilél Chaube. It has advanced by two fasciculi. Nos. 739, Yoo, Fase. 2, 3. 15. UvAsacapasso edited by Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle. With this fasciculus which contains indices the work is now completed. No. 752, Fase. 6. Total one Fasc. C. Tibetan Series. i. Sser Puyin edited by Babi Pratapa Chandra Ghosha is a Tibetan translation of the Sata Sahasrika Prajna Paramita or the Prajfiaé Péramitd of 100,000 verses. The learned editor is omitting all repetitions which abound in the work. Nos. 736, 742, 767, Vol. I, Fase. 4, 5, and Vol. II, Fase. 1. Total three Fasc. 2. BoputsaTTvVAVADANA KatpataTA, by Kshemendra, under the 24 Annual Report. [Fes. joint editorship of Babi Sarat Chandra Das, C. I. E., and Pandit Hari- mohan Vidyabhushan, Oriental Librarian to the Asiatic Society, has advanced by two fasciculi. The work is accompanied with a Tibetan translation made about 400 years ago at Lhasa. Nos. 773 and 777, Vol. I, Fase. 3, Vol. II, Fase. 1. Total two Fasc. 3. Puc Sam Tut Sin is a free prose rendering in modern Tibetan of the above work as distinguished from the metrical and literal ver- sion in classical Tibetan given in No. 2. Pug Sam Thi Sin is recited daily almost in every household in Tibet. No. 776, Fasc. 1. Total one Fasc. List of all Societies, Institutions, §c., to which the Publications of the Asiatic Society have been sent during the oe or from which Publica- tions have been received. * Societies, &c., which have received the Asiatic Society’s publications, and have sent their publications in return. + Societies, &c., which have received the Asiatic Society’s publications, but have sent none in return. § Societies, &c., whose publications have been received, but to which nothing has been sent in return. * Allahabad :—Editor, Pioneer. + Amsterdam :—Royal Zoological Society. . :—Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen. + Angers :—Société d’ Etudes Scientifiques d’ Angers. * Baltimore :--Johns Hopkins University, * Batavia :—Society of Arts and Sciences. * .~—--—— :—Kon Natuurkundige Vereeniging in Nederlandsch-Indié. * Berlin :— Gesellschaft Naturforschende Freunde zu Berlin. * -:—Royal Academy of Sciences. § ——— :—Entomologische Verein. + Berne :—Société Suisse d’ Entomologie. § Birmingham :—Birmingham Philosophical Society. # * * * % a § § Bombay :—Anthropological Society. :—Bombay Branch, Royal Asiatic Society. ——— :—Hditor, Indian Antiquary. :—EHditor, Times of India. ————— :— Natural History Society. Boston :—Natural History Society. -—American Philological Association. Bordeaux :—L’ Académie Nationale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts. 1891.] * § + t $ + # * § * § ¥ * * ¥ * ¥ * § * * + § + * * + + * 4 EF HE— FF KF K ae Annual Report. 25 Bordeaux :—Société Linnéenne. —————- :— Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Queensland Branch. Brookville :—Society of Natural History. Brunswick :— Verein fiir Naturwissenschaft. Brussels :—L’ Académie Royale des Sciences. :—Musée Royal d’ Histoire Naturelle de Belgique. :—Societé Entomologique de Belgique. :—Société Royale Malacologique de Belgique. :—Société Royale des Sciences de Liége. Buda Pest :—Royal Hungarian Academy of Sciences. — :—La Société Hongroise de Géographie. Buenos Ayres :—National Museum. Calcutta | :—Academia National de Ciencias de la Republica Argentina. :—Agri-Horticultural Society of India. :—Geological Survey of India. :—Editor, Englishman. :—Hditor, Hindoo Patriot. ————. :— Editor, Indian Daily News. :—Editor, Indian Engineering. :—Editor, Indian Mirror. :—Indian Museum. :—Mahommedan Literary Society. :—Photographic Society of India, :—Public Library. :—Survey of India. :—Tuttobodhini Shova. :—University Library. Cambridge :— University Library. Cassel :—Der Verein fiir Naturkunde. Cherbourg :—Société Nationale des Sciences Naturelles. Christiania :—University Library. Colombo :—Ceylon Branch, Royal Asiatic Society. Copenhagen :—La Société Royale des Antiquaires du Nord. Cuttack :—Cuttack Library. Danzig :—Naturforschende Gesellschaft. Dehra Dun :—Great Trigonometrica] Survey. Dorpat :—Naturforscher-Gesellschaft der Universitat. Dresden :—Entomologischen Vereins “ Iris.” :—Koniglichen Zoologischen und Anthropologisch-Ethnogra- phischen Museums zu Dresden. Dublin :—Royal Dublin Society. 26 Annual Report. [F'es. + Dresden :—Royal Irish Society. * Edinburgh :—Royal Society. § ————--- :—Royal Physical Society. * ——___...- :__Scottish Geographical Society. * Florence :—Societa Italiana di Anthropologia, Etnologia e Psicologia Comparata. :—Societa Africana d’ Italia. Frankfurt :—Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft. -—-————- : —_Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins des Regierunysbezirks. Geneva :—Société de Physique et d’ Histoire Naturelle. Genoa :—Museo Civico di Storia Naturale. Giessen :—Oberhessische Gesellschaft fiir Natur und Heilkunde. Graz :—Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein fiir Styria. Hague :—Koninklijk Instituut voor de Taal-Land-en Volkenkunde van Nederlansch-Indié. Hamburgh :—Naturhistoriches Museum zu Hamburgh. — :—Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein. Halle :—Deutsche Morgenlandische Gesellschaft. :—Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Akademie. Hamilton :—Hamilton Association (Canada). : Havre :—Société de Géographie Commerciale du Havre. Helsingfors :—Societas pro Flora et Fauna Fennica. — :—Société des Sciences de Finlande. Ithaca (U. S. A.) :—Cornell University. Jassy :—Societatii Stuntifice Literare. Kiev :—Société des Naturalistes. Konigsberg :—Die physikalische-Oeckonomische Gesellschaft. Lahore :—Hditor, Civil and Military Gazette. :—Agricultural Society. Leipzig :—Deutsche Morgenlandische Gesellschaft. Leyden :—Royal Herbarium. Liége :—Société Géologique de Belgique. --— :—Société des Sciences. Liverpool :—Literary and Philosophical Society. London :—Anthropological Institute. :—Editor, Academy. -—Hditor, Athenzum. -——_—— :—British Museum. -——— :—Geological Society. -——— :—Institution of Civil Engineers. -—~-— :—Institution of Hlectrical Engineers. -——_—— :— Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Oa * * * & 6 K ¥— Oom— KE KE KONO —— KE OK EE mE OO * * *¥ KK £ *F HE KF ES 8 1891.] % * + * * % ¥ # % * tT + ¥ + kK KOMP OD £ EON KS K *— Om EF * London Annual Report. 27 :—Editor, Nature. :—Linnean Society. :—Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. :—Royal Astronomical Society. :—Royal Geographical Society. :— Royal Institution of Great Britain. :—Royal Microscopical Society. :— Royal Society. :—Statistical Society. :—Zoological Society. Lyons :—La Société d’ Agriculture, d’ Historie Naturelle et des Arts Utiles. —— :—Muséum d’ Histoire Naturelle. :—La Société d’ Anthropologie. Madison, Wisconsin :—Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. Madras :—Literary Society. — Government Central Museum. Manchester :—Literary and Philosophical Society, Melhourne :—Royal Society of Victoria. Mendon, [11 :—Editor, American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal. Mexico: | —Sociedad Cientifica ‘‘ Antonio Alzate.”’ :— Observatorio Meteoroldgico-Magnético Central. :-—EHstados Unidos Mexicanos. -— Deutschen Wissenschaftlichen Vereins in Mexico. Minneapolis :—Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences. Moscow Munich Naples: :—Société Imperiale des Naturalistes. :—Imperial Society of Amateurs of Natural Sciences, Anthro- pology and Ethnology. :—K. Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. —Societa Africana d’ Italia. New Haven :—Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, — :—American Oriental Society. Newport (R. I.) :—Natural History Society. New York :—American Museum of Natural History. Ottawa: Oxford: —Geological and Natural History Survey of the Dominion of Canada. —Bodleian Library. —Indian Institute. Paris :—Société de Géographie. - :—Société d’ Anthropologie. ——- :—Société Asiatique, 28 Annual Report. [Fre. Paris :—Musée Guimet. ——- :—National Library. ——- :—Société Zoologique. ——- :—Société Académique Indo-Chinoise. ——- :—Institution Ethnographique. :—Museum d’ Historie Naturelle. Philadelphia :—Academy of Natural Sciences. —————— :— American Philosophical Society. —_—_——-—— :— Journal of Comparative Medicine and Surgery. Pisa :—Societa Toscana di Scienze Naturali. Prague :—K: K. Sternwarte. Raleigh, N. C :—Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society. Rio de Janeiro:—Imperial Observatario. Rome :—Societa degli Spettroscopisti Italiani. Roorkee :—Editor, Indian Forester. St. Petersburgh :—Comité Géologique. —_—_-— :—Imperial Library. :—Russian Geographical Society. —_—_—___—_—— :— Académie Impériale des Sciences. ——— :—Jardin Impériale de Botanique. :—La Société des Naturalistes de Kiew. San Francisco :—Californian Academy of Arts and Sciences. Santiago :—Deutsche Wissenchaftliche Vereines. Schaffhausen :—Swiss Entomological Society. Shanghai :—China Branch, Royal Asiatic Society. Simla :—United Service Institution of India. Stettin :—Entomological Society. Stockholm :—Entomologische Tidskrift. ———-- :— Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Sydney :—Royal Society of New South Wales. :—Linnean Society of New South Wales. Taiping :—Government of Perak. Toronto :—Canadian Institute. Tokyo :—Imperial University of Japan. :—Deutsche Gesellschaft fiir Natur-und Vélkerkunde Osta- siens. Trenton, N. J.—Trenton Natural History Society. Trieste :—Societé Adriatica di Scienze Naturali. Turin :—Reale Accademia delle Scienze. —:—Osservatio Regia Universita. -Ulwar :—Ulwar Library. Vienna :—Anthropolgoische Gesellschaft. e FRO KK FH KK KK KO FE KOO FHF EF EMMMM OO F FO? FSO K ED ¥ *¥ PO KF REM 1891.] Annual Report. 29 Vienna :—K. K. Akademie der Wissenschaften. :—K. K. Geologische Reichsanstalt. —— :—K. K. Naturhistoriche Hofmuseums. —— :—K. K. Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft. ——- :— Ornithologische Verein. :—Osterreichischen Touristen-Club. Washington :—Commissioners of the Department of Agriculture. -—— :—Smithsonian Institution. —————- :—_ United States Geological Survey. :—United States National Museum. § Wellington :—New Zealand Institute. * Wiirttemberg :—Natural History Society. t+ Yokohama :— 2 é ‘C R r ‘OS Lee ya nD Ae A LWAts WPAN Way ahtias aaa TAU Seite cw el =o Bee aes Se ie Di — /\ GMS x ZN Ny We : i > [|e ¥ ih Giwas nloean ee es ee = cers foes rata] 5a pA waRadacas adraw-say a Gaon zaN AATARL: mea Sc oe seas a oe ae re Sue eo ke Secs Sa RTOS A pe Lat ar ROSAS q A SALREN| SAA ara] cage ee teSliquee Soren mie, poo eas ait er See nai UGA | reranhee ait aL a Ry ea Photo., 8. I. Be He Reg. No. 188, As. Soo., B—May 91,—605. he A NE EOE A AS EE a ot a en A LTT BIST VARS iy (¢ eae ey 6 dae PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, for May, 1891, S200—>————— The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was held on Wednesday the 6th May, 1891, at 9-15 p. m. J. Woop-Mason, Hsq., Vice-President, in the chair. The following members were present :— Nawab Abdul Latif, Bahadur, Rev. H. B. Hyde, Dr. W. King, Rev. Fr. H. Lafont, T. H. D. La Touche, Esq., C. Little, Esq., Kumar Rameswar Maliah, T. R. Munro, Hsq., L. de Nicéville, Hsq., R. D. Oldham, Esq., W. L. Sclater, Esq. Visitors: D. Munro, Hsq., Dr. W. W. Sheppard. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Nineteen presentations were announced, details of which are given in the Library List appended. The following gentleman, duly proposed and seconded at the last meeting of the Society, was ballotted for and elected an Ordinary Member :— C. R. Wilson, Esq. The following gentlemen are candidates for election at the next meeting :— Rev. D. G. Lathom-Browne, Chaplain, Port Blair, Andamans, proposed by Dr. G. King, seconded by Dr. D. Prain. F. A. Shillingford, Esq., Kolassy Factory, Purneah, proposed by ©. little, Esq., seconded by Dr. A. F. R, Hoernle. 82 Philological Secretary—Reports on old coins. [ May, The following gentleman has expressed a wish to withdraw from the Society :— C. A. Samuells, Hsq., C. S. The Presipent stated that the votes of the members on the pro- posed investment of Rs. 50,000 of the Society’s Permanent Reserve Fund, reported at the meeting in February last, would now be taken, and appointed Dr. W. King and Mr. T. R. Muuro to be scrutineers, who reported the result as follows :— For Against Result. Proposal I 76 6 Carried. Do. IT 18 64 Rejected. Do. III 5 77 Rejected. Do. IV o3 29 Rejected. The Secretary stated that it was resolved in the last meeting of Council, in the event of Proposal IV not being carried, that one proposal only should be laid before the members, as, with the large majority required by the rules of the Society, it is difficult to obtain a satisfactory result when so many proposals are before the members at once. The permission of the meeting was therefore asked with a view toa re- circulation of Proposal IT, viz., that the sum of Rs. 50,000 should be invested in Municipal Debentures. Permission was granted. The Presipent read a letter from the Committee of Organization, Fifth International Congress of Geologists, Washington, inviting atten- tion to a circular respecting the next meeting of the International Con- gress of Geologists and requesting to bring its contents to the notice of the Council and members of the Society. The PurtLonocticaL Secretary read the following reports on finds of Treasure Trove Coins :— I. Report on 10 silver coins forwarded by the Deputy Commissioner of the Akola District with his No. 3294, dated 26th May, 1890. The coins are stated to have been found near the village Umra Attali in the Khamgaon Taluk of the Akola district, whilst excavating for the building of a wall fora temple. Altogether 462 coins are stated to have been found, of which ten were sent as samples for identification. They are Rupees of Shah ’Alam, of native mintage, and are of no numismatic value. They have been sent to the mint to be melted down. II. Report on 29 “so-called Alamshahi Rupees ” forwarded by the 1891.] Philological Secretary—Reports on old coins. 83 Deputy Commissioner of Hoshangabad with his No. 4555, dated the 6th September, 1890. The coins are stated to have been found on the 10th May 1889 in the village of Rampur in Seoni Tahsil in the Hoshangabad district, and to be ‘‘ so-called Alamshahi Rupees.”’ As a matter of fact, they are Rupees of the following Mughal em- perors of Delhi: 1, Shah Jahan 3 specimens. 2, Aurangzib 3, Ahmad Shah 4, Farukhsiyar 5, Muhammad Shah 6, Alamgir IT 7, "Alam Shah Om ODN = oD Total 29 5 These Rupees are all of very common kinds and moreover in in- different condition. They have been sent to the mint to be melted down. III. Report on 5 coins forwarded by the Offg. Collector of Dur- bhanga with his No. 687G, dated 9th September, 1890. The find place of these coins is not stated in the Collector’s letter. Tt would be well, if this item of information were always supplied. All the five coins are Rupees of ’Alam Shah’s reign, dated “San 19 Mint Murshidabad,” but of English mintage. They are of no numismatic value, and have been sent to the mint to be melted down. IV. Report, on 82 silver coins, forwarded by the Deputy Commis- sioner of Dharmsala, Kangra District, with his No. 1680 of the 17th October 1890. These coins appear to belong to a set of 101 coins which were found buried by a roadside in the Hamirpur Tahsil of the Kangra District ; they were dug up in the course of road-making in March 1873. A few pieces were sent in April following to the Provincial Museum— I presume, in Lahore; and nine specimens would appear to have been taken by the District officers in 1874 with a view to enquiry. The remainder—apparently the 82 specimens now sent for determination— seem to have been deposited in the store room of the district oflice, where they were re-discovered in October last, and forwarded to the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Owing to my absence from Calcutta on BA: D. Prain—On the present condition of Barren Island. [ May, furlough, they could not be determined till now. Of the 82 coins sent down, 79 were whole, and 3 broken. All the 82 specimens are of one kind, and belong to the class, commonly called ‘‘ Indo-Sassanian.’”’ They are described and figured in Prinsep’s Indian Antiquities (ed. Thomas), Vol. I, p. 407, Plate XXXIII, figs. 9, 14. Coins of this description have been found, at various times and in different localities, in large numbers. All collec- tions are well supplied with them. They have been sent to the mint to be melted down. Rev. H. B. Hypz exhibited a transcript of the Original Returns of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials received from Calcutta by the Court of Directors between 1713 and 1754. He said :—The Original Registers of the Presidency Church were destroyed in 1756 and since then until these transcripts were received last month, it has perhaps been quite unknown in Calcutta that such duplicates now copied were in existence. These transcriptsare to be lodged in the Registry of St. John’s Church. The following papers were read :— 1. New and Rare Indian Lycenide.—By Wiiiram Douerty, Cin- cinnatt, U. S. A. Communicated by the Natura History SECRETARY. 2. The Butterflies of Sumba and Sambawa with some account of the Island of Sumba.—By Wittiam Dourerty, Cincinnati, U. 8S. A. Commu- nicated by the NaruraL History SECRETARY. 3. Natural History Notes from H. M.’s Indian Marine Survey Steamer ‘ Investigator,’ Commander R. F. Hosxyn, R. N, command- ing. No, 24,.—List of Deep-Sea Holothurians collected during the seasons 1887 to 1891 with descriptions of new species.—By Dr. J. H. Tutt Wasa. Communicated by the SUPERINTENDENT OF THE INDIAN Museum. 4. Onan undescribed Oriental species of Nepeta.x—By D. Prain. 5. Novicie Indice. IV. Two additional species of Gly ptopetalam.— By D. Prain. These papers will be published in the Journal, Part II. 6. On the present condition of Barren Island.—By D. Prat. Barren Island has been so often described that there is little left to say concerning its physical condition. In his exhaustive account of the island (Memows of the Geological Survey of India, xxi, part 4) Mr. Mallet has, however, suggested (l. ¢., p. 30) that future visitors should note “ the temperature of the hot spring ”’ at the landing place and “ the “thickness of the fresh and undisturbed sulphur-crusts.” This the writer, owing to the kindness of Col. T. Cadell, v. o., Chief Commis- sioner of the Andamans, had an opportunity of doing in April 1891. 1891. | D. Prain—On the present condition of Burren Island. 85 The column of steam from the crater which was “ visible from the “]anding-place or even some distance out at sea” to Mr. Mallet (1. ¢., p- 23) in February 1884 and was “ barely visible at 3 miles distance ”’ to Capt. A. Carpenter in 18386 (Records, Geol, Surv., India, xx, 48) was no longer visible from these points in April 1891; on ascending the cone, however, steam was found to issue still at the places indicated in Mr. Mallet’s memoir. The most copious discharge was still from the solfatara on the inner aspect of the north side of the crater. A deposit of sulphur of an average thickness of 23 inches had been laid down on this solfatara since 1884. On the other solfataras far less had been deposited; the crusts on the two next largest—that on the inner aspect of the south side of the crater and that outside the crater on the north-east face of the cone—were but # in. to 1 inch thick. The new crusts were very similar to the old ones described by Mr. Mallet (1. c., p. 18) except as regards thickness; when pieces were removed, however, they were found to be looser in texture and more friable than the fragments of the old deposit that lay scattered about the crater and in estimating the present value of the solfataras as a sulphur-supply this should perhaps be taken into account. The tem- perature of the steam at the point of issue was not determined in 1891, but it can hardly be as hot now as in 1884—it was then 219° F'.—since there was no crevice in which it was impossible to place one’s hand for at least a few seconds. | In taking the temperature of the hot spring Mr. McCausland, Com- mander of H. M. I. M. Nancowry very kindly assisted me. At high tide there was no trace of percolation of water through the shingle of the small landing-place beach, but when the tide had ebbed water was found to ooze through this shingle at five different points round the head of the bay. Having scooped out pools sufficiently deep for com- plete immersion of a thermometer at these spots we took temperatures in as nearly as possible the fashion described by Mr. Mallet (J. ¢., p. 26). In the most northerly small pool (furthest from the recent lava), the thermometer registered 102° F.; in the next pool towards the lava, 103° F.; then 104° F.; then 106° F.; finally in the pool nearest of all to the recent lava 104° F.; Mr. Mallet found that in 1884 the tem- perature of the different springs increased with their proximity to the recent lava; the discrepancy of our results as regards the last pool and that next adjacent to it (which, though five yards further from the lava was nevertheless 2° F. warmer) from the experience of Mr. Mallet led us to repeat the whole observation and to take the temperatures in these two last pools several times ; our results were, however, the same 86 D. Prain—Ou the present condition of Barren Island. [ May, on each occasion. There appears to have been more water in the spring at the time of Mr. Mallet’s visit (feb.) than when our observa- tions were made (April) for he found it possible to take temperatures in seven places while we could only do so in five. This spring was formerly much hotter than it is now, but unfor- tunately the early observations are not at all definite: ‘as hot almost ‘as if it had been boiling’ (commander of a vessel, 1832) ; ‘ tempera- ture too high to be borne with the hand’ (Playfair, 1837) ; ‘ natural boiling spring’ (Mouat, 1857); ‘ nearly at the boiling point’ (hiebig 1858); ‘scalding hot’ (Parish, 1862). The observations made since 1862 being more precise are here appended :— Date. Temperature of Spring. Authority. April, 1866 158° F. and 163° F. Andaman Committee, Report in Proc, As. Soe. Beng. 1866, p. 218. March, 1873 130° F. (highest observed) Ball, Rec. Geol. Surv. India, vi, p. 87. February, 1884 106°—116° F. Mallet, Mem. Geol. Surv. India, xxi, pt. 4, p. 26. April, 1886 110° F. (solitary observation) Daley, Rec. Geol. Surv. India, xx, 48. April, 1891 102°—106° F. Prain. The observations given in this table are not of quite equal value because they have not been taken ona uniform principle. The Anda- man Committee above referred to (Dr. Gamseks, Lt. Laughton and Mr. Homfray) describe the spring accurately as issuing from underneath ~ the lava across the small bay, but though Mr. Ball (J. c.) speaks of them as recording the temperature ‘‘ at from 158° to 163°” the state- _ ment in their report is that at low tide in one place the temperature | was found to be 163° F., and at another 158° F. We cannot there- | fore be certain that these figures give either the maximum or the | minimum temperature in 1866, though it is highly probable even if one of them represents a limit that they do not exhibit the full range of tem- perature at that time. Mr. Ball’s observation. is rather more precise ; the highest temperature is given as 130° F. taken close to high-water mark where the spring bubbles up; unfortunately he does not give the range of temperature in 1873. In connection with this it should be noted that Mr. A. O. Hume, speaking of this very observation, says 1891. | D. Prain—On the present condition of Barren Island. 87 (Stray Feathers 1, 104) “the thermometer showed a temperature of “nearly 140° F.” This remark occurs in the narrative portion of a paper on the ornithology of the islands of the Bay of Bengal and is clearly written from memory only ; attention is drawn to it now merely in order to prevent any one who may subsequently read the statement from relying upon it as exact. Mr. Mallet’s observations are very com- prehensive and precise. Only the bare result of Mr. Daley’s observa- tion is given and only one temperature is mentioned : it is not stated that it was the highest, and it is possible that the temperature was taken at one spot only. The rate of cooling of the spring as indicated by the various highest readings of the preceding table is shown in the table subjoined :— Period. No. of years. Amt. of cooling. Rate per annum. 1866-73 | 33° F. or 18°30°C. 4:7° F. or 2°6°C. 1873-84 11 -14° F. or 7:70C. 1:2? Fs 08 0:6°C. 1884-86 2 6° F. or 3°3°C. 3°0° BY. or 1°7°€. 1886-91 5 4° F. or 2:2°C. 0°8° F. or 04°C. The rates per annum shew that the existence of an error in the 1886 observation is not only possible but highly probable; the spot selected for examination can hardly have been that in which the tem- perature was highest at the time. If it be neglected the rate per annum for the whole 1884-91 period is 1° or 14° F. (=0°7°C.) a rate that, allowing for errors unavoidable in such observations, is practically uniform with that during the 1873-84 period. Between 1866 and 1873 it cooled nearly four times as fast as it has cooled since; if the 1886 observation is correct, six times as fast as it is cooling now. If the rate continues uniform henceforth the spring will, if the 1886 observa- tion be correct, probably cease to deserve the appellation “‘ hot’’ by 1925, if the 1886 observation was not taken where the water was hottest at the time, the spring will probably be cool by 1910. 88 Library. [ May, LIBRARY. The following additions have been made to the Library since the meeting held in April last. J RANSACTIONS, PROCEEDINGS AND JOURNALS, presented by the respective Societies and Hditors. Baltimore. Johns Hopkins University,—American Chemical Journal, Vol. X, No. 86. Batavia. Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen,— Notulen, Deel XXVIII, Aflevering, 4. : Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal-, Land-en Volken- kunde, Deel XXXIV, Aflevering, 3 en 4, Koninklijke Natuurkundige Vereeniging in Netherlandsch- Indié,—Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Netherlandsch-Indié, Deel L. Bombay. Bombay Natural History Society,—Journal, Vol. V, No. 4. The Indian Antiquary,—Vol. XIX, Part 242; XX, 245 and 246. Calcutta. Geological Survey of India,—Records, Vol. XXIV, Part I. Indian Engineering,—Vol. IX, Nos. 14-18. —. Photographic Society of India,—Journal, Vol. IV, No. 4. Copenhagen. K. Nordiske Oldskrift-Selsbak,—Aarboger, Raekke IT, Bind V, Hefte 4. Dresden. Gesellschaft Iris zu Dresden,—Deutsche Hntomologische Zeitschrift, Jahr 1890, Zweites Lepidopterologisches Heft, Band III, Heft 2. Edinburgh. The Scottish Geographical Society,—Magazine, Vol. VII, No. 1, and Index to Vol. VI. Florence. La Societa Italiana di Antropologia, Htnologia e Psicologia Comparata,— Archivio per L’ Antropologia ela Etnologia, Vol. XX, | Fascicolo 3°. | Havre. Société de Géographie Commerciale du Havre,—Bulletin, Janvier—Février, 1891. London. Institution of Mechanical Engineers,—Proceedings, No. 3, 1890. ———, Nature,—Vol. XLITI, Nos. 1116-20. Royal Astronomical Society,—Monthly Notices, Vol. LI, Nos. 1 and 2, 1891.] Inbrary. 89 London. Royal Geographical Society,—Proceedings, Vol. XIII, Nos. 1 and 2. Royal Microscopical Society,—Journal, Part 6, 1890. Royal Society,—Proceedings, Vol. XLVIII, No. 295. Royal Statistical Society,—Journal, Vol. LIII, Part 4. The Academy,—Nos. 985-89. . The Atheneum,—Nos. 3308-12. Mendon, Illinois. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal,— Vol Xt No. 2. ‘Mexico. Estados Unidos Mexicanos,—Informes y Documentos relativos a Comercio Interior y Exterior Agricultura é Industrias, Nos. 65 and 66. Moscow. la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou,—Bulletin, No. 3, 1890. {1 | : Meteorologische Beobachtungen, Das Jahr 1890— Erste Halfte. New York. The Journal of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary Archives,—Vol. XII, No..3. Paris. Journal Asiatique,—Tome XVI, No. 3. ——. la Société de Géographie,—Compte Rendu des Séances, Nos. 6-8, 1891. ——. la Société Zoologique de France,—Bulletin, Tome XV, No. 10. Memoires, Tome III. Philadelphia. Museum of American Archeology,—Annual Report, Molt, No. ¥. Rio de Janeiro. Observatorio do Rio de Janeiro,—Revista do Obser- vatorio, Anno VI, No. 2. Rome. la Societé Degli Spettroscopisti Italiani,—Memorie, Vol. XX, Disp. 2°. St. Petersburg. Comité Géologique,—Mémoires, Tome IV, No. 2 Ve ee NEEL 2: Stettin. Hntomologischen Vereine zu Stettin,—Entomologische Zeitung, Jahr LI. Sydney. Linnean Society of New South Wales,—Proceedings, Vol. V, Part 4. Taiping. Government of Perak,—The Perak Government Gazette, Vol. IV, Nos. 6-8, and Index to Vol. III. Toronto. Canadian Institute,—Transactions, Vol. I, Part I. Turin. La R. Accademia delle Scienze di Torino,—Atti, Vol. XXV, Disp. 152; X XVI, Disp. 42-52. VaR eee Te ——-. Memorie, Serie Seconda, Tomo XI. La Osservatorio della Regia Universita di Torino,—Osserva- zioni Meteorologische, Anno 1890. oe . 90 Inbrary. [ May, Vienna. Der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien,—Mittheilungen, Band XX, Heft 3 u 4. Der K. K. Géologischen Reichsanstalt,—Verhandlungen, Nrn. 2-4, 1891. Zagreb. Hrvatskoga Arkeologickoga Druztva,—Viestnik, Godina XIII, Dre. Pooks AND pPAMPHLETS, presented by the Authors, Translators, §c. Hayter, H. H. Victorian Year-book for 1889-90. Vol. II. 8vo. Mel- bourne, 1890. Ray, Prarapa CHanprRa, C. I. H. The Mahabharata, translated into English Prose, Part LXV, Canti Parva. 8vo. Calcutta, 1891. Sarma, Panpir Burma Sen. Manavadharma Sastra, Vol. VII, Part 2. 8vo. Allahabad, 1891. Sen, Kaviras ViyayaratnA. Ashtanga Hridaya, No. 2. 8vo. Cal- cutta, 1890. MiscELLANEOUS J RESENTATIONS, Annual Report of the Agri-Horticultural Society of Burma for the year 1890 (Read at the General meeting held at the Phayre Museum). Svo. Rangoon, 1890. Minutes of an Ordinary General Meeting of the Agri-Horticultural Society of Burma, held at the Phayre Museum, on Monday, the 30th March, 1891. 8vo. AGRI-HOoRTICULTURAL Society oF Burma. Catalogue of Ferns in the Herbarium of the Government of India at Saharanpur. Calcutta, 1890. BotanicaL GARDEN, SAHARANPUR. Resolution on the Revenue Administration of the Central Provinces for the year 1889-90, ending 30th September, 1890. Fep. Nagpur, 1891. CHIEF COMMISSIONER, CENTRAL PROVINCEs. Botany: Contributions to the Queensland Flora. By F. M. Bailey, F. L. S. (Bulletin, Department of Agriculture, Brisbane, No. 7). Svo. Brisbane, 1891. DeEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, BRISBANE. _ Returns of the Rail and River-Borne Trade of Bengal during the quarter ending the 3lst December, 1890. Fcep. Calcutta, 1891. GOVERNMENT OF BENGAt. 1891.] Inbrary. OL An Account of the Caves at Nadsur and Karsambla. By Henry Consens (Archeological Survey of Western India, No. 12). 4to. Bombay, 1891. GOVERNMENT OF Bompay. The Indian Antiquary, Vol. XX, Parts 245 and 246. 4to. Bombay, 1891. The Voyage of Francois Pyrard of Laval to the Hast Indies, the Maldives, the Moluccas and Brazil. By Albert Gray and H. C. P. Bell, Vol. II, Part 2, 8vo. London, 1890. GOVERNMENT OF Indra, Home Department, Report on the Administration of the Madras Presidency, during the year 1889-90. Fep. Madras, 1890. GOVERNMENT OF MADRAS. Report on the Meteorology of India in 1889. By John Eliot, M. A. Fep. Calcutta, 1891. MerroronocicaL ReporTER TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. Tablas Psycrométricas calculadas Para la Altura De México tablas abreviadas generales compiladas por José Zendejas. 8vo. Mexico, 1889. Osservatorio Meteoroudeico-Macnerico CentraL pe Mexico. Twenty-sixth Annual Report of the Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, 1889. Fep. Calcutta, 1891. SANITARY COMMISSIONER WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. Katalog der Vogelsammlung in Museum der Senckenbergischen Na- turforschenden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am main Von Ernst Hartert. S8vo. Frankfurt, 1891. SENCKENBERGISCHEN NATURFORSCHENDEN GESELLSCHAFT, FRANKFURT. PERIODICALS PURCHASED. Allahabad. North Indian Notes and Queries,—Vol. I, No 1. Berlin, Deutsche Litteraturzeitung,—Jahrgang XI, Nrn. 49-52; XII, 1-5. Journal fiir die reine und angewandte Mathematik,—Band CVII, Heft 3 u 4. Zeitschrift fiir Ethnologie,—Heft V, 1890. Calcutta. Calcutta Review,—Vol. XCII, No. 184. Indian Medical Gazette,—Vol. XXVI, No. 4. Cassel. Botanisches Centralblatt,—Band XLIV, Heft 9-13; XLV, 1-3, und Index, Band XLIV. Ceylon. The Orientalist,—Vol. IV, Parts 3 and 4. Geneva. Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles—Tome XXV, No. 3. 92 Library. [May, 1891.] Gottingen. Der Kénigl. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften,—Gottin- gische Gelehrte Anzeigen, Nrn. 23-26, 1890; 1, 1891. ———. Nachrichten, Nrn. 13-14, 1890. Leeds. The Journal of Conchology,—Vol. VI, No. 8. Leipzig. Annalen der Physik und Chemie,—Band XLII, Heft 4. Beiblatter, Band XV, Stiick 2 u 3. Literarisches Centralblatt,—Nrn. 50-52, 1890, und Index, 1890. Leyden. Internationales Archiv-fiir Ethnographie,—Band III, Heft 6. London. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History,—Vol. VI (sixth series), Nos. 37 and 38. The Chemical News,—Vol. LXIII, Nos. 1634-38. The Entomologist, ~Vol. XXIV, Nos. 332 and 333. The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine,—Vol. II (2nd series), Nos. 320 and 32]. The Ibis,—Vol, III (sixth series), No. 9. The Journal of Botany,—Vol. X XIX, Nos. 337-38. ———. The London, Hdinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, —Vol. XXXI (5 series), Nos. 188 and 189. ———. The Messenger of Mathematics,—Vol. XX, Nos. 6 and 7. ————. The Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science,—Vol. XXXII, Part I. —-—. Rhopalocera Hxotica,—Part 15. New Haven. The American Journal of Science,—Vol. XL (3 Series), No. 240; XLI, Nos. 241-42. Paris. L’ Academie des Sciences,—Comptes Rendus des Séances,— Tome CXI, Nos. 22-26; CXII, 1-4, et Tables, Tome CX. ——-. Annales de Chimie et de Physique,—Tome XXII (6™¢ Série), Janvier et Février, 1891. ——. Journal des Savants, Décembre, 1890. —-. Revue Scientifique,—Tome XLVII, Nos. 12-16. ——-. Revue Critique d’ Histoire et de Litterature,—Tome XXX, Nos. 49-52; XXXI, 1-4. Philadelphia. Manual of Conchology,—Vol. XII, Part 3; Vol. VI (2"4 series), Part 3. Pooks PURCHASED, Chakradasta. 4to. Calcutta. GRAHAM, WitutdM. Socialism, new and old, (The International Scien- tific series, Vol. LXX). 8vo. London, 1890. ‘ Navinue, Hpouvarp. Bubastis, (1887-89). Highth Memoir of the Heypt Exploration Fund, volume for 1889-90. 4to. London, 1891. The Zoological Record, Vol. XXVE, 1889. 8vo. London, 1890. ae ae 0 ee i Ii Teer PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, FoR pUNE, 1391, — A=) The Mouthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society ef Bengal was held on Wednesday, the 3rd June, 1891, at 9-15 P. M. L. p& Nicrvinie, Esq., F. EK. S., in the Chair. The following members were present :— H. C. Cotes, Esq. T. R. Munro, Esq., J. D. Nimmo, Esq., R. D. Oldham, Esq., W. lL. Sclater, Hsq., Dr. J. WU. Tull Walsh. Visitor :—-Thomas H. Holland, Esq. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Thirty-three presentations were announced, details of which are given in the Library List appended. The following gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded at the last meeting of the Society were ballotted for and elected Ordinary Members. Rev. D. G. Lathom-Browne. F. A. Shillingferd, Esq. The following gentleman is a candidate for election at the next meeting :— Thomas H. Holland, Hsq., Geological Survey of India, proposed by R. D. Oldham, Hsq., seconded by W. L. Sclater, Hsq. The Secrurary reported the death of the following members :— John Boxwell, Hsq., C. 8. C. W. Baumgarten, Hsq. 94, H. J. Rainey—Fiery hot-blast in Khuln'a. | [ June, The Presippent announced that Dr. J. H. Tull Walsh had been elected a member of Council in. the room of Dr. D. D. Cunningham, resigned, in consequence of proceeding to Hurope on furlough. Mr. W. L. Sciater exhibited an old breech-loading gun, which was dug up in the Gya district and was presented to the Indian Museum by Mr. F. Field; the gun had been examined by Col. Mortimer, R. A., of the Ordnance Department, Fort William, who pronounces it to be of Huropean manufacture probably dating from the 16th century, and that it was known by the name of Perrier or Paterera. Mr, EH. C. Corns exhibited two insects which are amongst the causes now conspiring to prevent the continuance of the locust plague through another year. The following papers were read :— 1. Note ona fiery hot-blast in the district of Khuln’a, on the 12th May, 1891.—By H. James Rainey. Communicated by the Narurau His- TORY SECRETARY. While my brother, Mr. J. Rudd-Rainey, and I were at dinner on the 12th May last, in the centre room of “ Rainey Villa,’ between the hours of 8 and 9 o’clock, a very cool wind which was blowing into the room through the south door from the south-east direction quite suddenly changed to an absolutely warm blast from the same quarter, and was accompanied by a clearly discernible smell of combus- tion. So great was the heat, and so strong the smell of burning even within the room, that I immediately left it and went to the south veran- dah to see if there was any thatched house on fire close to the brick- built building I was in. I found no sign of any conflagration anywhere in the horizon, but the warm blast outside became absolutely fiery in its intensity. I could barely face it, and that only for a minute or so at atime. I may describe the sensation I felé to be similar to that of standing in close proximity to a heated furnace, or near to and wind- ward of a burning expanse of jungle. This fiery hot-blast continued to blow for about the space of a quarter of an hour, and then the wind suddenly veered to the opposite direction, that is, from south-east to south-west, and a cool breeze set in, which was very grateful, indeed. The sky was overcast with clouds, but of no great density, and some stars were visible here and there, though none of the seven bright stars constituting the constellation Ursa Major, or even the pole star. There was much display of electricity im the shape of vivid flashes of light- ning in diferent directions, but especially from the south-east quarter. 1391. | Library. 95 I regret exceedingly that I omitted to consult the thermometer at the time, to note the degree of the temperature when exposed to the in- tensely hot blast. From the result of enquiries instituted by me among my tenants and others, the fiery hot blast appears to have extended toa radius of several miles of my residence, which, I may state, is situated in Khulna Proper, on the left bank or east side of the wide river Rupshaha, on the opposite or west side of which river stands the present Civil Station of Khulna, and within half a mile distance from it. I have never before this occurrence experienced anywhere in India, or elsewhere, such a strange intensely hot blast, and cannot in any way satisfactorily account for it. As the subject may be of some interest to Meteorologists, perhaps it would be worth while to fully discuss and elucidate it. I may add that, I find from the Centenary Review of the Society, that in Jour, As. Soc., B., Vol. XVII, 1848, there appears a paper on this subject from the veteran Meteorologist H. Piddington, entitled ‘‘ A Notice of aremarkable Hot Wind in the Zillah of Purneah,” but owing to the destruction of my Library I am unable to refer to it. 2. The ‘ Tsam-chhé-dung’ (rtsa-mchhog-grong) of the Lamas, and their very erroneous identification of the site of Buddha’s death.—By lL. A. Wavppett, M. B. The paper will be published in the Journal, Part I. ——— SSeS Eee OSes eres” PIBRARY, The following additions have been made to the Library since the meeting held in May last. J RANSACTIONS, PROCEEDINGS AND JOURNALS, presented by the respective Societies and Editors. Bombay. The Indian Antiquary,—Vol. XX, Part 247. Budapest. A Magyar Tudomanyos Akadémia,—Hrtekezések, Kotet XIV, Sz4m 11-12); XV; 1-5. _ ormucwmns, Nyelvtudomanyi Kozlémények,—Kotet XXI, Fiizet 3-6. La Société Hongroise de Géographie,—Bulletin, Tome XIX, Nos. 3 et 4. 96 Library. [ JUNE, Budapest. Der Ungarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,—Mathe- matische und Naturwissenschaftliche Berichte aus Ungarn, Band Vit. ——--—, ————.. Ungarische Revue, Heft 4-10, 1889; 1-4, 1890. Caen. La Société Linnéenne de Normandie,—Bulletin, 4e série, Tome Re Calcutta. Indian Engineering,—Vol. IX, Nos. 19-22. Photographic Society of India,—Journal, Vol. IV, Nos. 5-6. Cincinnati. dournal of Comparative Neurology,—Vol. E. Copenhagen. K. Nordiske Oldskrift-Selskab,—Aarboger, Raekke II, Bind V, Heft 5. La Société Royale des Antiquaires du Nord,—Mémoires, ee oe 1890. Edinburgh. Royal Physical Society,—Proceedings, Vol. X, Part 2. The Hague. Koninklijk Instituut voor de Taal,- Land-en Volken- kunde van Nederlandsch-Indié,—Bijdragen tot de Taal- Land-en Volkenkande van Nederlandsch-Indié, Deel VI, 5¢ Volgr, Aflever- ing 2, Havre. Société de Géographie Commerciale du Havre,—Bulletin, Mars-Avril, 1891. Heidelberg. Historisch-Philosophischen Vereine zu Heidelberg,—Neue | Heidelberger Jahrbicher, Jahrgang I, Heft I. Jassy. Societatii Stiintifice $i Literare din Iasi,—Arhiva, An IT, No. 7. London. Geological Society,— Quarterly Journal, Vol. XLVII, Part 2. ——--—. Institution of Electrical Engineers,—Journal, Vol. XX, No. 92. Nature,—Vol. XLIII, Nos. 1121-24. —-——. Royal Society,—Proceedings, Vol. XLIX, No. 297. ——-, "he Academy, Nos. 990-93. The Athenzum,—Nos. 8313-16. ARE Ecior Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society,—Memoirs and Proceedings Vol. 1V (4th series), No. 3. Mexico. la Sociedad Cientifica “ Antonio Alzate,”—Memorias y Re- vista, ‘ome IV, Nos. 5-6. New York. Journal of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary Archives, —Vol. XII, No. 4. Paris. La Société de Géographie,—Compte Rendu des Séances, Nos. 9-10, 1891. Pisa. La Société Toscana di Scienze Naturali,—Atti (Processi Verbali), 18th Gennaio et 8 Marzo, 1891. Rio de Janeiro. Observatorio do Rio de Janeire,—Revista do Obser- vatorio, Anno VI, No. 3. 1891. | Inbrary. 97 Rome. la Societé Degli Spettroscopisti Italianis;—Memorie, Vol. XX, Disp 3? St. Petersburg. La Société Impériale Russe de Géographie,—Proceed- ings, Tome XXVI, No.5; XXVII, 1-2. Stettin. Entomologischen Vereine zu Stettin,—Hntomologische Zeitung, Vols. XX XIX-XLVIII. Sydney. Royal Society of New South Wales,—Journal and Proceed- ings, Vol. XXIV, Part 2. Tokyd. Asiatic Society of Japan,—Transactions, Vol. XIX, Part I. ‘Taiping. Perak Government,—Perak Government Gazette, Vol. IV, Nos. 10-12. Turin. La R. Accademia delle Scienze di Torino,—Atti, Vol. XXVI, Disp. 62-82 et Elenco Degli Accademici Residenti, Nazionali non Residenti, Stranieri e Corrispondenti al 12 Marzo, 1891. Vienna. Der K. K. Geologischen Reichsanstalt,—Verhandlungen, Nrn. 5-7. Washington. United States Geological Survey,—Bulletin, Nos. 58-61, 63, 64. Pooks AND PAMPHLETS, presented by the Authors, Translators, &c. OtpHam, W. Some Historical and Ethnical Aspects of the Burdwan District. S8vo. Calcutta, 1891. OscHanin, B. List of the Hemiptera of Moscow and the neighbour pro- vinces. 8vo. Moscow, 1870. . Materials for a fauna of the Hemiptera of Turkestan. S8vo. The Hemiptera of the Zerafshan Valley, Ato. The Zoogeographical character of the hemipterous fauna of Turkestan. 8vo. St. Petersburg, 1891. Wuirtney, W. D. Bohtlingk’s Upanishads (Reprinted from American Journal of Philology, Vol. XI, No. 4). 8vo. On Bohtlingk’s Upanishads (Reprinted from the Proceed- ings, American Oriental Society, Oct. 1890). 8vo. On the second volume of EHggeling’s Translation of the Catapatha-Brahmana (Reprinted from the Proceedings, American Oriental Society, Oct. 1888). 8vo. The Roots of the Sanskrit Language (Reprinted from the Transactions of the American Philological Association, 1885). IV.—Translation of the Katha-Upanishad (Reprinted from the Transactions of the American Philological Association, Vol. XXI). 8vo. 98 Library. [ June, MiscELLANEOUS PRESENTATIONS. A Revision of the South American Nematognathi or cat-fishes. By Carl H. Higenmann, Ph. D. and Rosa Smith Higenmann (Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, I). 8vo. San Fran- cisco, 1890. Land Birds of the Pacific District. By Lyman Belding (Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, II). 8vo. San Fran- cisco, 1890. CatirorntA ACADEMY oF Scipnces, San FRAncisco. Report on the Judicial Administration (Civil) of the Central Provinces for the year 1890. Fep. Nagpur, 1891. Returns of the Rail-borne Traffic of the Central Provinces during the quarter ending 3lst December, 1890. Fecp. Nagpur, 1891. CHIEF COMMISSIONER, CENTRAL PROVINCES. Some Historical and Ethnical Aspects of the Burdwan District. By W - Oldham. S8vo. Calcutta, 1891. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Edited by W.T. Blanford. By Hugene W. Oates. Birds, Vol. II. 8vo. London, 1890. GOVERNMENT oF BENGAL. The Indian Antiquary, Vol. XIX, Part 242, December, 1890, Part IT. 4to. Bombay, 1891. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, Home DEPARTMENT. Gazetteer of the Ferozepore District, 1888-89. 8vo. Lahore. GOVERNMENT OF THE Pondsas. Programme of the Marine Survey of India for the season 1891-92. Fep. 1891. Marine Survey or Inpra, Poona. Tezkereh-i-Evlia. Le Mémorial des Saints traduit sur le manuscrit ouigour de la Bibliothéque Nationale par A Pavet de Courteille. Fol. Paris, 1889. Manuscrit Ouigour de la Bibliothéque Nationale. Fol. Paris, 1890. FRencH GovERNMENT. A Magyar Hatarozék. A.M. Tud Akadémidtdl Lukdcs Krisztina-féle Jutalommal Kitiintelett Padlyamnuka. irta Simonyi Zsigmond. 8vo. Budapest, 1890. A Magyar Tud. Akadémia Kiadasdban megjelent Munkak Es Fol- yoiratok bettirendes Czim-és Tartalomjegyzéke. 8vo. Budapest, 1890. ESol."| Inbrary. 99 Oszman-Tordk Neépkéltési Gyitijtemény. Masodik Kotet: Oszman- Tordk Népmesék és Népdalok. Dr. Ktinos Igndcz. 8vo. Budapest, 1889. Sexti Pompei Festi de verborum significatu que supersunt cum pauli epitome. edidit Aemilius Thewrewk de Ponor. Pars I. 8vo. Budapest, 1889. Magyar TupomAnyos AKADEMIA, BUDAPEST. Notes on Indian Rotifers. By H. H. Anderson, B. A. (A Reprint from the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal). 8vo. Calcutta, 1891. Microscopican Society or CaLcurra. Proceedings of the Trustees of the Newberry Library for the year end- ing January 5th, 1891. 8vo. Chicago, 1891. NEWBERRY LIBRARY, CHICAGO. Mineral Resources of the United States, 1888. By David T. Day. 8vo. Washington, 1890. Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, Vol. I. Lake Bonneville. By Grove Karl Gilbert. 4to. Washington, 1890. Ninth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1887-’88. By J. W. Powell. Ato. Washington, 1889. Unitep States GEoLocicaL Survey, WASHINGTON. The Hindu Law of Adoption. By Gopalchandra Sarkar, Sastri, M. A., B. L. (Tagore Law Lectures, 1888). 8vo. Calcutta, 1891. UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA. Norges Gamle Love indtil 1387. 5te Binds, lste Hefte. 4to. Chris- tiania, 1890. UNIVERSITY OF CHRISTIANIA. Report of the President of Yale University for the year ending Decem- ber 31st, 1890. 8vo. New Haven, 1891. YALE UNIVERSITY. PERIODICALS PURCHASED, Allahabad. North Indian Notes and Queries,—Vol. I, No. 2. Braunschweig. Jahresbericht tiber die Fortschritte der Chemie und verwandter Theile anderer Wissenschaften,—Heft II, 1888. Calcutta. Indian Medical Gazette,—Vol. XXVI, No. 5. Geneva. Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles,—Tome XXV, No. 4. 100 Library. [June, 1891.! Leipzig. Annalen der Physik und Chemie,—Band XIII, Heft 1. Beiblatter, Band XV, Stiick 4. London. The Chemical News,—Vol. LXIII, Nos. 1639-42. Paris. Revue Scientifique,—Tome XLVII, Nos. 17-20. Vienna. Vienna Oriental Journal,—Vol. V, No. 1. LLL LIS PRADA PLR IDI DR rrooroowrorwrnn ‘ PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, foR puLy, 1891. CD00 The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was held on Wednesday, the Ist July, 1891, at 9-15 p. . J. Woov-Mason, Esg., Vice-President, in the chair. The following members were present :— Dr. A. W. Alcock, Babi Sarat Chandra Das, Rev. H. B. Hyde, C. Little, Hsq., Babi Asutosh Mukhopadhyay, L. de Nicéville, Esq., J. D. Nimmo, Hsq., C. R. Wilson, Esq. © The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Fifty-one presentations were announced, details of which are given in the Library List appended. The following gentleman, duly proposed and seconded at the last meeting of the Society, was ballotted for and elected an Ordinary Member :-— Thomas H. Holland, Esq. The Secretary reported the death of the following member :— Lieut.-Col. Sir O. B. St. John, R. E., K. C.S. I. The Presipent stated that the votes of the members would now be taken on the proposed transfer of Rs. 50,000 of the Society’s Per- manent Reserve Fund to Municipal Debentures, reported at the meet- ing in May last, and appointed Dr. A. W. Alcock and Babtii Asutosh Mukhopadhyay to be Scrutineers, who reported that there were 80 votes in favour of and 14 votes against the proposed transfer, whereupon the President announced that it had been duly carried. 102 Inbrary. [JuLy, Bist’ Sarat Cuanpra DAs read a short note on the first tests of renunciation of the early Buddhists. The following papers were read :— 1. Additional Uredineae from the Neighbourhood of Simla.—By A. Barciay, M. B., Bengal Medical Service. The paper will be published in the Journal, Part IT. 2. Troy weights and general currency of ancient Orissa —By Man Mowan Cuakravartl, M. A., B. L. The paper will be published in the Journal, Part I. IBRARY. PIBRAR The following additions have been made to the Library since the meeting held in June last. J RANSACTIONS, PROCEEDINGS AND pOURNALS, presented by the respective Societies and Editors. Angers. La Société d’Htudes Scientifiques d’Angers,—Bulletin, KIX¢ Année. Baltimore. Johns Hopkins University, —American Chemical J ournal, Vol, X1t, Nos:6-3); Xiii, 1, American Journal of Mathematics, Vol. XIII, Nos. 1 and 2. ——. American Journal of Philology, Vol. XI, Nos. 2 and 38. ——$_———— ——. Circulars, Vol. X, Nos. 87 and 88. ——. Studies from the Biological Laboratory, Vol. LV, No. 7. | Berlin. Der Koniglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu | Berlin,—Sitzungsberichte, XLI-LIII; Inhalt Jabrgang 1890. Bombay. 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Journal of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary Archives,— Vol. XII, No. 5. Paris. Journal Asiatique,—Tome XVI, No. 2; XVII, l. L’ Académie Nationale des Sciences, Belies-Lettres et arts de Bordeaux,—Actes, 3¢ série—XLIX et Le Années. ee a ek 104 Inbrary. [Juuy, Paris. La Société Académique Indo-Chinoise de Franece,—Bulletin, 2¢ Série. Tome ITI. La Société D’Anthropologie de Paris,—Bulletins, Tome I (IV® Série) Fasc. 2° et 3¢. Mémoires, Tome IV (2¢ Série), Fasc. 2e. No. 1. Compte Rendu des Séances, No. 11, 1891. La Société Zoologique de France,—Bulletin, Tome XVI, Nos. 1 et 2. Musée Guimet,—Revue de I’Histoire des Religions, Tome XXII, Nos. 1-3. Philadelphia. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia,—Proceed- ings, Parts 2 and 3, 1890. Rio de Janeiro. Museu Nacional,—Archivos, Vol. VII. -. Observatorio do Rio de Janeiro,—Revista do Observatorio, Anno VI, No. 4. Rome. La Societaé Degli Spettroscopisti Italiani,—Memorie, Vol. XX, Disp. 4. St. Petersburg. Comité Géologique,—Bulletins, Tome IX, Nos. 7 et 8. Mémoires, Vol. V, No. 5; X, 1. La Société Impériale Russe de Géographie,—Proceedings, Tome XXVII, No. 3. Taiping. Perak Government,—Perak Government Gazette, Vol. IV, _ Nos. 13-16. Tokys. Imperial University of Japan,—Journal of the College of Science, Vol. IV, Part 1. Vienna. Der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien,—Mittheilungen, Band X XI, Heft 1, und General-Register, Band XI-XX. Der K. K. Géologischen Reichsanstalt,—Abhandlungen, Band rae Der Kaiserlischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,—Archiv fiir Osterreichische Geschiehte, Band LX XV, Halfte 1 und 2. Denkschriften (Mathematisch-Naturwis- senschafliche classe), Band LVI. (Philosophisch-Historiseche elasse), Band XXXVII. ee ee e Fontes Rerum Austriacarum, Band XLV, Halfte 1. Wiseounshatyiele classe), Abtheilung I, Band XCVIII, Heft 4-10, XCIX, 1-3; If A, XCVIII, 4-10, XCIX, 1-3; II B, XCVIII, 4-10, XCIX, 1-3; IIT, XCVIII, 5-10, XCIX, 1-3. 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Hilson, M. D., Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Bengal. ep. Calcutta, 1891. GOVERNMENT OF BENGAL. Army Estimates of Effective and Non-effective Services, for 1891-92. Fep. London, 1891. The Conquest of the River Plate (1535-1555). 8vo. London, 1891. An Estimate of the Sum required in the year ending 3lst March, 1892, to defray the Expense of the Ordnance Factories, the Cost of the Productions of which will be charged to the Army, Navy, and Indian and Colonial Governments, &c. Fep. London, 1891. 1891. | Tibrary. 107 Memorandum of the Secretary of State relating to the Army Estimates for 1891-92. Fep. London, 1891. Return of all Loans raised in India, chargeable on the Revenues of India, outstanding at the commencement of the half-year ended on the 30th September, 1890. Fep. London, 1891. 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The Larvae of the British Butterflies and Moths edited by H. T. Stainton, F. R. 8., Vol. IV. The first portion of the noctue (Ray Society, 1890). 8vo. London, 1891. ) Deauienrs, M. Histoire Générale des Huns, Tome I, Partie 1; II, 1-2; TITet IV. 4to. Paris, 1750-58. Dertsruck, B. Syntaklische Forschungen. Band V, Altindische Syn- tax. 8vo. Halle a. S., 1888, EE ee PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, for fuGcustT, 1891, CA The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was held on Wednesday, the 5th August, 1891, at 9-15 P. M. ” Tus Hon’siz Sir A. W. Crort, K. C. I. E., President, in the chair. The following members were present :— Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle, Rev. H. B. Hyde, W. H. Jobbins, Esq., Dr. W. King, C. Little, Esq., Babi Asutosh Mukhopadhyay, L. de Nicéville, Esq., W. L. Sclater, Esq., Pandit Hara Prasad Shastri, C. H. Tawney, Esq., Dr. J. H. Tull Walsh, C. R. Wilson, Esq. Visitor :—Dr. H. Thurston. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Forty-two presentations were announced, details of which are given in the Library List appended. The following gentlemen are candidates for election at the next meeting :— | H. C. Mallik, Esq., Calcutta, proposed by Hon. Sir A. W. Croft, seconded by C. Little, Esq. Dr. E. H. Brown, Civil Surgeon, Puri, proposed by Babi Man Mohan Chakravarti, seconded by C. Little, Esq. Dr. M. A. Stein, Principal, Government College, Lahore, proposed by Dr. A, F. R. Hoernle, seconded by C. Little, sq. Diego Ernst, Esq., Delhi, proposed by W. L. Sclater, Esq., seconded by Dr. W. King. _ Dr, Edgar Thurston, Superintendent, Government Central Mu- seum, Madras, proposed by Dr. W. King, seconded by W. L. Sclater, Esq. W112 Death of Raja Rajendraldla Mitra. [Avue. The Secretary reported the death of the following member :— Raja Rajendralala Mitra, LL. D., C.1I E. The Presipent observed :—It is with great regret that I have to | make to the Society the formal announcement of the death of one of its most distinguished members, Raja Rajendralala Mitra. It is not } | only within the walls of this Society, or even in Bengal, that his | loss will be deplored ; it will be felt throughout Hurope; for wherever } | learning is cultivated, there the name of Rajendralala Mitra is held | | in honour. His connection with this Society, extending over nearly | half a century, was of a quite exceptional character. Hntering it, | when a young man, as Assistant-Secretary and Librarian, his com- manding abilities and untiring industry soon brought him into pro- | minence; and while we may congratulate ourselves that it was this | Society which first gave him the opportunity of satisfying his in- exhaustible craving for knowledge, we must gratefully admit that he has amply repaid the debt by the contributions that he has made to Oriental learning, and by the lustre that his name and attainments have shed upon the Society, of which he was one of the most distin- guished in the long roll of Presidents. I will only add that the Council at its last meeting passed the following Resolution :— “The Council desire to place on record their deep sense of the | | “very great loss the Asiatic Society of Bengal and Oriental Learning “have sustained by the death of their former President and Vice- ‘“‘ President, Raja Rajendralala Mitra, and to express their great | ‘sorrow at the sad event that has deprived the Society of a most “ learned and distinguished supporter who has been closely connected | ‘with it for nearly half a century, and the Council of a much esteem- ‘ed Colleague.” The PrusipEnt read the following letter :— No. 357. To THe Secretary, Asiatic Society, BENGAL. Home Department. Simla, the 26th June, 1891. Book. Sir, I am directed to state for the information of the Bengal Asiatic Society that Lieutenant-Colonel H. H. Godwin-Austen’s work on the land and fresh water Mollusca of India and surrounding countries, a 1891.] Philological Secretary—Reports on old coins. 113 copy of which has already been forwarded for the use of the Society, was intended to be supplementary to Messrs. Theobald and Hanley’s ‘ Con- chologia Indica,” but it is unfortunately unfinished, though complete in itself so far as it goes. In connection with the publication of the ‘‘ Fauna of British India” it has been suggested to the Government of India that, on completion of the present series of seven volumes relating to the Vertebrata, the work should be extended so as to comprise the Invertebrata as well, and this proposal has been recommended for the favourable consideration of the Secretary of State. As, however, the following up of Colonel Godwin-Austen’s work must be a necessary preliminary to any adequate treatment of the subject in the proposed extension of the Fauna Indica series, 1 am to enquire whether any person connected with the Asiatic Society would be willing to continue the researches so ably begun by Colonel Godwin- Austen. I have &c., (Signed) _P. G. Metirus, Under-Secy. to the Govt. of India. The PuroLogicaL Secretary read the following reports on finds of Treasure Trove Coins :— I. Report on 232 Silver coins forwarded by the Deputy Commis- sioner of Jabalpur, with his No. 1941, dated 6th May, 1891. The Deputy Commissioner’s letter states that they were found buried, but no particulars as to where, when and how they were dis- covered are given. All the coins are Moghuls, and belong to the following emperors of Delhi :— 1, Aksar, 963—1014 A. H. = 1556—1605 A. D. round jal jalal rupees of the Ahmadabad mint ...... 2 2, Jandnair, 1014—1037 A. H. = 1605—1627 A. D. round rupees of several varietieS ....sc.0000 6 3, Sudu Jandy, 1037—1068 A. H. = 1627—1658 A. D. a, type: square areas, 4 Varieties wiccsesereeeee = 55 b, type: round areas, 4 Varieties .......csersscecrererere = 8 c, type: lettered surfaces, 4 Fecctiee sssraaisuise = 12y ya 4, Auranazis, 1068—1118 A. H. = 1658—1707 is we a, type: badr munir, 3 Varieties........ccscsseseesseeee = 126 b, type: MAT MUNIN, .....ccrecrecrerscccvssssvecseeen » coe 17 c, type: Abul Muzaffar ......ccssconvecnsceeacenscasrece os 4, d, type: reversed WritiDg .is...scesscevsersceeeneceeceeees 2 149 oe Total ~:;, 232 ee 114 Philological Secretary—LReports on old coins. [Ave. The earliest of these coins is dated in the 40th year of Akbar, that is 1596 A. D., the latest is dated in the 30th year of Aurangzib, that is, 1687 A. D. They cover a period of nearly one century, and they must have been buried not long after the year 1687 A. D., in the place where they were dug up. Among them there are several of considerable interest, especially among the rupees of Aurangzib; thus those of the badr munir type. Rupees of this description are not common; they appear to have been only minted in Akbarnagar, Zafarabad and Multan. I am not certain as to the identity of the two first-named places; but Akbarnagar is said to be au old name of Rajmahal. In the present collection there are 17 rupees of this description ; 15 of these are of the Akbarnagar mint, of the following years 1071, 1072, 1079, 1082, 1084, 1090, 1093, 1095; both years, that of the Hijrah as well as that of the reign, are shown on the reverse ; while the usual practice is, to give the Hijrah on the obverse, but the reign on the reverse. Onerupeeis of the Zafarabad and one of the Multan mint; both of the same year, viz., Hijrah 1080 on the obverse, and regnal 12 on the reverse. Another peculiar rupee of Aurangzib is that which gives the obverse legend: Muhammad Aurangzib Bahdédur "Aiamgir Badshth Ghazt or Muhammad Muhiu-d-din Abu-l-Muzaffar Bahidur ’Alamgir Badshth Ghazi. Of this description there are four coins. Their mint is illegible; their dates are 1069 ahad, 1080-3, 1081-3, 1082-4; the years are disposed, as usual, on the obverse and reverse. Another curiosity are two rupees of Aurangzib which bear the usual legends but in inversed characters, so that they may be read if held against a mirror. The characters are rather crude; the mint is not legible, the year of the reign is either 22 or 27, that of the Hijrah is 109*. Coins of this description, might of course, be struck from or- dinary rupees. | TI. Report on 116 old coins forwarded by the Deputy Commis- sioner of S4gar, with his No. 1708, dated the 14th May, 1891. These coins are stated to have been found in the village waste of Raigawan, in the Rhurai Tahsil of the Sagar District, by boys who were tending cattle. They are all silver coins and consist of 63 Pathan, 50 Gujarati and 2 other coins: distributed as follows : I, Pathan Coins (Rupees) : of SHer Suu, 947—952 A. H. = 1540—1545 A. D. a, type : square areas, single- arg as in Chronicles, No. 351, two varieties............ aun Jivee b, type: square areas, ticks hades as in Cinonteien NG Os. Oa, BOL, VUTCO VATICGIOS ..cqs0sas cesaseclececuse ceejiiaed oa 1891. | Philological Secretary—Reports on old coins. 115 c, type: square areas, single-lined, new variety........ 2 d, type: square areas, double-lined, as in Chronicles, 346, 354, two varieties.. Gweigewte Oceans, Oo e, type: round areas, single- piesa as in er Ants quary, vol. XVII, pl. I, fig. 9. soe ero f, type: round areas, single-lined, as in Windia Age quary, vol. XVII, pl. I, fig. 8.. ea a 2 g, type: round areas, single-lined, as in ih sci yee puary, wok: Viiv lad) fel Onl... coals codis¥eeerde Total coins of Sher Shah ..., 63 II, Gujarati Coins : 1, Maumdp Suda I, 863—917 A. H. = 1458—1511 A. D. a, type: indented square area on obv., like J. A. S. B., vol. LVIII, pl. I, fig. VIII. Mint ge oat date O43 pweight> Gola «a idcis. deiseedicceds ae b, type: square area on obv., siacabbiaheal’ dts in British Museum Catalogue. Mint: Shahr ......, dave 0S; Weight > bola. .ecsesccese cdccevcedevcse 1 ce, type: similar to above, but lighter, wok shouts 1 tola; unpublished, not in British Museum Cade: logue. Mint: Shahr’Azam Mustafabad; date906. 1 d, type: like a, but lighter; weight like c; not in British Museum ey Mint illegible; date 867.. Wes coeseneat Saiee “n 1 e, type: Tikes a, hit fektok oiskt ike d, bat rfl and thicker size; not published, nor in British Museum Catalogue ; dates 902, 903 .......56 eesseees bo Total coins of Mahmiid... 6 2, Mozarrar Sud II, son of preceding, 917—932 A. H. = 1511—1525 A. D. a, type: lettered surfaces, like British Museum Cata- logue, No. 425, weight about 3 sass date 930 on BOWOMSCE (F766 nba ne wanes ea aak wee asees «a 1 b, type: lettered coefaaad: ; eerie eng a, Pazeauhabed. not in British Museum eae ; Mi about Bi tale, GOB O29 2k ck iltnned cee eis 3 c, fk! indented square area on reverse; sanbliobed in British Museum Catalogue, No. 440; no mint or date visible, weight about $ tola each ............. 12 d, type: double indented square area on reverse; un- 116 Philological Secretary—Reports on old coins. | Ava. published, not in British Museum Catalogue, dates 920bis, O21bis, 9226 923% 9241, 9262, 9281, 9321, about > tola, each; total 2% Aalst OO LY e, type: indented square area within circle on re- verse; date 926, mint Shahr ...... , unpublished, not in British Museum Catalogue.......ccccecsecoreee = f, type: like d, but lighter, about ; told, dates 926, 930, 92* total... 4 g, type: like c, but lighter about ¢ tol4; mint and % Tate NOt visible suivelacs :dacates savineedés tangs aeeaeeeeee Ma Total coins of Muzaffar ... 44 Grand total of Gujarati coins... 50 III. Other coins; of uncertain attribution; very small; less than + told each; marked on one side with wt ji and a trisula or trident, which used to be the em- blem ofthe Sagar midab else avweostc tess eabease ee 3 Grand total of all coins ... 116 This is a most interesting find. Most of the Gujarati coins and some of Sher Shah are new, hitherto not known or at least not pub- lished. Most of them, as shown by their catalogue, are not represented in the British Museum Collection. III. Report on six old silver coins forwarded by the Deputy Com- missioner of Jalandar, with his No. 752, dated J2th June, 1891. The Deputy Commissioner’s letter merely states that 39 coins were found buried in the Jalandar district, but no particulars are given as to the exact place and time of discovery. Those 39 coins are stated to have comprised 4 of Aurangzib, 2 of Farrukh Siyar and 33 of Muhammad Shah, all three Moghul emperors of Delhi, reigning between 1658 and 1748 A. D., a period of nearly one century. The coins accordingly were probably buried during the troubles of Nadir Shah’s invasion of India. From among the 39 coins, 6 only were sent down to be ex- amined and reported on, two of each kind. These were found to be of very common descriptions. IV. Report on fifty old rupees forwarded by the Deputy Commis- sioner of Wardha, with his No. 3424, dated 3rd July 1891. 1891.] Philological Secretary—Gold Gupta coins. 117 These old rupees are stated by the Deputy Commissioner to have been found buried in an earthen pot, when the foundations were being dug for additions to a small temple of Balaji at Waigaon, a village about ten miles south of Wardha. They are supposed to have been buried by the family of the Bhagat or attendant of that temple, because they were found on the site of a former dwelling-house of theirs, and the family have been Bhagats of the temple for three generations. The find comprises rupees of the following emperors of Delhi: 1, Sain Jundn, A. D. 1627—1658 5 rupees. 2, Auranazis, A. D. 1658—1707 POs | hs 3, Farruku Sryar, A. D. 1712—1719 | Bt my 4, Munammap Suda, A. D. 1719—1748 Zee 5, ’AvamaGir ZAni, A. D. 1754—1769 Bete Total ... 50 Rupees. All these rupees are in a very bad condition and belong to very common descriptions. Possibly a few of the coins ascribed to Muham- mad Shah may belong to his successor Ahmad Shah (A. D. 1748— 1754). The Puitotocican Secretary exhibited eight gold Gupta coins, be- longing to Mr. Rivett-Carnac, and remarked as follows : ‘Hour of these coins belong to Chandra Gupta II, who reigned from about 895—415 A. D., and four to Kumara Gupta I, who reigned from 415—454 A. D. (seein J. A. S. B., Vol. LVIII, Pt. I, my synchro- nistic table). Of the coins of Chandra Gupta one is of the Couch type (see Smith’s Catalogue in the Journal Rh. A. S., p. 76). This is an ex- tremely rare type. Hitherto only one specimen was known. The pre- sent (second) specimen affords some new information. The king’s up- raised right hand is not empty, but holds a flower (lotus?), and he sits on a high-backed couch. The legend on the left margin (facing the king) is fully legible and reads 24 9) wecsnfytst M1 ¥, and on the right margin (behind the king) it continues all round the rim, but unfor- tunately only 4a is Just legible. Thus much was already known; it is deva S’rt Maharajadhiraja Sri Chandra Gupta. The vowel-marks of the long & were probably originally on the coin, and are merely worn away. The (hitherto illegible) characters below the couch are quite distinct and read clearly weqaat ripa-kriti, 1. e., ‘he who is clever in dramatic composition.” Above the akshara ¥ pa, but quite detached from it, there is a small horizontal stroke. The meaning of it I do not know; but it is certainly not any vowel-mark; perhaps it owes its presence to a mere fault in the die. The word rupa may mean either ‘sculp- 118 Philological Secretary—Gold Gupta coins. [Ava. ture, figure’ or ‘dramatic composition ;’ and the compound ripa-krit? may mean either ‘who is clever in the making of figures’ or ‘ who is clever in the making of dramas or dramatic representations.’ I prefer taking the word in the latter sense, because it is not quite uncom- mon to hear of kings in ancient India being dramatic authors. The well-known drama, called the Mrichchhakatika, is ascribed by tradition to a king Stidraka. Still more to the point is the discovery by Prof. F. Kielhorn, of a drama composed by the Chauhan king Vigrahara- jadeva of Sakambhari (see Indian Antiquary, Vol. XX, p. 201), in the middle of the 12th century A. D. This drama was inscribed on a stone slab, which has been found in Ajmir; and Prof, Kielhorn rightly says with reference to it, that ‘actual and undoubted proof is here afforded to us of the fact that powerful Hindi rulers of the past were eager to compete with Kalidasa and Bhavabhuti for poetical fame.’ It appears to me, that this coin of Chandra Gupta’s shows that this king also laid claim to the honour of dramatic authorship. The reverse is rather poorly preserved; the legend is 4t faama sri Vikkrama with double kh. “‘ Another of the Chandra Gupta coins is of the Lion Trampler type. This is also a rare type; there are four varieties, of which the second and third varieties are known only by one specimen each; the first and fourth are not quite so rare. The present specimen belongs to the fourth variety. It isa poor specimen, the legends being almost entirely want- ing on both sides. The third coin of Chandra Gupta is of the Horseman to Right type. Its reverse is good, but the legend on the obverse is nearly gone: only parama-bhaga ...... ndra-guptah being preserved; the legend com- mences in front of the king’s head, running all round the rim and terminating behind his head. The fourth coin of Chandra Gupta belongs to the Horseman to Left type. Of this type there exist two varieties; one, which is not very rare, has the reverse legend ajita vikrama; the present coin belongs to this variety. The obverse legend is entirely gone. Of the Kumara Gupta coins one belongs to the Archer type and the Variety II, A. It is not an uncommon variety, and the present coin is a rather poor specimen, the legends on both sides being almost entirely gone. The three other coins of Kumara Gupta are all of the Horseman to Right type. Of this type there exist three varieties, of which the first and third are not uncommon, while the second is very rare.. Among the three coins there is one of the second variety, showing on the reverse a goddess sitting on a wicker-stool, stooping forward, with es ee ee ee eee eee ee ——— 1891. ] Philological Secretary—Buddhist chaitya. 119 her left hand resting on her hip, and holding an open flower in her right. The obverse legend on this variety has never been read; nor does the present specimen afford much help; only sfwat aerat prithivitaldm-para can be read, apparently about one-third of the entire legend. The two other specimens belong to the third variety which shows the same god- dess feeding a peacock with her right, while in her left she holds a lotus-flower. One is a rather poor specimen, with nearly the entire legend lost. The other is much better, and apparently preserves the entire legend, in the following, somewhat curious form: wfa (read fafa) ufaciat froraqaixt a Kshitipatir ajito viljaya-Kumdra] Gu. The portion enclosed in brackets is mutilated, the rest is perfect. The legend commences with kshi on the right hand margin, between the king’s head and the horse’s neck; it closes with gu close behind the king’s head. There is no space for the complementary aksharas 3: ptak. The form of the legend, therefore, is here shorter than usual. The PuitonocicaL Secretary exhibited a Buddhist chaitya of bronze, which was purchased by the Society from its finder through Babu Tarakhnath Roy. It is said to have been found together with two inscribed copper-plates several years ago at the village of Ashraf- pur, near Raipur, in the Dacca district, during the process of levelling a mound in the neighbourhood ofa tank. One of the copper-plate inscrip- tions was published by Dr. Mitra, as long ago as 1885 (see Pro- ceedings of that year, for March, p. 49). The other copper-plate was purchased by the Society last year from the finder, a villager named Mir Khan. It was also being prepared for publication by Dr. Mitra, and will now be published by myself. Both inscriptions are dated in the same year, viz., Samvat 13; the first in Vaisikha 13, the other in Paushadha 25. There is nothing in the inscriptions to determine to which era the date 13 should be referred. From the shape of the cha- racters, which is that of the so-called Kutila, the inscriptions may be _ referred to the eighth or ninth century or perhaps somewhat later. The New4ar era of Nepal, which commences with 880 A. D., might fit the date; and it would then be equivalent to 893 A. D, But this may be left to further determination, hereafter, when the copper-plates are published. It may be noted, however, that the date was wrongly read by Dr. Mitra in 1885, as being Samvat 713. What he read as the numeral 7, is really the finai consonant ¢ of Samvat; and the two other symbols are not those for 1 and 8, but for 10 and 3. The symbols are those of the older numeral system of nutation, which had separate signs for the units, tens, hundreds, etc., and which was still employed in India for epigraphical purposes as late as the eighth and ninth centuries of the {20 Mr. C. H. Tawney-—Mahakapijataka. (Aug. Christian era. In Nepal it held its ground for a much longer time. The chaitya having been found with the inscriptions is of undoubtedly the same age, and may date from the ninth century. The mound in which the objects were found would seem to mark the ruined site of a Buddhist’s shrine. The chaitya is of bronze, and fairly well preserved ; it is made of three stories, built up in pyramidal form, consisting of a high, slightlv sloping, square basement, on which rises a tall cylindrical dome, surmounted by a small square turret with projecting roof. See Plate III. The whole was originaily surmounted by two, or perhaps three, umbrellas of which, however, only the lowermost is preserved; Under this umbrella, attached to its pole, is @ minute plate inseribed with the Buddhist creed in (now) illegible characters. The four sides of the turret are adorned with four sitting figures of Buddha, projecting from the walls. Three are in the witnessing and one in the meditating posture. Four other figures are placed round the body of the dome, exactly below the upper figures, within ornamental niches, which are connected with one another with bands and festoons. The basement bears, on each of its four sides, three sitting figures (twelve in all) ; each triad consisting of one male between two female figures. The figures round the dome probably represent Boddhisattvas, while the basement figures appear to be Buddhist devas and saktis. The chaitya, therefore, already re- presents * Buddhism in the much depraved Tantrik form, in which it was current in Bengal at the time of its extinction, Mr. C. H. Tawney called attention to Plate XXXII], fig. 4, in ‘General Cunningham’s Bharhut Sculptures, and said, I think that this scene represents the story contained in the 407th Jataka, Fausbdll’s edition. It is called the Mahakapijataka, and the story is as follows: When Brahmadatta was king in Benares, the Bodhisattva was at the head of a troop of eighty thousand monkeys. They used to eat the fruits of a mango-tree on the banks of the Ganges. The Bodhisattva took particular care to prevent the fruits of one branch that overhung the Ganges, from falling into the river, In spite of all his precautions one fruit came into the hands of king Brahmadatta, when enjoying himself in the Ganges, and he asked the foresters whence it came. They at once said, that the tree that bore this fruit was to be found in the neighbourhood of the Himalayas. The king took them as guides, and with a large retinue, ascended the river in rafts, and after disem- barking, and eating to his fill of the fruits of the tree, he lay down to rest. In the night the eighty thousand monkeys came and began to ciate ee Oe re ee 1891.] Mr. C. H. Tawney—Mahdkapijataka. 121 plunder the tree. The king woke up and saw them. He then stationed archers all round the tree with their arrows ready on the string, and told them to let none of the monkeys escape, asserting his intention of breakfasting the next morning off monkey-flesh and mangoes. The monkeys, being terrified, came trembling to the Bodhisattva their king. He told them not to be afraid, as he would save their lives. He then sprang across the Ganges, alighted in a thicket, picked out a creeper, made it smooth, and fastened it to his body. Unfortunately he miscal- culated the length of the creeper, not allowing for the portion, that was _ to pass round his own body. He then made one end of the creeper fast to a tree, and sprang towards the other bank, where he had left his sub- jects terrified on the mango-tree. Owing to his having miscalculated the required length, he had to catch hold of the mango-tree with his arms. In this position he made a sign to the monkeys to pass over his body, and escape to the other bank. They did so, but Devadatta, who was among the monkeys, and saw an opportunity of injuring his enemy, climbed up to a lofty branch, and sprang with all his force on to the Bodhisattva’s back, thus injuring his heart, which is said to have been “split.” It appears to me that so much of the story is clearly represented in the Bharhut Sculpture. The king of the monkeys is seen holding on to the mango-tree. A monkey has just crossed his body, and is crossing the creeper. Another is descending the tree on the other bank. Be- tween the two trees flows a river containing three fish and one tortoise. Many monkeys are seen on the mango-tree. At the top of the mango- tree is seen a monkey with his paws so placed as to make his spring on to the back of the monkey-king as harmful as possible. This monkey I take to be Devadatta, and I think a comparison of his face with the faces of the other monkeys will show that the artist has succeeded in imparting a particularly malignant expression to it. The latter part of the story is not clearly represented in the pic- ture. According to the Jataka, the king, after taking most tender care of the monkey-king, made him lie down, and sitting himself on a low seat, listened to his sermon on the duty of a good king. But in General Cunningham’s photograph, the monkey-king appears to be sitting on a stool a little higher than that of the human king. I take it, that the artist has followed a slightly different version of the tale. The king appears to be expressing his admiration for the courage and self-devotion of the monkey-king. The rectangular object brought by two men is supposed by General Cunningham to be a mat. It may be intended for the monkey-king to lie down on. As soon as the monkey-king had finished his sermon on the duty of a king, he died of the blow given by the monkey Devadatta. 122 Library. [AvG. After his death the king sent for his ministers, and had a pyre prepared containing a hundred cart-loads of wood. He ordered his wives to attend the funeral clad in red garments, with dishevelled hair, and torches in their hands. After the body was buried, he pre- served the skull, and had it worshipped for seven days by the people of Benares on his return. He then erected a chaitya over it, and honoured it with perfumes and garlands as long as he lived. The following papers were read :— 1. 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Calcutta Review,—Vol. XCIII, No. 185. -. Indian Medical Gazette,—Vol. XXVI, No. 7. 891. ] Library. 127 Geneva. Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles—Tome XXYV, No. 6. Leipzig, Annalen der Physik und Chemie,—Band XLIII, Heft 3. 7 Beiblatter, Band XV, Stiick 6. London. The Chemical News,—Vols. LXIII, Nos. 1646-48; LXIV, ~ 1649-51. Paris. Revue Scientifique,—Tomes XLVII, Nos. 25 et 26; XLVIII, 1-3, wn 80 OO OOS eee Proceedings, As. Soc,, Bengal, 1891, LED LVANADIS, ITLL COPPER BUDDHIST CHAITYA FROM ASHRAFPUR IN BENGAL, PHOTOZINCOGRAPHED AT THE SURVEY OF INDIA OFFICES, CALCUTTA, Reg No, 507, As. Soc., Bengal.—Sept, 91,,.— 590. ; | | PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, FoR NoveEmMBER, 1891, me On © GD I © The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was held on Wednesday, the 4th November, 1891, at 9 p. m. Dr. W. Kina, B. A., in the chair. The following members were present :— Babu Sarat Chandra Das, The Most Rev. Dr. Paul Goethals, Rev. H. B. Hyde, C. Little, Esq.. Kumar Rameswar Mahah, T. R. Munro, Ksq., J. D. Nimmo, Hsq., W. L. Sclater, Hsq.. C. H. Tawney, Esq., C. R. Wilson, Esq. Visitor :—Dr, W. W. Sheppard. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. One Hundred and Thirty-seven presentations were announced, de- tails of which are given in the Library List appended. The Sscrerary reported that the following gentlemen had been elected Ordinary Members of the Society during the recess, in accord- ance with Rule 7 :— H. C. Mallik, Esq. i EH. Brown. Dr. M. A. Stein. Diego Ernst, Hsq. Edgar Thurston, Hsq. The following gentleman is a candidate for election at the next meeting :— . A. Mervyn Smith, Esq., C. E., F. 8. A., proposed by W. H. Miles, Hsq., seconded by Dr. W. King. 130 Death of Dr. A. Barclay. [ Nov. The following gentleman has expressed a wish to withdraw from the Society :— W. H. Lee, Esq., C. 8. The Secretary reported the death of the following member :— Surgeon-Major A. Barclay, I. M. 8. The Presipent read the following obituary notice :— Surgeon-Major A. Barclay, an active member of this Society, died of typhoid fever at Simla on the 2nd August. He was only 39 years of age. His loss is deeply regretted by his own service and it is intended to perpetuate his memory by means of some permanent monument. In a public letter the present Surgeon General with the Government of India says of Dr. Barclay, who was his Secretary :—‘‘ No one can know as I do how much the service is indebted to Barclay. Onall occasions, when ques- tions affecting its welfare came up for discussion, his first thought was for the preservation of the honor and dignity of it as a body, and for the safe-guarding of the interests of individual members. In this, for a man ordinarily kindly, gentle and dispassionate, he was fearless in giving expression to his views and never hesitated to put them forward in forcible language.” This is high but well deserved praise. To us Dr. Barclay’s work as a member of this Society is of the greatest in- terest. His general knowledge was wide, but his leisure time was specially devoted to the study of parasitic fungi of the order Uredinec. Upon subjects connected with these fungi Dr. Barclay published eight papers in the Scientific Memoirs by officers of the Indian Medical Service ; seven papers in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and others in the Annals of Botany, The Journal of Botany, The Transactions of the Linnean Society and in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. He was a good draughtsman and photo-micrographer and most of his papers were accompanied by excellent plates. It will be seen therefore that Dr. Barclay was an untiring worker and apart from the purely scientific interest attached to his writings he will be remem- bered as one who has done well by shewing the public the nature of fungi destructive to crops and by suggesting remedies. It was intended to send Dr. Barclay to the South of India to investigate the Coffee disease, an undertaking which would have been full of interest to him and to the scientific world and of benefit to the coffee planters. His last scien- tific work, before his death, was connected with the Leprosy Commission, whose report will soon appear and we may rest assured that his contri- butions to the work will be found marked by that energy and honesty which was so characteristic of the man. 1891.] Philological Secretary—Reports on old coins. 181 The Puinotocican Secretary read the following reports on finds of Treasure Trove Coins :— I. Report on 213 old Rupees forwarded by the Deputy Commis- sioner of Multan, with his No. 550, dated the 13th August, 1890. The Deputy Commissioner’s letter states that at the end of August 1889 a vessel containing 400 rupees of some ancient mintage was found by two men ina field. Of these 187 rupees were melted down by the finders, before proceedings could be taken under the Treasure Trove Act. The balance of 213 rupees was forwarded to me for identification and report. Their value is stated to be Rs. 217 according to the current coinage. Of these 213 rupees, 178 are Mughal, and 33 Affghan, one is a Persian and one a Sikh coin. They are mostly in fair condition. They are classified as follows : I. MucGHat RUPEES. 1, Aurangzib : 1068—1118 A. H. = A. D. 1658—1707. Usual type ; mints: Lahor, Htawah, Multan, Tattah, Strat, Ajmir, Shahjahanabad, . a 22 2, Bahadur Shah ’Alam, 1118—1124 Hes cia = 1707_—- yee: oa Te eee ee ae 11 3, Farrokh Siyar, 11241131 ie ne = 1712—1719 v5 D. Usual type : cerviaessseaveane, OLE 4, Rafiu-d-darjat, 1131 . cet = - 1719 re D. ieee voeteetag 1 S, Shan Jahan IT.. 113) A. H. = 1719 A; D:: 1 6, Muhammad Shih, 1131—1161 A. H. = 1719-1748 A. D. Type I: “Sahib Air4n”’; mint: Shahjah4ndbad.... 63 Type IL: “ Badshah Ghazi” ; several varieties: ... 51 7, Ahmad Shéh Bahddur, 1161—1167 A. H. = 1748— 1754 A. D. Usual type sss... wees 14, 8, Alamgir Zant, 1167-1173 ys ‘EL. = 17541769 A. Dp. 3 Total Mughals .,,, 178 II. Arrausn Rupees: (Durrani Dynasty) : 1, Ahmad Shah, 1160—1182 A. H. = 1747—1772 A. D. asim Nour ao weno. Vol. ULV Pp. OFC scssdeveeccsscs 1S 2, Timur Shah, 11871207 Aa 1773-1783 A. D. as in Numism. Chronicle, vol. VIII, p. 336, ie ko Total of Durranis ,,, 33 132 Philological Secretary— Reports on old coins. [ Nov. III. Persian coin : Nadir Shah, 1148—1160 A. H. = 1736—1747 A. D. As in Numism. Chron., vol. Il, p. 322. Mint: Shahjahanabad, date 1152 ..........eccceuveeveeoes a : IV. Sikh Rupee: Ranjit Singh, 1799—1839 A. D. Asin Journal A.S.B., vol. L, p. 85. Mint: Amritsar, dave 1669 Samivat. csi Jocteer rsa a carers Sales. | Grand total of all coins... ae es II. Report on 142 old sicca coins forwarded by the Deputy Col- lector of Chittagong, with his No. =e ( G, dated 27th January, 1891. The Offg. Collector of Chittagong in his report on these coins to the Commissioner of the Chittagong division states they were found somewhere in the village of ‘Joogkhalla,’ in Thannah ‘ Fattickaurry.’ The date of the finding could not be ascertained. All the coins are rupees of English mintage, such as were coined between 1793 and 1818, under the Regulations of 1793, in Calcutta and the subordinate mints of the Bengal Presidency. They are known as “19th san”? Rupees, nominally from the Murshidabad, but really from the Calcutta mint, recognisable by their oblique milling. III. Report on 15 old silver coins, forwarded by the Deputy Commissioner of Rawalpindi, with his No. 913G, dated lst June 1891. The coins are stated by the Deputy Commissioner to have been found in the Fateh Jang Tahsil; no further particulars are given. They comprise 5 Mughal, 9 Durrani and one Sikh rupees, and are classified as follows : I, Mughal Rupees :— dW ARROKM ACI VAR, OFGINATY LY DO, devsuyescvanuee eerieaereavel ee 2, Munammap SHAH, Sahib Qirdn type,...ccesccersceseenas Pe at Total Mughal .., 5 II, Durrani Rupees :— 1, Tammbr Su4u, 1187—1207 A. H. = 1773—1793 A. D. a, ordinary type of Mughal rupee, mint Atak ......... l b, Kabuli type; mint Kdbul and Hirdt (Num. Chr. NAH COP matwatbne Contin balay wood seihehe skies on telus Mone ee Sc, fe 2, Zam&n Suku, 1207—1216 A. H. = 1798—1801. a, Kabuli type, one variety, as in Num. Chron. VIII, Wo. oo, mint Peshawar v0 disses essices ver so'cesinan arene nates b, Kabuli type, another variety, as in aN um. cues VIII, No. 70, mint Peshawar, date 1211 1891. | Philological Secretary—Reports on old coins. 133, 3, SuusA’u-t-Mork, 1216—1258 A. H.=1801--1842 A. D. Kabuli type, mint Peshawar . 1 4, Maumvp SxHdu, 1216—1245 A. oe = - 18011829 A. D. a, Kabuli type, one variety, as in Num. Chron. VIII, No, 82; mint Ahmadshahi, date 1217 ...cicicseees 0 oD b, Kabuli type, another variety, as in Num. Chron. VII, No. 85, mint Daru-s-Saltanat Hirdt, 1218... 1 Total Durranfs ... 9 III, Sikh Rupee: Rangit Sincgu, mint Amritsar, Samvat 1868 .......... $1 1 Grand total Rupees ... 15 IV. Report on 29 old silver coins, forwarded by the Offg. Collec- tor of Pubna, with his No. 372, dated 15th June 1891, and No. 561, dated 28th July 1891. The exact locality of the find of these coins is not stated in the Collector’s letter; they are supposed to have been found sometime in February or March 1891. Some more coins appear to have been found, but broken and melted into bars by the finders. Their value is stated to be about Rs. 32-8. The coins include 4 of Pathan Sultans of Delhi and 24 of the so-called Independent Sultans of Bengal.. They may be classified as follows :-— I, Pathan Rupees: 1, SHur Suda, 947—952 A. H. = 1540—1545 A. D. Type: square areas, date 946 ........08. Wade oa 2, Isudm SuHAnH, 952—960 A. H. = 1545—1552 1 pe Type a: circular areas ; a new variety of No. 36la in Thomas’ Chronicles; date 952 to be read FE OU, Willa T is TAO, WT cs shells wy eece ves 1 Type b: square areas, dates 956, 960, fae infarc TPO CUM CIIS Ah carpcia ares ah dun eucps'nj civ oa sane aafinare shared peep apiece Total Pathan |... 4, II, Independent Sultdn’s of Bengal : 1, ’AxAu-p-pin Husarn Sudn, 899—925 A. H. = 1493— 1518. a, Type, as in Brit. Mus. Cat., Nos. 1283—130 ... by Type, as im Marsden’ DCCLXAXIX sn ise en Lyne. unpublished! saverusste: sree denasaanecceeemaee amnne Go 134 Philological Secretary—Reports on old coins. [Nov. 2, Nksrrvu-p-pin Nasrat Sahu, 925—939 A. H. = 1518— 1532 A. D. a, Type, as in: Brit.. Mus; Cat.,) Noc187 cub ie I b, Type, as in Brit. Mus. Cat., Nos. 139, date 925 8 Guiyfsu-p-pDin Maumup Suda III, 933—944 A. H. = 1532—1537 A. D. Type as in Brit. Mus. Cat., No. 147 .......cceeeseeens 3 4, GutyXso-p-pin Bandpur Sadun, 962—968 A. H. = 1554 —1560 A. D., type: square areas, asin Brit. Mus. Cat., No. 155 eeeieioene te yee 5, ney DIN JALAL a 968—971 ke H. = 1560 — 1563 A. D., as in Brit. Mus. Cat., No. 153, dated 970 1 << Total Bengal 24 IIT, Mughal Rupee: 1, Sufm Jandy, 1037—1068 A. H. = 1627—1658 A. D., type: two square areas, ordinary, date 1047, 10, Aart ALC OMOLSL: somean a sapnetemssnce rer seeies nies'esisctie es eee 1 Grand total coins ... 29 V. Report on 792 old copper coins forwarded by the Offg. Col- lector of Monghyr, with his No. 721R, dated the lst August 1891. The coins are stated to have been found in January 1889, buried in the garden of Hazari Shahti of Mouza Bargazar, Pargana Salimabad, outpost Lakhi Sarai. A very large number of the coins are not in a sufficiently good state of preservation to be fully identified ; but they all belong to the coinage of the Sultans of Jaunpur, and to the so-called ‘second size” of their copper coins, as described in the Catalogue of the British Museum on the Coins of the Muhammadan States of India, p. 89. Of these copper coins, there are two types: one with simple lettered surfaces, the other with a circular area on the reverse. The former is a very common type; the latter is rather rare. The coins, under review, all belong to the common type. Four of them together weigh 1} told, and six of them are equal to one anna, or each of them is equal to 2 pice (1 pice = 5), anna). Those specimens, that I have been able to identify, are thus distri- buted : 1, Iprduim Sudu, called Shargt, A. H. 803—844 = A. D. 1400—1440 ; like B. M. Cat., Nos. 238, 86 2, Maumuvp Sain bin Ibrahim, A. H. 844—861 = A. D. 1440—1456; like B. M. Cat., No. 273, ae 8 1891. ] Mr. Tawney—Some Indian Methods of electing Kings. 135 3, Mounammap Suku, bin Mahmud, A. H. 861—863 = A. D. 1456—1458; like B. M. Cat., No. 301, ee, 4, Husain Susu, bin Mahmud, A. H. 863—900 = A. D. 1458—1500; like B. M. Cat. No. 327, col we ——— Total ... 280 Unserviceable coins :-— 512 Grand total ... 792 Mr. C. H. Tawnny read the following note :— I do not think attention has ever been drawn to the fact that in Indian tales the royal dignity is often described as bestowed by lot. At any rate this appears to have frequently taken place, when a king died without leaving male issue. In the Katha Sarit Sagara, Taranga 65, we read that it was the custom in a certain country, when the king died, to turn loose an elephant, and any man that he took up with his trunk, and placed on his back, was anointed king. In the Katha Kosa, a collection of edifying tales written in Jaina Sanskrit, an excellent manuscript of which has been kindly lent to me by the Principal of the Sanskrit College, a slightly different method is described. We read in the story of Devapala, the second story in this work, that the king of a certain city died of cholera, and left no male issue. ‘* As there was no son to succeed him, the ministers appointed an elephant, and fastened to its temples a pitcher of water, and let it go. It found the servant, named Devapala, asleep under a pipal-tree, and emptied the pitcher on his head. They bestowed on him the kingdom.”’ In this way the servant was rewarded for showing devotion to a stone image of the Jina, that he found in a river. In the story of Amaradatta and Mitrananda, the 20th story in the Katha Koga, we find the following account given of the election of a king at Pataliputra : “Now it happened that the king of that city died in the course of the night, without leaving issue. Then the ministers had recourse to the five ordeals, (divyéni). The mighty elephant came into the garden outside the city. There the elephant sprinkled prince Amaradatta and put him on his back. Then the horse neighed. The two chowries fanned the prince. An umbrella was held over his head A divine voice was heard in the air, ‘ Long live king Amaradatta.’”’ It happens that in this particular case the person chosen was by birth a prince, and was roaming about incognito. But this is merely a piece of folk-lore justice. 136 Mr. Tawney—Some Indian Methods of electing Kings. [ Nov. The above extract may be supported by another from the tale of Virangada and Sumitra, which is an episode in the tale of Ratnasikha, the 69th in the Katha Koga. It runs as follows :— “The king of the city of Mahasala died without a son. Then the barons had recourse to the five ordeals of the elephant, the horse, and so on. The elephant came into the city park trumpeting. Then he sprinkled the prince, named Virangada, with the water of inaugura- tion, and taking him up in his trunk, placed him on his forehead, (kumbha-sthala). All the barons, and the chief ministers, and the otber ministers, and the crowd with them bowed before the king, and ex- claimed ‘ Long live the king!”’’ The five ordeals are described even more clearly in a passage in the story of Muladeva, the eighth in Professor Jacobi’s “ Erzihlungen in Maharashrti,” or ‘“ Tales in Maharashtri Prakrit.” The story is said by the editor to be taken from Devendra’s Com- mentary on the Uttaradhyayana Sutra. The passage may be thus translated :— “At this juncture the king of the city died without leaving a son. They then had recourse to the five ordeals, (or instruments of selection, Prakrit divvini). These roamed about in the city, and went outside it. They came to Miladeva. He was found sleeping in the shade of the champaka-tree. On seeing him the elephant trampeted, and the horse neighed : he was sprinkled by the pitcher and fanned by the chowries, and the umbrella stood over him.” It is remarkable in this connexion that Darius, son of Hystaspes, is said to have been chosen king of the Persians owing to the neighing of his horse, it having been agreed by the seven conspirators who destroyed the usurper Smerdis, that the one of them, whose horse neighed first, should become king.* It seems probable that this story points to a Persian custom re- sembling that which prevailed in India. Indeed it appears that even in the latter country it was the custom occasionally, to dispense with the elephant, and to rely upon the horse as the sole instrument of selection. This is proved by the following passage taken from another story in Dr. Jacobi’s collection, the story of the Pratyeka Buddha Karakandu : “The three fled and reached Kanchanapura. There the king died without male issue. A horse was let loose, and came near Karakandu, * Herodotus (Book III, cc. 83—87) tells us that the success of Darius was due to an artifice of his groom ; but at the same time he asserts that the neighing of the horse was accompanied by thunder and lightning from a clear sky. It is possible that artifice was not always absent in similar cases in India. f 1891. ] Mr. Tawney—Some Indian Methods of electing Kings. 137 as he was sleeping outside the city. The horse cireumambulated him and stood still. The citizens observed with awe that he possessed the auspicious marks of a king. They raised a shout of triumph and beat drums of rejoicing. He rose up yawning.” It is worthy of note that according to Herodotus, the seven con- spirators agreed to decide the question of succession, by observing whose horse neighed first in the suburb, (zpodcrewov) at sunrise. This consti- tutes a further similarity between the Indian custom, and the custom which I suppose to have existed in Persia. It seems natural that both horses and elephants should be employed in India in choosing kings, as Strabo tells us (Book XV, c. 41) that “no private person is allowed to keep a horse or an elephant. The possession of one or the other is a royal privilege, and persons are appointed to take care of them.” The passages which I have quoted are taken with one exception from Jaina works. But I find a trace of a similar custom in the Darimukhajataka, (Fausboll, Vol. III, p. 238). In this Jataka we read that on the seventh day after the death of the king of Benares without male issue, the purohita sent out the phussaratho. The word phussaratho is explained in Childers’s Pali Dictionary as meaning simply “ chariot.” In Sanskrit the word pushyaratha is said to mean a pleasure-chariot, as opposed toa war-chariot. We are told in the Pali text that the custom of the phussaratho will be explained in the Mahajanajataka, but I have not been able to find this Jataka in the three volumes published by Faus- boll. The phussaratho left the city of Benares surrounded by an army of elephants, cavalry, chariots and infantry, and with the beating of many drums, arrived at the gate of the king’s garden, in which the two heroes of the tale, the Bodhisattva and his friend Darimukha were sitting. Darimukha knew, as soon as he heard the sound of the drums, that his friend the Bodhisattva would shortly be elevated to the royal dignity, and as he preferred the life of a wandering religious mendicant, he immediately left the garden, for fear that his friend might appoint him commander-in-chief. The purohita entered the garden, and finding the Bodhisattva sitting on the auspicious stone, and seeing that he possessed the auspicious marks which entitled him to govern even the four dvipas, and being satisfied with certain indications of his character, informed him that the crown had fallen to his lot. The Bodhisattva, when he had satisfied himself that the late king had died without male issue, accepted the throne, and his coronation (or rather sprinkling) took place then and there. I own that in this last case the appeal to divination seems to have degenerated into a mere formality. Of course the collections of Indian tales, from which I have made extracts, contain incidents and plots common to the folk-lore of many 138 D. Prain—Vegetation of the Cocos Group. [ Nov. countries. But I think that the institution of the five ordeals must have been a custom widely recognised in this country, as otherwise no narrator would have introduced such a minute account of it into tales intended for Indian readers. No doubt scholars whose acquaintance with ancient Indian litera- ture is wider than my own, will be able to throw fresh light on the subject. The following papers were read :— 1. Natural History notes from H. M’s. Indian Marine Survey Steamer “Investigator,” Commander R. F. Hosxyn, R.N., commanding. No. 25. The Vegetation of the Coco Group.—By D. Prain. [ Abstract. | The Cocos consist of three islands extending over a space of 15 miles, lying 30—45 miles north of Landfall, the northmost island of the Andaman main group. These islands were visited by the writer when the ‘‘ Investigator”? was surveying there in December 1889 and in November 1890. All three islands were visited and a collection of plants made. ‘This paper describes the collection. It consists of three parts ; 1. A sketch of the vegetation of the group with an account of the relationship this bears to the physiographical features of the group. 2. i a | Index. Multan, find of old Coinsin ... ts dex Narsinha Deva, thirteen Copper plates of aide ne Natural History Committee, election of - » secretary, election of ... Pon as Nepeta, undescribed Oriental species of ... ii aes New South Wales, Royal Society of, Circular from ... ee Nicéville, (L. de), elected Member of Council ses os Ss elected Member of Library Gosouities ‘ ye * elected Member of Natural History Committee Neetling, (Dr. Fritz), elected Member of Natural History Com- mittee “ F ¥ og elected Member of Phen Seietes Ae mittee North-Western Provinces and Oudh, find of old Caines in Nyayaratna, (Mahamahopadhyay Pandit Mohesgachandra), élected Member of Library Committee - ‘5 elected Member of ee Committee Oldham, (R. D.), elected Member of Natural History Sunbitiba. 3 elected Member of Physical Science Geniniied:! Pikadiaa of the Northern Buddhists, drawing of the ... Se Peal, (S. E.), elected Member of Natural History Committee Pedler, (A), elected Vice-President - » elected Member of Physical Science Genauiee Permanent Reserve Fund, transfer of ars . 38, 48, 82, Petley, (Lieut.), presentation of an old gun by Phillott, (Captain D. C.), elected Member of Philolodioat Cos. mittee a Soh aes Philological Committee, aiehian of ss Secretary, election of re 3 exhibited a photenea pli of an iriseriptin - ‘a exhibited Coins presented to the Society .. 3 iy reports on find of old Coins ...65, 82, 113, Fe y exhibited eight gold Gupta Coins ie exhibited a Buddhist Chaitya .. — of flit Inscription on the Monument citich Gemma: morates the Patna Massacres ae nes ae Physical Science Committee, election of Prain, (Dr. D.), elected Member of Physical Science Comraithedie * s on an undescribed Oriental species of Nepeta ... sy " on the present condition of Barren Island 187 Page 131 131 Eby Tr A7 ab. aD. 84: aD. 188 Index. Prain, (Dr. D.), two additional species of Glyptopetalum et - a vegetation of the Coco Group te ‘5 a botanical visit to Little Andaman and the Nico- bars Presentations, announcement of 1, 37, 45, 53, 81, 93, 101, 1 Ip 129, President—announced presentation of an old gun i inscription of Ghiydsu-d-din Balban xe translation of a Sanad by Akbar ae ‘3 annual address of oe s election of.. a 3 letter from Fifth Tiernan Congres of Gastonia: Washington sat - letter from the Govt. of India on i Tit -Col. a oh Golda Austen’s work is remarks on the death of Raja RAsehaealiia: Maines - obituary notice of Surgeon-Major A. Barclay ose Publications, report on Pubna, find of old Coins in Rainey, (H. James), note on a fiery hot- lias see Raverty, (Major H. G.), notes on some of the Muhammadan Gan Rawalpindi, find of old Coins in Returns of Baptisms, Marriages and Batiste between 1713 and 1754 Rivett-Carnac, (J. H.), elected Member of Coins Committee Pa Bs elected Member of History and Archeolo- gical Committee dee ass Rosaries, lamaic, their kinds and uses 5 “Ee Royal Society of New South Wales, Circular from... Rules, alterations of 55 ee ase 4, Sagar, find of old Coins in i Samuells, (C. A.), withdrawal of Sanad, translation of a, by Akbar : Sarkar, (Dr. Mahendralal), elected Member of anack . ‘5 elected Member of Library Comnaies re Ss elected Member of Philological Com- mittee iss ee ue 3 elected Member of Physital Reidnies Committee . Sarvadhikari, (Rajkumar), elected Matter of Phildagionl Gate. mittee Sayid Ahmad, (Sir), slsoted Menta of Philological Garainieseeee Sclater, (W. L.), elected Natural History Secretary ... “as _det Fy ae Index. Sclater, (W. L.), exhibited an old breech-loading gun... oe “i = notes on the Snakes in the Collection of the Indian Museum ... eve ove Scully, (Dr. J.), elected Member of Couneit is cae 5 3 elected Member of Finance and Visiting Com- mittee i * elected Member of Libiaagy Giaviittes - Bs elected Member of Coins Committee ‘, elected Member of Natural History Communes wee am . elected Member of Physical Science Committee... Secretaries office, reporton ... a election of abe Shastri, (Pandit Hiapiidd), sfaciad Mail of Counail 5 95 elected Member of Finance and Visiting Committee a2 i" 5 elected Member of Library bint mittee . e a elected Maribee of Philologieal OG! mittee . ove Ae Shillingford, (F'. A.), elected an Ordinary MeRIes Shyamaldas, (Mahahahopadhya Kaviraja), on an inscription of the 7th Century A. D ... us x elected Member of His- tory and Archzolo- gical Committee Simpson, (Dr. W. J.), elected Member of Physical Science Com- mittee a Singh, (Thakar Surj Bukhsh), ‘aithideawal ‘of Smith, (A. Mervyn), elected an Ordinary Member .., “ie » (V.A.), elected Member of Coins Committee ... =e 7 > greeco-roman influence on the civilization of an- cient India oe Snakes, notes on the, in the Collection of the Indian Middouit see Societies, list of, to which the publications of the Society have been sent or from which publications have been received during the year Spiders which mimic ants ae St. John, (Lieut. Col. Sir O. B.), death oF Stein, (Dr. M. A.), elected an Ordinary Member Sukhavati eer Sumba, butterflies of ase 189 Page 122 190 Index. Tawney, (C. H.), elected Member of Council ail ~ i. elected Member of Library Slesmaheas -. Ss elected Member of Philological Committee F 5 mahakapijataka some Indian Methods of clekatiidg Kings Manuele (Grnken R. C.), elected Member of Philological Some mittee elected Member of History waa Apelaees logical Committee as Theobald, (W.), description of a two Cowree piece ... » a symbolical coin of the Wethali dynasty iibaw (Dr. G.), elected Member of Philological Committee Thuillier, (Col H.), elected Member of Physical Science Committee Thurston, (Edgar), elected an Ordinary Member a Tibet, coins of sive 50¢ Treasurer, election of , oH Troy ets and general currency of ancient Orissa... ‘T'sam-chho-dung’ (rtsa-mchhog-grong) of the Tanta Uredinew, additional, from the neighbourhood of Simla Vegetation of the Coco Group... Vice-Presidents, election of Votes on alteration of rules Votes on the proposed investment of thé Sacietes S Pecwignent Reserve Fund.. ee 82, Waddell, (Dr. L. A. ), ‘tsam- chee dung’ ancien fee ee of the Lamas * lamaic rosaries: their kinds ae uses Walsh, (Dr. J. H. Tull), elected Member of Natural ata Com- mittee ave on certain Spiders which mimic ants proposal for the holding of Merge elected Member of Council . % list of Deep-Sea Holothurians Wadia. find of old Coins in ... Waterhouse, (Colonel J.), elected MRsniber of Finance es Visit- ing Committee d elected Member of Tape Connie elected Member of Physical Science Committee ... ce electro-Chemical as Seah with thio- carbamides ... +P) 99 Page 135 116 Index, 191 Page Waterhouse, (Colonel J.), remarks on a communication from Mr. W. McCarren ads See Wethali dynasty, a symbolical coin of the as 140 Wilson, (C. 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Sclater, William Lutley, Deputy Superintendent, Indian Museum. Calcutta. N.R.| Scotland, John Parry, ¢. ., Ex. Engineer. Midna- pur. xl Date of Election, 1874 July 1. 1888 Sept.27. 1886 Mar. 3. 1885 April 1. 1885 April 1. 1879 Jan. 8. 1879 May 7. 1888 April 4. 1882 May 3. 1878 April 3. 1887 April 6. 1889 Nov. 6. 1884 Sept. 3. 1882 June 7. 1890 Sept.25. 1878 Oct. 4. 1882 Aug. 2. 1880 June 2. 1890 Jan. 1. 1889 Aug.29. 1889 Noy. 6. | N.R. 1859 Aug. 3. 1872 Aug. 5.|N.R. 1885 Nov. 4. 1874 June 3. |N.R. 1890 April 2. 1872 July 3.|N.R. 1876 Aug. 2. | N.R. 1880 Nov. 3. 1884 Mar. 5. 1864 Aug.11. Scully, Dr. John. Calcutta. Sen, Gupta, Kali Prasanna. Calcutta. .| Sen, Hiralal, Excise Department, Ga. .| Sen, Yadunath. Khurda, Puri. Sen, Narendranath. Oalcutta. .| Sewell, R., m. co. s. Madras. . | Sheridan, C. J., co. &. Hurope. Shastri, Haridas Bhattacharya, Sankhya Shastri, M. A. Director of Public Instruction, Jaypur State. Jaypur. Shyamadas, Mahamahopadhyaya Kaviraj, Private Secy. to H. 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CONTENTS. | Annual Meeting see a ay Ar Hicks F5 Ne Salen co) Hire AO Annual Report for 1890 ; reins ALD my hy wee ee: a Abstract of Proceedings of Ocinoll during 1890 a hike cae cae’. cae sek ee Election of Office-Bearers and Members of Saenoil s. he ae Sock ee oa Monthly General Meeting Le, By de ae Seale Red BO Mista aoe (aaa Election of Members os) inne es see side cut) bid ha nO Withdrawal of Members us ae ty vee “a ene gine 10, ae Papers— Ret . 1. On thirteen copper ahatan of King Ner ‘sinha ae of Orissa. er MA ie Monwan CuaxkraAvartl, (Title only) =i, aay 2. Ontwo copper plates of King Eulastambha “Deva, of the Chalukya sie Se dynasty — By Man Monan Cnaxrayarti, (Title cence Bee ieee Library, ... aoe hh Hie or ee Ns GRAS tO ae List of Members... iY a ae ae ae Abstract Statements of Receipts and Disbursements fan 1890 ee s eS 5 DS ae LIST OF BOOKS FOR SALE © AT THE LIBRARY OF THES EY, Ban SIaTic POCIETY OF exon 2 a ae No. 57, PARK STREET, CALCUTTA. AND OBTAINABLE FROM — . THE SOCIETY'S LONDON AGENT'S, MESSRS. TRUBNER & CO) “4 87 anp 59, Lupgare Hitt, Lonpon, z. O: ae Complete copies of those works marked with an asterisk* cannot cs swpplied—some “ of the Fasciculs being out of stock. oh BIBLIOTHECA INDICA, Sanskrit Series. Advaita Brahma Siddhi, (Text) Fasc. I—I1V @ /6/each_ ... Rs. Agni Purana (Text) Fasc. I1—XIV @/6/ each* he Aitareya Aranyaka of the Rig Veda, (Text) Fasc. I—V @ /6/ each Anu Bhashyam, (Text) Fase.I. ... sie Aniruddha’s Commentary (English) Fase.1 ... to ea eg Aphorisms of Sandilya, (English) Fase. I. & oe Aphorisms of the Vedanta, (Text) Fasc. VIL-XTHI @ /6/ each* Ashtasahasriké Prajnaparamita, (Text) Fasc. I—VI @ [6/ each Aévavaidyaka, (Text) asc. I—V @ /6/ each... Avadana Kalpalaté, by Kshemendra (Sans. & Tibetan) Vol. 2 Fase. 1-2 Vol. Il, Fasc. 1 ers ran Bhémati, (Text) Fasc. I—VIII @ /6/ each — a Brahma Sitra, (English) Fasc. I ms ate see pi Brihaddevata, (Text) Fasc. I—II @/6/each ... A RAI. Brihaddharma Purana, (Text) Fasc. I and II @ /6/ each .. ay Brihat Aranyaka Upanishad, (Text) Fasc. VI, VII & 1X @ /6/ each* . ce Ditto (English) Fase. II—III @ /6/ each* 4 be - Brihat Samhita, (Text) Fasc. 1I—III, V—VII @ /6/ oachk. a - Chaitanya-Chandrodaya Nataka, (Text) Fasc. II—III @ /6/ each* . .., Chaturvarga Chintamani, (Text) Vols. I, Fasc. 1—11; I1, 1—25; III, Part I, Fasc. 1—18; Part IT, Fasc. 17 @ |6/ each Chhéndogya Upanishad, (English) Kase; TI¥ =), ane Dasarupa, (Text) Fasc. Il and Ill @ /6/* ay Gopatha Bréhmana. (Text) Fase. I—II Hindu Astronomy, (English) Fasc. [I—III @ /6/ each* Kala Madhava, (Text) Fasc. I—IV @ /6/ each . Katantra, (Text) Fasc. I—VI @ /12/ each ch Katha Sarit Sagara, (English) Fasc. I—XIV @ / 12/ each . (Continued on third page of cover.) HP wmenNoocorHAm = bo heme ; cer OCOCON OrFOrFCoOWwA i bo = aR fan aki wrsinnadt Uraeiehost, (Text) Fase. Tot Aisin RS gn, Bie Ly eee Puréna, (Text) Fasc. I—IX @/6/each... wus open Sie Lalita-Vistara, (Text) Fasc. 1II—V1 @ /6/ cacy SLs t viele Ute purgaa Mes pas - Lalita-Vistara, (English) Fasc. I—II1 @/12/each* —... oh - Madana : Parijata, (Text) Fase. I—Vi1l11 @ /6/ each rare Pre: | Manutiké Sangraha, (Text) Fasc. I—III @ /6/ each — dau - Markandeya Purdna, (English) Paso. I—II @ /12/each ... +1 iy beta : BE ea DarSana, (Text) Fase. T—XxIx @ ia each. Jee ee . Nérada Smriti, ( Text) Bald: iil @ /6/. fide hs ies _ Nydyavartika, (Text) Fasc. I. : N irukta, (Text) Vol. I, Fasc. Pik Vol. TI, Fase. coe Vol, Til, Fasc. 1—6; Vol. IV, Fase. 1—7 @ /6/ each isdra, or The Hlements ‘of Polit} % oe me manelons (Sans ) Fase. II—V @ |6/ bagel | os . yayabindatika, (Text) .. "Rea, ease Kusumanjali Prakarana, (Text) Vol. I, Fase. 1—4, Vol. IL, Fase. 6 42 @ /6feach sag pete Paridiatan Parvan (Text) Fase. I-IV @ /6/ each nee san are Pingala Chhandah Sttra, (Text) Fasc. LI—III @ /6/ each* Alga Rasaa, (Text) Part'I, Fase. I, Part 11, Fasc. I—V '@ /6/ euch RS Ditto (English) Part 11,Fasc.I ... 4 | Prékrita Lakshanam, (Text) Fase. ay? hy si Fase. ‘eg: @ /6/ each Seah ; ie r 2 " _-Parééara, Institutes of (English) Ms a |“ Sréuta Stitra of Apastamba, (Text) Fasc. {—-XII @ /6/ each sea ‘Ditto. _ Latyayama {Text) Fasc. I—IX @ /6/ each raat —2,@fh/each ‘ ABs Veda Sawhita, (Text) Vols. I, Fasc. 5—10 ; iT, 1—6 ; III, 7 ; ~ -TV,1—6; V, 1—8, @ /6/ each Fase.* “ae - Bankhya Shtra Vritii, (Text) Fase. I—IV @ Je eck Ks se _. Sahitya Darpana (English) Fasc. I—IV @ /6/ each > ; Sénkhya Aphorisms of Kapila, (Huglish) Fase. I and II @ /s/ each he Sarva Darsana Sangraha, (Text) Fasc. I1* we _ Sankara Vijaya, (Text) Fasc. II and IIT @ /6/ each* — a # ity emis Pravachana Bhashya, Fasc. III (English preface only)* ee 87 Bhashyam, (Text) Fasc. I—II @ /6/ each . ie. Ss - Susruta Samhita, (Eng.) Fasc. I and II @ /12/ each iss 3 veep Aranya, (Text) Fase. I—X1I @ /6/ each t; “Ditto Sawhita, (Text) Fasc. IX—XXXV @ /6/ each* .. au Ditto Pratisakhya, (Text) Fasc. I—III @ /6/ each f ‘Ditto and Aitareya Upanishads, (Text) Fasc. II and III @ /6/ each* a Bréhmana, (Text) Fase. I—XIX @ /6/ each - Yattva Chintémagt, (Text) Vol. I, Fase. 1—9, Vol. II, Fase. oe @ /6/ tees Seaeh | an na — Tulsi ittzal: ( Text) Tikad, Spee 6 @ /6/ each ... iste fae - Uttara Naishadha, (Text) Fasc. III, V—XII @ /6/each* . Sik ‘Uyasagadasao, (Text) Fasc. I—VI @ /12/ fs as - ‘Varéha Parana, (Text) Fasc. I—XIII @ /6/ each | ‘Vayu Purana, aTexty: Vol. I, Fase. 1—6; Vol. II, Fase. 1, @ /e/ - each Fasc. - ‘Vishnu Smriti, (Text) Fase. I—Il @ ‘Je each .., ie ny Pry idarainékcara: (Text) Fase. I—VII @ /6/ each oa gl Ss - Vrihannaradiya Purana, (Text) Fasc. I—VI @ /6/ ae © aang nes of Patanjali, (Sans. & English) Fasc. I—V @ /14/ each .., ‘Arabic and Persian Series. >. i eerste, with Index, (Text) Fase. I—XIII @ /6/ each Rs, _ Min-i-Akbari, (Text) Fase. I—X XII @ 1/ each oe Ditto (English) Vol. I (Fasc. I—VII, Vol. II, Fose. 1-2 Ps (Turn cr er) ‘Markandeya Purana, (Text) Fasc. IV—VII @ /6/each* ... | naan Pardsara Smriti (Text) Vel. I Fasc. ean Vol. II Fase. i Vol. IIT, . Ditto ; S’ankhydyana (Text) Vel. 1, Fase. 1-7 Vol. II, Fase. af ~ OBE OCOOCOCKHED WOW WRO — aNDNOR hegre “TO ps on ether Se a %. > sere rege eee: Canes wv SOD RF ANANDMANOKHRHAGH ee p= — ' Wn NNW ONWANWAN Oa for) A2G0nrFr OAnNENAE® Se a 14 Akbarnimah, with Index, (Text) Fase. I—XKXXVII @ tf igi : eS 37 : Arabic Bibliography, by Dr. A. Sprenger ge Baédshénamah with Index, (Text) Fasc. [—XIX @ /6/ cach | i Catalogue of the Persian Books and Manuscripts in the Library of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Fasc. I ye Dictionary of Arabic Technical Terms, and Appendix, Fase. I—XX1 Late @ 1/each . gates wy BN Farhang-i- -Rashidi (Text), Fasc. I—XIV @ 1/ each ats Pre -Fihrish-i-Tasi, or, Tasy’s list of Shy’ah Books, (Text) ase I-IV. @ /12/ each he eee eee Futth-ul-Shim Waqidf, (Text) Fase. I—IX @/6/each ... 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I a ga NS wt Aniruddha’s Commentary (English) Fase. er ig weit Aa ans HI Bs Aphorisms of Sandilya, (English) Fasc. I : ey: Aphorisms of the Vedanta, (T ext) Fase. VII—XIII @ /6/ each* 10 Ashtasshasriké Prajnaparamita, (Text) Fasc. I—VI @ /6/ each A Afvavaidyaka, (Text) kasc. I—V @ /6/each ... 10 Avadana Kalpalata, by Kshemendra (Sans, & Se Vol. Ke Fase. L- - % Vol. II, Fasc. 1 tant ie oO Bhamati, (Text) Fasc. I—VIII @ /6/ each eh 0 Brahma Sutra, (English) Fasc. I... Rees 2 a Te A sar Brihaddevata, (Text) Fasc. I—IT @ /6/ each a Brihaddharma Purana, (Text) Fasc. I and II @ /6/ Rants on a Brihat Aranyaka Upanishad, (Text) Fasc. VI, VII & Ix @ /6/ each* . _ Ditto (English) Fasc. I1—-III @ /6/ each* fi Ag Brihat Sawhité, (‘Text) Fasc. II—III, V—VII @ /6/ each* Chaitanya-Chandrodaya Nataka, (Text) Fasc. II—I1I @ /6/ each* Chaturvarga Chintamani, (Text) Vols. I, Fasc. 1—11; II, 1—25; III, Part I, Fasc. 1—18; Part II, Fasc. aes @ [6/ each : Chhandogya Upanishad, (English) Fasc. I1* ©... 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