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Ti ak i , tue N : MW ‘ ) ) ? “a i a « } : i 1 é ' ’ ‘ PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. EDITED BY JHE flONORARY SECRETARY, JANUARY TO DECEMBER, 1902. CALCUTTA: PRINTED AT THE BAPTIST MISSION PRESS, AND PUBLISHED BY THE ASIATIC SOCIETY, 57, PARK STREET. \S 1908. . : - , * 7 4 ce] é ; \ / ¢ f : 2oNtd 19 < a ~ err - » j yetet CO - eo tds’ Se eS o. <> Re, [432 ek tee , ae ° ‘a aS i¢ tt - —~ ; 3047, Bh? 90 <-> See oo3 ae a 10 YTH1002 OFTALGs AATHADSS VY¥aarouer ang - \ : ot % 2 7 25 : ‘ * 75 prton oP al re | \ >? n 7 an i j “A = a Fe: > “ a > ae she ’ » a » YAAU iV Ata - 1 - 4 Atetceiy ae A aA my , € ok 4 * ¢ ‘ | ° ‘ef Aion . - elo CONTENTS. Proceedings for January, 1902 Ditto Ditto Ditto ' Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto February ,, (including Annual Report)... March és ae see _ April - bias aie May - June 5 ae ae July and August, 1902 November ma December List of Rieenhors of the Asiatic Budisty on the ‘Sst Decent: ber, 1901 (Appendix to the Proceedings for February, - 1902) . Abstract Siatoriont of Resdipte ee Decbardeids of fine Asiatic Society for the year 1901 (Appendix to the Proceedings for February, 1902) See List of all Societies, Institutions, &c., to which the Bh cations of the Asiatic Society have been sent during the year, or from which publications have been re- _ ceived . Pages. 1-20 21-46 AT—-54 50-58 59-64 65-68 69-74 75-82 83-91 1-X1V XV—-XXlil XX1V—xXxx PRoCee DINGS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. FoR JANUARY, 1902. SET SO EO) 0 0 2-000) 00.4 s2vS au; 0 1,060. "0"0 480 8 0 200 0 O 20% «alt 20 ba O40 1S 0:20 LOGON 0» 60 100 O O BO: tO Ors hm tasters Total 16,126 4 0 ere ewe, - wh lS UG Pe wae oe SSS SE 1902. Estimate. Rs. As. P. 7,500 700 5,700 1,375 3,000 100 18,375 100 100 625 © ©.o 2 2: oS 6 2 0 Oo 2 en eee 0 0 Soa Eo © Oo Oo Oo © 6.06 9 & O°S:o. 9 2 ae eqgccqcqaodo coco Oc o 6 Oo Coo 8©:-o' Oo —— 11,397 12 5 16,911 ,4 0 ——— 26 Annual Report. | [ Fes. Extraordinary Expenditure. Rs..As.-P. Rs. As, P. Rs. As. P Library Catalogue... £2000 2D 100 0 0 1100s 0ee Repairs... ais 6.00000. BOD OT 3°. cae ‘ Royal Society’s Catalogue sia. 450 9-9. | fee Furniture ree rei eg Li2 40:0: \igaee Insurance rae * a) Eee 312. 8 O~\aee ~~ Total ... 7,200 0 0 6,025.13 ..0. .L0Gsiaae Agencies. Our London Agency is still in the hands of Messrs. Luzac and Co., from whom we have not yet received a final account. The value of the publications sent to them during the year amounts to £35-14, repre- senting 313 pieces of the Journal and Proceedings and Rs. 179-14, representing 365 components of the “ Bibliotheca Indica.” From them we have received books and papers of the value of £38-6-9. Our Continental Agent is Mr. Otto Harrassowitz, to whom we have sent publications valued at £13-8-6 and Rs. 184-8, of which £16-10-10 and Rs. 179-10-8 worth have been sold for us. Other books were sent for sale, amounting to Rs. 50. From them we have received books and papers of the value of £34-3-8. Library. The total number of volumes or parts of volumes added to the Library during the year was 2,461, of which 575 were purchased and 1.886 presented or received in exchange for the Society’s publications. A new edition of the Society’s Library Catalogue is still under preparation. On detailed inspection of the manuscript by the Sub- Committee, the compiler was asked to revise the manuscript, and for the extra work involved his honorarium was increased by Rs. 300, making a total of Rs. 1,300. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. During the year 1901, the work of the Catalogue, the preparation of Index-slips or cards, as required by the International Catalogue Com- mittee, was begun. These were submitted for correction to the members in charge of the various sections, and four batches of card-slips, 479 in number, were despatched to the Director of the International Catalogue. Up to the end of last year no information as to the probable date of publication of the Catalogue had been received, and the Director has been written to on the subject. A report on the working of the Bureau from 1902. | Annual Report. 27 its inauguration in June 1899 to June 1901 was submitted to the Government of India, Home Department, and a further grant of Rs. 1,000 has been placed at the disposal of the Society towards carrying on the work Insurance of the Society’s Building and its Contents. On the recommendation of the Repairs Sub-Committee, the Council requested Messrs. Duncan Brothers and Co., Agents of the Lancashire Insurance Company, toissuea cover for Rs. 2,50,000, being the total amount of insurance over the Society’s building and its contents at a premium of 2 annas percent. per annum. Messrs. Duncan Brothers andCo. issued the Policy, but the Calcutta Fire Insurance Agents Association rated the Society’s premises at 4 annas per cent. per annum instead of 2annas per cent. Messrs. Duncan Brothers and Co. agreed to continue the Policy issued at 2 annas per cent. till expiry date, but on renewal of the Policy to charge 4 annas per cent. per annum. As the increased fire insurance premium is due to the Photographic Laboratory, the Council have asked the Photographic Society of India to pay an addi- tional rent of Rs. 25 per month from May 1902. Barclay Memorial Medal. In 1895, the Surgeon-General of the Indian Medical Service offered the Barclay Memorial Medal to the Asiatic Society of Bengal together with the Rs. 500 odd belonging to the fund. The Council of the Society accepted the offer and rules were framed to regulate the award which were published in the Society’s Proceedings for August 1897. During 1901, the Council of the Society awarded the first Barclay Memorial Medal to Mr. HE. Ernest Green, Government Entomologist, Ceylon, in recognition of his contributions to Economic Entomology dur- ing the past year. Max Muller Memorial Fund. At the instance of the Executive Committee of the Max Miller Memorial Fund, a Sub-Committee was appointed by Council. The Snb- Committee appealed for subscriptions to all the members of the Society in India and Burma and to other supporters interested in India and Indian studies. Rupees 165 has been received and the list is still open for subscription. Dr. Bloch, Secretary to the Indian Sub-Committee of the Max Miller Memorial Fund, is prepared to receive further sub- scriptions. Proposed Re-organization of the Society. There were several meetings of the Committee in connection with the proposed alterations in the status of the Society, and after due deli- 28 Annual Report. [ Fes. beration the Committee recommended to the Council that the final consideration of the question be postponed, pending a further report from the Committee. Proposed sale of the Society’s Premises. On receipt of an enquiry from the Honorary Secretary of the United Service Club, whether the Society would entertain any proposal on the part of the Club to purchase the Society’s premises and on what terms, the Council referred the matter to a Sub-Committee, consisting of Major A. Alcock, Mr. 8. C. Hill, Mr. W. K. Dods, Mr. J. Bathgate, and Mr. J. D. Nimmo. The Sub-Committee, after obtaining legal assur- ance of the Society’s right to sell its premises, drew up a report with the recommendation that the proposals set forth therein be submitted to the Members of the Society. The Council approved of the report and ordered it to be printed and circulated in accordance with Rule 64A. The question was brought up at the Monthly General Meeting in January, and the Meeting decided that the matter be referred back to the Sub- Committee with the request to frame an estimate of the probable cost of acquiring a new site and erecting a new building with and without accommodation for a Secretary in a suitable neighbourhood, and also to take such steps as might seem sufficient to ascertain definitely what sum is likely to be received by the sale of the present house and site. Exchange of Publications. During the past year, the Council accepted six applications for exchange of publications with other Societies, vzz.: (1) from the Treasury Department, Bureau of Statistics, Washington, the Society's Journal, Parts II and III, and Proceedings being exchanged for their publications; (2) from the Ecole Frangaise d’Extréme Orient, Saigon, the Society’s Jowrnal, Parts I-III, and Proceedings for its Bulletin; (8) from the University of. Aberdeen, the Society’s Journal, Parts I-III, and Proceedings being exchanged for their Studies; (4) from the Société Romana di Antropo- logia, the Society’s Journal, Part III, and Proceedings being exchanged for its Atti; (5) from the Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, the Society’s Jowrnal, Parts Iand III, and Proceedings for their Transac- tions; (6) from the Museo de Historia Natural de Valparaiso, the Society’s Journal, Part II, and Proceedings being exchanged for their publications. Secretaries and Treasurer. Dr. T. Bloch carried on the duties of Philological Secretary and Editor of the Journal, Part I, throughout the year, except for four months, - a ee 1902. ] Annual Report. 29° when he was absent on deputation, during which period Mahimaho- padhyaya Haraprasad Shastri took charge of the office. Mr. L. de Nicéville continued Natural History Secretary and Editor of the Journal, Part II, till his death in November, when Mr. Frank Finn kindly consented to undertake the work. Mr. I’. H. Pargiter carried on the duties of the Anthropological Secretary and Editor of the Journal, Part III, throughout the year. Mr. T. H. Holland resigned the office of General Secretary and Hditor of the Proceedings in March, and Major A. Alcock, F.R.S., was appointed. Major Alcock resigned the office in December, and Mr. J. Macfarlane, Librarian of the Imperial Library, agreed to carry on the duties. Mr. W. K. Dods continued Treasurer throughout the year, except for a month, when he was absent from Calcutta and Mr. C. Michie kindly agreed to carry on the work. Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri was in charge of the Bibliotheca Indica and the search of Sanskrit manuscripts and carried on the duties of Joint-Philological Secretary throughout the year. Mr. J. H. Elliott continued Assistant Secretary and Librarian throughont the year. Publications. There were published during the year nine numbers of the Pro- ceedings (Nos. 11 and 12 of 1900 and 1-9 of 1901), containing 116 pages of letter-press ; four numbers of the Jowrnal, Part I (No. 2 of 1900, Nos. 1 and 2 of 1901, and Extra No. 2 of 1901) containing 261 pages of letter- press and two plates; two numbers of the Journal, Part II (No. 4 of 1900 and No. 1 of 1901), containing 206 pages of letter-press and aplate of 1900 ; two numbers of the Journal, Part III (one number of 1900 and No. 1 of 1901), containing 185 pages of letter-press and 21 plates. There was also published Part III of Catalogue of the Society’s Sanskrit books and manuscripts. Journal, Part I. In the Philological Section of the Society’s Jowrnal four numbers have been published, covering altogether 258 pages of letter-press. One of these numbers belongs to Vol. LXITX of 1900, two to Vol. LXX of 1901, and one is an extra number for 1901 giving a sketch of the Ladakhi Grammar. Materials for another number are ready, and it has been pro- posed to issue another extra number containing appendix to Dr. Hoernle’s Report on Central Asian Antiquities. The last Annual Report contains a synopsis of No. 2 of 1900 from the pen of Dr. Bloch. In the rest of the numbers there is very little of 30 Annual Report. [ Fes. history or antiquities. They are more linguistic and numismatic than in previous years, but they fully sustain the reputation of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Two linguistic papers by the Revd. Mr. T. Grahame Bailey, B.D., M.A., Wazirabad, are very important from many points of view. There are criminal tribes in the Panjab who have peculiar dialects of their own unknown to the peaceful inhabitants. This facilitates the commission of crime and helps the criminals to escape detection. Efforts were often made to enter into the mystery of their dialect, but in vain. Revd. Mr. Bailey has, however, succeeded, at last, in gaining clues to the decipherment of two of these dialects. The Sasis are thieves and the Culiads are cattle-poisoners. Ordinarily they speak the Panjabi dialect, but they use their peculiar dialect only at the time of the commission of crimes. The Cilias change Panjabi words by the introduction of the syllable ma in the middle of the word, just as skul-skumal, but the Sasi change them in a variety of ways, all of which are equally well known to the initiated. But the most important linguistic paper of the year is a sketch of the Ladakhi Grammar compiled by A. H. Francke. It is a complete grammar of the Ladakhi dialect of the Tibetan language, and a know- ledge of the grammar of the classical Tibetan is essential in under- standing the dialectic variety of Ladakh. The verbal system of Ladakh shows an advance on the classical system. The classical verb is more a verbal noun, for the verbal strength of a sentence lies less in the verb itself than in the subject of the sentence, whether that be used in the nominative or instrumental. Theutterance of the verb in the Ladakhi dialect rests on this: It can no longer be constructed alternately with the nominative and the instrumental, but that each separate verb takes one or the other case alone. The Ladakhi verb shows three distinct stems: (1) The present stem; (2) the perfect stem; and (3) the impera- tive stem. The future is often formed by adding in to the verbs, e.g., cha-in, shall go. . Mr. Francke has rendered another important service by publishing three original documents in the Ladakhi dialect giving the history of the country from the earliest time up to the settlement of the country under thé Rajas of Kacmir. They were compiled and translated by the late lamented Karl Marx, a Moravian missionary at Leh, in Ladakh, Mr. Francke, by publishing the Grammar and the three Histories with translations, has brought the Ladakhi dialect within the reach of scholars in Europe. Two papers on numismatics by W. Theobald, M.N.S.L., one on Karsapana Coinage and the other on the Copper Coins of Ancient India, traverse the entire numismatic work done on these two classes of | — oe Oe oe wf Eee 1902. ] Amnnal Report. 31 coins. The writer examines all the devices found on _ these and attempts to give them their proper attribution. Errors had accu- mulated as regards the identification of these various devices for more than eighty years. The errors were made by distinguished men engaged in the pioneer work of finding, classifying, figuring and soon. A vast number of coins have now been collected in different museums and private coin-cabinets and it is now time that a systematic survey should be made of the vast accumulation of materials. Mr. Theobald took upon himself this arduous work and the Indian numismatists will remain ever indebted to him for the thorough manner in which he has performed it. He has rejected many symbols as wrong identifications ; he has improved upon many attributions; he has given a better classifi- cation; and has placed great importance on the geographical distribution of coins ; as, for example, a symbol identified with the deer has been proved to stand for a buffalo. A tree ona coin from Shaharanpore was regarded as pipal, but in that part of the country pipal trees are a rarity, and so it should be Himalayan cedar—so fine, so striking, and so magnificent a tree. From the indices appended to his papers it will be seen how fertile the Indians were in their inventions about these devices. They have pressed Trees, flowers, fruits, animals, birds, shell-fish, in fact, everything under the sky, into their service, and it is no wonder that eminent men were mistaken as to their identification. The future numismatist will find this work much easier. Thanks to Mr. Theobold. The Sunga or Mitra dynasty succeeded the Mauryas in the Empire of Northern India about the year 180 B.C. The Sunga coins are very rare. Colonel C. HE. Shepherd had found two coins of this dynasty. But they belong to two kings of the dynasty not known before, named Dhriva Mitra and Rudra Gupta. This isa real gain to our knowledge of the Sunga dynasty the kings of which played an important part in North India at a time when the Greeks were establishing themselves in the Panjab. In a previous paper Mr. Hoey identified Sewan, a station in the Saran district, with the famous Kuginara, the place of Buddha’s death. Ina supplement to that note of his published during the year under review, the writer contends that the Titaria Stipa between the Daha and Sondi Rivers is no other than the Stupa mentioned by Hwen Thsang as built for the purpose of commemorating the bird which plunged into the water and flying up shook its wings to extinguish a forest fire. This bird-stupa stood near the vihara, in which was the figure repre- senting the Nirvana with the adjacent stupa and a pillar bearing a note to the fact. So he thinks that the great Nirvana Stipa should be somewhere near the Titaria Stipa. He thinks he has also found the stiipa commemrating the pious deeds of Drona mentioned in Buddhist 32 Annual Report. [ Fes. books, who interposed to prevent the resort to arms and divided the relics of Buddha to the seven claimants. Babu Nandalal Dey visited the Kaluha hill in the Hazaribagh district. on the 21st April 1890. With the sole exception of the image of Kulegvari he found the images at the place to be all Buddhistic, and so he suspects that the place is the Makulaparbata of the Burmese Buddhist annals. The place has subsequently been visited by Dr. Stein and he confirms the statements of the Babu. In the district of Jessore there is a place named Qaila kupa, where there is an old mosque which Maulvi Abdul Wali, the Sub-Regis- tar of the place, has identified with a masjid erected by the great Musal- man Sultan of Bengal, Alauddin Husain Shah, at the request of Huzrat Maulana Muhamad ’Arab, a holy man who flourished at his time. The work was commenced by Husain Shah’s son, Nasir Shah,—who subse- quently became King of Bengal. Mr. EB. D. Maclagan, C.S., of Multan, has succeeded in ‘ddntibetal many of the places mentioned in the account of Multan Sarkar in the third book of the Ain-i-Akbari. He has also succeeded in proving that the rivers Indus and Chenab did not then flow in their present channels. Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri read three papers on the history of the re-organization of the Caste System in Bengal under the greatest of its Hindu kings, namely, Vallala Sena. Huis authorities are two copies of Vallala-carita, copied in 1707 and 1791. He has proved that the work contains a genuine history of the administration of Vallala Sena and he has discovered that the Acaryyas of Bengal, the astrologers, diviners, and pacifiers of planetary deities, though they pass at present as Brahmanas, are none else than the Magi, or the descendants of the Median and Persian priesthood. From Vallala-carita Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri has shown that the present low position of the wealthy and influential caste of Sonar banias in Bengal is owing to the fact that they were Buddhists, they ridiculed the Brahmanas, they joined the Buddhist Pala kings against Vallala and they were connected with the Palas by marriage also. Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri has shown from the same authentic source that the Kaivarthus, so influential in the district of Rajshahi, were once the lords of North Bengal, that they headed a successful rebellion against the Palas, that when worsted they joined Vallala, who raised their status in the Hindu society and gave them the governorship of South Bengal, where in the sub-divisions of Ulubaria, Tamluk, and Kontai they are still very influential. Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shiastri’s papers have appeared in the Proceedings. 1902. | Annual Report. 33 Journal, Part II. Although only two numbers of Part II of the Society’s Journal have appeared during the past year, and of these one belonged to the year previous, yet several interesting papers have been published. Major L. Rogers, I.M.S., contributes a most valuable account of the relationship of the water-supply, water-logging, and distribution of Anopheles mosquitoes, respectively, to the prevalence of malaria north of Calcutta. He concludes that a good water-supply is an important pro- phylactic measure in the lessening of the prevalence of malaria, and that the question whether the Anopheles mosquitoes play a part by taking the malarial parasites back to the tanks from their human hosts or not must be left to be determined by future experiments. Dr. P. C. Roy has a paper dealing with two points in Chemistry, en- titled, respectively, Further Researches on Mercurous Nitrite and its Deri- vatives, and On Mercurous Iodide and a new Method of its Preparation. There are three botanical papers: A description of a new Hima- layan genus of Orobanchacex, by Mr. J. 8. Gamble and Major Prain, I.M.S., the eighteenth instalment of the latter gentleman’s Noviciz Indicx, dealing with the Asiatic species of Dalbergia; and the twelfth of Sir George King’s Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. For the purpose of studying the Asiatic Dalbergias Major Prain has consulted specimens from no less than fifteen herbaria, besides that of Calcutta, in the hope of publishing a monograph of the genus; but this proving impracticable under present circumstances, the seventy-four known Asiatic species have been enrolled ina hand-list with bibliography and record of distribution. In the case of the less familiar species the field. numbers of the specimens are quoted in order that the list may be of use to workers in herbaria which Major Prain has been unable to visit, should these contain duplicates bearing these numbers. In Sir George King’s paper will be found descriptions of all the species of the Myrtle order to be found in a truly indigenous condition in the Malay Peninsula, Straits Settlements, and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Although this order of plants is best represented in South America.;and Australia, the above mentioned portion of the Oriental region yields no less than a hundred and twenty-two species, belonging to eleven genera. The common Myrtle is the only European form. The most important genus here dealt with is Hugenia, of which no less than ninety-six species are described, more than half of these being new to science. New species of the genera Barringtonia, Tristanca, Pseudo- Eugenia, and Planchonia are also dealt with in this valuable contribution to Oriental botany. 34 Annual Report. [Fer © The contributions of zoological writers do not bulk very largely in our publications for the past year, owing largely to the fact that our leading contributor, Major A. Alcock, I.M.8., F.R.S., has been occupied on other publications, which under the circumstances may well claim notice here. One is the first instalment of a Catalogue of the Decapod Crustacea in the collection of the Indian Museum, published by the Trustees. This part contains the Introduction, and an account of the curious group Dromides or Dromiacea, crabs which are remarkable for their narrow form, long antennae, and the position of the last pair of legs on the back; these curiously-placed legs being often used to carry a sponge or shell used as a protection. These crabs, as a matter of fact, find their nearest allies in the lobsters. : Full descriptions of the Indian genera and species are given, to- gether with lists of the specimens in the Museum collection, and the locality and depth at which these were obtained, generally by the Marine Survey ship Investigator. The Introduction will be of especial value to students of the Crustacea everywhere, inasmuch as it contains a full account of the structure of the group Decapoda (comprising the crabs, lobsters, and shrimps), illustrated by reference to the Andaman Lobster (Nephrops andamanicus). This species has been chosen instead of the usual type, the European crayfish (Astacus fluviatilis), since it belongs to our local fauna in the Hast. Subsequently the Brachyura or crabs are compared with this general type. A particularly interesting section is that which deals with the general bionomy, or habits of life, of crabs as a whole. They are, says the author, “the most highly organised and most intelli- gent of the crustacean class. The Cyclometopes and Catometopes are particularly alert and active, and among several of the gregarious species of amphibious Catometopes life appears to be almost as complex as it is among many insects.” The second and larger work is a complete Descriptive Catalogue of the Indian Deep-sea Crustacea in the Indian Museum, being a revised account of the deep-sea species collected by the Investigator and also published by the Trustees. This is by no means a reprint of earlier published reports, for in addition to tables and descriptions of species, it contains tables and definitions of all the groups under which these are arranged, from subgenera up to suborders; and it also embodies a large amount of material which the author has prepared to serve as the basis for the more comprehensive work on the Indian Crustacea above com- mented on. Accounts of many of the species dealt with herein have been published in our Journal by Major Alcock and Captain A. R. 8. Anderson, I.M.S., and by the late Professor Wood-Mason. This large : 1902. | Annual Report. 39 memoir, like the work last mentioned, is fully illustrated, the illustra- tions in the present book being peculiarly fine. It is gratifying to note that their excellence has been much commented on in England, more especially as the drawings are the work of a native artist trained to the work by Major Alcock himself. To the general student of animal life and the intellectual public as a whole the third of Major Alcock’s productions during the past year will | be tbe most interesting. This is “ Zoological Gleanings from the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship Investigutor,” originally published among Scientific Memoirs by Medical Officers of the Army in India. Herein are collected a number of most valuable and interesting observations hitherto scattered among reports and papers where they are not always easily accessible and are liable to be overlooked. These observations deal with such fascinating subjects as commensalism (the association of two very different animal forms for their mutual benefit), sexual characters, pairing and parental care, protective and warning devices and colour- ation, courtship, and habits of breeding and feeding. And these relate not only to crustaceans and fishes, but to other marine animals, such as echinoderms, while there are also some excellent observations on birds and reptiles. Taken altogether, this paper is a remarkable contribution to the natural history of many groups of animals, and shows the author equally at home in field observation as in systematic work, which is more than.can be said, unfortunately, for many zoologists in these days of wild speculation and quibblings about nomenclature. In his department of butterflies, our late and deeply-to-be-regretted member, Mr. L. de Nicéville, was also always conspicuous as a worker equally competent in field or cabinet study, and in his last year’s paper a ‘“‘ Note on the Butterflies comprised in the subgenus Tronga of the genus Huploea,” he shows his usual perspicacity in attempting to reduce to order the limbo of synonyms in which workers have plunged these unfortunate insects, with which he was so well acquainted in life. Mammals and birds are the chief forms of animal life dealt with in two interesting papers by Captain A. H. McMahon, C.1.E., which embody notes on the fauna of the little-known regions of Dir, Swat, and Chitral. Of special interest are the author’s observation of the occurrence of monkeys in this region and his account of the Chitrali method of catching goshawks. Lastly, some zoological contributions to the Proceedings of the Society naturally come in for mention here. There have been some interesting exhibits, Major Alcock having shown some fine examples of the Museum modeller’s work in snakes and deep-sea fish, and Mr. Finn a living euinea-fowl provided witha neck-tassel of feathers, a curious 36 Annual Report. [ Fes. abnormality in so little variable a bird ; while in the Proceedings was published a most useful paper by Miss Evans, dealing with the feeding habits and reproduction of the common grey mosquito of Calcutta. In this communication it is shown that the insect may live in its adult stage for as long as five weeks, and that it exhibits a marked preference for the blood of the house-sparrow as food, as well as for our own. Altogether the scientific section of the Society’s work may be said during the last year to have fully maintained its interest. Journal, Part III. This part of the Journal for 1900 contained a long paper by Lt.-Col. Waddell on the Tribes of the Brahmaputra Valley, and could not be issued during that year because of the difficulty and delay attending the revision of the proofs by the author, who was then in China, The article was at length passed through the press and the Jowrnal for 1900 was published during the early part of 1901. The tribes in that Valley represent radical elements from all the three great ethnological sub- regions, Indo-Chinese, Indo-Malayan and Indian; and the author describes their peculiar characteristics, dealing with each tribe in detail, and gives a large quantity of anthropometric data which he collected himself. Papers, which had been read before the Society during 1900, were then brought into the Journal for 1901 and were issued at the beginning of the year. They describe some castes and legends in Berar, stone im- plements in the Santal Parganas (where they are known as lightning- stones), and some riddles from Behar. The second Number contains an article, in which Mr. Holland describes the Coorgs and Yeruvas in the Madras Presidency and gives valuable information and measurements collected by himself; and another paper setting out an Accumulation Droll and Rhyme in Bengal. Mr. Holland’s conclusion is that the Coorgs, when judged according to ethnological characteristics, take a very high position among the races of South India. Coins. Fifty-seven coins were presented to the Society by the Governments of Bombay, Madras and N.-W. Provinces during the year under review. Of these 5 are gold, 7 copper, 41 silver and 6 lead coins. The latter bear the die of the Andhra Dynasty who ruled Eastern and Southern India from the beginning of first century B.C. to the end of the second century A.D. Of the gold coins one belonged to the reign of J agadeka- Malla of the later Calukya Dynasty of Kalyana in the Marhatta country, found in Bijapur District, within his kingdom. The second gold coin 1902. ] Annual Report. 37 comes from beyond India. It belongs to the Khalipas of Baghdad. The third belongs to the Toghlaq Dynasty of Delhi. Most of the silver coins belong either to the Moghuls or to the independeut Muhammadan Dynasties who preceded the Moghuls. One of them, however, is of peculiar interest. It belongs to Asala Pala, a Hindu king of Kabul, who must have flourished before the Ghaznavites established their rule in that country. The copper coins are not of much importance. Three of the copper coins are dated. They all, however, belong to a very late date. Bibliotheca Indica. Twenty-four Fasciculi have been published during the year at a cost of Rs. 10,099-11-2. Of this sum the printing charges amounted to Rs. 5,926-14 and the editing charges Rs. 4,172-13-2._ The average cost of publishing each fasciculus being Rs. 420. Of these 24 fasciculi, 22 fasciculi belong to the Sanskrit, two to the Arabic-Persian series and none to Tibetan. No work has come to a close during the year. These 24 fasciculi belong to 14 different works. The following is a description of the three new works taken in hand, all being in the Sanskrit series. 1. Advaita Cinta-kaustubha by Mahadevananda Yati, a work belonging to the non-dual school of Vedanta philosophy. It was com- posed in the 18th century and it embodies the latest development of the non-dual theory. It is being edited by Babu Girindranath Dutta, B.A., Superintendent, Hatwa Raj. The work is accompanied with a com- mentary,—an old and authentic one which has the rare merit of really elucidating the text. 2. Varsa-kriyakaumudi—by Govindananda Kavikankanicaryya, under the editorship of a young pandit of Bhatpara, named Kamal Krsna Smrtibhisana. The importance and usefulness of the works on Hindu Law and Ritual, which preceded Raghunandana’s codification in the 16th century, in the eye of scholars and anthropologists can scarcely be overrated. The Society was anxious for a long time to collect MSS. of such works and they have succeeded in this to a great extent. They have discovered several old codes. Of these Govindananda’s code, complete in four parts, is often quoted by Raghu- nandana and his school. It gives a complete review of all the Rituals to be observed during the course of a year. The Council of the Society therefore, proposed to publish it. It was also proposed to infuse new blood in the editorial staff of the Bibliotheca Indica series, and a young Pandita from Bhatpara has been chosen. 3. For the same reason another yoyng Pandit, Pandit Vinoda 3 Annual Report. ' [Frs. Vihari Kavyatirtha, a young man serving under Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri, as a travelling Pandit and a collector of MSS., has been chosen to edit the Nityacadrapaddhati by Vidyakara Vajapeyi, an ancient Smrti compiler of the highest authority in Orissa. Sanskrit works of that country were unknown to the scholars of Kurope and it was the zeal of this young Pandit, which brought them to light, and the most important of them was Nityacara. Therefore the discoverer was entrusted with the work of editing it. Search for Manuscripts. During the year under review was published the quinquennial report of the operation of the search for Sanskrit and other MSS. in Bengal. From 1891 the work has been done by Mahamahopadhyaya Harapasad Shastri, M.A., Principal, Sanskrit College, Calcutta. During the five years covered by the Report Mahamahopadhyaya paid two visits to Nepal and two to Benares, and his agents were active in Orissa, Mithita, Hast Bengal, and West Behar. Some of the discoveries of these years will leave their stamp on the history of India. Dhanurveda was known only by name. Four distinct works were discovered during these years, giving some idea of the military tactics in ancient India. Many new works were discovered on Medicine and Veterinary Science. A portion of the Kacyapa Samhita was brought to light. In Astrology the trans- lation of a Greek work into Sanskrit by a Greek savant was discovered. Several historical works of great importance were made known to the public. The Report has been very favourably received in Hurope and Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri has received many appreciative letters from eminent Orientalists there. The President has requested the Government of India to send copies of the Report to the Darbar of Nepal, where Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasid Shastri made some of his most important discoveries. The discovery of MSS. of Puranas and Tantras written in ancient Gupta character has thrown back the date of the composition of these two classes of works by several centuries. Tantras were generally considered to have been as old as the twelfth century, but Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri has discovered a Tantra work dated 908 A.D. and two more MSS. of tantrika works which go back to the sixth century. A MS. of Skanda Purana belongs to the seventh century, so these two classes of works may now be pronounced to have been as old as the second or third century Add, 1 they did not belong to earlier centuries. The Report having been read and some copies having been distri- buted, the President invited the meeting to consider it at their leisure, = } 4 1902. | Annual Address. 39 The President then announced that the Trustees of the “ Elliott Prize for Scientific Research ” had awarded the prize for the year 1901 to Babu Sarasi Lal Sarkar, and laid on the table the following :— Report on THE Exwiorr Prizk ror ScientTipic Researca ror 1901. The Trustees have received Essays from the following competitors for the prize :— 1. An essay dealing with the properties of recurring radix frac- tions. By Sarasi Lal Sarkar, M.A. 2. A Memoir on Singular Solutions of Differential Equations. By Jnan Saran Chakravarti, M.A. . 3. A new method of solving Quartics by Radicals. By Nripendra Nath Chattopadhyay. 4. Self-Acting pump. By Atul Krisna Day. The Trustees, after consulting experts as provided in the scheme, adjudge the prize for the year 1901 to Babu Sarasi Lal Sarkar, M.A. T. Ra.eicn, Vice-Chancellor, Calcutta University. A. Peper, Director of Public Instruction, Bengal. J. Woopsurn, President, Asiatic Society of Bengal. ) CALCUTTA : 4th February, 1902. The President then addressed the meeting. | Trustees. ANNUAL ADDRESS, 1901. GENTLEMEN, I do not propose to detain you to-night with a long address. As it happens, I have been engrossed during the last two weeks in other matters, which have left me scant leisure, but I do not shelter myself behind that excuse. It would be an unworthy return for the honour you paid me in electing me your President if I did. But it is not possible that any man can know or profitably address you on all the varied subjects with which the Society concerns itself, and I think I introduced a worthy variation in the customs of our body in leaving to the experts whom we make our Secretaries the duty of explaining, as they alone can properly do, the researches of the year in their several depart- ments. They have prepared reports of much interest, which will be separately placed before you, and I shall content myself with drawing ad 4() Annual Address. [Fes your attention to the most prominent of the facts they mention. However unlearned any one of us may like myself be in specific branches of our enquiries, 1 am quite certain that there is not one of us who is not interested in every research, which unfolds new features of Eastern life, and in the conclusions which those researches add to our general knowledge. Before, however, going on to these more special questions, I may congratulate the Society upon the position it holds at the end of this year. The roll of its members stands higher than it has done for sixteen years. Its financial position has correspondingly improved, and the balance at its credit now stands at the respectable figure of Rs. 1,60,00v. 1 do not think it has shirked, to attain this useful end, any of ils. understood and traditional duties. For instance, it has persevered faithfully iu its self-imposed but invaluable duty of publishing, for the information and use of the learned, ancient manuscripts of importance which have come under its cognizance. The Society spent upwards of Rs. 10,000 last year in the furtherance of its Bibliotheca Indica. The published fasciculi were chiefly from Sanskrit manuscripts. ‘wo of these are of much importance: one « treatise of the 18th century on the Vedanta philosophpy; the other a codification of the 15th century of the existing rules of Hindu law and ritual. Important progress was made in the printing of Sir George King’s costly, but very valuable, memoir un the Flora of the Malayan Peninsula—a work in which the Government of the Straits Settlements has now taken a warm and prac- tical interest. Upon the contributions of the members to the Journal of the Society I shall presently say something. Iam speaking at present only of the financial side of our business. We have our buildings in good repair; for the first time we have insured them. But though we stand well, we might stand better, and there are many directions in which Jarger money help from us is most necessary for the prosecution of researches, both scientific and literary. We have therefore seriously considered the question whether we might not with advantage sell our present house and its site and transfer ourselves to a cheaper situation. Your decision will, of course, depend upon the offers which may be made to you. . A proposal of cardinal importance was also brought before you for altering the status of the Society by including in its scope the develop- ment of Indian art, and especially by an enlarged attention to the application of science in Eastern studies. The decision of the Society lias been to leave its name and status unchanged. If I may say so, I think that devisign was right. ‘lhe Society has an ancient and honoured name. Its special and proper objects have been consecrated 1902. | Annual Address. 41 by the lapse of years. The scientific students it was proposed to allure to our rolls have their independent and specialised organiz- ations, and I think the majority of the Society were right in the belief that the originators of the proposal would not succeed in merging these Associations in the wider and more general body of the Asiatic Society. Our Society on its old and time-honoured basis is losing no ground, On the contrary, it is growing in strength and vigour, and it is to my mind certain that the interest of its enquiries must steadily reach out to and fascinate an increasing circle of Indians and Huropeans alike. A great Indian scholar, like our friend Pandit Haraprasad Shastri, whose contributions to our journals show such wide reading and thought, cannot fail to attract his countrymen to our rooms; and there is hardly a year, in which we are not delighted by the accre- tion of young Englishmen, like Captain McMahon and Mr. Maclagan, who find time inall their busy lives to discern and track out things of value to our knowledge of this great India. May the Society ever grow and prosper. Permit me now to speak to you very briefly of some of the results of the researches of the year. | In the Philological Section, the most important contribution was a paper by Mr. A. H. Francke on the grammar of the Ladakhi dialect with three original documents in that language on the history of Ladakh, a paper which, I understand, has already attracted much atten- tion among the scholars of Europe. Mr. Theobald has made a new and exhaustive examination of the copper coins of Ancient India, Mr. Hoey has continued his interesting and ingenious enquiries into sites connect- ed with the life of Buddha, and progress has been made by others in the identification of places of note in the ancient history of India. Perhaps I may be permitted in this connection to make some reference to the conservation of ancient monuments in Bengal, They are not so numerous as in some of the other provinces of India, They are, I am afraid, less imposing or beautiful, but some of them are of high merit. The stone temples of Bhubaneshwar are small compared to the great pagodas of Southern India, but they are beautiful specimens of the stone-carver’s art in the seventh century. There are many of them in excellent preservation, and the most precious of them have been or are being restored with a neatness and care which is most creditable to the engineers and their workmen, and will now certainly be safe for a long time to come. In the Malda district there are at Gaur and Pandua the remains of Muhammadan buildings of far greater magnitude and number. The damage to them is unfortunately greater. The Adina Mosque in Pandua must bave been in its,time one of the largest and 42 Annual Address. [ Fes. noblest mosques in India ; and at Gaur there are specimens of work in coloured tiles which is unique in Bengal. The repair and where possible the restoration of some of these beautiful buildings is a work of great difficulty and delicacy, but it has begun, and I trust that the result both there and at Bhubaneshwar will be the preservation to the student of history and of art of specimens, which he will prize, of the ancient archi- tecture of Bengal. I have just returned from a long promised visit to the great fort of Rhotas. The buildings are comparatively modern, but they are historical, and they are almost the only examples we have in Bengal of the conditions of eastern military life a couple of hundred years ago. Fortunately these buildings are almost perfect, practically as sound as when Hamilton visited and mapped them in 1824, and they will command, perhaps, increasingly as the generations pass, the keen interest of the traveller and the historian of this country. On the scientific side of the Society’s work we had a particularly minute and convincing investigation by Major Rogers on the connection between malaria and water-supply. His enquiries were conducted in the riparian municipalities to the North of Calcutta and are now under the practical consideration of the local bodies which govern them. Sir George King, Major Prain and Mr. Gamble have been adding to their botanical discoveries, and Major Alcock has pursued those singularly interesting studies in marine life which in his modesty he calls Zoolo- gical Gleanings. His observations on the protective and warning devices of animals, of their adaptations of colour for their protection from their habitual enemies, would attract the quick attention of any who have the smallest knowledge of zoological science. I wish some of these learned gentlemen would take compassion on those who are unlearned or busy, or both. They would earn the grateful thanks of those who stand sorrowfully outside their ranks, if they would prepare for us small guide- books tothe bird-life and the plant-life of defined areas, where birds and flowers are many and attractive. It is impossible for any one but a skilled botanist to track out a flower through the vast pages of Hooker’s seven volumes. Mr. Gamble set an excellent example by his manual on the trees and shrubs of the Eastern Himalays, but his book is meant for the forester or the planter. What is wanted is a popularly written manual, all the better if it is illustrated, in which the enquirer can easily and quickly learn the names of the birds and flowers around him. Illustrations can now be very cheaply made, and those who have seen the charming little volumes of, I think, the Tract Society on the common wild flowers of England, will know how a book of the kind attracts hundreds to studies in natural history, who otherwise pass by unheeded the beautiful objects with which nature surrounds their path. A small 1902. ] Annual Address. 43 museum will be opened in Darjeeling next summer, confined to speci- mens of the birds and butterflies and pictures of the flowers of the Darjeeling hills, but handier methods are wanted, and I hope the want will be supplied. I forgot to mention the lists of the Simla flowers prepared by Mr. Babington-Smith, and of the Mahableshwar flora by Mr. Bridwood, both of them valuable, but neither equal to the delight- ful standard of the little book I mentioned about English wild flowers. I cannot mention these researches without coupling with them the name of our late Secretary, Mr. deNicéville. His death is a loss we all deeply deplore. It was characteristic of his life that his death came from his devotion to his scientific pursuits. It was on a naturalist’s expedition to the lower valleys of the Himalayas that he: caught the fever, which caused his untimely and lamented end. On the Anthropological side we are indebted to that assiduous composer, Major Waddell, for a memoir on the tribes of the Brahma- putra Valley, and to Mr. Holland for another on the Coorgs and Yeruvas. | And now, gentlemen, I have sketched as rapidly I could the outlines of the work of the Society in 1901, and drawn your attention to the more important and interesting of the matters you will find in our records. It remains for me only to congratulate you again on the progress of the Society, and to thank you for the honour you did me in electing me to the office I regretfully lay down, It will be hereafter a gratifying memory if I have been able in my intercourse with my brother officers to persuade them to cultivate according to their several tastes, habits of observation outside the cutcherry which vary and brighten work, and which continuously deepen by practice their interest in the past or the future of this illimitable country. The President announced that the Scrutineers reported the result of the election of Officers and Members of Council to be as follows :— President. The Hon. Mr. C. W. Bolton, C.S.L, 1.0.8. | Vice-Presidents. H. H. Risley, Esq., B.A., C.I.E., I.C.S. Colonel T. H. Hendley, C.I.E., I.M.S. R. D. Oldham, Esq., A.R.S.M., F.G.S. Secretary and Treasurer. Honorary General Secretary :—J. Macfarlane, Esq, Treasurer :— W. K. Dods, Esq. 44 Generul Meeting for February, 1902. [ Fes. Additional Secretaries. Philological Secretary :—T. Bloch, Esq., Ph.D. Natural History Secretary:—F. Finn, Esq., B.A., F.Z.S. Anthropological Secretary :—H. A. Gait, Esq., I.C.8. Joint Philological Secretary :—Mahamahopadhyaya Hara- prasad Shastri, M.A. Other Members of Council. Major A. Alcock, M.B., LL.D., F.R.S. J. D. Nimmo, Esq. C. L. Griesbach, Esq., F.G.S., C.LE. A. Pedler, Esq., F.R.S. J. Bathgate, Esq. T. H. D. La Touche, Esq., B.A. Captain L, Rogers, M.D., B.Sc., I.M.S. Kumar Ramessur Malialh. Arnold Caddy, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.S. The Meeting was then resolved into the Ordinary General Meeting. The Hon. Mr. C. W. Bolton, C,S.1., I.C.S., President, in the chair. . The Chairman before taking his seat said :— ‘‘ GENTLEMAN,—1T wo pleasing duties devolve on me at the outset on assuming the office of President of this Society. In the first place, I have to thank you for the great honour which I have received at your hands to-night. Recalling some names of the many distinguished men who have presided over the Society I felt much hesitation in acquiescing in the wish of the Council to nominate me for election to that dignity: You have now been good enough to ratify the Council’s nomination, and it remains to me only to couple with my grateful acknowledgment the assurance that it will be my earnest endeavour throughout my tenure of office to promote the welfare of the Society. My second duty and privilege, is to express to our late President, Sir John Woodburn, our deep obligation for his constant and active interest in the manage- ment and the work of the Society. We are all aware of the great responsibility and burden of his position at the head of this Province, ° and of the numerous demands on his time. Nevertheless, and, I fear, at the sacrifice of precious leisure and rest, he has taken a full share in the business of the Society, and for this reason our thanks to him are all the more deeply felt.” | 1902. | General Meeting for February, 1902. AD The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Forty-two presentations were announced. Lt.-Col. G. Ranking, I.M.S., Mr. F. P. Dixon, Babu Girish Chand Ghosh, Mr. A. C. Sen, Dr. C. Schulden, and Lala Shyamlal, were ballotted for and elected Ordinary Members. It was announced that Lieutenant B. Scott and Mr. W. A. Talbot had expressed a wish to withdraw from the Society. The Kumar Sahib of Bansberia brought for exhibition the original sanad issued by the Mogul Emperor Aurangzeb conferring on Raja Rameswar Rai, the hereditary title of “‘ Rai Mahasai;” also a book of original coloured designs made by an ancestor of his in the 18th century for the decoration of a temple. The General Secretary reported the presentation from the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, of 7 silver coins found in the Ratnagiri District. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. For Marcu, 1902, C= 10 Sa erte The Monthly General Meeting of the Society was held on Wed- nesday, the 5th March, 1902, at 9 p.m. Tue Hon. Mr. C. W. Botton, C.S.1., President, in the chair. The following members were present :— Maulavi Abdul Wali, Major A. Alcock, F.R.S., Major W. J. Buchanan, I.M.S., Mr. F. Finn, The Revd. E. Francotte, $.J., Col. T. H. Hendley, C.I.E., Dr. W. C. Hossack, Babu Parmeshwar Lall, Mr. W. A. Lee, Captain A. F. McArdle, I.M.S., Mr. J. Macfarlane, Mr. EH. B. H. Panton, Rai Ram Brahma Sanyal Bahadur, Mahamahopadhyaya Hara- prasad Shastri, Babu Chunder Narayan Singh, Babu Lakshmi Narayan Singh. Visitors:—Mr. J. B. Fuller, C.I.E., Mr. E. W. Harper, Mr. B, M. Morton, Mr. H. E. Stapleton, Mr. H. Wheeler. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Fifteen presentations were announced. Babu Rajendra Chandra Shastri and Raja Binoy Krishna Deb Bahadur, were ballotted for and elected Ordinary Members. The President announced the receipt of a remittance of Rs. 8,750 from the Government of the Strait Settlements, being contribution for 48 Obituary notice of the late Mr. L. de Nicéville. [ Marcu, the purpose of defraying the cost of publication of Sir George King’s Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. Mr. F. Finn read an obituary notice of the late Mr, L. de Nicéville. By the death of Charles Lionel Augustus de Nicéville, Hntomo- logist to the Government of India the world of science loses a brilliant and successful worker. He was born in 1852, and came of a noble Huguenot family long domiciled in England, and was the last baron of his line. His father was a member of the medical profession. He was educated at St. John’s College at Hurst Pier Point, near Brighton, and gave early evidence of entomological tastes, as a schoolfellow informs us that he spent all his spare time in studying insects instead of parti- cipating in the ordinary school games. After leaving school he was for some time employed in a bank, but came out to India, and held non- gazetted appointments from 1876, his last one being that of Clerk of the Calcutta Small Cause Court, in which employment he was well known for many years in Calcutta. His holidays and daily leisure he employed in the Study of Oriental butterflies, on which he was recog- nized as the greatest authority. His papers on this subject were over 50 in number, and were of the very greatest importance, as he was a naturalist of the all-round type, not only studying his specimens in the cabinet but collecting largely for himself, and devoting much attention to breeding. By this method he experimentally proved that in no less than four cases seasonal forms of the same butterfly had been wrongly separated as species, and by applying this knowledge was able greatly to to elucidate the history of theirforms. He described many new species of butterflies and contributed much to our knowledge of the distribu- tion of these insects, travelling in the course of his entomological researches far and wide in the east, from Ladakh to Japan and Sumatra. His researches were carried on for many years in a room allotted to him in the Indian Museum, where he kept his very fine and extensive collec- tion, which has lately been acquired by purchase by that institution. It was his custom to daily resort to the museum for two or three hour’s study before breakfast, and thus he was able to get through a great amount of work during the many years in which he pursued his studies. . His results were published in several scientific Journals, especially in those of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and of the Bombay Natural History Soviety. Of both of these he was a member, in the latter case an honorary corresponding one, and he served them loyally and well. More than once he officiated as Natural History Secretary to the Asiatic Society, and once as the Secretary for Anthropology, and from his lorg et ’ Jt * - . — - Sutetigl ee SS ee er ee ee ye ae 1902. ] Obituary notice of the late Mr. L. de Nicéville. 4,9 connection with the Society, dating from 1881, he was a living reposi- tory of its observances and traditions. To the Bombay Society he was of the greatest assistance, as he long undertook the task of correcting the proofs of their Journal, at which he was most painstaking and assiduous. The qualities of method and industry were, indeed, most characteristic of him, and make his published work of the very highest of value. In addition to his connection with these Indian scientific societies, he was a member of the Linnean and the Entomological Societies, and in 1888 was elected a Corresponding Member of the Zoological Society, London, to whose Proceedings he also contributed. His great work on the Butterflies of India, Ceylon and Burmah, was unfortunately never finished, but such portions of it as were pub- lished have been of the very greatest use. For three years from 1881 to 1884 he was put on special duty in the Indian Museum, whose exhi- bition collection of Butterflies he arranged, and at the beginning of the past year, to his great satisfaction, he was attached officially to that institution on the creation of the post of Government Entomologist. He attacked the work of economic entomology with his wonted energy, and in the pursuit of his studies in the Darjeeling Terai contracted the fatal attack of fever and pneumonia which caused his untimely death. This has come as a terrible blow to his numerous friends, for his singularly kind and genial disposition had endeared him to all. With a wide capacity for enjoyment he combined singularly simple tastes, and both in this and in his equanimity of temper and cheerful- ness of mind showed himself a true philosopher. While he also realized in the fullest degree Chaucer’s noble definition of the true gentleman as one who is always courteous and ever on the alert to do a kindness whenever he can. He leaves but one child, a daughter, and the heart- felt sympathy of all who knew and loved him in the east and at home will be with this young lady and her relatives in this sad bereavement. Inst of Scientific Papers by Lionen DE Nictvite, F.E.S., C.M.Z.S. Some new species of Rhopalocerous Lepidoptera from the Indian Region, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1880, pt. 2, pp. 245-248 (in colla- boration with Capt. G. H. L. Marshall, R.E.) — List of Diurnal Lepidoptera from Port Blair, Andamans, with descrip- tions of some new or little-known species and of a new species of Hestia from Burmah, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1880, pt. 2 pp. 223-243, pl. XIII (in collaboration with Mr. J. Wood-Mason). _ List of Butterflies taken in Sikhim in October, 1880, with notes on Habits, etc., Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1881, pt. 2, pp. 49-60. 50 Obituary notice of the late Mr. L. de Nicéville. [ Marcu, List of Diurnal Lepidoptera inhabiting the Nicobar Islands, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1881, pt. 2, pp. 224-288 with a woodcut (in collaboration with Mr. J. Wood-Mason). Second List of Rhopalocerous Lepidoptera from Port Blair, Andaman Islands, with descriptions of and on, new and little-known species and varieties, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1881, pt. 2, pp. 243-261, pl. XIV (in collaboration with Mr. J. Wood-Mason). Second List of Butterflies taken in Sikhim in October 1882, with notes on Habits, etc., Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1882, pt. 2, pp. 54-66. Second List of Diurnal Lepidoptera inhabiting the Nicobar Islands, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1882, pt. 2, pp. 14-20, pl. ILI, and two woodcuts (in collaboration with Mr. J. Wood-Mason). On a new little-known Rhopalocera from the Indian Region, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, pt. 2, pp. 65-91, pls. I, IX-X. Descriptions of a new species of the Rhopalocerous Genus Oyrestes from the great Nicobar Islands, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, pt. 2, pp. 1-3, pl. I. List of Butterflies of Calcutta and its neighbourhood, with notes on Habits, Foodplants, etc., Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, pt. 2, pp. 39-54. Fourth List of Butterflies taken in Sikhim in October, 1884, with notes on Habits, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, pt. 2, pp. 1-5. Descriptions of some new Indian Rhopalocera, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, pt. 2, pp. 117-124, pl. II. On the Life-History of certain Calcutta species of Satyrine, with special reference to the Seasonal Dimorphism alleged to occur in them, Journ, As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, pt. 2, pp. 229-238, pl. XII. On some new Indian Butterflies, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, pt. 2, pp. 249-256, pl. XI. List of the Lepidopterous insects collected in Cachar, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, pt. 2, pp. 343-393, pls. XV-XXIII (in collaboration with Mr. J. Wood-Mason). List of the Lepidopterous insects collected in Tavoy and in Siam during 1884-85, by the Indian Museum Collector, under E. C. Pitman, Esq., C.I.E., Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, pt. 2, pp. 413-442, pl. XX (in collaboration with Mr. H. Elwes). Descriptions of some new and little-known Butterflies from India with some notes on the seasonal Dimorphism in the genus Melanites, P.Z.S8., 1887, pp. 448-467, pls. XX X1X-XL, Dasotiohice of a new Satyrid from India, P. As. Soc. Bédgall 1887, . p. 147. EE —————_— 1902.] Obituary notice of the late Mr. L. de Nicéville. 51 Butterflies and Ants, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 1888, vol. III, pp. 164-168, pls. XXVI-XXVII. On new and little-known Butterflies from the Indian Region, with a Revision of the genus of Plesionewra of Felder and of Authors, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 1889, vol. IV, pp 163-194. On new and little-known Butterflies from the Indian Region with des- criptions of three new genera of Hesperiide, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 1890, vol. V, pp. 199-225, pls. D. H, _ Note on the Pupz of two Indian Butterflies of the subfamily Nemeo- bune, P. As. Soc. Bengal, 1890, pp. 138-141. On new and little-known Butterflies from the Indo-Malayan Region, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 1891, vol. VI, pp. 341-398, pls. BevJ .(G: On new and little-known Butterflies from the Indo-Malayan Region, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 1892-93, vol. VII, pp. 322-356, pls. H, 1, J. On new Sumatran Butterflies, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 1892-93, vol. VII, pp. 555-557. On new or little-known Butterflies from the Indian Region, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1892, pt. 2, pp: 273-293, pls. XIII-XIV. Note on the Indian Butterflies comprised in the subgenus Pademma of the genus Huplea, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1892, pt. 2, pp. 237-245. Note on three Indian Butterflies, Huthalia Nara, EH. Sahadeva and E. Anyte, P. As. Soc., 1892, pp. 144-146. On new and little-known Butterflies from North-East Sumatra collected by Hofrath Dr. L. Martin, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist, Soc., 1893-94, vol. VIII, pp 37-56, pls. K, L, M. On Hrities, an Oriental genus of Satyrid Butterflies from the Indo-Malayan region, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1894, pt. 2, pp. 1-58, pls. I-IV. On new and little-known Butterflies from the Indo-Malayan Region, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 1894-95, vol. LX, pp. 259-321 and 366-410, pls. N, O, P, Q. A List of the Butterflies of Sumatra with special reference to the species occurring in the North-East of the Island, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, pt. 2, pp. 857-555. On new and little-known Lepidoptera from the Indo- Malayan Region, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 1895-97, vol. X, pp. 13-40 and 169-194, pls. R, S, T. Descriptions of the Neptis praslint, Boisduval and some species allied to it, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1897, pt. 2, pp. 533-541. A List of Butterflies of Mussoorie in the Western Himalayas and neigh- bouring regions, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 1897-98, vol. XI, 52 Obituary notice of the late Mr. L. de Nicéville. [ Marca, pp. 205-221 and 368-389 and 585-605, pls. U, V, W (in collaboration with Mr. P. W. Mackinnon, F. E. 8.) On new and little-known Butterflies from the Indo- and Austro-Malayan Regions, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1897, pt. 2, pp. 343-577, pls. I-IV. A List of the Butterflies of Bali, Lombok, Sambawa and Sumba, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1897, pt. 2, pp. 668-724 (in collaboration with Mr. H. J. Elwes). ; On new and little-known Butterflies from the Indo-Malayan, Austro- Malayan, and Australian Regions, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 1898, vol. XII, pp. 13-161, pls. X, Y, Z and AA. On a small collection of Butterflies from Buru in the Moluccas, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1898, pt. 2, pp. 308-321. An Annotated List of the Butterflies of the Ké Isles, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1898, pt. 2, pp. 251-283, pl. I (in collaboration with Messrs. Kiihn and Heinrich). Notes on some Butterflies from Tennasserim in ieee: Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 1898, vol. XII, pp. 329-336, pl. BB. Note on Callinaga and aberrant genus of Asiatic Butterflies, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1900, pt. 2, pp. 150-155. Note on the Avian genus Harpactes, Swainson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1900, pt. 2, Ap. 278. The food-plants of the Butterflies of the Kanara District of the Bombay Presidency, with a Revision of the species of Butterflies there occurring, Journ, As. Soc. Bengal, 1900, pt. 2, pp. 187-278. Note on the Butterflies comprised in the subgenus Huplea, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1901, pt. 2, pp. 12-38. On new and little-known Lepidoptera from the Oriental Region, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 1901, vol. XIIT, p. 157. A list of Butterflies from Ceylon with notes on the various species, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1899, pt. 2, pp. 170-233. On Indian Pests. Rhopalocera, Ind. Mus. Notes, vol. I, pp. 9-14. Notes regarding the Delias Sanaca, Moore, Tr. E. Soc., 1889, pp. 343- 345. The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon. Vol. I, Calcutta, 1883, 8vo., pp. VII—94, pls. I-IX and woodcuts. Vol. II, 1886, pp. 1-332, Calcutta and London, pls. XVITI-XXIV. Vol. III, 1890, Calcutta, pp. XII—503, pls. XXV-XXIX. Description of a new morphid Butterfly from North-Hastern India, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. V., p. 131, pl. C. A Butterfly destructive to fruit, Ind. Mus. Notes, vol. I, pp..193-194. Note on the Indian and Malayan Peninsula Butterflies comprised in the subgenus of Stictoplea of the genus Huplea. P. Asiat. Soc. Ben- gal, 1892, pp. 153-161. — ee oS a eS ee ae eee eee Ps we Paes Pa se 1902.] Bxhibition of two photographs of an ancient gun. 53 Descriptions of two new species of Butterflies from Upper Burmah, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. X, p. 633. Description of a new Nymphaline Butterfly from Burmah, Ann. Nat. Hist. (6), XVII, p. 396. A Revision of the Pierine Butterflies of the genus Dercas, Ann. Nat. Hist. (7) II, pp. 479-484. On a new genus of Butterflies from Western China, allied to Vanessa, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1899, pl. 2, p. 234. _ The General Secretary exhibited two photographs of an ancient gun found under ground in the Goalpara District, forwarded by the Deputy Commissioner of Goalpara as a presentation to the Society. _ The following papers were read :— 1. History of Nepal and surrounding countries, compiled chiefly from MSS. lately discovered.—By Pror. C, Benpatt, M.A. Communicated by the Philological Secretary. 2. Note on the Babhans or Bheimhar Brahmans.—By MaAnaMAHopa- DHYAYA HARAPRASAD SHASTRI. 3. Historical criticism in the Muhammadan Schools.—By Cartain J. STEPHENSON, I.M.S. 4. Note on a find of copper coins in the Wun District, Berar.—By Caprain Wotsevey Hate, I.8.C. 5. An account of the late Maharaja Nubkissen Bahadur, drawn up for Mr. A. STERLING, Persian Secretary to Government, on the 80th April, 1825, with an Introductory note by Mr. 8, C. HILL, and an appendix by Manama- HOPADHYAYA NiuMaNI MUKERJEE. 6. On some cases of abrupt variation in Indian Birds.—By F. Finn, B.A., F.Z.8. ‘7. Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, No. XIII.—By Sir Georan Kine, K.C.LE., LL.D., F.R.S, 8. Novicise Indice, No. XIX.—A new Indian Dendrobium.—By Masor D. Pratn, I.M.S. we © Th , ik . e ae * a bia aude? / ‘ ? * ’ r FRY, ; ' iz ¥ a ’ 4 iy 4 - M , ‘ : e.4 - fy. ee LA \* ree ‘ u ' \ : 1" : ri 5A, A GS me ong ¥.. : uh : “sy ie > = 3 ' % “% = | | ‘avai 4 en aD ° A J : ou x _ fia! i - i ; pty AA “a * ; * 7 " % j ) \ i ‘ I - ' ‘ , ‘ ‘ i : ’ ‘ ‘ 7 7 ; i] : . ad . t - Py 4 , ‘ . 4 ~ 7 ’ . t t - : : : ‘ ‘ ! ’ ’ . ‘ * ! + J 7 . ise e * a . . v Vd . ‘ . ' . ’ " ; 4 * * . i - . . ‘ = 5 - ’ - / p . PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. TOR JAPRIL, 1902. ee 0 D0 The Monthly General Meeting of the Society was held on Wed- nesday, the 2nd April, 1902, at 9 p.m. Cou. T. H. Henbury, C I.E., Vice-President, in the chair. The following members were present: — Major A. Alcock, F.R.S., Mr. J. Bathgate, Mr. F. Finn, Mr. D. Hooper, Babu Parmeshwar Lall, Rai Bahadur Ram Brahma Sanyal, Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Nine presentations were announced. Captain Maddox, I.M.S., Babu Jaladhi Chunder Mukerjee, Mr. J. B. Fuller, C.I.E., Babu Raj Chunder Chunder, and Mr. H. Wheeler, were ballotted for and elected Ordinary Members. It was announced that Mr. H. D. Carey and Mr. K. M. Chatterjee, had expressed a wish to withdraw from the Society. The Secretary reported the death of Mr. V. R. Paindsay, an Ordinary Member of the Society. The Secretary read the names of the following gentlemen who had been appointed to serve on the various Committees for the present year. 56 List of Committees. | APRIL, Finance and Visiting Committee. Dr. T. Bloch, Mr. F. Finn, Mr. E. A. Gait, Mr. J. D. Nimmo, Mr. F. E. Pargiter, Mr. H. H. Risley, Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri. Library Committee. Dr. T. Bloch, Mr. D. Hooper, Mr. C. W. McMinn, The Hon. Dr. Asutosh Mukerjee, Mr F. Finn, Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri, Mr. E. Thornton. Philological Committee. Maulavi Ahmad, Dr. T. Bloch, Babu Pratap Chandra Ghosh, Shams-ul-Ulama Mahomed Shaikh Gilani, The Hon. Dr. Asutosh Mukerjee, Mr. F. E, Pargiter, Major D. C. Phillott, Pandit Satyavrata Samasrami, Mahamahopadhyaya MHaraprasad Shastri, Mahamaho- padhyaya Chandra Kanta Tarkalanker, Dr. G. Thibaut, Babu Nagendra Nath Vasu, Mr. A. Venis, Lt.-Col. L. A. Waddell, Dr. E. D. Ross. Coins Committee. Lt.-Col. D. S. E. Bain, Dr. T. Bloch, The Hon. Mr. J. A. Bourdillon, Babu Panchanan Mukerjee, Mr. F. EH. Pargiter, Mr. E. Thurston, Mr, M. J. Seth. The Secretary reported the presentation of one silver coin from the Honorary Secretary, Bombay Branch, Royal Asiatic Society, found in the Ahmedabad District. Major Alcock in course of conversation referred to the desirability of having a photograph of Mr. EH. Blyth prepared for the Society. It was suggested that it would be interesting to have portraits of other distin- guished members. It was decided to ask the Council to consider the matter. Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri exhibited a collection of copies of tattooed designs. The following papers were read :— 1. On specimens of two Mauritian Birds in the collection of the Asiatic Society.— By F. Fryy, B.A., F.Z.8, 1902. ] > Papers. 57 2. On hybrids between the guinea-fowl and common-fowl.—By F. Finn, B.A., F.Z.S. 3. Notes on animals kept in the Alupur Zoological Garden, No. 1.—By Rar Banapur Ram Brauma Sanyat. 4, On the origin of chess—By Mason H.G. Raverry. Communi- cated by the Philological Secretary. ee eerrSOeoroesr e_eene mm TA) \ Uy - : - a a u t a P Se < ' "oF ’ een e -.? 1 is P '* ‘a J ia i? SMART WRI Withee.) a ’ F ; 45 ee ‘he | na 1 y has 3 4% + 7 \ ‘ 147 “hi ‘ . ' i? ~ i bad : eee NPE OS oe ’ ‘ Fe . ’ a cee Aa te egg Sa at mes = 3 * Sy - 7° & ‘ - ~ “se A Sa - 4 ~ es . °. id) 4 . . 7 7 - ° - od 2 -~ > -= . i ‘ , z£ ‘ -_ ° 4 . ’ ~ aA, ing ’ . » — ° _ . * . : 7 « ; ‘ PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. For May, 1902, 68 ————EE The Monthly General Meeting of the Society was held on Wedunes- day, the 7th May, 1902, at 9 p.m. Tue Hon. Mr. C. W. Botton, C.S8.1., I.C.S., President, in the chair. The following members were present :— Dr. T. Bloch, Rai Chunilal Bose Bahadur, Mr. I. H. Burkill, Major W. J. Buchanan, I.M.S., Dr. A. Caddy, Mr. W. K. Dods, Mr. F. Finn, Captain A. F. McArdle, I.M.S., Mr. J. Macfarlane, Kumar Rameshwar Maliah, Mr. H. H. Mann, Mr. R. D. Oldham, Captain L. Rogers, I.M.S., Dr. E. D. Ross, Rai Bahadur Ram Brahma Sanyal. Visitors: —Mr. H. St. John Jackson, Mr. Macleod, Mr. R. W. Turnbull. . The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Twenty-four presentations were announced. Mr. A. Garrett, I.C.S., Babu Jogendra Nath Sen Vidyabhushan,M.A., Mr. HE. W. J. Bartlett, and Mr. J. H. Marshall, were ballotted for and elected Ordinary Members. The Council recommended the Revd. Mr. A. H. Francke, Moravian Missionary, Leh, Ladakh, proposed by Dr. T. Bloch, seconded by Maha- mahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri, for election as an Associate Mem- ber at the next meeting. 60 Dr. T. Bloch—A note on the Son Bhandar Cave. [May, The Revd. A. H. Francke, Moravian Missionary, Leh, Ladakh, who has been proposed for election as an Associate Member of the Society, has made himself known as a very good Tibetan scholar. = 4 § ~ A ‘ aX » - - ta r : a Lon Pe ; = — 1 5 . ’ rt . | ae5-a8 ' . fa - ae t - - iS - 4 . ‘ é Ss °) ! | , . 4 ’ . ‘ ; « = b be \ » - : ’ u > = . i - ‘ . ‘ - . . ‘ ‘ . . . ‘ = - i : ~ +. y . , as ‘ ? i - . PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, FoR PECEMBER, 1902. emer ae) CM) A eee The Monthly General Meeting of the Society was held on Wednes- day, the 3rd December, 1902, at 9 p.m. Tue Hon. Mr. C. W. Botton, C.S.I., 1.C.8., President, in the chair. The following members were present :— Mr. C. G. H. Allen, Mr. J. Bathgate, Major W. J. Buchanan, I.M.S., Mr. B. Chaudhuri, Mr. F, Doxey, Col. T. H. Hendley, C.L.H., Mr. J. Macfarlane, Mr. H. H. Risley, C.I.E., Captain L. Rogers, I.M.S., Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri, Dr. C. Schulten, Mr. A. Tocher, Pandit Satis Chandra Vidyabhusan, Mr. D. R. Wallace, Mr. H. Wheeler, Mr. C. R. Wilson, Mr. H. C. Woodman. Visitor :—Babu Ganga Mohan Laskar. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Twenty-two presentations were announced. Pandit Harnarain Shastri Sahitya Bhushan was ballotted for and elected an Ordinary Member. _ | It was announced that Captain W. F. O’Connor, R.A., had expressed a wish to withdraw from the Society. The General Secretary reported the death of Sir John Woodburn, K.C.S8.1I., and Mr. John Cockburn, Ordinary Members of the Society. 84, Resolutions on the death of Sir John Woodburn. [Dsc., The President announced that the Council at their last meeting passed the following Resolution :— The Council received with profourd sorrow the intimation of the death of their late President, Sir John Woodburn; and they offer their deep sympathy to Lady Woodburn and her family in their great bereave- ment, In doing so, he addressed the meeting as follows :— We have met to-night for the first time since the death of Sir John Woodburn, and you will, I am sure, desire that the occasion should not pass without an expression from me of the feeling with which the intimation of the sad event has been received by the members of the Society. We share in the sorrow which is felt throughout this Province and in the other Provinces where Sir John Woodburn served, and we mourn the loss of a member who took a deep interest in the work of our Society, and manifested his concern for its welfare by undertaking, at much inconvenience to himself, the duty of its President. In that, as in every other position which he was called to fill, he displayed the high qualities which won him the admiration and esteem of all classes. We had personal experience of the pleasure of association with him, and it was with no common regret that we saw the close of his tenure of office. We hoped to see him again among us, to read the paper which he then announced his intention of preparing on the work carried out by his Administration for the conservation of the valuable archeological remains at Gour and Pandia in the district of Malda, but the realisation of that hope has sadly passed away. Of his connection with the Society more may be appropriately said in the next Presidential Address. I would now propose that we join the Council in the Resolution which they have passed by recording the following Resolution :— The members of the Asiatic Society of Bengal assembled in monthly meeting desire to unite with the Council in expressing their sorrow at the lamented death of their late President, Sir John Woodburn, and in respectfully offering their sympathy to Lady Woodburn and her family. The Resolution was adopted. The President announced that owing to Mr. Finn’s illness Captain Rogers, I.M.S., had been appoiuted to officiate as the Natural History Secretary of the Society. The General Secretary reported that by order of Council, the Library will in future be open to the Members of the Society from 10 a.m. to 2 P.M. on Sundays. 1902.] S.C. Vidyabhisana—The Vratya and Samkara theories of Caste. 85 Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri exhibited the image of a Buddha Chaturbhuja from Kanchananagar in Burdwan. The following papers were read :— 1. The Vratya and Samkara theortes of Caste—By Satis CHANDRA VipyApausaNna, M.A, (Abstract.) In the Hindu ¢astras castes have been classified as (1) Mila (original), (2) Vratya (fallen) and (3) Samkara (mixed). The Méla or original castes are Brahmana, Ksatriya, Vai¢ya and Cidra, that is, the priest, warrior, trader and servant that are said to have sprung respect- ively from the mouth, arms, thighs and legs of Brahma the Supreme Being, Hach of the four original castes had to observe certain religious rites enjoined on it by Castras. Those members of the first three castes who did not observe these rites, specially those who failed to invest them- selves with the sacred thread at the proper time had to be degraded from their community. These negligent members were called Vratya or fallen. Vratya is thus defined to be a Brahmana, Ksatriya or Vaicya who has lost caste through non-observance of (astrik rites. This is the gencrally accepted signification of the word Vratya. My own view about the Vratya castes is, however, a little different. In the Vedic literature we find that the word Vratya bears a wide signification. ‘There we find that all people whether natives of India or foreigners who were not within the pale of Brahmanic civilization were also included among Vratyas. It is in this latter sense that the word has been very extensively used in our sacred literature. The Vedic religion did not spread over India in a single day. It required hundreds of years to penetrate into the distant corners of this vast continent. In the ancient literature we find minute descriptions of the sacrifices on the Sarasvati and Drsadvati only. The region lying between these two rivers was called Brahmavarta corre- sponding to most parts of the Punjab, The Punjab was in fact the place wherein Brahmanic civilization took root at a considerable antiquity. Most other places in India and outside were then inhabited by people who did not observe the Vedic rites, These people were called Vratyas. In the Vedas it has been said that in the beginuing all were Vratyas. In the Tandya-paiicavimca Brahmana of the Sama-Veda the Kaugitakis have been specially denoted as Vratyas and Yajiiavakirna (unfit to sacrifice). No trace of the Kaugitaki people is now to be found in India, In the Sadvimcga Brahmana and Orauta-sttra of Latyayana the Vratyas are described as living in large number in the west of India. According to Dr. Weber these western Vratyas, who alone knew how to perform the Syena sacrifice, referred to the ancient Persians. In the 5th 86 §.C. Vidyabhtisana— The Vratya and Samkara theories of Caste. [Duc., book of the Atharva-veda we find that the Angas and Magadhas in the east and Gandharis, Mujvantas, Cidras, Mahavrsas and Vahlikas in the north-west were known to the Hindus. Now Anga corresponds to modern Bhagalpur, Magadha to Behar, Gandhara to Peshwar, Vahlika to Balkh, ete. The Manu-samhitaé, too, affords us with a pretty long list of the _Vratya people. From among the Vratya Bralmanas included in the list of ManuI may mention only the Avantya and Vatadhana, The Avantyas were the Brahmanas of Avanti or modern Ujjain. The Vatadhana is probably the same as Vethadina or Vethadipa mentioned in the celebrat- ed canonical Pali work Mahaparinibbana sutta (Chap. 6) and other Buddhist works. According to the description of the Pali works it may be asserted that Vethadipa was situated in the district of Shahabad. Avanti or Ujjain, which was a part of Malwa, was a head-quarters of Buddhism up to about 71 B.C., and the Brahmanas of Vethadipa actually took a prominent part in preserving the relics of Buddha so early as in the year 543 B.C. It is therefore not altogether unreasonable to conjecture that the Brahmanas called Avantya and Vatadhana were regarded as Vratyas on account of their being devotees to Buddha and his religion, Vratya Kgatriyas mentioned by Manu were the Jhalla, Malla, Nicchivi, Nata, Karana, Khasa, Dravida, Paundraka, Audra, Kamboja, Yavana, Caka, Parada, Pahlava, Cina, Kirata and Darada. Of these the tribes called Jhalla, Nata, Karana and Khasa still exist in various districts of Northern India occupying social positions inferior to those of the Rajaputs. The Mallas were a Buddhist people that lived in Pava and Kusinara in the district of Goruckpore. The Nicchivis (Licchavis) were also Buddhists. They lived in Vaicali corresponding to. modern Basarh in the district of Muzaffurpore, and were very powerfal in the 5th century B.C. The Dravidas were the Dravidians of Southern India. Paundrakas were the people of Pundravardhana corresponding to modern Dinajpur and Maldah in Northern Bengal. Audras were the people of Orissa. The Kambojas were the people that inhabited the Hindu Kush mountain which separates the Giljit valley from Balkh. The Yavanas were the Bactrian Greeks, and the Sakas were the same as the people of Sakai in Central Asia. Parada and Pahlava were also two foreign tribes. Cinas were the people of China and the Daradas of Dardistan in the north-western frontier of Kashmir. The Kiratas were a flat-faced people that were very numerons in Sikkim, Hast Nepal and Tibet. The tribe called Karusa mentioned in the Vignupurana has been described as Vratya-vaigya in the Manu-samhita. From the above it is evident that people of Persia, Balkh, Sakai, 1902.] S.C. Vidyabhisana—The Vratya and Samkara theories of Caste. 87 Skythia, Sériké, China, Dardistan, Nepal, Sikkim, Behar, Orissa Northern Bengal, Southern India, Bhagalpur, etc., have all been called ‘Vratyas or non-observers of Vedic rites. In the first paragraph of this paper the distinction between a pure caste and a Vratya caste has already been indicated. It now remains to give a short account of the sacrifice by which a Vratya could be admitted into a pure caste. In the Tandya-paficavimca Brahmana of the Sama-veda this sacrifice called Vratya-stoma has been described at jength. It is of various kinds, of which two may be mentioned here. The first called Hina-vratya was a sacrifice that. was performed for the conversion of the unfranchised people, and the second called Gara-gir was that for the re-admission of the degraded ones. In the Latyayana Crautra- sutra of the Sama-veda, Chap. 8, Sect. 6, it is stated thata Vratya-stoma could be performed by a learned and pure Brahmana at the requisition ‘of at least thirty-three Vratyas. When such a sacrifice was performed the Vratyas, having secured the rights and privileges of the twice-born castes, might afterwards learn the Vedas, perform sacrifices, receive ..presents and dine with Brahmanas without being required to submit to penance. This is a very brief account of the Vratya theory. In later Sanskrit works the word Vratya is very seldom found. The term that repeatedly occurs here is Samkara. According to tradi- tion Samkara signifies those castes that are said to have been produced by a mixture of different castes. .As the mixture can take place in in- numerable ways the number of mixed castes is unlimited. Thus the four original castes by intermarriage can give rise. to twelve mixed castes. These twelve by mixture among themselves and with the four original castes may produce hundreds of other castes.. In this way the mixed castes may be multiplied infinite-fold. This is a very brief state- ment of the traditional theory. My own theory about the Samkara is quite different. In my opinion the Vratya people having entered the hierarchy of Brahmanas were called Samkara. Those who did not follow the Vedic rituals in the beginning were designated as Vratyas and these afterwards having observed those rites and being admitted into the Bra!imanic society were called Samkara. Thus the Nisada described in the Latyayana Crautasttra of the Sama-veda as an abori- ginal tribe has been mentioned in the Manu-samhitaé as a mixed caste born of a Brahmana father and Cidra mother. The Abhiras who, ac- cording to the Visnu-purana (Book IV, Chap. 24) conquered Magadha and reigned there for several hundred years, have been mentioned in the Mann-samhita as a mixed caste born of a Brahmana tather and Ambastha mother. The Karana, Paundraka, Malla, etc., have been re- garded by Manu as Vratya Ksatriyas. But in later Sanskrit works they 88 S.C. Vidyabhisana—The Viatya and Samkara theories of Caste. [Dec., have been described as mixed castes. Thus in the Brahma-vaivarta Purana the Karana is mentioned as having been born of a Vaicya father and Ciudra mother, the Paundraka from a Vaigya father and Cundi mother, and the Malla from a Leta father and Tibara mother. The Kirata mentioned in the Manu-samhita as Vratya Ksgatriya has been described in the Ballala Charita as a mixed caste born from a Vaicya father and Brahmana mother, The Sarakas returned in the Government Census as a Jain or Buddhist sect have been mentioned in the Brahmavaivarta Purana as a Hindu caste born of a Jola father and Weaver mother. In reality Saraks were immigrants from Serike and Sarogie the same people as Sorgae that lived at the mouth of the Indus. The Kols who are evidently an aboriginal wild people of India have been designated in the same Purana as a mixed caste born of a Leta father and Tibara mother. The Kaivartas who were perhaps the original inhabitants of Bengal have been described in the Manu-samhitaé as a mixed caste born from a Nisada father and Aogavi mother, but in the Puranas as that born froma Kgatriya father and Vaigya mother. The Andhra, Cholaand Pandya tribes of the Dravidian people became in course of time reckoned as pure Ksatriyas. The Tamila tribe of Dravida made several inroads into Ceylon and in the 5th century A.D. five Tamil Kings successively reigned in the island. The Tamils came towards the north too and the Tambuli caste of Bengal was perhaps formed by them. From what we have found here it is evident that the traditional Samkara process of birth exists in mere theories, but does not correspond to actual facts: No caste ever came into existence in the way presup- posed by the traditional theory. It is, however, undeniable that there are some rare instances of the father and mother being of different castes, but in those cases the children get the rank of either of the parents. In Darjeeling I met with several men of the Chatri caste whose father was Brahmana, but mother Chatri, but I never met with a single instance in which a Brahmana father and Chatri mother gave birth to a child that produced a third caste. Though the Samkara process of birth is an absolute myth it must be admitted that the theory of Samkara castes expounded in the Brahmanic Castras is indeed very grand. The Brahmanic legislators by tracing the original four castes from the different limbs of Brahma the Supreme Being and then deriving all other castes from a mixture of the four thoroughly established the unity and common footing of all the members of the Hindu society. All castes from Bradhmanas to Candalas are shown to be directly or indirectly connected with the Supreme Being and the gradations of honour existing umong the members of different castes are also duly maintained. But it should be observed here that the Vratya theory was very much simpler, 1902,] H. P. Shastri— Inscriptions of Mahasiva and M ahabhava Gupta. 89 for it assumed only four classes.of people. The Vratya people having performed the Vratya-stoma could freely mix with members of the four pure and original castes on terme of equality. . 2. Four inscriptions of Mahasiva Gupta and Mahabhava Gupta of Kalinga and Kosala.—By MaHAMAHoPADHYAYA HaRAPRASAD SuHAstri, M.A. Babu Rangalal Banerji edited one set of three Charters of Maha- bhava Gupta in the Ind. Ant., Vol. V,in 1876. He edited another set by Mahasiva Gupta in Jour. Beng. As. Soc. in 1877. Babu Pratap Chandra Ghosh edited another set in the same year in the same Journal. Dr. R. Mitra edited a fourth set of the Charters in 1882 in the same Journal again. In the third volume of the Epi. Ind. Mr. Fleet re-edited these four chapters and edited two more which came into his possession. I have got four new charters of these kings here. They belong to the same Mahabhava Gupta and Mahasiva Gupta like their predecessors. The plates have been deciphered by Babu Ganga Mohan Laskar, M.A., Government Research Scholar, under my directions. But they afford very little new information. It is a wonder that with 10 inscriptions in our possession we do not yet precisely know who the kings were and where and when they reigned. As pointed out by Mr. Fleet the Epigraphy belongs toa period subsequent to 1000 A.D., but I do not think very long after 1000 A.D. _The kings are said to have reigned over the countries of Kosala, which means Gondvana and Kalinga or Trikalinga, a very vague word mean- ing sometimes the whole coast from Madras to Bengal sometimes the Northern Sarkars and Countries including the Eastern Provinces of the Nizam. | Mr. Fleet says that their capital, sometimes called Vinétapura and sometimes Yayatinagara, on the Mahanadi is the modern Kataka, Babu M. M. Chakravartti doubts if this could be correct. That these two names apply to the same city there is no doubt, for a certain number of slokas have been applied to the descriptions of both and in both these descriptions the city is said to be on the Mahanadi. The lately discovered Sena records speak both of Yayatinagara and of Vinitapura. The Pavaradita written by a courtier of Lakshma-sena speaks of Yayatinagara and Ballala Carita speaks of Vinitapura where the persecuted Banias found a refuge. The villages granted with strange Dravidian names are extremely difficult to identify. The plates will be properly edited in the Journal or in Epi- graphia. — 90 H. P. Shastri—The identification of Ramagiri. [Dec., 3. The identification of Ramagiri, the starting-point of the cloud in the cloud-messenger of Kalidasa with Ramagarha Hill in the Sugruja State-—By ManAmanopApHyAYA HaraprasAD SHAstri, M.A. Ramagiri, the starting-point of the cloud-messenger in Kalidasa’s well-known poem Meghadita and the temporary residence for a year of the banished and love-sick Yaksha was identified by Horace Hayman Wilson in 1813 with Ramatec, 28 miles north-east of Nagapura. Itisa place sacred: to Rama and it is in the neighbourhood of Sitabaldi the famous hill on which the British Residency was attacked by Appa Saheb in 1818, Th first verse of the Meghadita speaks of Rama’s hermitage with its waters sanctified with the ablutions of Sita. But when the south-east monsoon, which commences about the 19th June or about the beginning of the Bengali month of Agsadhia, began to blow it would carry the cloud towards Malwa, and not to Amara- kantaka (ancient Amrakita). So for a long time I doubted the correct- ness of Wilson’s identification. My readings, however, brought to my notice another Ramagarha or Ramagiri a few miles to the east of the Amrakita. This Ramagarha is also sacred to Rama and there are pools, rills and brooks sanctified by the holy baths of Sita. It is described in the 13th volume of Cunning- hams Arch. Report as a single hill on a small plain with spurs and a peak. The small plain is surrounded on the north and towards north-east and north-west by high range of hills which a rain-cloud is not expected to cross over. So when the south-east monsoon strikes upon a piece of cloud resting on the spurs of Ramagiri it will drive the cloud north-west. Obstructed there the cloud will veer round to the Armakita. So I thought Ramagarha in the Sarguja State would be our Raémagiri. But an unexpected corroboration was afforded by a study of the works on Ramagarha, It has two caves very ancient indeed, one is now called the Jogimara cave, the other Sitabanjiré cave. These caves have inscriptions in Asoka characters. These have not yet been deciphered. Cunningham tried his hand at it, but could not do much. He was anxious to find in it some record of Devadatta, the cousin and opponent of Buddha. But I found two love-songs in these inscriptions. The first song translated into English will run thus :— I salute the beautifully-formed one who shows us the gods. I salute the beautiful form that leads us to the gods. He is much in quest at Varanasi. I salute the god-given one for seeing his beautiful form. , The second song :— The heart of a lady living at a distance (from her lover) is set a a ar ae ee ee | ee os , Z ‘ 1902. | H. P. Shastri—The identification of Ramagiri. 91 to flames by the following three:—Sadam Bagara and the poet. For her this cave is excavated. Let the god of love look to it. Why and how and by whom the caves were excavated cannot now be determined but the existence of Asoka inscriptions show that the caves must be as old as the 2nd or 3rd century B.C. The love-songs must have inspired Kalidas with the idea of connecting them with one of his heroes and he has connected it with the story of the love-sick Yaksha in banishment. 4, . a1 ‘ a» vothy + ee OS ks in } = i mS ‘* ‘ Bb ei 4 ~ fe net pel te ms t l i . - ‘ > f 96 Inde. ie. ‘ y ow TF Vredenburg (EB) 4d Waddell (Lieut.-Col. L. A. ae Weber (Dr. A.) $56 Wheeler (H.) sia. 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Astasthasrika Prajiaparamita, (Text) Fasc. 1-6 @ @ [Sf each Agvavaidyaka, (Text) Fasc. 1-5 @ /6/each _... tikes Avadana Kalpalata, (Sans. & ‘Tibetan) Vol. I, Fase. 1-5; Vol. ; Fasc.1-5 @1/each ..« ts zee ix *Bhamati, (Text) Fasc. 4-8 @ /6/ each - te he SR Bhatta Dipika Vol. I, Fasc. 1-3 th . sips tn pa aR Bodhicaryavatem of Cantidevi, Fasc. 1 va a mG: Brhaddévata, (Text) Fasc. 1-4 @ /6/ each A SNe hy ys Brhaddharma Purana, (‘l'ext) Fase. 1-6 @ /6/ each Catalogue of Sanskrit Books and Manuscripts Fase. 1-3 @ 2) enol: Oatapatha Brahmana, Fasc, 1-5 rf ee *Caturvarga Chintamuani, (‘lext) Vols, II, 1-25 ; Ill, Part f Fa SC. 1-18, Part IT, Fasc. 1-10 6 /6/ each 2: ie Catasuhaseika Prajnaparimita Fase. 1-2 (Text) @ /6/ each 1 op a Qlokayvartika, (English) Fase. 1-2 @ /12/ each ... eee ' *Qrauta Sitra of Apastamba, (Text) Fase. 4-16 @ /6/ each Ditto Qankhayana, (Text) Vol. I, Fase. 1-7; Vol. II, Fase. 1-4, Vol. III, Fase. 1-4 @ /6/ each... 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Aphorisms of Sandilya, (English) Fasc. } ees Astasahasrika Prajiaparamita, (Text) Fasc. 1-6 @ @ je) Bact Meares Pee Acvavaidyaka, (Text) Fasc. 1-5 @ /6/ each As Avadana Kalpalata, (Sans. & Tiberwe Vol. it Fase. 1-5; Fol. ree Fasc. 1-5 @ 1/ eaeh ¥ P) i as Drie att ae i 0 An r " A es De 4 x & r ; pet ty “4 £ ars é a “3 m *Bhamati, (Text) Fasc. 4-8 @ /6/ each is BP Gal) Shee sh Bhatta Dipika 1 Vol. I, Fasc. 1-3 di ae 4 be (Text) Fasc. 1-6 = Rigi aol S el tae i Sarit Sagara, (Mnglish) Fasc. 1-14@ @ /\2) ‘each wi ti _ Karma Purana, (Text) Fasc. 1-9 @ /6/ each ss» vas me re *Lalita-Vistara, (English) Fasc. 1-3 @ /12/ each ae Re, ey Madana Parijata, (Text) Fase. 1-11 @ /6/ each _ Maha-bhasya-pradipodyota, (Text) 1-9 Vol. I Fasc. 9, Faso. “1s, Vol. Ti Fase. 1-3 @ /6/ each — ie _ Manutika Sangraha, (Text) Fasc. 1-3 @ Je! each +f Markandéya Purana, (English) Fasc. 1-6 @/12/ each... oy eke _. *Mimamea Darcana, (‘Text) Fasc. 7-19 @ /6/ each a on s Narada 81 rti, (Text) Fasc. 1-3 @ /6/ . ates Nyayavartik a, (Text) Fase. 1-4 @ /6/ aaa | ie _ *Nirukta, (Text) Vol. HII, Fase. 1-6 ; Vol. LV, Faac. 1-8 @ /6/ each ... cies Nityacam Paddhati Fasc. 1-4 (Text) @ [6/ each . - -Nyayabindutika, (Text) . .. Nyaya Kusumanjali Prakarana, (Text) Vol. I, Fase. 1-6; Vol. IT, Fase. ~ > 1-3 @ /6/ each ~ Padumawati, Faso. 1-3 2 / ; age +. Paricista Parvan, (‘Text) Fase. 1-5 @ /6/ each se ee ge ‘Prakrita-Paingalam, Fasc. 1-6 @ /6/ each ek Smet eae Prithviraj ‘Rasa, (Text) Part II, Fase. 1-5 @ (81 ‘bdo Do eS Eh Ditto (English). Part Tl, Fasc. 1 . ee RS pres Prakrta Laksanam,, (Text) Fasc. hes Ros Fry nk ‘Paragara | Smrti, (Text) Vol. I, Fasc. 1-8; Vol. if: Faso. 1-6; Vol. TEL eee aoe Fase. 1-6 @ /6/ each ... pine - Paragara, Institutes of (English) ... _ ..-. *Prabandhacintamani (Hnglish) Fase. 1-2 @ j12y each soo, soe 409 e een Ew bets OG 1-7;1V, 1-6; V, 1-8, @ /6/ each Fasc. ; sae ha hae -Bankhya Sitra Vrtti, (Text) Fasc. 1-4 @ /6/ each Pepa eted Ditto. (English) Fase. 1-3 @ /12/ each - . Bugrnta Samhita, (English) Fase.1 @/12/- ... is a _ . *Taittereya Samhita, (Text) Fasc. 14-45 @ /6/ each a - - - *~- Vandya Brahmana, (Text) Fasc. 1-19 @ /6/ each et Se -Tattva Cintamani, (Text) Vol.I, Fasc. 1-9; Vol. II, Fasc. 1--10 ; Vol. - II, Fase. 1-2; Vol. 1V, Fasc.1; Vol. V, Fase. 1-5, Part IV; Vol. et age OH Fase. 1-12 @ /6/ each a we Trikinda-Mandanam, (Text) Fasc. 1-2 @ /6/ eek _. Tul’si Sat’sai, (Text) Fasc. 1-5 @-/6/ each nas __... Upamita-bhava-prapafica-katha (Text) Fasc. 1-4 @ /6/ aaah -. ‘Uvasagadasao, (Text and English) Fasc. 1-6 @ /12/ ~ - Varaha Purana, (Text) Fasc. 1—14 @ /6/each _ sare » Varsa Krya Kanmudi, Fasc. 1-5 @ /6/ ey ; . Jo... ~*Vayu Purana, (Text) Vol. I, Fasc. 2-6; Vol. I, Fasc. 1-7 @ /6/ each ... .. © Visnu Smrti, (Text) Fasc. 1-2 ‘@ /6 each a -)._. 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LIST OF BOOKS FOR SALE AT THE LIBRARY OF THE ASIATIC POCIETY OF BENGAL, Ho No. 57, PARK STREET, CALCUTTA, AND OBTAINABLE FROM THE SOCIETY’S AGENTS, MESSRS, LUZAC AND CO., 46, Great Russett Srreet, Lonpon, W. C., ann Mr. Orre Harrassowi7Tz, BooKseLLEeR, LEIpzie, GERMANY. ~—— Complete copies of those works marked with an asterisk * cannot be supplid—some of the Fasciculi being out of stock. BIBLIOTHECA INDICA. Sanskrit Series. Advaita Brahma Siddhi, (Text) Fasc. 1-4 @ /6/ each Advaita Chinta Kaistabh, Fase.1 . tins *Agni Purana, (Text) Fasc. 4-14 @ /6/each ... Aitaréya Brahmana Vol. I, Fase. 1-5 and Vol. TK; ” Fase, Vol. III, Fase. 1-5, Vol. IV. Fasc. 1-5 @ /6/ Anu Bhasyam, (Text) Fasc. 1-5 @ /6/‘each Aphorisms of Sandilya, (English) Fase. 1 Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita, (Text) Fasc. 1-6 @ @ /6/ each - Agvavaidyaka, (Text) Fasc. 1-5 @ /6/ each ae Avadana Kalpalata, (Sans. & Tibetan) Vol. I, Fasc. 1-5 ; Vol. Fasc. 1-5 @1/.each ... oe *Bhamati, (Text) Fasc. 4-8 @ /6/ each Bhatta Dipika Vol. I, Fasc. 1-3 Bodhicaryavatem of Cantidevi, Fase. 1 Brhaddévata, (Text) Fasc. 1-4 @ /6/ each Brhz addharma Purana, (‘lext) Fasc. 1-6 @ /6/ each Catalogue of Sanskrit Books and Manuscripts Fasc. 1-3 @ 2/ each Qatapatha Brahmana, Fasc. 1-5 *Caturvarga Chintamani, (Text) Vols. II, leap: III, Part I, Fasc. 1-18, Part IT, Fasc. 1-10 @ /6/ each Catasnhaseika Prajnaparimita Fasc, 1-2 (Text) @ /6/ each Olokavartika, (English) Fasc. 1-2 @ /12/ each . *Qrauta Sitra of Apastamba, (Text) Fasc. 4-16 ; @ /6/ each” Ditto Cankhayana, (Text) Vol. I, Fasc. 1-7; Vol. II, Fasc. 1-4, Vol. III, Fase. 1-4 @ /6/ each Ori Bhashyam, (Text) Fasc, 1-3 @ /6] each. ; Gadadhara Paddhati Kalasara Vol. I, Fasc. 1-3... Wala Marhhagao | fhe Aa) Ss Aes Pon 1-8 Il, - - ° = Seg rs ° ove see ie ae 1. OF i 4 °° 2 Re BL 1 ess \ Fs, BS es ae See ( 10: SG Oe Be: : 8 #u ae L- 14 ; 19 0” Aap . Lees 4 14 5 10 1 2 Oe ae 4 a eae Kila Viveka, Fase. 1-4... oon eee eee 1 Katantra, (Text) Fasc. 1-6 @ /12/ oath | be wv. 4 Katha Sarit Sagara, (English) Fasc. 1-14 @ @ /12/ each ite + 10 Kirma Purana, (Text) Fasc. 1-9 @ /6/ each sss TT) we «8 *Lalita-Vistara, (English) Fasc. 1-3 @ /12/ each she Rs, 2 Madana Parijata, (Text) Fasc. 1-11 @ /6/ each 4 Maha-bhasya-pradipddyota, (Text) 1-9 Vol. I Fase. 9, Fase. 1-8, Vol. II _ Fasc. 1-3 @ /6/ each a vest Manutika Sangraha, (Text) Fasc. 1 -3 @ /6/ éfich ve 5 HE! Markandéya Purana, (English) Fasc. 1-6 @ /12/ each he appa *Mimarsa Dargana, (Text) Fasc. 7-19 @ /6/ each ve ede | _ Narada Smrti, (Text) Fasc. 1-3 @ /6/ 4 : we il Nyayavartika, (Text) Fasc. 1-4 @ /6/ erates | - Nirukta, (Text) Vol. III, Fase. 1-6; Vol. IV, Fase. 1-8 @ /6/ aah pan Nityacam Paddhati Fasc. ‘1-4 (Text) @ [6] each ee He 5 | Nyayabindutika, (Text) . a ANGE Nyaya Kusumaijali Prakarana, (Text) Vol. I, Fase. 1-6; Vol. IT, Fase. 1-3 @ /6/ each 1% . a) Padumawati, Fasc. 1-3 @ 2/ ee + +56 Paricista Parvan, (Text) Fase. 1-5 @ 16/ each oe Pn 8 Prakrita-Paingalam, Fase. 1-6 @ /6/ each ay « 2 Prithviraj Rasa, (Text) Part II, Fasc. 1-5 @ /6/ ‘enol An doe Ditto (English) Part TI, Fasc. 1 is sas tee Prakrta Laksanam, (Text). Fasc. Se be 1 Paracara Smrti, (Text) Vol. I, Fasc. 1-8; Vol. Il, Fasc. 1-6; Vol. III, Fasc. 1-6 @ /6/ each .., ae oe Vien Paracara, Institutes of (English) ..... 0 Prabandhacintamani (English) Fase. 1-2 @ /12/ ‘each . 1 *Sama Véda Samhita, (Text) Vols. I, Fasc. 5-10; I, 1-6 ; 1-7; IV, 1-6; V,1- 8, @/6/each Fase. © .. ae Sankhya Stra Vriti, (Text) Fasc. 1-4 @ /6/ each 1 Ditto (English) Fasc. 1-3 @ /12/ each a. 2 Sucruta Samhita, (English) Fasc.1 @/12/... ae *Taitiereya Samhita, (Text) Fasc. 14-45 @ /6/ Siok . 12 Tandya Brahmana, (Text) Fasc. 1-19 @ /6/ each 7 Tattva Cintamani, (Text) Vol.I, Fasc. 1-9; Vol. IT, Paso; 1-10; Vol. III, Fase. 1-2; Vol. IV, Fase. 1; Vol. V, Fasc. 1-5, Part IV; Vol. 15 8 ie Fase. 1-12 @ /6/ each ae chp we 14 . ‘Trikinda-Mandanam, (Text) Fasc. 1-2 @:/6) 4; a Pecans, Tul’si Sat’sai, (Text) Fasc. 1-5 @ /6/ each Sy NS Upamita-bhava-prapafica-katha (Text) Fasc. 1-4 @ /6/ each ey: | Uvasagadasao, (Text and English) Fase. 1-6 @ /12/ ai oe Varaha Purana, (Text) Fasc. 1—14 @ /6/ each x5 say 6 Varsa Krya Kanmndi, Fasc. 1-5 @ /6/ wt 1 *Vayu Purana, (Text) Vol. I, Fasc. 2-6; Vol. Il, Fasc. 1-7 @ /6/ a 4 Visnu Smrti, (Text) Fasc. 1-2 @ /6; each ij it a (0 Vivadaratnakara, (Text) Fasc. 1-7 @ /6/ each . a re Vrhannaradiya Purana, (Text) Fasc. 1-6 @ (6/... 6 x » 2 Vrhat Svayambhi Purana, Fasc. 1-6 a al 2 Tibetan Series. PeacSam Thi S’in, Pine tod @ 1] each ws & Sher-Phyin, Vol. I, Fasc. 1-5 ; Vol. II, Fasc. 1-3; Vol. III, Fasc. 1-5, @ 1] each . _ 13 Rtogs_brjod dpag hkhri S'iA (Tib. & Sans.) Vol. I, Fasc. 1 5; Vol. Il. me Fasc. 1-5 @1/each .., Arabic and Persian Series. Alamgirnamab, with Index, (Text) Fasc. 1-13 @ /6/ each ss Al-Mugaddasi (English) Vol. I, Fasc. 1-3 @ /12/ ves ee Ain-i- Akbari, (Text) Fase. 1-22 @l/each... ves oes Ditto (English) Vol. I, Fasc. 1-7, Vol. I. Fasc. 1-5; Vol. III Fasc. 1-5 @ 1/12/ each ve oo Akbarnamah, with Index, (Text) Fasc. 1-37 @ V/ each _ Ditto English Fasc. 1-6 @1/ each ... as vee Arabic Bibliography, by Dr. A. Sprenger soe Badshahnamah, with Index, (Text) Fasc. 1-19 @ /6/ taal sh ves Catalogue of Arabic Books and Manuscripts ... Catalogue of the Persian Books and Manuscripts in the Library of the ‘Asiatic Society of Bengal. Fasc. 1-3 @ 1/ each Eaetionaty of Arabic Technical Terms, and Appendix, “Fase. 1-21 @ 1/each . Farhang-i i- -Rashidi, (Text) Fasc. 1-14 @ 1/ each” “ Fihrisht-i-Tusi, or, Tusy’s list of Shy’ ah Books, (Text) Fasc. 1-4 ne /12/ each ... Futtih-ush-Sham of Waaidi, (Text) Fasc. 1-9 @ /6/ each . we Ditto of Azadi, (‘Text) Fasc. 1-4 @ /6/each .. aes eee ow 21 NTs 1 _ tod -_ = —) 1 el C= on; Oo Onpnemoodw Oo} — Or @ Ow > two 2 Oo CMP ONY DW OO & Om f=) Q 6 8 * The other Fasciculi of these works are out of stock, and complete copies cannot Haft Asman, History of the Persian Masnawi, (Text) Fase. 1 . «May ieee SS History of the Caliphs, (English) Fasc,1-6 @ /12/each .. ia“ aS ges Iqbalnamah-i-Jahangiri, (Text) Fasc. 1-3 @ /6/each __... 5.1 | ee Igabah, with Supplement, (Text) 51 Fasc. @ /12/each — ... Ra. 38. ae Maasir-nl-Umara, Vol. I, Fasc. 1-9, Vol. II, Fase. 1-9; Vol. III, 1-10; -— — ie 4 ah d : ; Index to Vol, I, Fasc. 10-11; Index to Vol. III, Fase. 11-12; Index to Vol. II, Fasc. 10-12 @ /6/ each rey, “ee Maghazi of Waqidi, (Text) Fasc. 1-5 @ /6/ each sak Muntakhabu-t-Tawarikh, (Text) Fasc, 1-15 @ /6/ each... Ditto (English) Vol. I, Fase. 1-7; Vol. II, Fasc. 1-5 and 3 Indexes; Vol. III, Fasc. 1. @ "/12/ each Muntakhabu-l-Lubab, (Text) Fasc. 1-19 @ /6/ each Ma’asir-i-’ Alamgir), (Text) Fasc. 1-6 @ /6/ each Nukhbbatu-]-Fikr, (Text) Fasc.) i. Nizami’s Khiradnamah-i-Iskandari, (Text) Fasc. 1-2 @ /12/ ‘each Riyazu-s-Salatin, (Text) Fasc. 1-5 @//6/ each . Tabaqat-i-Nasiri, (Text) Fasc. 1-5 @ /6/ each ... Ditto (Huglish) Fasc. 1-14 @ /12/ each Ditto Index ... 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Fasc. 1-5 @ /6/. ase Anu Bhasyam, ( Text) Fasc. 1-5 @ /6/each — ... aes Aphorisms of Sandilya, (English) Fasc. 1 Astasahasrika Prajiiaparamita, (‘'ext) Fasc. 1-6 @ @ /6/ each Acvavaidyaka, (Text) Fasc.1-5 @ /6/each Avadana Kalpalata, (Sans. & Tibetan) Vol. I, Fasc. 1-5; Vol Fasc. 1-5 @1/each ... Bead sae *Bhamati, (Text) Fasc. 4-8 @ /6/ each © ae Se PBs. laytk, Bhatta Dipika Vol. I, Fasc.1-38 ... is ns | Bodhicaryavatem of Cantidevi; Faso, 1 ake aus Soy Brhaddévata, (Text) Fasc. 1-4 @/6/each ... axe Va Brhaddharma Purana, (Text) Fasc. 1-6 @ /6/ each ‘ca Catalogue of Sanskrit Books and eset Fase. 1-3 @ 2) each 3 Qatapatha Brahmana, Fasc.1-5 .. *Caturvarga Chintamani, (Text) Vole, 8 1-25 ; I, Part i 1-18, Part II, Fasc. 1-10 @ /6/ each o Catasubaseika Prajnaparimita Fasc, 1-2 (Text) @ /6/ each» 2 earn (English) Fasc. 1-2 @ /12/ each ... ee eek nae Qrauta Sitra of Apastamba, (Text) Fasc. 4-16 @ /6/ eich > Ditto Qankhayana, (Text) Vol. I, Fasc. 1-7; Vol. II, Fane 2% 1-4, Vol. III, Fasc. 1-4 @ /6| each ' eee eee 9 Cri Bhashyam, (Text) Faso, 1-3 @ /6/ each eee eee eee 4 Gadadhara Paddhati Kalasara Vol. I, Fasc. 1-3... eee ees Kala Madhava (Text) Fasc. 1-4 @ /6/ each... ‘ss sue - ae V4 Pern ele ee eee. ee MASE a ae” Be ee \ Oy Kila Vivelcs. piss Pde _ Katantra, (‘'ext) Fasc. 1-6 @ /3/ each se one Katha Sarit Sagara, (English) Fasc. 1-14 @ / 12/ ‘each “as ‘bry eget 9 _Kirma Purana, (Text) Fasc.1-9 @/6/each ... tee vee SION *Lalita-Vistara, (English) Fasc. 1-3 @ /12/ each Ki Ks. ——-——,s Madana Parijata, (Text) Fasc. 1-11 @ /6/ each path ce ' Maha-bhasya-pradipddyota, (Text) i Vol. I Fasc. 9, Fase. i? 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Mahabhave Gupta of Kalinga hers Goa and Kosala.—By MAHAMAHOPADHYAYA HaraprasaD-Suastet, M.A. _ Se Bete 3. The identification of Ramagiri, the starting point of the clowd in the cloud- 2 cada messenger of Kalidasa in the Ramagarha Hill in the Sargruja oh ee State.—By MAHAMAHOPADHYAYA HARAPRASAD SHAsTRI, M.A, si SS 4. A study on the constitution of Dimercurammonium Salts.—By P. c. het a Ray D.Sc. (Title only) “5 OF 5. Dimercurammonium Nitrate, Part fix By P C, Riv, D.Sc. (Title only) - See Sh eis LIST OF BOOKS FOR SALE aa is AT THE LIBRARY OF THE fSiaTIC SOCIETY OF PENGAL, : a No. 57, PARK STREET, CALCUTTA, <4 tee. AND OBTAINABLE FROM ae + eae ee THE SOCIETY’S AGENTS, MESSRS. LUZAC AND 00., aoe ao KE 46, Great RussELL STREET, Lonpon, W. 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