CONT ENT S .
mee Cm
Proceedin gs for Jan uary 1894
Ditto for (in cludin g An n ual Report )Ditto for ch
Ditto for AprilDitto for May an d Ju n e 1894Ditto for Ju lyDitto for Augu stD itto f01 NovembeiDi tto for December
L1 st of Members of the As iatic S ociety the‘
3ls t December,
1893 (Appen dix to the Proceedin gs for Febr °
ua1 y 1894)Abstract S tatemen t of Receipts an d Disbursemen ts of the
As iatic Society for the year 1893 (Appe n dix to the Proceedin gs for February 18941) xvii—xxix
L IST OF PLATES.
I .—The Sohgaurfi. copper- plate (p . 84)
P ROCE E D INGS
OF THE
AS IATI C SO CIETY OF BE N GAL,
f o ra JA N UARY , 1894,
The Mon thly Gen eral Meeti n g of the Asiati c Society of Be n gal washeld on Wed n esday, the 3rd Jan uary, 1894, at 9 P. M .
C. J . LYAL L, E SQ .,M .A .
,LL .D .
,C S . I .
,C I .E .
,
Vice -Presiden t,in the chair .
The fol low in g Members were pre se n tA . A . Caspersz, E sq. ,
Ban awarilal Chaudh-uri,E sq. ,
Babu Gyan endra Kumar Rai Chaudhuri, Babu Sarat Chan dra D as
,B . Dé
,E sq ,
HisGrace The Most Rev . D r. Paul Goethal s
,G . A . Grierso n
, Esq.
,Dr
. A .
F . R . Hoer n le, Sarat Chan dra Lahari, E sq. , C. Little,E sq.
,Kumar
Rameshwar Maliah,C. D . Man gos, E sq.
, L . de Nicéville,E sq.
,A .Pedle r
,
E sq. , c. R . Wilson , Esq. , The Rev . H . Whitehead .
The min ute s of the last meeti n g were read an d co n firmed .
Ni n etee n prese n tatio n s w ere an n oun ced, detai l s of which are give nin the Library Lis t appen ded .
The S ECRETARY reported the death of th e foll ow i n g MembersE . O
’
Brien , E sq. ,
'
C. S . (Ord i n ary Member ) .Maj or-Ge n eral S ir A . Cun n in gham , K . C. I . E
,C. S . I . (Hon orary Member ) .
D R. A . F . R . HOERNLE read an obituary n otice of the death ofMaj or -Gen eral S ir Al exan der Cun n i n ghamThe Society has su stain ed the loss of on e of i ts most distin gui shed
members in the death,on the 28th November las t
,of Maj or-Ge n era l
S ir Al exan der Cun n i n gham, th e n ew s of which was received early in
D e cember . He was born in Lon do n in 1814,the son of a di stin
2 D eath of Major Gen eral Cun n in gham.
guished father, Al lan Cun n i n gham,the Ni thsdal e poet
, an d ass ista n t ofCha n trey . He was educated at Chri st ’s Church Hospital , an d afterpassi n g through Addiscombe, ob tain ed his commissio n as seco n d -lieute
n an t in the Be n gal E n gin eers in Jun e 1831 . Fromthe first he seems .
to have held good appoin tme n ts,bei n g o n the staff of the Govern or
Gen eral , Lord W i l liam Ben tin ck in 1834, an d afterward s employedon special duty in Oudh . He was n o les s fortun ate in taki n g partin the hard fightin g of those days . He was presen t at the battl e ofPun n iar, a n d played a promi n en t part as field en gin eer in both of theS ikh wars . In 1 846 he was appoi n ted commission er to demarcate theboun daiies of Kashmir o n the Tibeta n sid e . D uri n g the Mutin yhe fou n d himself in Burma,
whe n ce he was summon ed to be chiefe n gin eer in the North-VV es tern Provin ces , after the p acification . Heretired from active service in 1862 . But his co n n ection w ith I n d ia wasn ot yet e n ded . He n ow took the lead, offi cial ly, of those u n dertakin gs,in which he had already bee n private ly e n gaged for man y years, an dw ith wh ich h is n ame w il l remain promi n e n tly a n d perman en tly con
n ected . In November 186 1, he had laid b efore Lord Can n i n g a memoran dumon the i n vestigation of the _
archaeological remai n s of UpperI n d ia . This led , early in 1862 , to his appoi n tmen t as ArchaeologicalSurveyor to the Govern me n t of I n dia . Though , in a cold fi t of parsimon y
,the departme n t was aboli shed in 1866
,i t was fortun ately
estab l ished in 1870 in a much more exte n ded form,
an d Ge n eral Cu nn in gham,
who had spe n t the i n terve n i n g period in E n glan d,was recal l edto b e at the head of it as Direc tor-Gen eral of the ArchaeologicalSurvey of I n dia . In th is post he served in In dia til l 1885
, when hefi n ally retired to E n glan d after a total service of more than fifty years .The resul ts of the lab ours of himse lf an d hi s assi s tan ts to th e Archaeo
l ogical Survey were publ ished in twe n ty-three volumes of reports,
to which w as added, in a separate volume, a ge n eral in dex,compiled
by Mr. V . A . Smith . But these volumi n ous reports by n o mean sexhausted his e n ergy . Besides n umerou s co n tribution s to the J our n als
of this Society an d the Numismatic Socie ty of Lon do n , he publishedin 1854, a description of the Bhilsa, Top es or Buddhis t mon umen ts ofCe n tral In dia, w ith a n accoun t of the open in g an d exami n ation ofthe vari ous groups of Topes aroun d Bhilsa, an d in 18 7 1 his An cien tGeography of I n dia of which , how ever, on ly the first volume has ap
peared,dealin g w ith the Buddhis t period, an d i n cludin g the cam
paign sof Al exan der an d the travel s of Hin e n Tsian g . I n 18 77 he
brought out—what was again i n te n ded to be the first of a serie s u n derth e titl e of Corp us In scrip tion umIn dicarum—an edition of the In scription s of A soka ; in 1879, a han dsome quarto, w ith plates, on the Stup a of
E lliott Prizefor Scien tifi cResearch.
Barliut which he assig n ed to the third cen tury B. C. in 1883 a Book
of I n dian E ras, w i th table s for the cal culatio n of dates ; in 189 1 a
d escripti on of the Coin s of An cien t I n dia , deal i n g w ith classes of coi n sthat w ere practical ly un kn ow n to an y on e but himse lf ; a n d in 1893 ,
an other han dsome quarto, w ith plates, on the Mahdbodlii or the greatBuddhis t Templ e u n der the bodhi- tree in Buddha -Gaya
,which he
mi n u te ly described from its firs t foun dation un der Asoka about B . c.
250.
It i s,however, on his discoveries in a particular bra n ch of archaeo
l ogy, that S ir A l exa n der Cun n in gham ’ s fame w i l l most securely rest .
In gen eral archaeology his w ork was that of a pio n eer,
a n d much ofi t had a n d w il l have to be do n e over agai n . But in Numismatics hew i ll ever be an u n d isputed au thority . He had made it hi s e specials tudy, an d his experie n ce in i t was absol utely un rivall ed ,
an d his
j udgmen t almost i n fal l ibl e . His con tribution s to the kn ow l edge of
I n d ian coin s,pub l i shed from time to time
,at first in the Journ a l of thi s
Soci ety an d afterward in the Numismatic Chro n icle of the Numismati cSociety of Lo n do n
,are some of the mos t valuabl e on record .
I t doe s n ot appear that he ever was an ord i n ary member of theSociety . But through his a ssociation w ith James Prin s ep in the
latter ’ s memorabl e discoverie s in I n dian Epigraphy an d Numismatics,
he e n tertai n ed a kin d of in formal con n ection w ith it almost from th ebegin n in g . His share in thos e d i scoverie s i s recorded in a n umber of
papers publi shed in the Journ a l of this S ocie ty, the earl ie st of wh ichOn some n ew Bactrian coi n s ” he co n tribu ted in 1840. On the 5thof February 1868 he was el ected an Hon orary Member of the Society .
To the last h e remain ed the same i n d efatigable a n d d evo tedstuden t of his favorite sub j ect of I n dian Numismatics . Those who hadth e good fortun e of his perso n al acquain tan ce w i l l ever remember theardour of hi s e n thu siasmin that cause, an d th e gen erosity of hi s di sposition w ith w hich he was always ready to commu n i cate h is k n ow l edgean d a ssist fel low - workers . His n ame w i l l always s tan d foremos t in
the hon our-rol l of those who created an d organ ised I n d ian Archaeo
l ogy .
The CHA IRMAN an n ou n ced that he had received five Essays forthe E l l iott Pri ze for Scie n tific Re search for th e year 1893 .
The S ECRETARY reported that Pan dit Ben i Madho Tribedi had n ot
pa id hi s admis sio n fee, an d in accordan ce w ith Rule 9 of the Socie ty ’ sBye - law s his el ection as a Member of the Society was can cel led .
4 D R. HOERNER—Ezckibition of a silver coin . LIAN .
Dr . Hoern le exhibited a s ilver coi n supposed to be on e of Muhammad bin Samsen t by Mr . Rodgers
,an d read the follow in g n ote by the
latter“ I e n close a coi n which I can n ot qu i te make out . Y ou may show
it to the As iatic Socie ty an d see what learn ed men can make out of it .Its w eight is 52 grs . an d siz e 85 of an i n ch . So far as I kn ow i t i su n ique . I make it out thus
In a circl eIn a dotted circl e outs ide
which is a lin ed circle
Is n ‘ t D rill 3“ ”131WI
( 5 l 15> we will to ; Wm
A“ lab .”311 Jul; w/c g lgwj h xs fi
w . J J
Jt ’cl i imd l 5 1.1t
I n the i n n er of the two marg in s outer margin i l l egibl e .
I amn ot at all certai n about the las t li n e . There is n o doubt thatthe legen d is the firs t pai t of vei se 225 of the 2 n d Sui a o f the Qui an
There i s n o mi n t l egibl e un l es s i n deed th e w ord before as.» i sBa lkh
The w ords in the sma l l circle puzzl e me too . I read the lege n dthere te n tatively as film “ s
” The coi n i s on e of thoseI s old to the Pun jab Govern men t . I had n ever read it I kept i tu n til on e of the las t an d ,
of course, had to puzzl e i t out. There i sn o on e
here to help me, so the above is my own solu tio n . The coinbelo
ngs to Muhammad Sam I thin k . Bu t n o coin of hi s at all like
this has been hitherto published . The titles are those of this ki n gfou n d on the Qutb at Delhi, except was an d all, U 5) , wlhlw
Abul Quhar i s n ew too .
Peihap s theMas ters of the Madrasah may be able to throw more
light on the lege n ds . Could a n en la1 ged photograph of it be made Ithi n k a coin l ike thi s is worth some ext1 a tr .
”ouble
Til/clan Jails a n d Crimin a l Jr’un is limen l .1 1591 ] s . c.
Dr . Hoer n le said that he had show n the coin to the Head Mau lv iof the Madrasah , who, however, was u n abl e to add a n ythi n g to Mr .
Rodgers ’ i n formation .
The foll owi n g papers w ere readI . Tibeta n Jails a n d Crimin a l P un ishmen t—By B ABU SARAT CHAN DR A
D AS,
There are two ki n ds of jai l s in Tibet cal l ed Za n g- tso n (mild j ai l )an d Tson . The former i s prison for light pu n ishmen t, where the pri son eri s provided w ith food by the S tate
,or by his frie n ds
, a n d the latter i sjai l proper where the prison er i s n ot al l ow ed food from the State .
A perso n suspected of a serious crime or caught red -han ded in i tsperpetration ,
i s sen t up to the l ock -up which is in the Tson 01° pri son .
A pri son er su spected of a l ight guil t i s s en t to the Za n g- tson ,an d there
watched as to hi s man n ers an d movemen ts . He is at first treated kin d ly,an d i n terrogation s put to him in a ki n d man n er by the in vestigati n g officer .
1’Vhen this state has passed away he is subj ected to ami ld bu t min utein terrogation cal l ed Jamti hi s depos itio n s cal l ed Slu t
(QT Y) bei n g n oted down . In the third stage he i s subj ected to a
stricter examin ation cal l ed th e Ts lza n -ali harsher i n terrogatio n,
whe n at in terval s h e is whipped in the way of a remi n der that he hasn ot been tel l in g the tru th , or n ot con fes s in g his gu il t . A t firs t five or sixstripe s are served on him
,an d the n he i s again i n terrogated by the court
about h is gui lt . He who makes an y kin d of con fe ss ion ,eith er tru ly or
fal sely,i s subj ected to a prolon ged exami n atio n an d whippin g
, whichgen eral ly termi n ates in tortures . The greatest importan ce i s attached too n e ’ s person al co n fession , eviden ce bein g co n sidered of secon dary importan ce in a Tibetan court of trial . The pri son er that makes the leastcon fess ion , how ever s eriou s the charges agai n st him
, may be, is deal tw i th rather l ightly . The prison er who con fesses his gui l t but partly an dgradual ly
,i s subjected to tortures of variou s kin d s .
Tortures
At Lhasa n owadays, various Chin ese torture s are u sed, besides then ation al tortures wh ich though rud e are s imple in their n ature .
In the first in s tan ce the pri so n er i s ordered to w alk k n eel in g on
the floor,which i s spread over w ith smal l
,sharp spl in tered fl i n t or
gran ite . This i s cal l ed the torture o n grave l - bed 01° luarlcon g (SHI RT? )
When this does n ot an swer w el l th e court tries the torture cal led D o-skuav
(S'
Q' ston e cap ), in whi ch a heavy block of ston e
,of the weight of two
to three hun dred pou n d s, w i th a d epression made in i t to fi t the head o f
6 S . C . D as— Tibetan Jails an d Crimin al Pun ishmen t. [JAN .
the prison er,i s placed on his head ,
so that u n der its crushin g w eight hisbrai n s are pressed out through the sockets of h is eyes .
In seriou s cases the torture cal led the Nam- tag, i. e. ,han gin g by the
thumb s,is resorted to . The thumb s of the prison er are tied together by a
stron g strin g,the en ds of which are faste n ed to th e b eam of a hou se or to agibbet . The n the supports bein g removed th e prison er i s a l low ed toswin g in the air . Whe n this too fai l s , he i s subj ected to the torturecal led Gyab Namtag. I n thi s process the prison er’ s arms are twi stedroun d on his back, an d the n his thumbs are tied together to be suspen dedby a strin g from the beam of a house . The support bein g removed , hei s let han g . Some bricks o n e after an other are placed on his back, sothat hi s arms may be d islocated un der the crushin g w e ight of himsel fa n d the b ri cks .
lll abchn okon —This torture i s so ca ll ed on accoun t of the prison erbein g required to stan d on his breast l ike a peacock, after hi s lon gflow in g locks have be e n tied to h is feet, his l egs bein g ben t backwardl ike a bow .
The kin d of torture cal led u n -clc'
(WWQN'
) at Lhasa an d B ein g
in Tsan g, con sists of two n otch ed woode n racks , inw hich the legs an d feet of the pri son er are faste n ed to preven t himfrom strugglin g to run away or to move u n der the pai n of whippin g .
The torture cal l ed Lan g-ole(QlKl'
QN'
01° faste n in g of the arms in
a n otched w ood en rack, so that th ey may n ot be moved u n der exertion .
L an g-dé dah i s the ki n d of torture in w hich the
iron han dcuff s of the pri son er are secured to the iron collar which isput roun d his n eck by two short iro n rod s
,about a foot lo n g . This
i s do n e to preve n t h is c ommitt i n g suicide .
The most excruciati n g tormen t cal l ed th e chin - tsi i s u sed in veryseriou s cases . In this the fi n ger j oi n ts an d w rists are cracked by
a machi n e al together at on e t ime, an d the fle sh of the fi n gers i ssevered out of the bon es .
In Tib e tan courts the greatest pu n ishmen t i s given to the prison erb efore he i s foun d guil ty, in con seque n ce of which people seldom preferan y complai n t for redress in a Crimi n al Court, the plai n tiff as w el l as thedefen dan t are both ruin ed when i n vol ved in crimi n al cases . The pri son er,after he has been subj ected to an y of these tortures, i s sen t to the jai lto wait for the sen ten ce . In ordi n ary case s great delay is mad e indel iverin g a judgmen t . I n n i n ety- n i n e out of a hun dred cases bribe sexpedite the pas sin g of a decision , dimi n i shin g the severi ty of a sen
ten ce .
1894 ] S . C . D as—Tibeta n Jails a n d Crimin al Pun ishmen t . 7
In every seriou s case in which th e Govern me n t becomes a
party,the court of th e Ka lo n s (Min i s ters ) sugges ts, to th e Gyal
tshab, (Regen t) which i s th e highe st court of the coun try, thaton e of the three pun i shmen t s me n ti on ed in the decision may beapproved of. I n a cas e of murder, dacoity, or high treason sdeath by drown in g
,beheadi n g, 01
° stran gl in g is suggested . In a l e s shei n ous case
,they suggest that the culprit may be blin ded , or hi s
han ds or l egs mutilated . In a sti l l le s s severe case, the culprit is recommen ded for imprison men t for l ife in a dark hole six feet square
,call ed
th e Po-
go- (lag
-jar, i. e., the cel l w ith but on e hole,large en ough to
throw food in side i t or to be con sign ed to a pri son for l ife in some remote part of the coun try, after a col lar of woode n heard , abou t 18 in chessquare has bee n fixed to h i s n eck an d chain s put roun d h is legs 01
° tobran d h is forehead w ith a burn in g seal of steel con tain in g the n ame 31'
(dog) , thi s pun i shme n t bein g cal l ed é '
fi'
fl'
01° dog- seal . The Regen t
(Gya l- tshab) puts a red mark cal l ed Chyay-clags s ignman ual , 01
° the ki n d of pu n i shmen t he approves of,an d the cu lprit i s
deal t w ith accord in gly . The Regen t has n ot the power of mitigatin gthe sen ten ce, 01
° reversin g it, or commu tin g it, such pow ers l ie w ith theDa lai Lama h imself, who can exercise h i s mercy on th e con vict .
At Lhasa there are two pri n cipal jai l s , cal l ed the Nafigtse-shar an d
D ik ilin g . The former is situated in Lhasa Thil, the midd le of the city,
an d the latter at Pétala S11 0, i. e.
,the town at the foot of Potala,
th e reside n ce of the Dala i Lama . E ight 01° n in e years ago the castle of Pan din g,
about 100 yard s from D ik ilin g,where themin t i s n ow located
, was
the Jai l . I n th e groun d floor of the castl e of D ik ilin g, which i s n ow
the re siden ce of the Lord Chan cellor (Chan goi-chen po ), there are severall ime godow n s an d cel l s
,in some of which prison ers are co n fi n ed . Some
of the cell s are on ly s ix fee t square, cal l ed D oqn ha n g dub-ths, wherepri son ers are con fi n ed before trial .Nan g- ts e shar i s in fact the Chief Ce n tral Jai l of Lhasa,where pri
son ers un der trial are pu t to torture . I t i s un der the supervis ion ofthe llf ip on (d ais the sheriff of Lhasa . The Govern me n t doe s n otprovid e the pri son ers w ith food, but i t does n ot obj ect to food bein g sup
pl ied to them by their relation s, frien ds, an d outsiders,who may take
pity on them . The Mussalman merchan ts an d traders,both from Chin a
an d Kashmer, residi n g at Lhasa, ge n eral ly se n d food an d eatables to thew retched starvi n g prison ers of Nan g-tse shar . Pious p ilgrims who happento vi sit Lhasa, an d reli giou sly di sposed peopl e al so s en d them food an d
mon ey occas ion al ly . Some kin d peopl e , occasion al ly, offer to ran somtheir live s by payi n g what is cal l ed the life -mo n ey 01
° fi n e.
8 Dr . Marx— Three documen ts rela tin g to the His tory of Ladalrh. [ JAN .
At Shiga- tse there i s on ly on e Jai l . It i s cal led the Til - bu Tsi n gts in g (the hou se of the rin gin g bell ), 011 accoun t of the tin kli n g of the
heavy chain s an d han d - cuffs w orn by the prison ers . There are Zan gtson in almost every tow n an d large village where there i s a magisterialcourt . Local l ife prison ers are n ot kept in an y of these . Life co n vict sare tra n sferred from on e priso n to a n other .The cu stom of se n d in g fa i l in g debtors to j ai l does n ot prevai l in
Tibet . Prison ers who are i n variably life con victs are n ot al lowed to doan y kin d of work . In fact there are n o short-term prison ers in Tibet.Wome n
,l ikemen , are a lso sen t to jai l for the same kin d of offe n ces . In
man y of the prison s where women have been con fin ed w ith men as
l ife con victs, children have been born an d reared .
2 . Short Note on the Golden Book of B uddha’
s Ordin ation — By BABUSARAT CHANDRA D AS,
The paper w il l be published in the Journ a l, Part I .
3 . Three documen ts rela tin g to the History of Ladakh : Tibetan Tar t,
Tra n s la tion ,a n d Notes — By the late D R,
KARL MARX,llf ora vian Mis
sion ary a t Leh, Ladakh. Commun icated by the PHI LOLOGICAL SECRETARY .
(Abstract) .
Thi s i s a co n tin uation of a paper by Dr . Marx,published in
Part I . of the Journ a l of the Socie ty for 1891 . The auth or died(b efore that commun ication was published ) at Leh
, 011 the 29 th of
May 1891 , at the early age of 34 years . His lame n ted death left a
serious gap in the ra n ks of Tibetan scholars . In the former paperthe history of Ladakh was carried dow n to the en d of the reig n of
the 22 n d ki n g Se n ge -man -gyal,an d the prese n t on e comme n ce s w ith
an accou n t of his successor D e- ldan - n am-gyal an d goes dow n to thebegin n in g of the Dogra in vasion s in the first quarter of thep presen tcen tury . It has been se n t to the Socie ty by the au thor ’s brother
,the
Rev . Dr . Gustaf Dalma n of Leipzig . It w i l l be publ i shed in ful l inthe Journ a l, Part I.
1894 ] Library . 9
LI B RA RY ,
The followi n g addition s have been made to the Library sin ce themeeti n g held in D ecember last
TRA N SA C T IO N S , f Ro c s smN G s , A N Djlo ua N A L s ,
presen ted by the resp ective Societies an d E ditors .
Batavia . Bataviaasch Gen ootschap vein Kun s te n en Weten schappen ,
Notulen,Deel XXX I
,Afleverin g 3 .
Tijdschrift voor l n dische Taa1,-Lan d-en Volk e n
kun de,Dee l XXXVII
,Afleverin g 1 .
Bombay . The I n dia n An tiquary,—Vol . XXII, Part 279 .
Budapes t . La Socié té Hon groi se de Géographi e,—Bulleti n
,Tome
XXI,Fasc . 5 et 6.
Calcu tta . I n dia n E n gi n eeri n g— V 0] . XIV,Nos . 24—27 .
Maha-Bodhi Soci e ty,— Jour n al , Vol . I I, No . 7 .
The Hague . Nederlan dsche E n tomologi sche Veree n igin g,—Tijdschrift
voor E n tomologie, Ban d XXXV , Nrn . 1—4.
Lo n don . The Academy,— Nos . 1 125- 28 .
The A then aeum,—Nos . 3448—51 .
Nature, - V ol. XLIX,Nos . 1 256—59 ; an d I n dex to V ol.
XLVIII .Royal Astron omical Soci ety,—Mon thly Notice s, V ol. LIV
,
Royal Geographical Socie ty,—Geographical Journ al , V ol . II,
No . 6 .
Moscow . La Société Impérial e des Natural iste s de Moscou,— Bull e ti n
,
Nos . 2 et 3, 1893 .
Mus soorie . The I n dian Fores ter,—V ol. XIX,No. 12 .
Pari s . Socié té de Géographie, —Comptes Re n dus des Séa n ces,Nos
. 15
et 16, 1893 .
Prague . Der K . K . S tern warte zu Prag, —A s tro n omisch e Beobachtun gen ,
1888—9 1 .
Rome . La Socie ta Degli Spettrosc0pis ti I talian i,—Memorie, TomeXXII,No . 9 .
St . Petersburg . Comité Géologique,—Mémoire s, Tome IV,No . 3 .
Taipi n g . Perak: Govern me n t,—Gazette, V ol. VI, No . 28 .
Vie n n a . D er K. K . Naturhigstorischen Hofmuseums,—A n n ale n,Ban d
10 L ibra ry . [JAN'
j30 0 1< s A N D PA M PH L E T S .
p resen ted by the Authors, Tran s lators, $ 12
BLANFORD,W
'
. T . On a s tag (Cern us Thoroldi), from Tibet, an d on the
Mammal s of the Tibeta n Plateau . 8vo. Lo n don , 1893 .
B LOOMFIELD, MAURICE . Co n tributio n s to the I n terpretation of the Veda .
8 v0 . Bal timore , 1893 .
HAECKEL, ERNST . Der Mo n i smus als Ban d zwische n Rel igio n un d
IV is sen schaft . 8 vo . Bon n , 189 3 .
Z ur Phylogen i e der austral ische n Faun a . 4to . Jen a,
1893 .
LYMAN,B . S . The Great Mesozoic Faul t in New Jersey . 8 vo. Phila
delphia,M ITRA
,SARAT CHANDRA . Note o n the use of Locus ts as an Article ofD ie t amon g the “
An cie n t Persian s . 8vo . Bombay, 1893 .
M ITRA,SARAT CHANDRA . 011 some addition al Folk-Bel iefs about the
Tiger . 8ve . Bombay,1893 .
W'
EEER,ALRR. Uber die Kiin igsweihe, den Rajasfiya . 4to . Berli n
,
1893 .
MI SC E L LA N E O U S PRE S E N T A T Io N s .
Report 011 the Nagpur E xpe rime n ta l Farms 1 11 the Ce n tral Provi n ce sfor the year 189 2- 93 . Fcp . Nagpur, 1893 .
CH I EF COMMI SS I ONER, CENTRAL PROV INCEs .
Secon d Trie n n ia l Report of the Sa n i tary Commissio n ers for Ben gal o nthe w orkin g of the Vacci n atio n Departmen t in Be n gal duri n gthe three years, 1890-9 1, 189 1-9 2 an d 189 2 -93 . Fcp . Calcutta,
1893 .
GOVERNM ENT or BE NGAL .
Fifth Progress Report of the Archaeologica l Survey of Ceylon from“
April to Jun e 189 1 . Fcp . Colombo, 1893 .
GOVERNMENT or CEYLON .
A n I n dex to eve n ts relati n g to I n dia an d the Eas t referred to in “ The
Times,” betwee n the years 1850 an d 1889 in clusive . Fcp . Lon don1893 .
North I n dian Notes an d Q ueries fo r November 1893, 4to . Al lahabad,
1893 .
GOVERNM ENT or INDIA, HOME DEPARTM ENT.
Fin al Report o n the Revisio n of Settl eme n t of th e Nor thern part of theFerozepore D is tIict in the Pun j ab, 1884-89 . Fen . Lahore
,1893 .
GOVERNM ENT OR THE PUNJAB.
D o NOT Scan
Past This Poin t
Library .
ANDERSON, W' I LL IAM . The I n terdepe n de n ce of Abs tract Scie n ceE n gi n eeri n g . 8 V o . Lo n don ,
1893 .
IN ST ITUT ION OF CI V I L ENG IN EERS .
An n ual Report of the Director of th e Royal A lfred Observatory, Mauritius for the year 189 1 .
Metemological Observatio n s take n duri n g the year 1892 at the Roya lAlfred Observa tory, Mauritius .
ROYA L ALFRED OBSERVATORY,MAUR IT IUS .
Accoun t of the Operatio n s of the Grea t Trigo n ometrical Survey of
I n dia,Vol . XV .
—E lect-ro-Telegraphic Lo n gitude Operat ion s executed duri n g the years 1885-86, 1887 -88
,1889 -90
,an d 189 1 -9 2 an d
the revi sed re sul ts of Arc s co n tain ed in volumes IX a n d X al sothe simu l tan eous reductio n an d the fin al re su lts of the whole o f theoperatio n s . alto . Deh ra D un , 1893 .
SURV EYOR-G ENEEAL OF IND IA .
S tudies from the Yal e Psycholomcal Laborato rv fo r 1892 -93 . 8 vo .
New Have n . 1893 .
YAL E U N IVERS IT Y .
PE IQ O D IC A LS )DU P\C H AS E D .
Ca lcutta . I n dian Medica l Gazette, —V ol. XXVIII,No . 1"
G e n eva . Archive s de s Scie n ce s Physique s et Naturell es,—'
1‘
ome XXX ,
No . 1 1 .
Leipzig . A n n ale n der Phys ik un d Chemie,— Ban d L, He ft 4 .
Beiblatter,Ba n d XV II
,Stiick 10 u n d 11 .
Lo n do n . The Chemical News — Vol . LXVIII,Nos . 1774- 77 .
Numismatic Circular, -V ol. I I . No . 13 an d I n dex to V ol. 1 .
Paris . R-evue Scien tifique, LII, Nos .-5.
PROCEED I N GSOF THE
AS IATI C SO CIETY OF BENGAL,
f o R f E B RUARY , 1 894,
The An n ual Meetin g of the As iatic Soci ety of Ben gal was held onWed n esday, the 7th February, 1894, at 9 P.M .
THEHON’
D LE SIR C . A . E LL IOTT,PRE S I DENT, in the Chair .
The fol l ow in g members were pres en tDr. A . W . A lcock, Babu Gyan en dra Kumar RaiChaudhuri , Babu
Hara Chan dra Rai Chaudhuri, E . C. Cotes, E sq.,S ir A . W . Crof t
,
Babu Sarat Chan dra D as, Babu Bhupen dra Sri Ghosha, His Grace TheMost Rev . Dr . Paul Goethal s,G . A . Grierso n ,E sq.
,Dr . A . F . R . Hoern le
,
T . H . Hol lan d, E sq. , The Rev . Father E . Lafon t,W . A . Lee, E sq. ,
H . Luson ,-Esq.
,C. J . Lyal l, Esq.
, J . Man n,E sq.
,C. R . Marriott
,E sq.
,
L . de Nicevi ll e, E sq.,Mahamahopadhyaya Mahesachan dra Nyayaratn a,
M . H . Oun g,E sq.
,Al ex . Pedler, E sq. , Pan dit Satyavrata Samasrami
Pan d it Haraprasad Sastri, Dr . J . H . Tul l Wal sh, C. R . W i ls on , Esq.
Visitors z—Babu Chan dra Kan ta Ba su, H . V . E l l iott, Esq.
,W . J .
S immon s, E sq ,
Lieu ten a n t F . W . D . Trotter .Accordin g to the Bye-Law s of the Soc ie ty
,the Preside n t ordered
the Votin g papers to be di stributed for the ele ction of Offi cers an d
Members of Coun cil for 1894, an d appoi n ted Messrs . E . C. Cotes an d
M . H . Oun g to be S crutin eers .The PRES ID ENT the n cal led upon the S ecre tary to read th e An n ua l
Report .
fIN N U A L E P ORT F OR 1893 .
The Coun ci l of the Asiatic Socie ty have the hon our to submit thefol lowi n g Report on the state an d progres s of the Society ’ s affairsduri n g the pas t year .
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M emb er L is t .
Durin g the year u n der review 28 Ordin ary Members were elected,17 w ithdrew,
8 died,o n e bein g a Life Member, 3 were removed from the
l ist un der ru l e 40, bei n g more than 3 years absen t from I n dia, an d 2w ere struck Off u n der rul e 9 , n ot havin g paid their admission fees .The total n umber of members at the close of 1893, was thus 308again st 310 at the precedin g year ; of these 1 16 w ere Reside n t, 123n on -Res iden t, 12 Foreign ,
22 Life, 33 abse n t from I n dia, an d 2 Specialn o n - subscribin g members, as w i l l be seen from the fol lowin g tabl e,which also shows the fluctuation s in the n umber of Ordin ary Membersdurin g the past s ix years
Payin g. Non -payin g .
Year .
The eight Ord in ary Members, the loss of whom by d eath durin gthe year we have to regret, were Nawab Bahadur Abdul Latif Khan ,
Mr . He n ry F . Blan ford, Lieute n an t-Gen eral George Byre s Main wari n g,
Mr . E . O’
Brien,Babu U pe n dra Chun dra Roy
,Pan dit Haridas Sastri ,
Maharaja Sir Haren dra Kishore S in gh, an d Mr. James Wood-Mason .
There were three deaths amon gst the Hon orary Members, viz”
Major-Gen eral S ir A . Cun n in gham,Mon sieur E . Ren an, an d Professor
J . 0 . Westwood . The n umber n ow stan ds at 20.
The l is ts of Special Hon orary Members, Correspon di n g Members,
an d Associate Members, con tin ue u n altered from last year, there havin gbee n n o casual tie s . Their n umbers stan d at 5
, 6 an d 10, respectively .
Durin g the year on emember, His Highn ess the Maharajah Scin dia,compoun ded for his future subscription s .
I n d ian M useum.
No presen tation s were made over to the I n dian Museum.
The Trus tees on behalf of the Society wereDr . A . F . R . Hoern le.
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for Journ al, Par t I, has been exceeded by Rs . 983-1 -6,a sumwhich i s
more than covered by the Special gran t from the Govern men t of NorthVV estern Provi n ces for the publication of Mr . Hoey ’ s paper on Set
Mahét .
” Owin g to a n ew edition of the Society ’ s Byellaw s bei n g pri n ted,there i s a s light i n crease of Rs . 36-12 -0
,u n der the head of Prin ti n g
Circulars,” etc .
A n expe n d iture of on ly Rs . 242-7-0 appears un der the head “ Books,in con seque n ce of the n on -receipt of Messrs . Kegan Pau l, Tren ch, Triibn er an d Co .
’
s accoun ts, the books purchased through our Lon don agen tsamoun tin g to 56 7 1 -16- 55.
Owin g to exte n sive repairs to the Society ’ s buildi n gs an d to thecomplete chan ge of gas fitti n gs
,the accou n ts Show an extraordi n ary
expen diture of Rs .- 1 -3
,a sumwhich i s below the estimate .
The actual expe n diture on the Journ al an d Proceedin gs was
as follows
Journ al
Proceedin gs
Total 10 2
Thi s is le s s than th e Budget E stimate by Rs .-5 -10, but the
bills for the prin tin g of Part III,durin g the past year have n ot yet
been submitted .
The Budget E stimate of ordin ary receipts an d expen diture for 1894:has been fixed as follows —Rece ipts
,Rs . Expen ditur e
,
Rs .On the receipts Side, there is an in crease un der the head of Govern
men t A l l owan ces ” owin g to gran ts of Rs . an d of Rs . 500 madeby Govern men ts of Assam an d Madras
,respectively
,for Part II I of the
Society ’s Journ al deali n g w ith An thropology, E thn ology an d Folk-l ore .
The estimate for “ Miscel lan eou s Receipts has bee n reduced byRs . 2 50 as the sumactual ly received u n der this head in g was l ittl e morethan Rs . 100 duri n g the pas t year .
On the expen diture S ide the items “ Station ery,” Postage,
Freight,” Con tin gen cies,” “ Journ al,Part III,”
an d “ Pri n tin g Circulars,” &c .
, have bee n i n creased .
“ Station ery ”
has bee n i n creased byRs . 50, owi n g to the compilation of Socie ty ’ s Library Catal ogue . Thei tem of postage has been in creas ed by Rs . 50. This w il l cover thedespatch of those n umbers of the Journ al of 1893 which have bee n
1894] An n ualRep ort. 1 7
recen tly issued .
“ Freight ”has been slightly in creased owin g to th e
con ti n en tal age n cy .
There w il l, however, be an extraordin ary item of expen diturethe year 18941 on accoun t of Part I of the Journ al.
The detai l s of the Budget E stimate are as followsRECE IPTS .
Subscription sSal e s of Publication sI n terests on In vestme n tsRen t of RoomsGovern men t Allowan ce sMiscellan eous
Total Rs 0 0
EXPEND ITURE.
Salarie sCommissionPe n sionStation eryLightin gMun icipal TaxesPostage
Con tin ge n c i e sBooksLocal PeriodicalsBi n din gJour n al, Part I
Part I IPart 1 11
Proceedin gsPrin tin g C irculars
,
Total 0 O
Rs .
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EXTRAORD INARY Ex PEND ITURE .
For prin tin g the remain in g portion Of Maj orRaverty
’
s articl e on the Mihran of Sin d an dits Tributaries . ” Rs .Pres s Bill s for Journ al, Part 1, Nos . 2 -3 of
1893 . RS.
Total Rs . 0 0
L on d on Agen cy .
Messrs . Kegan Paul,Tren ch,Triibn er an d Co . , n ot havin g submittedtheir accoun ts w ith the Society dur in g the year, n othin g can be saidabout the sal es made by them of the Society ’ s publication s
, or of theamoun t due to or by the Society . NO remittan ce was made to themdurin g the year.The n umber Of copies of parts of the Journ als, of the Proceedin gs,
an d of the Bibliotheca In dica sen t to the Agen t s du r in g 1893 for sal e,
w ere 308, 1 10, an d 1 78, valued 46- 1 -6d ., 8 -5 -0d .
,an d Rs . 106-4-0,
respectively .
Seven in voices of books purchased an d of publication s of variou sSocieties sen t in exchan ge were received durin g the year, The value ofthe books pur chased amoun ted to 71 - 16-5 .
Co n tin en tal A gen cy .
Mr . Otto Harrassowitz, Bookseller, Leipzig, n ew ly appoin ted by theCoun ci l as agen t to . the Society, received durin g the year, 299 copies ofJourn als, 273 Oopies Of Proceedin gs, 843 copies of Bibliotheca I n dica
valued 44- 1 7 -0d ., 9 -1 1 an d Rs . 483 8 0, respectively, an d
the other books for . sal e amoun tin g to Rs . 69 -8-0.
Lib rary .
The total n umber of volumes or parts of volumes added to thel ibrary durin g the year was of which 660 were purchased an d
presen ted or received in exchan ge for the Society ’s publicatio n s .A n ew edition of the Society ’s Library Catalogue has been take n
in han d an d the compilation has been en trusted to the Ass istan t S ecretary of the Society .
Pub lication s .
There w ere published duri n g the year, ten n umbers of the Proceedin gs (NO. 10 of 1 892 an d Nos . 1 to 9 of 1893 ) con tain in g 2 10 pages of
le tter-press ; four n umbers Of the Journ al, Part I (No . 4 of 1892 an d
1894 ] An n ua lRep ort. 19
Nos . 1 to 3 of 1893) con tain i n g 331 pages of le tter -press an d 9 plate sfour n umbers of the Journ al, Part I I (No . 3 of 1892
,Nos . 1 to 3 Of
1893 ) con tain i n g 264 page s of l e tter-press, an d 13 plates ; two n umbers of the Journ al, Part I I I (Nos. 1 an d 2 of con tain in g 94pages of l e tter-press an extra n umber of th e Journ al, Part I for 1892,con tai n in g 64 pages Of letter -press an d 30 plates . In dexes to the Journ al,Parts I an d II for 1892, w ere also published .
Buildin g .
Al though Rs . was spen t o n the buildin g in 1887, exten s iverepairs were foun d n ece ssary dur in g the year . They were carried outby Messrs . Mackin tosh Burn Co ., at a cos t of Rs .
-1 -3 .
A n throp ology .
In August 1892, the Mon th ly Gen eral Meetin g resolved that a th irdsection deal i n g w i th An thropology, E thn ography an d Folk- l ore
,shoul d
be added to the Society ’ s Journ al, an d that the Coun ci l shoul d be an
thorized to e n ter i n to n egotiation s w ith the Govern me n t of Ben gal inorder to Obtain a gran t in con n ection therewith . An appli cation was
addressed to the Govern men t of Be n gal, an d they w ere pleased tosan ction a gran t of Rs . a year for the purpose of e n abl in g theA siatic Society of Ben gal to add such a third section to their Journ al.Durin g the year 1893, the Govern me n t of A ssam san cti on ed a gran tof Rs a year an d the Governmen t of Madras Rs . 500 for the twoOfficial years 1893—94 an d 1894—9 5, for the same purpose .
E lliott Prize for Scien tifi c Research .
Dur in g th e year 1892, the Hon’
ble Sir Charles E l l iott createdan en dowmen t for the en cour agemen t of origin al research in PhysicalS cien ce in Ben gal an d for this purpos e in vested the sumOf Rs .in Gover n men t 4 per cen t . promissory n otes, yieldin g an an n ua l retur nOf RS. 200. The scheme proposed was that a pri z e shoul d be awardedfrom the an n ual sumreceived as in terest,whether in cash , or partly in theform Of a gold medal an d partly in cash , for an y origin al es say givi n gthe resul t of origin al research or in vestigation in an y bran ch of Physical,Chemical ,Mathematical or Natural S ci en ce . The Trustees appoin tedto admin i ster the property w ere the Presiden t of the A siati c Society
,
th e Vice-Chan cel lor of the Cal cutta Un iversity, an d the D irector ofPubl ic In struction , Ben gal .The Coun cil of the A siatic Society have authori zed the Presiden t to
act as a Trustee, an d have agreed to the priz e bei n g awarded at theAn n ual Gen eral Meetin g.
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Coin Cab in et .
Durin g the year 71 Coin s were added to the Soci e ty ’s Cabin et,of which 6 were of gold mixed w ith s ome other metal ; 39 wereof si lver an d 26 of copper. They belon g to the follow in g classesBactrian (Apollodotus ) 3, Ku n i n da 5, A n dhra 1 3, Chédi 6, Pathan13
,Ben gal (in depen den t Sul tan s ) 7 ,Moghu l 16,Kuch Bihar 4, Jayan ti
pur l , As sam 1,Nepal 2 . Un der th e Treasure Trove Act were acquired
63 of these coin s ; via , 59 through the Govern men ts of the Be n galPresiden cy
,an d 4 through the Govern men t of Bombay . 8 coi n s
were presen ted by Mr. E . A . Gait, With the exception of theAn dhra an d Ched i coin s , they all belon g to wel l-kn own types, an d
detai led n otice s of them are publ ished in the Society ’s Proceedin gs forMarch
,Jun e an d August, 1893 .
On ice of Secretaries .
Mr. G . A . Grierson carried on the dutie s of Philological Secretaryan d Editor of the Journ al, Part I, durin g the year, except for threemon th s from August to October, when he was absen t on l eave, an d
Dr . A. F . R . Hoern le took charge Of the work .
Pan dit Hara Prasad S’
astri con tin ued Join t Philological Secretarythroughout the year .Dr . J . H . Tul l Walsh carried on the dutie s of Natural History
Secretary an d Editor of the Journ al, Part 11, throughout the year .The Hon
’
ble Mr . H . H . Risley carried on the dutie s of the A n thropological Secretary an d Editor of the Journ al
,Part 111
,durin g the year .
Dr . W . Kin g carried on the duti es Of Treasurer up to August whenhe resign ed, an d Mr. C. Littl e was appoi n ted in his place .Mr. C. R . Wilson carried on th e dutie s of the Gen eral Secretary
an d Editor of the Proceedin gs durin g the year, except for two mon ths,May an d Jun e, when he was abse n t on l eave, an d Dr. J .
' H . Tul lWal sh took charge Of the w ork in addition to h is dutie s as NaturalHistory Secretary to the Society .
Mr . J . H . E l l iott co n tin ued As si s tan t S ecretary an d Librarianthroughout the year .
There w ere n o chan ges in the pos ts of Ass is tan t Librarian ,Cashier,
Pan dit an d Copyist which were held by the perman e n t in cumben ts,Babu Joge'
sh Chan dra Chatterj ee,Babu Nritya Gopal Bose, Pan dit Hari
Mohan V idhyabhushan an d Babu Nan i Lal l Man n a .
Bib liotheca I n d ica.
Nin e fascicu l i were i ssued durin g the year,Of which on e i s in the
Arabic-Persian , seve n in the San skrit, an d on e in the T ibetan Series.
1894 ] An n ual Rep ort.
They belo n g to eight d ifferen t works, two fasciculibeiug issued for o n eSa n skrit work on ly, n amely the Tattva Cin taman i. On ly two workscame to a cl os e, n amely, the V araha Puran a an d the Madan a-Parijata .
The Philological S ecretary exerc ised compl ete con trol over thepubl ication . N0 n ew fascicu lus was taken in han d without his san ction .
The resul t of this vigilan ce has been the l iqu idatio n of old debts an d there storation of the s olve n cy Of the Fun d . By the middle of the year i t wasfoun d that the Soci ety was in a position to commen ce n ew publication s, atl eas t, some of those that were stopped for wan t of fun ds . But it was al s orecog n ised that care shoul d be take n n ot t o overdo th e work a n d n ot tofal l in to debt. At the suggestion of the Preside n t, therefore, a Budgetwas prepared by the Philological Committee
,an d the Secretary was
asked to strictly adhere to the Budget . The Budget i n cluded the n amesof publication s taken in han d, the n ames of publication s which would betaken in han d as soon as fun ds w ere avai lable, an d the n ames Of publication s approved an d san ction ed . A n y n ew work when san ction ed shou l dbe first en tered in to the third lis t an d should gradually rise to the firs tan d be taken in han d .
The expen diture of the Orie n tal Publ ication Fun d duri n g the year1893 i s Rs . -6-0,which i n cludes th e prin tin g charge s for 16, an d
editin g charge s for 14,fascicul i, givin g the average of Rs . 522 for each
fasciculus . This leaves a balan ce of Rs . -15-1 1 to the credit of theFun d at the en d of the year.The followin g i s a descriptive list of the publication s i ssued durin g
1893
A . ARAB I C -PERS IAN SERIES .1 . Ain -i-Akbari, the con stitution al history of the Mughal Empire
in Ak bar’
s time by Abfi -l- fazl, on e of the most learn ed men of his
court. The work was compiled by Ak bar’
s special order . Tran slatedby C olon el H . S . Jarrett
,advan ced by on e fasciculus on ly
,No . 83 1,
Volume III,Fasc . I I.
B . SANsxRIT SERIES .1 . Crauta-Sutra of Camkhayan a, Edited by Profes sor Dr. Alfred
Hillebran d Of Breslau in German y,has advan ced by on e fasciculus o n ly,
No. 827, V ol . II I , Fasc . I .2 . Madan a-Parijata, Edited by Pan dit Madhusudan a Smritiratn a,
Professor of Smriti in the San skrit C ol l ege,Calcu tta
,has advan ced by
on e fasciculu s on ly, No . 828, Fasc . XI . The work has come to a clos e .I t was written by Pan dit V icvecvara Bhatta at the court of Madan aPale. of Kastha, a small town on the Jamun a
,n ear D elhi . The same
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patron of letters got a V aidyak a work s imilarly compil ed in his cour t .That w ork al so was n amed after himself like this. I t has been cal ledMadan a-Bimeda-Nighan tu . He flourished about the middl e of the
fourtee n th cen tury of the Christian era .
3 . Varaba Puran a u n der the editorship of Pan dit Hrishik es’
a
S’
astri,on e of the Ju n ior Professors of the same Col l ege, advan ced by
on e fasciculus No . 829,Fasc. XIV . T he work comes to a close in this
fasciculus .4 . Tattva-Chi n taman i, th e stan dard work on the Nyaya Philo
Sophy in Ben gal, composed seven hun dred years ago in Mithila by
Gan géca U padhyaya, has advan ced by two fascicul i, Nos . 830 a n d
832,Vol . I II
,Fascs . I an d I I . The third Volume completes the chapter
on i n feren ce an d treats of the i n feren ce of the Godhead . The work isaccompan ied by the comme n tary of Jayadéva Micra e n ti tl ed Aloka .
5 . Brhad-Dharma Paran a, o n e of the latest works of the Panran ik l iterature,has advan ced by on e fasciculus ,No . 833, Fasc . IV, u n derthe editorship of Pan dit Haraprasad Sastri,M . A .
6 . Nyaya -V arttik a, an an cien t commen tary o n the Aphorisms ofGau tama by the famous Udyota-kara, has advan ced by on e fasciculuson ly, No . 834, Fasc . I I, u n der the editorship of Pan dit V in dhyeqvariprasad Dube
,Librarian ,
Ben are s San skr i t Col lege Library. The workwhe n completed will be a valuable con tribution to the Library of NyayaSchool of Philosophy .
C. T I BETAN SER IE S .1 . Avadan a-Kalpalatahas advan ced by on e fasciculus o n ly,No . 826,
Volume II,Fasc . I I, u n d er the j oi n t editorship of Babu S
'
aratchan dra
D as, C. I . E ., Tibetan Tran slator to Govern men t, an d Pan dit Harimohan
V idyabhfishan ,Orien tal Librarian of the Asiati c Society. The work
is so prin ted that on e page con tain s the Tibetan metrical tran slationan d the other the San sk rit text. It has been so desig n ed to help the
s tudy of Tibetan through the med ium of San skrit . The w ork was
composed in Kashmir duri n g the el eve n th ce n tury by the poet n amedK shemen dra, an d i s n ow the Stan dard Buddhist work in Tibet, read bothin origi n al an d in tran slation .
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Bue n os Ayres —Nation al Museum .
z—Academia Nation al de Cien cias de laRepublics. Argen tin a.
Caen —Socié té de Lin n éen n e de Norman die .Calcutta —Agri -Horticul tural Socie ty of In dia.
—Geological Survey of In dia.
-Editor, E n glishman .
z—Editor, In dian D aily News .
—Editor, I n dian E n gin eer .
—Editor, In dian E n gin eerin g.
—Editor, In dian Mirror.
—I n dian Museum .
—Mahabodhi Socie ty.
Literary S oci ety .
—Photographic Socie ty of In dia .
—Survey of In dia.
—Tuttobodhin i Shova .
— Un iversity Library .
Cambridge —U n iversity Library .
Cassel -. D er Verein fiir Naturk un de.
Cherbourg z— Société Nation als des Sci en ces Naturel les .
Chicago, Il l . —Editor, American An tiquarian an d Orien tal Journ al.
Chri stian a —U n ivers i ty Library.
Colombo z—Ceylon Bran ch, Royal As iatic Society .
Cope n hage n —La Société Royale des An tiquaires du Nord .
1' Cuttack z—Cuttack Library .
Dan zig —Naturforschen de Ge sellschaft.it Dehra D un z—Great Trigon ometrical Survey .
3“ Dresde n z—E n tomologische n Verei n s “ Iri s . ”
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1Dubl i n —R0yal Dublin Soci ety .
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Edi n burgh z—Royal Society .
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1~ —Scotti sh Geographical S ociety .
Flore n ce z—SocietaItal ian a di An thropologia, Etn ologia e Piscologia
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z—SocietaAfrican a d ’ Italia.
it Fran kfurt —Sen cken bergische Naturforschen de Gesell schaft .it —Naturw issen schaftlichen Verein s de s Regierun gsbezirk s .
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z—Netherlan ds E n tomological Society.
Hamburgh —Naturhistoriches Museum zu Hamburgh .
z—Naturwissen chaftlichen Verein .
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’ Hel sin gfors z—Societas pro Flora et Faun n a Fe n n ica .
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Ithaca (U . S . A. ) —Corn ell Un iversi ty .
1” Kiev —Soc iété des Naturalistes .
Kon igsberg z—Die Physikalische -Oek on omische Gesellschaft.Lahore —Editor, Civil an d Ililitary Gazette.
1‘ -Agricu l tural Socie ty.
Leipzig z—Deutsche Morgen lan dische Gesel l s chaft.-Der K . Sachsischen Gesel lschaft der Wisse n schaften .
1” Leyden z—Royal Herbarium .
3“ Liege z—Soci été Géologique de Belgique“
l“ —Société des S cien ces,f Liverpool —Literary an d Philosophical Society .
Lon don —An thropol ogical I n stitute .—Editor,Academy.
—Editor,Athen oeum.
—Briti sh Mus eum .
—Geol ogical Socie ty .
—In stitution of C iv il E n gi n eers .—In stitution of E l ectrical E n gi n eers .— I n stitution of Mechan ical E n gin eers .—Editor,Nature.
—Lin n ean Society .
—Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britai n an d Irelan d .
—Royal Astron omical Society .
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New Haven — Con n ecticu t Academy of Arts an d Scien ces .1 N.ewport (R . I . ) —Natural History Society .
New York —American Museum .of Natural History .
Ottawa —Geological an d Natural History Survey of the Domin ionCan ada.
1“ Oxford -Bodleian Library .
T —In dian I n stitute,Paris —Société de Géographie .
— Société d ’An thropologie.
- Société As iatique .Musée Guimet.Nation al Library .
Société Z oologique .Société Académique I n do-Chin oise.
Museum d ’ Histoire Naturelle.
Philadelphia —Academy of Natural S cien ces .- Editor
, Journ al of Compara tiveMedicin e an d Surgery.
Pisa —Socié té Toscan a di Scie n ze Natural i .Prague —K . K . Stern warte .Rio de Jan eiro — Imperial Observatario.
Rome — Société degli Spettroscop isti Ital ian i .Roorkee : Editor, I n dian Forester .
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AB STRACT or PRO CEED I NG S or COUNC I L D URING 1893 .
Jan uary 26th, Ordin ary Meetin g.
The request of Prof. Leuman n of th e Strassburg U n ivers ity, aski n g
for the loan of Hari V amca Puran a, a Jain man uscript, from the 1ibra~
ry,was gran ted .
A n ofler from Mr. V. Bal l to exchan ge w i th three complete volumesof the Society ’s Journ als for certain n umbers of the Journ als an d Proceedin gs, wan tin g in his set, was referred to the Librarian for report as to
what n umbers were avai lable .In reply to a l etter askin g to be al l owed to hol d an ambulan ce class
for ladies on Thursdays in February 1893,from 12 to l P. M . ,
Mrs .Rosalie Trelawn y was in formed that ow i n g to the Society ’s bu ildin gbei n g un der repair
,it would be impossibl e to accede to her request .
Messrs . Men ge n s, Kin g an d Simon s were ordered to audit theaccoun ts for 1892 .
February 23rd, Ordin ary Meetin g.
Au exchan ge w ith the Society ’ s Journ al, Part I , an d Proceedin gs,w ith the publ ication s of the Archaeological Survey of Ceylon , was
s an ction ed .
I t was ordered that the request of Mr . E . J . Rapson , offeri n g thetext an d tran slation of the “ Y ajfiavalk yagita
” for publ ication in the
Bibliotheca In dica, should be circulated to the Philol ogical Committee .
An ofi er from Pan di t Satyavrata Samacrami to edit the Aitareya
Brahman a w ith the commen tary of Sayan a for the Bibliotheca I n dica,
was referred to the Philological Commi ttee .Copies of MacD on ell
’
s“ New San skrit-E n glish Diction ary an d
Gen eral Cun n in gham ’
s Mahabodhi were ordered to be purchased forthe Library .
With referen ce to his offer to exchan ge three volumes of the Socie ty ’
s
Journ als for certain wan tin g n umbers,Mr . Bal l was in formed of the
avai lable n umbers in s tock .
On the recomme n dation of the Members of Coun cil,an An thrOpolo
gical Assistan t on Rs . 20, was appoin ted from the 1 5th Jan uary, 1893 .
March 30th, Ordin ary Meetin g.
I t was agreed, at Messrs . Luzac (it Co .
’ s request, to supply themw ith on e Copy each of the n ew publication s of the Bibliotheca In dica as
soon as published, to en able them to i n sert the publ ication in theirOrien tal List .
At the request of Babu Nilmon i Mukerj ee, i t was agreed to
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recomme n d him to Govern me n t as an appl ican t for free copie s of th eNot-ices of San skri t Man uscripts . ”
On the recommen dation of the Philological Secretary, a Copy of
Beal e ’s OI icn tal Biographical D iction ary,
” edited by H . G . Kee n e,was
ordered to be purchased for the Library.
Ap ril 27th Ordin ary M'
eetin g.
The request of Pan dit V aman a S’
astri, aski n g for the loan of twoSan skrit Ma n uscripts e n titled Brhat Paracara an d V rddha
Paracara, from the Govern men t C ol l ection ,was complied w i th .
The appoin tme n t of Dr . J . H . Tull Wal sh , Natural History Secretary, to act for two mo n th s as the Ge n eral S ecre tary
, in th e place ofMr . C. R . Wil son
,an d in addition to his own dutie s, was approved a n d
ordered to be reported at the Ge n eral Meetin g .
The outstan din g bil ls of the Orien tal Publication Fun d havin g beenpaid ofi , the Philologica l Committee were ordered to report what workwas in han d a n d what work should be taken up for the mo n ey avai labl e .
IIIay 25th, Ord in ary Meetin g.
At th e reques t of Mr . Robert K . Douglas,it was ordered that a
s econ d Copy of the Socie ty ’ s Journ a l an d Proceedin gs, be se n t free,addre ssed to the Keeper of the Orien tal Books an d Man uscripts
, Briti s hMuseum . Mr . Dougla s was i n formed that the S oc iety would be glad torece ive in some cas es, duplicate Copies of importan t publ i catio n s of thatDepartme n t .
On the death of Mr . James “ food -Mason , Vice -Preside n t of theSociety
,the fol low in g resolution was recorded “ The Coun ci l desire
to place on record their deep se n se of the very great loss the As iaticSociety of Ben gal, a n d I n d ian Natural Scien ce, have sustain ed by the
timely death of their Vice -Pres ide n t, Mr . James Wood-Maso n, a n d
to expres s their sorrow at the sad even t that has deprived the Socie tyof on e of its most active an d e n thusiastic supporters, an d the Coun ci lof amu ch esteemed coll eague a n d frie n d .
” It was ordered that a l etterof con dole n ce shou ld be drawn up in the above terms
,s ign ed by the
Members of Coun cil, an d forwarded to Mrs . Wood-Maso n . The vacan tVi ce -Pres ide n tship was offered to Dr . A . F . R . Hoer n le
, an d to Mr . C.
Little,a s eat on the Coun ci l of the Socie ty .
The deaths of Profe ssor J . O. Westwood of Oxford,an d Mon s ieur
E . Re n an of Paris,both Hon orary Members of the Soci ety,
were orderedto be reported at the Gen eral Mee ti n g, an d the que stio n of fi l lin g upthe vacan cies to the con s idered at n ext Cou n ci l Meeti n g .
At the suggestion of the Ge n eral S ecretary,i t was ordered that
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he shoul d brin g the ques tion of keepin g the Library open between 7 to
9 A. M.
,in addition to the usual hours
,before the Gen eral Meetin g,
s tatin g that the Coun ci l propose to d iscon tin ue it .I t was ordered that the Assistan t Secretary of the Society should
be asked if he coul d un dertake the compi lation of a n ew edition of the
Society ’ s Library Catal ogue, an d how lon g it woul d take to fin ish it .A n ofi er was made to the Netherlan ds En tomological Society of
Hague for an exchan ge of publ ication for th eir Tidjschrift voor E n tomologie,” w ith the Society ’ s Journ al, Part II .
Jun e 29 th, Ordin ary Ill eetin g.
An offer from Dr . P . Horn of Strassburg,to publish the en tire text
of a History of Mahmud Shah Iihilji in the Bibliotheca In dica, was
referred to the Philological Committee for report at n ext Meetin g.
Mr . C. Littl e ’s acceptan ce of the seat on the Coun ci l of the Society,was ordered to be reported at the n ext Gen eral Meetin g .
Dr. A . F . R . Hoern le’
s acceptan ce of the vacan t Vice-Presiden tshipof the Socie ty, was ordered to be reported at the n ext Ge n eral Meetin g.
In reply to a l e tter askin g for aid for the publ ication of the En gli shtran slation of th e Mahabharata,
” Babu Pratapa Chan dra Ray, was in
formed that the Cou n ci l regretted that they coul d n ot assist him, but
that the Society would subscribe for an ex tra copy of the work.
On the recommen dation of the Phil ological S ecretary, a copy of
Kitabu-l- I n tisar-l i-Wasitati-q i-l-Amsar,” was ordered to be purchased for the Library .
The Budget drawn up by the Philological Committe e of the expe n ses of the Bibliotheca In dica, together w ith a li st shew in g the orderin which theman uscripts shou l d be edited, was accepted, with a recommen dation that the Philological Committee shoul d be directed to drawup a s imi lar Budget in December of every year. The report was orderedto be publi shed in the July Proceedin gs .
It was recorded that the A ssi s tan t Secretary was ready to un dertake the compilation of a n ew edition of the Society ’
s Library Catal ogue .July 2 7th, Ordin ary hfeetin g.
A l etter from the U n der-Secretary to the Govern men t of Ben galwas recorded, con veyi n g the approval of the Govern men t of I n dia tothe n ame of Babu Nilmon i Mukerj ee bei n g in cluded in the l i st of
person s to whom “ Notices of San skrit Man us cripts are se n t .It was ordered that at the n ext Gen eral Meetin g the Secretary
shou ld read an in vitation from Professor Dr . R . Semon to subscribe forthe erection of a marble bust of Professor Dr . E . Haeckel in the
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In reply to a letter o f en qu iry the Secretary to theGovern me n t ofBe n gal,Public Works Departme n t,was in formed, that theAsiatic Soci etywas n ot in a posi tio n to afi ord an y defin ite opin ion as to the exte n t in I n d iagen eral ly, an d in Be n gal especial ly, of the un touched epigraphical workwhich should be un dertaken by official agen cy, n or as to the period forwhich such age n cy shou l d be main tain ed n or had the Soci ety an y age n cyto col l ec t an d record in formation on the subject . They bel ieved, however
,that there were sufficien t epigraphical material s to ful ly employ
two whole -time epigraphical offi cers for a n umber of years, o n e for theNorth In dian area an d the other for Sou th In dia.
On the recommen dation of the Natural History Secretary, a copyof the n ew edition of J . Hiib n er
’
s Sammlun g E xotischer .Schmetterl i n ge
,
”was ordered to be purchased for the Library.
The appoin tme n t of Babu Sarat Chun der Biswas on Rs . 13 for Sixmen ths for the purpose of pu ttin g the stock in order, was san ction ed .
With referen ce to a suggestion of Colon el H . S . Jarrett that thepublication of Mun takhabu-t-Tawarikh s hould be taken in han d as
soon as pos sibl e, the Hon’
ble Maj or E . Noel of the Rifle Brigade wasasked to take over the work .
Sep tember 28th,Ordin ary Meetin g.
The acceptan ce of the Hon’
ble Maj or E . Noel to un dertake thetran slation of Volume I . of “ Mun tak_ l_1abu -t-Tawarikh
,was recorded .
October 26th, Ordin ary JlIeetin g.
The open in g of the Library from 7 to 9 A . M . Was dis con tin ued as
the maj ority of the Residen t Members w ere again s t the proposal .The amoun t, Rs . 90, subscrib ed by the Reside n t Members of the
Society,for the erection of a marble bust of Profes sor Dr . E . Haeckel in
the Zool ogical In stitute in Jen a, on his sixti ’eth birthday, was orderedto be tran smitted to Professor Dr . R . Semon of the Zoological In sti tute
,
Je n a, for the purpose .The offer of the Hon
’
ble Mr . H . H . Risley to resume charge ofthe A n thropological S ecretaryship of the Society was accepted w i thp leasin
‘
e.
November 30th, Ordin ary Meetin g.
On the recommen dation of the Natural History Secretary the exchan ge of the Society ’ s J ourn al, Pt . II, for Novita-tes Zoologicee was
san ction ed .
With referen ce to the Coun ci l order on the question of chan g in gthe Agen cy of the Society, it was resolved to draw up the terms of a
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p roposed agreemen t w ith Messrs . Con stabl e an d Co . ,an d to circula te themto Coun ci l for approval, together w ith the existin g terms w ith Messrs .Kegan Paul, Tren ch , Triibn er an d Co .
A letter from the Hon’
ble Mr . H . H . Risley to the efi ect that he hadw ithdrawn Pt. III,No . I, of the Society ’ s J ourn al an d. completely re
arran ged the matter, was recorded .
The li s t of petty charges submitted by the Baptist Miss ion Press, n otformal ly accepted by the Society,was referred to the Fin an ce Committee .
I t was agreed at the suggestion of the Gen eral Secretary thatDr . A . W. Alcoc‘k shoul d be offered a seat on the Coun cil of the Societyin the place of Mr . E . C. Cotes, resign ed .
I t was agreed to len d “ Maitrayan i Qak ha an d “ Man ava CulvaSutra,” two San skrit Man uscripts
,to Prof. Dr . F . Kn auer on the security
of the U n iversity of Kiew .
The pay of the Assistan t S ecretary of the Society was raised toRs . 100, from the firs t of Jan uary 1894 .
On the recommen dation of the Natural History Secretary, a copy of
the “ Gen eral Catalogue «of Hemiptera,
” by L . Lethierry an d G . Severin ,
was ordered to be purchas ed for th e Library .
On the recommen dation of the Gen eral Secretary the purchas e of a
copy of Maj or-Gen eral Malcolm ’
s Life of Lord C l ive for the Librarywas agreed to.
Mr . G . A. Grierson return ed from leave an d relieved Dr . Hoern le
of the Philological Secretaryship to the Society .
D ecember 28th, Ordin ary Meetin g.
Wi th referen ce to the request of the Presiden t of the PhiladelphiaAcademy of Natural Scien ce that the As iatic Society of Ben gal shoul dmemorial i z e the Govern men t for the tran smiss ion of obj ects of NaturalHistory to the Un ion coun tries at th e rate of samples of merchan di se
,
’
an d n ot at‘ l etter rates,’ which are ten times greater than those of samples
of merchan dise, i t was resolved to forward a copy of the “
Circular to theTru stees of the In dian Mu seum, w i th a n in timation that if they w ere ofopin ion that a memorial shou ld be framed, the Asiatic Socie ty was willin gto .CO-Operate .
A l e tter from the Hon’
ble Maj or E . Noel, to the effec t that he mus tg ive up the tran s lation of the Mun takhabu -t-Tawarikh for the Bibliotheca In dica, as he was goin g o n a year’ s l eave to E n glan d, an dmay n ot
retur n to In dia, was referred to the Philological Committee .Dr . A . W . Al cock ’
s accep tan ce of the s eat on the Coun cil of theSoci ety was recorded .
The ackn owl edgmen t from Professor :Dr . R . Semon of the sumof
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£5- 1 1—7, subscribed by themembers of the As iatic Society towards theHaeck el Memorial Bust was recorded .
The question of fil lin g up of the vacan cies in the Hon orary Memhership of the Society caused by the deaths of the late Profes sor Westwood ,an d Mon sieur Ren an ,
deferred at the July Meetin g of Cou n cil, wasordered to be circulated to the Cou n ci l with the previous papers, an d
a l i s t of the presen t Hon orary MemberWith referen ce to an offer from Mr . B . Dé, to edit the Tarikh -i
Rashidi for the Bibliotheca In dica, it was resolved that the proposalshoul d be con sidered when drawin g up the Bibliotheca In dica Budget forn ext year.
Thequestion of publ ishin g the remain in g portion of MajorRaverty ’
s
article on “ The Mihran of S in d an d its Tributaries,” was referred to theFin an ce Committee.
With referen ce to l etters from the Superin ten den t of the BaptistMi s s ion Press deal in g w ith the subj ect of the An thropological portionof the Society ’
s Journ al,an d en clos in g copies of in struction s rece ived fromthe Hon
’
ble Mr . Risley, it was resolved to ask Dr . A . W . A l cock to takeup the work of the An thropol ogical S ecretaryship, an d to in formMr . Risley that, fin din g difficultie s in the arran gemen t suggested byhim
,the Coun cil had recommen ded Dr . Alcock to be el ected An thropo
logical Secretary for the en suin g year un der rul eThe Report havin g been read the PRES ID ENT in vited the meetin g
to put an y question s or to offer an y remarks which an y member mightthin k n ecessary in con n ection therewith .
No remarks havin g bee n offered, the PRES I DENT moved the adoptionof the Report. The motion was carried u n an imously .
The PRES I DENT then read the Report of the Trustees of the E lliottPrize for Scien tific Research .
Rep ort on the E lliott Prize for Scien tific Research.
The Trustees have received essays from the follow in g competitorsfor the prize
(l .) Babu Asutosh Muk hopédhyaya, M . A .,F . R . S . E . (three
essays)(a) On an appl ication of difi eren tial equation s to the theory
of plan e cubics(b) Researches on the n umber of n ormal s common to two
sur faces, two curves, or a curve an d a sur face(c) On the appl ication of Gauss ’ theory of curvature to the
evaluation of double in tegrals .
E lliott Prize for Scien tific Research. 35
Babu J n an Saran Chakravarti, Studen t,Pres iden cy CollegA chapter on the gen eral equation of the secon d degree .
Babu Brajen dran ath Seal ,M .A .,Prin cipal ,Berhampore Coll ege .
New methods of determin in g some fun damen tal defin itein tegral s, bein g a chapter in the in tegral cal culusw ith an in troductory section con tain in g n ew formu laefor the summation of s eries, together w ith theirappl ication s .
(4 ) S . L . S . Studen t, Pres iden cy CollegeA deduction of the properties of prime an d composite
n umbers from those of recurrin g decimal s an d theirequivalen ts in other scal es of n otation .
(5 ) Babu Chan dra Kan ta Basu (Sub -Overseer, Madaripur )Mathematical in vestigation s, an d their practical appl ica
tion s,if poss ibl e
,for the determin ation of a soun d
gen eratin g spot, where son orous vibration s commen cean d afterwards produce the sen sation of soun d, fromthe data of observed differen ces of times in whichthe same report is heard from several p laces fixed inpos ition .
The Trustees,after con su l tin g experts , as provided in the scheme,
adjudge the priz e for the year 1893, to Babu Chan dra Kan ta Basu,
Sub -Overseer,Madaripur (No . 5,in the foregoin g l ist . )
C . A . E LL I OTT .
TrusteesA . CROFT .
Calcutta, the Sl st Jan uary, 1894.
The PRES I DENT al so read a short accoun t of Babu Chan drakan taBasu ’ s paper, ki n dly furn i sh ed by Mr . A . M . Nash .
Some years ago a Committee was appoin ted by the Asiatic Society of
Ben gal , to i n vestigate the cau s e s of the n atural phe n ome n on common lykn ow n as the Barisal Gun s ”
, but ow in g to the in sufficie n cy of thei n formatio n on the subj ect
,n o defi n ite con clus ion coul d be arrived at .
I t i s clear that i f the spot fromwhich th e soun ds origin ate cou l d beaccurately determin ed, the difficul ty of the i n ves tigati on woul d be
material ly les sen ed, an d thi s i s th e problemwhich the writer hasattempted to solve . The prin cip le upon which he has based his solutioni s the fol low in g
Assumi n g that the veloci ty of soun d i s k n own an d con stan t,if the same soun d i s heard at two differe n t places
,the d ifferen ce
betwee n the d i s tan ce s of those places from the spot where thesoun d origin ated can be calculated, bein g equal to the vel oc ity of soun d
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B.
multip l ied by the difleren ce between the times observed . From thew ell-kn own p roperty of the hype'rbola that the differen ce between thefoca l d istan ces of an y poin t of the curve i s con s tan t, it fol lows that thesoun d must come from some poin t of a hyp erbola havi n g the two oh
s ervin g station s as its foci, or, i f al lowan ce be made for the curvature ofthe earth ’s surface, from some poi n t of a hyperboloid of revolution .
Whe n there are. several observi n g station s, each pair of station s givesa defin ite locu s for the origin of the soun d, an d if the poi n t common toall the se loci can be determin ed, this poi n t mu st be the on e required .
It is un n ecessary to e n ter in to the detail s of calculation s n eces saryfor th e determin ation of this common poin t
,which are give n at con
siderable l en gth in the essay . The writer has al so given the modification s of the calculation caused by the variation s of the velocity of soun dan d other causes .Babu Chan drakan ta Basu bein g presen t in the meetin g, the
Preside n t pre sen ted himw ith the. medal an d prizemon ey, addin g a few
words of con gratulation an d e n couragemen t.The PRES IDENT then del ivered an address .(The Address has bee n prin ted separately from the Proceedin gs ) .A cordial vote of than ks was proposed by Sir A . W . Croft to
the Hon . Sir C. A . E ll iott for his addres s an d for his services to theSociety
,which was carried by acclamatio n .
The PRE S I DENT an n oun ced that the S crutin eers reported the resul tof the E lectio n of Officers an d Members of Cou n cll to be as fol lows
Presiden t
C . J . Lyall, Esq. , M .A . ,
V ice-Presiden ts
Dr. A . F . R . Hoern le,
Sir A . W . Crof t,M .A
The Ho n . S ir C. A . E l l iott,
Secretaries an d Treasurer
G . A . Grierson , E sq., C.S.
Dr . J . H . Tu l l Walsh .
Dr . A . W . A lcock.C. R . Wilson ,
Esq. ,M.A .
Pa n d i t Haraprasad Sastri,M .A.
C. Little, Esq.
,M .A
1 894] E lection of Hon orary JlIembers . 3 7
Other Ill embers of Coun cilColon el H . S . Jarre tt .Dr . Mahen dralél Sarkar
,C .I .E .
Co lon el J . Waterhous e,B .S.C.
The Hon . Mr . Justice Amir Ali, C.I .E .
MahamahOpadhyaya Mahesachan dra Nyayaratn a, C. I.E .
A . Ped ler, E sq.
,F .R . S .
Dr . W . J . Simpson .
J . Man n ,E sq.
,M .A .
The meetin g was then resolved in to the Ordin ary Ge n eral Meeti n g .
C . J . Lyal l, Esq. ,M .A . ,LL .D . ,
PRES I D ENT, in the Chair .
The mi n ute s of the last meetin g were read an d con firmed .
Six ty- s ix Presen tation s were an n oun ced, detai l s Of which are giventhe Library List appen ded .
The fol lowin g gen tl emen are can didate s for election at the n ext:Mee tin gHis High n ess Raja Vishwan ath S in gh
,Bahadur
, Chief of Clihaturpur, proposed by V . A . Smith
, Esq.
,seco n ded by C. R . Wilso n
,E sq.
W . M . Osmon d,E sq.
,proposed by T . H . Hol lan d, Esq.
,s econ ded
by C. R . Wilson,E sq.
The COUNC I L reported that in con sequen ce of the deaths of
Mon sieur E . Ren an ,Professor J . 0 . Westwood, Major -Ge n eral Sir . A .
Cu n n i n gham , Dr . Al oys Spren ger, Dr . War n er Siemen s,Profe s sor H .
Mil n e -Edwards,there w ere n ow eight vacan cie s in the l is t Of the Hon o
rary Members . The Cou n cil therefore recommen ded the seven fol lowin gge n tl emen for election as Hon orary Members at the n ext Meetin g
Sir Will iam He n ry Flower,the presen t Director Of the Natural
History Departmen ts Of the Briti sh Museum,who as Hun terian Professor
of Comparative An atomy in the Royal College of Surgeon s distin gui shed himself by h is researches Ou the Comparative A n atomy an d Osteology of the Mammal ia
,e special ly of the Whal e s . His w ork on the
homologies an d succession Of the teeth of mammal ia is classical, as i sh is “ I n troduction to the Osteology of the Mammal ia .
” Sir Will iamFlower is al so w el l kn ow n as on e of the l eaders Of the moder n a n thropometric school of exact An thropology .
Dr . Edward Fran klan d, E RS .8m. on e of the l ead
in g En gl ish Chemists, who by his researches has largely helped to place
38 E lection of Hon orary Members. [FER
the scien ce of Modern Chemistry in i ts prese n t position . His discoverie shave been made in the variou s bra n ches of Pure, Physical, Appl ied a n d
An alytical Chemistry . By his i solation Of the A lcohol Radical s (E thylwas i solated in he n ot on ly did much to estab l ish the Theory ofRad ical s on a sou n d basis
, but also from his theore tical reason in g on
these bodies, an d from o th er similar researche s on the Organ o -Metal li cbod ie s, he was able to lay the foun datio n of the Moder n Theory ofA tomicity . I n deed Fran klan dmay be said to have -bee n the origin atorOf the doctri n e Of the saturatio n capacity of el eme n tary atoms. Shortly after he had isolated the radical s , he al so by hi s d iscovery Of theOrgan o-Metal l ic bodies placed a n ew an d mos t powerfu l in strume n t ofresearch in the han ds Of Chemists
,an d was able to u ti li se this method
h imself in the d i scovery of man y n ew subs tan ce s, an d in the determi n a
tio n of the con stitutio n ofman y classes of compoun d s . Amon gst h i s man yin vestigation s
,the syn thetical researches on the acids Of the fatty or aceti c
series , on the lactic seri es, a n d on the acrylic series,are most valuabl e .
In deed his re searches in these dire ction s w ere n ot on ly most prol ific In
themselves,but they al so poi n ted the way to the di scovery Of vast
n umbers Of other n ew substan ces in the han ds of other Chemists .In his researches on Physical Chemistry
,he has put forward an
e n tirely n ew theory as to the source of l ight in lumi n ous flames,an d as
to the i n fluen ce of varyi n g atmospheric pres sure on combustion . A l soin con jun ction w i th Mr . Lockyer, he pub l ished man y papers , an d mad eman y d i scoverie s with referen ce to the Chemistry an d the Physicalcon dition s of the Su n ’ s Atmosphere .
In Appli ed an d An aly tical Chemistry he in ven ted an improvedapparatus for the an alysis Of gases, an d in the case Of water an alysi s herevolution i zed the whol e process, an d placed it upon a soun d basis . As
a member of the River ’ s Pol lution Commi ssi o n ,too
,his con tribution s to
our k n ow ledge Of methods of treatmen t of sewage,an d fou l waste-l iquid s
from factories,&c. ,
which l iqu ids were formerly al lowed to pollu te therun n in g s treams in Great Britain ,
have bee n most valuable .In add ition to the above summary Of his w ork in Chemistry, i tmay
b emen tion ed that he has co n tributed largely to our kn ow l edge on suchvarious subj ects as The Source of Muscular Power,” Measuremen t ofSolar In te n si ty,” The Physical Caus e of the Glacial Epoch,” &c. , &c
Mo n sieur Lou is Pas teur,to whose world -w ide reputation —a repu ta
tion based as mu ch upon hi s won d erful biological d iscoveri es as upon hisown remarkabl e application Of them for the be n efit of man kin d—it isalmost superfluou s to refer.Havin g early achieved the highest dis tin ction as a chemist, an d
the n approachin g Biology fromthe chemical s ide,M . Pasteur made his
40 Withdrawal of Members . [FEB.
Professor Theodor Noeldek e of the Un iversity of S trassburg, on e
of the most disti n gui shed Arabists of German y—perhaps, s in ce thedeath of H . Fleischer
,H . Thorbeck e, an d August Mul ler, the most dis
tin guished the author of n umerous works deal i n g w i th the lan guage,l iterature
,religion an d history of the Arabs . But he i s n ot o n ly cele
brated as an Arabist . I n Syriac al so he i s on e of the chief authorities inEurope
,an d has explored the man y d ialects of that w idely spread form
of Semitic speech, of which his grammars are th e sta n dard authorityfor the Ma n daean
,or lan guage of the Gn ostics or Sabia n s of the Kur ’
an,
the n orthern or Edessan Syriac, the Palmyre n e of the i n scription s ofTadmur, an d the dial ects spok en by the Chris tian s of Pal e stin e . I n
the Pahlavi of the Sasa n ian kin gs al so he has greatly advan ced our
k n owledge , an d has edited a work in that la n guage, on e of the few
remn an ts of the l iterature which was swept away by the Muhammadancon ques t, con tain i n g a roman ce or l egen dary history deal in g withArdeshir Papakan ,
the foun der of the Sasan ian dyn asty .
Dr . Rei n hold Rost,the late Librarian of the I n dia Office, a post
from w ich he retired a few mon ths ago after an in cumben cy of 24: years,who is regarded w i th respect an d affection throughou t the en tire worldof Orie n tal studie s . Himsel f the most man y- s ided stud en t in all branches of that departme n t of learn i n g—eve n the most remote
,such as
th e d ialects of I n do -Chin a an d the vas t tract occupied by the Malayla n guages on the on e s ide, an d the Swahi li of the African coast on
the other—he has bee n always ready to place his great stores of k n owl edge at the service of other members of the craft
,an d to help forward
the advan ceme n t of scien ce wherever he foun d an opportun i ty . Yet,
though his favourite studies lay in somewhat out-of-the -w ay region s,he has by n o mean s n eglected the better -kn own fields of Orien tal l e tters,an d he has lo n g sin ce won his place amon g sol id scholars in San skrit .He has bee n ho n oured by the U n iversity of Oxford w ith his
ho n orary degree of M .A . , by that of Edin burgh w ith the degree ofLL .D . ,
a n d by the Govern me n t w ith the Compan ion ship of the I n d ianEmpire . The members of this Society, in whose w ork he has alwavs
fel t the warmest in teres t,recog n iz e that in en rol lin g him amon g their
Ho n orary Members they are doi n g n o less hon our to themselves than to
him .
The fol low i n g ge n tl emen have expressed a w ish to w i thdraw fromthe Society
Moulvie Golam Sarwar .
Rai Bahadur D han apati Sin gh , D ugher .
R. Sewel l, E sq.
, O.S.
1894 ] Bibliotlieoa I n olica Budget for 1894. 41
The S ECRETARY reported the death of the foll owi n g Hon oraryMembers
Dr . Al oys Spren ger .Dr. Warn er S ieme n s .Profe s sor H . Mil n e-Edwards .
The PRE S IDENT laid on the table th e Budget of expen se s on the
B ibliotheca I n dica for 1894, drawn up by the Ph ilological Commi ttee,an d approved by th e Coun c i l .
PROCEEDINGS OF A MEETING OF THE PHILOLOGICALCOMMITTEE OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL .
Held on Mon day, Jan uary 29th, 1894 .
PRE SENTG . A. Grierson ,
E sq. , Hon . Dr . A . F . R . Hoern le .
Phil. Seey. C. Littl e,E sq.
Pan dit Haraprasad Sastri . C , R . Wilson,E sq.
REPORT .
We recommen d that the fol low in g Budget for the “ Bibl iothecaIn dica for the year 1894 be approved .
BUDGET E STIMATE FOR 1894 .
RECE I PTS. Rs . A . P.
Balan ce in han d 0 0
Governmen t gran t for 1894 0 0
0 0
Note
No accoun t has been taken of the saleproceed s of books,as they cover the
estab lishmen t,postage an d other charges .
0 o
D ISBURSEMENTS. Rs .
Tattva -cin taman i 700
Svayaxn bhn puran a 1 050
Tul ’si-sat ’
sai 300
Brhad-dharma-puran a 500
Pag SamThi S’
in
Mark an déya -puran a 600
Ain -i-AkbariNyaya-vfirttika 900
Kalpalata 1 350
Caturvarga-cin taman i 600
Taittiriya-samhité 300
Crauta -s fitra of Camk hayan a 700
Nyayak usumafij'ali 500
Maasiru -l-Umara 500
Aitaréya—brahman a
Mun taghabu - t -tawarikh 600
Ten Arabic Poems 350
Sher PhyinTran slation of Ak barn ama 300
Atharvan a-upan isads 300
Paymen t of old deb ts forcomplete works 180
42 H . Beveridge—Major Fran cklin’
s descrip tion of Gaur . (FEB.
Thefol low in g books have been stopped for various reason s1 . Apastamba -
crau ta -sutra .
2 . Lal ita-vistara (E n glish Tran slation ).3 . Sucruta.
4 . An ubhasya .
5 . Cribhasya .
The followin g list of works san ction ed an d approved by the Coun ci lbut n ot taken in han d, has been draw n up in order of urgen cyl . San k liya
-
pravacan a-bhasya . 10. Taju - l-Maasir.
2 . Hira n ya-keci- sutra Crauta ) . 1 1 . Naka’
idu‘ lFarazdaqwa Jarir .
3 . Baudhayan a- sutra Crauta ) . 1 2 . Karan a -gran tha.
4 . Vipaka -sutra . 13 . Bhattotpala’
s Commen tary5 . Natadhamma -katha- sutta . on the Brhat - samhita.
6 . Saddharma-
pu n darik a . 14 . Y ajfiavalk ya -gita.
7 . Smrti-can drika. 1 5 . Katha-kosa .
8 . Tawarikh i Yamin i. 1 6 . Kala- Viveka .
9 . Tawarikh i Was saf. Caraka .
We further recommen d that Mr . Beveridge shou l d be in vited totran slate the Ak barn ama, that MahamahOpadhyaya Chan dra -kan taTarkalan kara be in vited to con tin ue the ed ition of the Atharvan aupan isad s, an d that Surgeon -Maj or Ran kin g be in vited to con tin uethe tran slation of the Mun takhabu -t - tawarikh .
The followi n g papers w ere read1 . The Nasa l I n dex Comp ared up on the Head an d Skull— lV ithNotes
up on the Nasal Bon es, a n d An terior Nasal Ap erture—By R . HAVELOC K
CHARLES, ESQ , M .D M . OH .
, F Z .S. , Ben gal Medical Service.
Commun icated by the ANTHRO POLOGI CAL SECRETARY .
2 . Note on the Tribes, Clan s, a n d Castes of Nep al— By CAPTAIN
EDEN VANS ITTART . Commun icated by the ANTHROPOLOGI CAL SECRETARY .
The papers wi l l be publ i sh ed in the Journ al, Part I II .3 . Materials for a F lora of the Malayan Pen in sula —By GEORGE
K ING,ESQ .
,M .B ., LL .D .
, Sup erin ten den t, Royal Botan ic
Garden ,Sibpur.
The paper w i l l be publ i shed in the Journ al, Part I I .4 . The HONORARY PHILOLOGI CAL S ECRETARY read
,—Note on M ajor
Fran cklin’
s D escrip tion of Gama—By H . BEVERIDGE,I . C. S
, (Retd
(Abstract )This accoun t of Gaul; was a report submitted to the Court of
Directors in the year 1812, by Major Fran cklin,e n titled “ Journ al
1894 ] H . Beveridge—Major Fran cklin’
s descrip tion of Gaur .
of a route fromRagmahdl to Gaur A . D . 1810 —By MAJO R WI L L I AMF RANCKLIN,Regulatin g Ofi cer at Bhagalp ur .
The author was,l ike Warre n Hastin gs an d Impey, a
Westmi n s terboy
,an d was an officer in the army of the Eas t I n dia Compan y .
Hewas the son of a Cl ergyman n amed Thomas Fran ckl i n
, who was aman ofsome n ote in the Literary world
, but who, un fortun ately, got con foun dedwith his more celebrated n amesake, Be n jamin Fran klin . Macau laycorrects the mistake, an d impal es his u n offe n di n g coun tryman o n thepoin t of a Greek epigram . The son i s wel l k n own as th e Biographer ofGeorge Thomas, an d as the author of a w ork o n the s ite of Palibothra,in w hich he en deavours to ide n tify that city w ith Champan agar
,n ear
Bhagal pur . But the most picturesque circumsta n ce in his l ife was a
tour which he made in Pers ia in 1 786, whe n he was a n en s ig n an d on lythree -an d - twe n ty years of age. On thi s occas io n he l ived for about sixmon ths at Shiraz as a member of a Persian family . He became Maj orin 1 8 10, an d a Lieu t. -Col. in 18 14 . For some years he was Regulatin gOfficer of Bhagalpur . Bishop Heber met him at that station s o late as1824, an d describ es himas b ein g a very agreeab l e an d commun i cativeold man ,
an d as the pos se ssor of curiou s an d i n teresti n g col l ection s .Fran ckl i n re tire d from the service in 1825
,an d died in April 1839 at
the age of 76 . At the time of his death he was Librarian to the R . A . S .
The exis ten ce of the repor t was first brought to n otice in late yearsby Mr . Gro te ,who recomme n ded Mrs . Raven shaw to util i se it in editin gher hu sban d ’ s w ork on Gaur. Afterwards Mr . Grote took upo n himselfthe task of an n o tat ion , a n d added man y n otes from Fran cklin to Ravenshaw ’ s text . A few years ago,
our Society appl ied to the I n dia Officefor theMS.
,w ith the view o f pri n ti n g it, if this shou l d seem worth while .
The Secretary of S tate for I n d ia referred the matter to Dr . Burge s s,who
gave it as his opi n ion that all the valuable i n formation in Fran cklin ’ sreport had bee n already extracted by Mr . Grote
,an d
,in co n seque n ce
,the
MS . was n ot s e n t to our Socie ty .
Sin ce the n Mr . Beveridge has examin ed i t an d compared it wi thRaven shaw’
s Gaur, an d agrees w ith Dr . Burgess . He therefore can n otrecommen d that i t shou l d be published, though it does seem hard thata report submitted to the Court of D ire ctors in 1812, shoul d have bee nn eglected til l 18 78
,an d the n be superseded by the pith of i t bei n g put
in to a n other ’s book .
Mr. Beveridge then discusse s various poin ts Of detai l in regard toGaur
,touched on by Maj or Fran ckl in . The most i n terestin g fact n oted
i s that the Chron ological Table of the Muhammada n rulers of Gaur, a n dth e Historical Memoran dumabou t themgiven by Buchan an Hamilton ,
an d reproduced in Mo n tgomery Marti n ’ s E astern In dia,”
are word for
44 P . C. Roy—In dian Foodstufi'
s . Fat a n d Oil. [FER
w ord the same as a similar Tabl e an d Memoran dum given by Maj orFran ckli n . An examin ation of the Buchan an MSS . show s that heObtain ed hi s Copie s from that gen t l eman . Fran ckl i n tell s us that theyare tran slated from some MS . material s procured through the ki n d n essof Mr . E l l erton
,of the In digo Factory at GOOmak i, n ear Gaur, whom he
describes in terms of old-world courtesy as a ge n tlema n who un itesbusin ess w ith service an d love of the arts, an d whose poli te hospi tal ityto us durin g our stay at his man s io n e n titl e s him to every con s iderationan d than ks . ”
The paper wi l l be publ ished in ful l in the Journ a l, Pt . I .
5 . On the Chemica l E x amin ation of certain I n dian Foods tufi'
s .
Part I .
—Fats a n d Oils — By P . C. RAY,ESQ .
, D .SC. Commun icated by
ALEx . PEDLER,E sq.
,F .R .S .
(Abstract )Of late years a bel ief has bee n gain i n g groun d in Calcutta, Bombay,
an d in man y other impor tan t tow n s in In d ia— n ot apparen tly w ithou treason —that w holesal e adul teration i s practised in man y of the commonarticle s of d iet, n otably in ghee, bu tter, milk, mustard oil, &c. Thepresen t i n vestigation w as u n dertaken W 1th a vi ew to throw some lighton these poi n ts, an d it emb odi e s the resul t of the work carried on at
i n terval s durin g the last four years .PRELIMINARY .
As bu tter largely e n ters i n to the dietary of th e people of E urope an dAmerica, abu n dan t w ork has been don e by Chemists o n i ts an alys is . I ti s
,however
,w el l kn own that the composition of milk a n d of the butter
made from it is, w ithi n certai n l imits, depen den t on the breed, cl imate,method of feedi n g the cows , period Of lac ta tion an d so on the stan dardfor gen u in e butter, as ge n eral ly accepted in E n glan d , Cspecial ly at
Somerset Hou se, can n ot therefore be always accep ted as a safe guide inthis coun try .
The an alysi s of the fixed oil of mu stard, an d the various other oil sw ith which it i s ge n eral ly sophisticated , al so presen ts con siderabl e d ilficulties . Not much work has b een don e in this field . The history ofthe substan ces wh ich have been subj ected to an alysi s i s seldom give n ,
an d the experimen tal methods are n ot gen eral ly described in sufficie n tdetai l to e n able the resu lt s to be compared . Whil e the i n formationavailabl e is meagre, on the on e han d , the resu lts publi shed from time tot ime are in themselves, in some cases, con trad ictory . It was thus foun dto be n ecessary to work out, in the firs t i n stan ce
,a series of con stan ts
,for
1894 ] P . C . Roy— I n dian lfloorlst '
ufis. Fa t a n d Oil. 45
such I n dian Foodstuff s as mu stard oil, butter, ghee, &c .
,which might be
o f some help in decidin g cases of fal s ifica tio n .
Particular care was take n in procuri n g ge n u i n e samples of substan ce s .The oil s were in man y cases expressed u n der d irect supervi s io n froms eeds carefu l ly sele c ted, so that the puri ty of the products was u n ques
t io n able . A sample of pure mustard oil was al so obtai n ed through thecourte sy of the Superin ten den t, Al ipur Jai l , an d an other of cocoa n ut oil
from the officer in charge of the Kopra works, Viper Isla n d, Port Blair,w ith a certificate from him guaran tee i n g its purity a n d stati n g it to bea stan dard sample .
The prel imi n ary exami n atio n of fats an d oils i s much helped bythe appl ication of certai n physical tests, e. g.
, melti n g poin t, specificgravity
,in dex of refraction
,&C . The w ork i s at presen t con fin ed sole ly
to the ch emical methods . The determi n ation of the phy sica l co n stan tshas bee n reserved for a future occasion .
The fats an d oil s are simply combi n ation s of certain acids, the socal l ed fatty acids , e.g.
,butyric, s tearic, ole ic, palmi tic,&c .
,w ith glycerin ;
hen ce they have been n amed the glycerides . By estimati n g the amou n to f either or both of these con sti tuen ts of fat ty substan ces, valuable information i s Often ob tain ed as to the ir n ature . NOW
,if a fat be treated
w i th an a lkal i,the fat ty acids co n tai n ed in the former
,combi n e s with
the lat ter, resul tin g in the formatio n of an alka l i n e sal t, common lycal led a soap ,
a n d the separatio n of glyceri n . It so happen s,however
,
that the molecular w eights of some of these fatty acid s vary w i thi n w idel imits . Thus
,bu tyric acid
,occurri n g in bu tter-fat
,has a molecular
w eight equ ival en t to 88, w hile erucic acid, a compon e n t of mustard oil,
has a molecu lar w eight of 338 . A molecu l e of cau sti c potash w eighin g56
,wi l l exactly n eu tral i se 88 parts by w eight of butyric acid, o r 338
parts by Weight of eruci c acid . He n ce a give n weight of but ter- fat w i llrequ ire a far larger proportio n of caustic potash to con vert i t i n to soap,t o sap on ify it, as it i s ca l led, tha n the same w eight of mustard oi l . Koett
storfer has made use of thi s pri n cipl e . It has,in fact bee n foun d by actual
experimen ts,that whi le 100 grammes of butter- fat require very n early
20 grammes of caustic po tash for sapon ification ,the same w eight of
mu stard oil requires on ly 17 grammes of the alkal i . The amoun t ofglyceri n al so w i l l vary in the same man n er . Again
,butyric
,caproic
,
a n d other volatile aci ds,prese n t in cocoa n u t oi l
,bu tter-fat
, &c may beeasily separated from the n o n -volatil e acids by di s ti l la tion ,
a n d theiramou n t ascertai n ed by their potash n eutral i s in g pow er. U pon this principle i s based the w el l-kn ow n Reicherts ’ te s t . The amoun t of iod i n eabsorbed by differe n t fats an d oil s al s o l ie s w ithin w ide l imi ts . The
i odin e absorption has bee n employed w ith remarkabl e succes s by BaronHiibl in decidi n g cas es of adul teration .
46 Fadin g Histories . {F.EB .
The followi n g processes have been made use of
1 . Direct titration of the fats an d oi l s by alcoholic potash—Koett
storfer ’ s test2 . E stimation of the amoun t of glyceri n .
3 . Iodin e absorption —Test of Hiibl.4 . E stimation of the volatile fatty acids-e —Reichert ’s test .For con ven ien ce of referen ce the resu lts obtain ed are pre se n ted
b el ow in a tabulated form
Sapon ification Iodin e ab sorption ,Nature of fat or 011.
equivalen t . p er cen t .
SUMMARY AND CONCLU SION .
It w ou l d thus appear that as the sapon ification equ ival en ts of n igers eed oil, mowa-fat, mutto n - tal low , se sameoil, lard an d earth n ut Oil are
very close to on e an other, their admix ture s in con siderab l e proportion scan n ot be d etected by Koetts torfer
’
s test . Even the sapon ifica-tio n
equ ivale n t of ghee is n ot far removed from that of lard or tal low .-Th.e
sapon ificationequ ivalen ts of mustard oi l an d cocoa n ut Oil are, how ever,
h ighly characteristic . The iodin e n umbers on the other han d afford us
valuable hin ts as to the n ature of adulteration ,the most remarkable
features bein g th e exceed in gly low n umbers for cocoan -ut oil an d for ghee.
The results of the application .of Reichert’ s test w il l be commu n icatedlater on .
The paper w i l l be published in fu l l in the Journ al, Part . I I .6 . Fadin gHistories
—By S . E . PEAL, ESQ .
,
The paper wi l l be published in the Journ a l, Part III .
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56 Philological Secretary—Rep orts on Old Coin s . [MAR.
Mahamahopadhyaya Chan dra Kan ta Tarkalan k ar .
Profes sor Theodor Noeldek e .
Dr. Rei n hold Rost,
LL .D .
The fol low in g ge n tl emen have expressed a w i sh to withdraw fromthe Society
Dr . L . A . Waddel l .J . H . Rive tt -Car n ac, Esq. , C.S.
The Philological S ecretary (Numismatic) read reports on the followi n g fin ds of Treasure Trove Coin s
I. REPORT ON 3 1 old S ilver coin s forwarded by the C oll ector of
Patn a, w ith hi s No . 1253R.,of l0th August 1893 .
The coin s are stated, in the Collector ’s origin al l etter, No . 1 526R.,
dated 26th August 1892,to have bee n foun d on the 23rd Jun e 1892
,
buried in the groun d in a fi e ld at Patn a.
They are Mughal coin s ; 29 are fu l l rupees,an d 3 are half-rupee s
of the follow i n g Emperors : Muhammad Shah (1 specimen ), AhmadShah ‘Alamgir I I Shah Jahan I I I S
_ hah ‘Alam Theyreig n ed from 1 13 1—1221 A . H . 1 7 19—1806 A . D . As Shah ’Alam’
s
coin s are dated 1 184 A . H . 1 770A . D .,an d Muhammad Shah ’s
,1 151
A . H . 1 738 A . D . , this fi n d covers a period of 32 years .The fol lowin g is a detail ed description No, of
J,MUHAMMAD S
_HAH, type d shdh l azi
,S imi lar to Spedmen s
Briti sh Museum Catalogue,No . 985, min t ‘Azimabad
,
date2,AHMAD S
_HAH .
a . Type as in Br. Mus . Cat . ,No . 1045, mi n t of
Six :‘Agimabad (n early obl iterated) , date 1 166,
1 166 , 52,11 63
,3 1 ; all ful l rupees
b. Same type, min t an d date 1 166,6,but half
3,
‘ALAMGIR II .
a , Type as in Brit . Mus . Cat . ,No . 1075,min t ‘Agim
abad,11 7 1
,5 2, 1 172, 6
3,1 1 70
,3 2, 1 1 7 1, 4 .
I) . Type, s imi lar to Brit . Mus . Cat ., No. 1066
,min t
Jahan n agar 1T”
,5,Arkat (9 ) 3 . 2 10
4,SHAH JAHAN II I .a . Type as in Brit. Mus . Cat .
,No . 1087,min t ‘Azim
abad (almost obliterated ), date 1073, alzadz, 1074,
almd f’ Total
Philological Secretary—Rep orts on 0c Coin s . 5 7
Type an d min t the same,date “ f “
,allad, a half
5 SHAH ‘ALAM , type as in Brit. Mus . Cat .,No . 1 166,
min t ‘Az imabad, date 1 174, 2 2
Gran d Total11. REPORT ON 14 old gol d coi n s forwarded by the Col lector of
Muzaffarpur,w ith hi s No . 944R. ,
dated 9 th September 1893 .
These coi n s are stated to have bee n foun d by a boy amo n g brickrubbles in a smal l w al l ed en closure n ear Ku n ahra Ghat, in the Bazarof Hajipur
,o n the 2 n d or 3rd August Al together 22 coin s wer e
foun d, but on ly 1 4 of th em cou l d be recovered from the fin der .They are coin s of the followin g three kin gs of the earl ier Gupta
dyn asty : Chan dra Gupta I . , who re ign ed fromab out 3 60—380 A . D . ,
Samudra Gupta,who reig n ed from about 380—395 A . D .
, an d Cha n draGupta II . , who reig n ed from about 395—415 A . D .
1, The coin of CHANDRA GUPTA I . belon gs to th e Kin g-an d
Q n een type, on e spec imen , 1 13 grs . ,(Smith ’s Catalogue,plate I
,
figure 1 )2,The coi n s of SAM UDRA GUPTA bel on g to the fol low i n g
types : Archer, on e specimen ,weight 11 5 grs . (S . Cat . ,
pl . I .,
fig . lO)— Battle-ax e,1 specime n
,1 13 grs .
, (S . Cat . , pl . 1, fig,
—Javelin ,2 Specimen s
,1 16 an d 1 20 grs .
, (S . Cat .
,p l . 1
,fig .
Total . .
3 , The coi n s of CHAND RA GUPTA I I . belon g to the fol low i n gtypes : Archer
,Class I , 2 specime n s, 122 an d 124 gr . , (S . Cat .
,
pl . I,
fig . 14,but bow- stri n g i n wards —Archer
, Clas s II . ,1 Specime n
,121 grs . (S . Cat .
, pl . I ., fig .
—Umbrella, 2 specimen s
, 122 grs each, (S . Cat . , pl . I I ., fig .
—Umbrella, n ew
variety (Goddes s walki n g to left, w ith fil le t in right han d) ,1 Specimen
,123 grs . (n ot in S . Cat . ) — Combatan t Lion , 3 speci
men s 121,1 22
,an d 123 grs . (S . Cat ., pl . II .
, fig . 5 ) TotalTotal
111. REPORT ON 890 Old copper coin s, forwarded by th e Pol i ticalSuperi n ten de n t of Palan pur,w ith his No . 286 1 , dated 16 th October 1 893 .
The coin s are stated to have been fou n d in the old Padar ofKhen an a
,a V illage in the Kan k rig Taluk un der th e Pa lan pur Super
i n ten den cy .
With the exception of 5 In do- Sassan ian s they are all coi n s ofthe fol low in g early Sultan s of Delhi (so- cal l ed Pathan s ) : (illiyasu .
58 Philological Secretary—Reports on Old Coin s . [MAR
d a din Balban (A . H . 664—686 A . D . 1265 Mu‘izzu-d -din Kaiqu
bad (A . H . 686—689 A . D . 1287 Jalalu -d - din Fir I'
Iz (A . H . 689
695 A . D . 1290- 1295 Ruk n u-d -din Ibrahim (695 ‘A lau -d
din Muhammad (A . H . 695—715 A . D . 1295 Qutb -d -din Mubarak(A. H . 7 16—720 A . D . 1316 (ihiyasu -d -din Tughlaq(A . H . 720
725 = A . D . 1320—1 324) an d Muhammad bin Tughlaq (725—752 1324
They cover therefore a period of n early 100 years (from A . D .
1 265
The fol lowin g is a detail ed statemen t1 .
2 .
3 .
C'
LHIYASU D D IN BALBAN, type as in the British MuseumCatal ogue, NOS. 1 15
MU‘ IZZU D D IN KAIQUBAD , type
“
as in BritishMuseumCatalogu e, Nos . 129, 130
JALALU—D -D IN FIRUZ, type as in Briti sh Museum Catal ogue
,Nos . 146—148,
RUKNU-D -D IN IBRAHIM, type as in Briti sh Museum Catalogue,Nos . 154, 1 55,
‘ALAU—D -D IN MUHAMMAD .
a ,Type as in British Museum Catalogue,Nos . 182—194 ;
date on ly preserved on 24 specimen s ; via ,9 7 3
, 9 9
7002, 702, 7243, 705, 706, 707, 708, an d seven w i th
imperfect dates, 9* an d 70if
Type as in Briti sh Museum Catalogue, NOS. 1 95
201 dates 701 , 792 6, 703 704 3, 710, 71 1, 7 124,
7 13 3, 7122,7 15 doubtful 1 2,
0, Type as in Briti sh Mu seum Catalogue, Nos . 202,
QUTRU-n -D IN MUBARAE .
a . Square type, as in Briti sh Mu seum Catalogue, No .
225 226, date 7 18 20, 7 19 30, 7207, i l l egibl e 617 .Roun d type, as in Bl itish MuseumCatalogue,No .
223 224
0.Roun d type, as in British MuseumCatal ogue
,Nos .
21 7—220 ; dates 7 17 9 , 718 2, 71 9 9, 7203, i l l egibl e02. Roun d type, as in British MusuemCatal ogue,Nos .21 5, 216, date 71 6 3, 717 10, il l egibl e 2
e.Roun d type, as in BIitiSh Museum Catalogue, NOS .221, 222, date 7 1 7
f .Rou n d type, as in British Museum Cataloo ue, No:2 141, da; 136 7 16
2. o 0 00 . 0 00 0 0 0 t o .
g.Square type, as
"
in Brim
tishMuseumCatalogue,Nos .
229 232, date 719 5, 7204, i l l egible 1 .
2 310
10 128
Philol ogical S ecre tary—Rep orts on Old Coin s . 59
7 . CiHIYASU-D -D IN TUG_HLAQ .
a . Type as in British Museum Catal ogue,NOS . 249
254,dates 7208, 721 1 1, 722 23, 723 27, 725 13
(posthumous) 726 12, 727 7, i l legible 1 23 .
b. Type as in BI itiSh Museum Catalogue, NOS. 255,256
,date 3
.
c. Type, as in BritishMuseum Catalogue,Nos . 257
,
8 . MUHAMMAD B I N TUGHLAQ .
a . Type as in British Mus eum Catalogue, Nos . 280
28 1,date 726 5, 727 12, Total
b. Type as in British Museum Catalogue, NOS. 2 78,2 79, date 725 2
c. Type as in British Museum Catalogue, Nos . 282283, date (in w ords ) 727 2
I n do Sassan ianDefaced an d i l l egible. .
Gran d tota l
IV .REPORT ON 190 old si lver coin s, forwarded by the Offg . Deputy
Commissi on er of S ibsagar, w i th his No . 3556, dated 18th November1893 .
The coin s are stated by th e Deputy Commissioner, in his ReportNo . 1 239 dated the 20th Jun e 1863, to have been foun d in Jun e orJuly 1 892, by a time -expired cooly settl er, in an earthen pot buried inhis sugar - can e field in Mouza Hahchhra
,in the jurisdiction of the
Sadar Than a .
The fi n d con s i sts of three classes of coin s : 1 , 116 coin s of MughalSultan s of Delh i 2, 62 coin s of As sam kin gs an d 3
,12 coin s of Jayan ti
pur . The Mughal Sul tan s represe n ted in th e firs t are the fol low in gS_hah Jahan ,
103 7—1068 A. H . 1628—1658 A . D .
,Auran gzib, 1069
—1 1 18
A .
—1 707 A . D .,511 5111
‘Alam Bahadur,1 1 19- 1 124 A . II :
1 707—1 7 12 A . D Farrukh Siyar,1 124—1 13 1 A . H . 1 713—1 71 9 A . D .,
Muhammed Shah 1 131—11 6 1 A . H .= 1 71 9 —1 748 A . D .
,Ahmad Shah
1 161—11 67 A . H . 1 748—1 754 A . D .,
‘Alamgir San i 1 167—11 73 A . H ,
: 1 755 1 759 A . D . Their coi n s c over a period of about 130 years .The A ssamese kin gs represe n ted in the fi n d a1 e : Rudra Sin gh 1 6 181 636 Saka = 1 696—1 714 A . D .
,an d Civa Sin gh 1637—1660Saka 1715
1 738 A . D .
The fi n d con s ists of a large n umber of coi n s, which are of con
siderab le n umismatic i n tere s t, e sp ecial ly the earl ier coin ages of the
East - I n dia Compan y, in the n ame of Muhammed Shah .
60 Philological Secretary—Rep orts on Old Oo'lm. [MAR
The followin g i s a detailed statemen tI . MUCH-AL COINS1, SHAH JAHAN.
a, Type as in Briti sh Museum Catalogue,No .
605,two S in gle -l in ed areas : min t Surat
1059 , Patn a— 11,Agrah 1049
,12
,Multan
1043,6 Patn a 1048, 10 Multan 1058, 22 ;
1047, 9 ; other mi n ts illegible, dates 1038,1 2 ; 1046, 8 ; 1064, 28 ; others il l egible,
b, Type, as in Brit . Mus . Cat.,No . 588
,
Multan,104 if
c,Ilahi, 4 Ardibihist
,saw. 1040, an d Akbar
n agar 1038, 2 1 7
2, AURANCzIB .
a,Type
,as in Brit. Mus . Cat .
,No . 702 ; min t
SI'
Irat, date s 1098, 80; 1 107, 39 ; 1 110, 432 ;1 11 1 , 43 ; 1 1 1 1, 44
2; 11 1 7, 49 ; Patn a 1090,
22 1 1 16,49 ; Narn ol 1399, 30 ;
‘Azimabad1 1 1 7
,50 ; Chin apatan ,
—4,
b, Type, as in Brit . Mus . Cat .
,No . 71 1
,Surat
1081 , 20 ; the rest i ll egible .
c, Type,mihrmun ir, Akbarabad , 39 ,
d, Type, as in Brit . Mus . Cat. , No . 728,Patn a,
3, SHAH ‘ALAM BAHADUR .
a,Type as in British Museum Catalogue, No .
868,‘Azimabad, 1 12 1A
b, New type, ‘A zimabad [1 12 l ] 34, FARRUILEJ S 1YAR .
a,Type as in Briti sh Mu seum Catalogu e, No .893, Dara - l-k
_hilafat S
_hah Jahan abad,
others il legibl eb, Type n ot in Briti sh Museum Catalogue,min ti l legible
,date 1 3
5 MUHAMMAD S_ HAH .
a,Type : s till/lb qirdn , as in British MuseumCatalogue, No . 1029, S_ hah Jahan abad
b, Type bddsbdliL am,as in BiitishMuseum
Catalogue,No . 985, SI'
I Iat 1132,2, 1 136,6,
a n d n in e w ith il legible dates Akbarabad1 137 7 on e i l legibl e ; Machhlipatan 1 15937
Philological S ecretary—Rep orts on Old Coin s . 61
(extremely rare min t) , Arkat, san fragme n tary ja lzls 2, 9 2
,102, 1 1 , 1 7,
22, four i llegibl e, on e w ith i l legib le date
an d mi n t6,Type badshah gl azi,date in
m
2n dlin e,n ot in
Bi itish Museum Catal ogue, Arkat, 1 14,*jalz
'
l s i l l egibl ed,Type bads
_hah gjgdzi, East I n dia Compan y ’ s
is sues,n ot in British Museum Catalogue .
Min t Arkat (Madras i s sue w ith tris’ulmark ) , san gon e
, jald s 2 ; Arkat (Pon dicherry is sue w ith cresce n t mark ), scmgon e,jalus 7, 22 , 23 2, 25 2, 7 40
6,AHMAD S
_HAH
,East I n dia Compan y ’s i s sues, n ot
in Brit . Mus . Cat .
, Arkat, (Madras issue withtrisul-mark ) 3amcut off, jalzls, 4, 7 ,
Arkat (Pon dicherry is sue, w ith cresce n t -mark )1 1 67
,7,in others san cut ofi , jald s allad 2, 2 2,
32, 4, 5, 6, 10 13
7,
‘ALAMGIR IL ,East I n dia Compan y ’ s i ssue s
, as
in Brit . Mus . Cat .
, Nos . 1 2 7 an d 1 63, Arkat(Pon dicherry i s sue, w i th cre sc en t-mark ) sa n
abad 2, 22, 3,Arkat (Madras i ssue, w ith triSI’Il-mark) , san cut
off,jalz'
ls 4, 6, others illegibl e 14 19
MOGHUL S—TotalA SSAME SE CO IN S1,RUDRA S INGH . Type as in Marsden ,No . MCLI I,date s,(Sa’ ka ) 16186, 16207, 1621 3, 1622 15, 16232,1 6255, 1627
2,16272 an d 16303, 1 632
1, 1633
2,
16344,16354, 1636
1, (the on ly omitted dates are
2, QIYA S INGH . As in Marsden , No. MCLVII, date
1650,
om
3, Old A ssamese,SimilaitoMaI Sden ,No .MCCXXI,
AS SAMESE—TotalI II, JAYANT 'I'PUR COIN S
Type as in Marsde n , No . MCCXVI ; all datedSaka 1683 I 1 761 A . D . Total
Gran d Total
6 2 Philological Secretary—Rep orts on Old Coin s . [MAR
V . REPORT ON 72 Old S i lver coin s forwarded by the Deputy Commis sion er of Delhi, w ith hi s No . 1 119 , dated 11 th December 1893 .
These coin s are stated to have been foun d outside the Delhi Citydur in g the course of some excavation s .
They are all rupees of the followi n g three Mughal emperors of
Delhi ; via ,Farrukh Siyar, 1 124—1 13 1 A . H . 1 7 13—17 19 A . D .
,Rafi‘ n
d -daulah (or S_ hah Jahan II . ) 1 131 A . H . 1 719 A . D . , an d MuhammadShah, 1 161—1 131 A . H . 1719—1 748 A . D . The earlies t coin of the fi n d
i s dated 1128 A .H.
= 1 71 7 A . D .,an d the latest 1 151 A . H.
= 1 738
A .D . accord in gly the fi n d covers a period of 2 1 years .The fol low in g is a detai l ed statemen t1 . FARRUIgH S IYAR, type as in Brit . Mus . Cat .
,No . 891 ,
Slbdh Jabd n dbdd, date lost, reign 5
2 . S_ HAH JAHAN I I .
a,Type as in Brit . Mus . Cat .
,No . 947
,Mustagiru
- l
Ifi rlldfat Akbarabad, 1 131 , abad
b, Type as in Brit . Mu s . Cat .
,NO. 9 52, but D am- l
Kl rlldfat 18325177. Jabd n d bdd, 1 13 1, abad 2 3
3 . MUHAMMAD ShAH.
a,Type n ot in Brit . Mus . Cat.
,sdbz
’
b qirdn ,min t
D dru- l-lfi tildfatfill-(lit Jalzdn dbdd, 1 141, 10, 1 143,
1 144, 13, 1 139, 8, i llegibl e 12b,Type as in Brit . Mus . Cat . ,No 1029,mintD amu lfi ildfat Slzdh
1 148, 1 133, 3, 1 150, 20, 1 135, 5, 1 137, 73,
6 , Type as in Brit. Mus . Cat .,No . 959
,min t D ara-l
Elzildfat fifidh Jabdn dbdd, 1 133, 3 2
d,Type as in Bri t. Mus . Cat .
,No . 967 (badshah
gfidzi) min t Mustagiru- l-b lldfa t Ak barabad,
1 14 1, 1 7, 1149 , 1 9 , 1 143, 1 3, 1 132, 2, 1 140, 10,i l l egible 3 ; Bareli 1 13 7, 7, 1 145, 15 ; D dru-s
Sa ltan at Labor, 1 132, 2,1 136 6 ; Gwdliyar,
1 147,1 72, 1 1 14, 4, 1 140, 10, 1 142, 12, 1 148, 8,
Mullan zmadabdd-Ban dras 1 151,2 1
,i l legible b
e, New type of badshah gl azi, mi n t D dru l ]_1 7 n'ldfat S_hah Jabdn dbdd, 2
, a twig I n u sualplace of am 1 68
Total
Phil ol ogical Secretary~ Rep orts on Old Coin s .
D dru-s-Salgan at Ldlzor, an d Mubammaddbad-Ban arass,
date s 1 144, 4, 11 52, 22, 1 157, 27, 1 131 , almd, 1 154,24,1 149, 19, 1 155, 25, 1 148, 18, 1 1 51 ,20, 1 143, 13, 1 132, 2,
5,AHMAD S
_ HAH, as in Briti sh Museum Catalogue, No .
1039 . Min t D dru- l-Kl t ildfal Shah Jahan abad, 1 167, 6,1 16 1 abad
,Sd rat 1 161 , alzad ; Saha ran p ur 1 13 1 , abad ;
VIII. REPORT ON 40 old s ilver coi n s forward ed by the A ss i stan tSecretary to the Chief Commission er, Ce n tral Provin ces, w ith his
No . 1 37, of 6th Jan uary 1894, an d No . 869, of 7 th February 1894 .
These coin s are s tated to have bee n foun d in the city of Nagpur .
The time an d l ocal ity is n ot further specified .
They are Nagpur Rupees , struck in the n ame of the Mughalemperor, Ahmad Shah Bahadur, who reign ed from 1161—1 167 A . H .
1 748- 1 754 A . D . They are mostly in a very in differen t con dition ;n ei ther mi n t n ot date i s V is ib l e on an y of th em
,a n d the emperor’s
n ame occurs in the merest fragmen t . Most of them have pun ch -marks(perhaps shroff-marks) impressed on their edges, as a rul e o n ly fromon e to three ; but there are four amon g them, which have their edgese n tirely covered w ith a series of such pun ch -marks, about on e dozen ;an d it i s i n tere stin g to n otice that some of these pun ch-marks muchresemble certain marks on the well-kn own (so cal led) Old Hin dfiPun ch -mark Coin s .
IX. REPORT ON 25 old silver coin s forwarded by the Collector of
2Bhagalpur, w ith hi s No . 72 1 G .,dated ifjg 1893 .
The coin s are stated to have been foun d in a pot which was dugout of the groun d in a house in Barchpura, n ear Bhagalpur, on the 1 1 thFebruary 1893 .
They bel on g to difi eren t classes,via , on e i s an imperial Delhi
coin of (ihiyasu-d -din Balban,who reign e d from 664—686 A . H . =
1 265—1287 A . D . The other tw en ty-four are Ben gal coin s,of I lyas
Shah,on e of the i n depen de n t kin gs of Ben gal
, who reign ed from 740
7 59 A . H .r: 1339—1358 A . D .
The fol lowin g is a detai led stateme n tI . IMPERIAL DELH I CO IN S .
GHIYASU-D -D IN BALBAN, l ike Brit . Mus . Cat ., No .
103, date an d mi n t out 011,i n ferior specimen 1 1
List of Committees .
BENGAL CO INS .I LYAS Grai n .
a, Type as in Brit. Mus . Cat .
,No . 17 . Mi n t
F irdzdbdd, 750, in others mutilatedb,Type is in Brit. Mus . Cat ., No . 20. Min tF Zrz
'
tzabdd, 9 54, 950
c, Type, as in Brit . Mus . Cat. ,No . 25 . Mi n tHasrat Jalal,Son drgdb, 754
2, Slidhr-i- n au,
The SECRETARY read the n ames of the foll owin g ge n tleme n who had
bee n appoin ted to serve o n the various Committee s for the prese n t year :F INAN CE AND VI S ITI NG COMMITTEE.
H . K . W . Arn old , E sq. A . Pedler,E sq.
Babu Pratapa Chan dra Ghosha . Dr . J . Scul ly .
Dr. A . F . R . Hoern le. Col. J . Waterhouse.M . H . Oun g, Esq.
L I BRARY COMM ITTEE.
H.K . W . Arn ol d, E sq. J . Man n
,Esq.
Babu Gau rdas Bysack . Dr . Asutosh Mukerj ee .Dr . D . D . Cun n i n gham . L . de Nicevill e
,E sq.
G . W . Forrest,Esq. MahamahopadhyayaMahesacha n dra
Babu Pratapa Chan dra Ghosha. Nyayaratn a.
Dr . A . F . R . Hoern le. A. Pedler, E sq.
The Rev . H . B . Hyde . Dr . Mahen dralal Sarkar.Col. H . S . Jarrett . Dr . J . Scu l ly .
Pri n ce Jehan Qudr Mahammad Col. J . Waterhouse .Wahid Ali Bahadur.
PH I LOLOGICA L COMM IT TEE .
Babu Gaurdas Bysack . MahamahopadhyayaMahesachan dra
Dr. A . Fiihrer . Nyayaratn a.
Babu Pratap a Chan dra Ghosha. F . E . Pargiter, E sq.
Dr . A . F . R . Hoern le. Captain D . C. Phillott .Col . H . S. Jarrett . Rai Rajkumar Sarbadhik ari BahaMou lvi Khudabak sh Khan Baha clur.
dur . Dr . Mahen dralal Sarkar .J . Man n
,E sq. S ir Sayid Ahmad .
Dr . Asu tosh Mukerj ee . Maj or R . C. Temple .Babu Blin dev Mukerj ee . Dr . G . Thibaut.Babu Nilmon iMukerj ee . A . V en is
,E sq.
6 List of Committees . [M.A-R.
COIN S COMMITTEE .
Dr . A . Fiihrer . Dr . J . Scul ly .
Dr . A . F . R . Hoern le. V . A . Smi th,E sq.
C. J . Rodgers, E sq. E . Thurston,E sq.
H I STORY AND ARCHzEOLOGICAL CoMMITTEE.
Hon . Mr . Justice Amir Ali. The Rev. H . B . Hyde .
H . K . W . Arn old, E sq. Pan dit Mohan lal V ishn ulal Pan dia .
Babu Gau rdas Bysack . Mahamahopadhyaya KavirajW . H . P . Driver, E sq. mal D as .
Dr . A . Fuhrer. Maj or R . C. Temple .Babu Pratapa Chan dra Ghosha.
NATURAL H I STORY COMMITTEE .
E C. Cotes, Esq. Dr . Fritz Noetlin g .
Dr . D . D . Cun n i n gham. R . D . Oldham,Esq.
J . F . Duthie, Esq. S . E . Peal, E sq.
Dr . G . M . Gil es . Dr . D . Prain .
C. S . Middlemis s, E sq. Dr . J . Scul l y .
L . de Niceville, E sq. E . Thurston , E sq.
PHYS I CAL SC IENCE COMM ITTEE .
Dr . J . R . Adie. Dr . Asutosh Mukerj ee ,
Babu P . N . Bose. Dr . Fritz Noetlin g .
Babu Gaurdas Bysack . R . D . Oldham,E sq.
Dr . D . D . Cu n n in gham. A . Pedler, E sq.
J . E l iot,E sq. Dr. D . Prain .
S . R . E l son,E sq. Dr . Mahen dralal Sarkar.
Dr . G . M . G i les . Dr . J . Scu l ly .
Dr . G . Ki n g . Dr . W . J . Simpson .
The Rev. Fath er E . Lafon t . Col. H . Thuillier.
J . J . D . La Touche, E sq. Col on e l J . Waterhouse.
C. S . Middlemiss, E sq.
ANTH ROPOLOG ICAL COMMITTEE .
W . Crooke, Esq. Rai Rajkumar Sarbadhikari BahaM . L . Dames, E sq. dur.
Babu Sarat Chan dra D as . S . E . Peal , Esq.
E . A . Gait, E sq. E . Thurston , E sq.
Mr. L . de Nicevil l e exhibited a rare n ymphal id butterfly, E UTHALIAIV A,Moore, recen tly re-discovered in Man ipur, an d read a n ote on thespecie s .The n ote will be published in the Journ al , Part I I .
Lieute n a n t J . A . D ouglas—Nole on Ohilcis tradition s . 67
The fol lowi n g papers were read1 . Notes on Childs tradition s .
—By L I EUTENANT J . A . D OUGLA S .Commu n icated by the PH ILO LOGI CAL S ECRETARY .
The on ly con n ected tradition s n ow curre n t in the Chilas n eighbourhood
,date back n o further than the i n vas ion of the coun try by the Sh i n s .
Before thi s everythi n g i s ascribed to Devs deitie s, of whom littl emore than the n ames survive . Narun was the origi n al fou n der ofChilas
, an d Taiban i s said to have foun ded Ger . The Shi n s of Chilastrace their origin back to Ran a D as , a son of the Rajah of Pakli
, who
i n vaded Chilas some 500 years ago .
* At that time the whol e of
Shin kariwas gover n ed by a kin g Spoke n of as Chachai Ra. After somefighti n g
,Chachai Rawas defeated ; he himself, all his family, an d ma n y
of his followers w ere kill ed , an d Ran aD ds ru l e d the cou n try— Ran aD aswas a Hin du. On hi s death the people refused to elect a n ew kin g
,a n d
from that time Chilas has bee n a republi c .
Ran aD as left two son s , Bhoto an d Machuk , an d from them spran gtwo tribes, the Bhote an d Machuk ai.
The las t eve n t of which there i s a n y record i s the quarrel betweenthe Bhote an d Machuk ai, which has al ready bee n referred to by bothCol . Biddulph an d Dr . Leitn er . The Machuk aiw ere expell ed from thecoun try a n d migrated to Hu n za, A stor, an d other place s in the n eighbourhood . This is said to have taken p lace 200 to 250 years ago .
A l ittle later (7 ge n eration s , perhaps 200 years ago ), the firs t i n troduction of Muhammadan i sm i n to the cou n try took place . This waseffected by Shah Zaman , a Saiad from Kagan , an d an an ce stor of the
presen t Kagan iSaiads . He en tered Chi las wi th an army,an d
, presumably by force of arms, con verted the i n habitan ts . They s ay that afterthis they gave up burn in g the ir dead, though i t i s probabl e thatthe custom l i n gered for some years later . Shah Zaman w i th his ow n
han d lai d the foun datio n ston e of a n ew fort i n to which the peopl emoved . An d which they con tin ued to i n habit un til i t was taken an d
destroyed by the Kashmir army in 1 851 . As an i n s tan ce of their prosperity at thi s period, they relate that Chilas con ta i n ed 500 weavers .For man y years after this the Chilasis paid tribute to Kagan
, an d the
people of Bun ar do so sti ll .The n ex t i n vas io n of the cou n try. was by Shaikh Aman u ’
d-din
Hakim of Kashmir, un der Ran j it S in gh . He was d riv e n out after 18days fightin g . Shortly afterwards , in 1851, the army se n t from Kash
My in forman t , an oldman of about 70, gaveme his pedigree back to Ran aD as . This in cluded 17 n ames , but he himself said it was 20gen eration s ago, which,
at 25 years to a gen eration ,would be 500 years .
68 Lieute n an t J A . Douglas —Note on Ohilds tradition s . [MAR.
mir by Maharajah Guléb S in gh en tered Chi las by the Kamuk do ri Pas s,at the head of the Niat Val l ey,while a smal l force, probably auxiliaries,crossed over from Astor by the Mazen o an d Tosho Passes . Chilas wastake n after a s i ege of some mon ths, an d man y of the people wereki l led .
The Chilasis say that, at the time of the Kashmir in vasio n,they
coul d mus ter fighti n g men from the fort of Chilas alo n e ; n ow
it i s doubtful whether they coul d raise 120 amon g the remain s of the
Bhote, or people of Chi las proper . They can give n o satisfactory ex
plan atio n of what has caused this rapid dimin ution of their n umbers,attributin g it en tirely to sickn ess . There are said to have bee n two badepidemics of cholera
,w ithi n the last 30 years, besides periodical out
breaks of smal l -pox . A good man y families have al so emigrated oflate years to more fertil e districts . Numerous ru in s of forts ; lan d,which mus t have cost years of labour to terrace, n ow d eserted an dun cul tivated ; broke n watercourses their own tradition s, an d thereputation of dari n g raiders
,~—which th ey have obtai n ed amon g their
n eighbours —all tes tify to the fact that the coun try must formerly havebeen much more thickly populated than at pre sen t . I t i s on ly of recen tyears
,too, that the n eighb ourin g val l eys of Thak
,Bun ar
,&c.
,have
ceased to pay an n ual tribu te to Chilas .The peopl e of the Thak Val l ey cal l themselve s Khan ai . They
trace their descen t to Khan u, who i s sai d to have come from Chilas .Khan u had a son cal led T imra ,
who migrated to the adj acen t val ley of
Niat, where the ru i n s of his fort, cal led Timruk ot,may be see n clos e tothe vi l lage of Theh . I n the same way, the people of B un ar are cal l edBagote. They say that their an ce s tor Bagota came from Khan bari 24:gen eration s ago . The people of Hodar are Hodure, an d of Thur,Han uk e. In the Khin argah Val ley, which belon gs to Chilas, are tworu i n s of forts, cal l ed Khin uk ot an d Sherin gah . These are said to havebeen stron ghold s of two kin gs, cal led Khi n u Shah an d Sheo Shah, ofwhom n othin g el se appears to be kn own . (In the Sh i n a lan guage,Khin a mean s black, an d Sheo white ) .The so-cal l ed “ Horse of Taiban in Gor, s i tuated on the steep
,
scarped, rocky side of Chahmuri Peak, which overlooks the Gor Val ley .
Though the peopl e say it i s cut in the rock, as see n from below i tappeared o n ly to be a rough outl i n e, the dark l i n es bein g formed bywater which had foun d its way through crevices in th e rock, an d it i son ly by the exercis e of s tron g imagi n ation that an y resemblan ce to ahorse an dman can be made out . Its position i s almost
,if n ot qu ite,
i n accessibl e, but the story is that Taiban rode up there, an d that hean d his horse were turn ed in to s ton e . Lower dow n in the Gor Val l ey
189 1 ] Library . 69
i s a spot k n ow n as Taiban ’ s Garden . I t co n s ists on ly of some trees(i lex) an d rocks . A smal l un cu l tivated patch in the midst of cul tivatio n . Formerly the people believed that an yon e cu tti n g these tree swoul d di e at o n ce, but the spirit of sceptici sm has spread eve n to Ger,an d they beli eve it n o lon ger . The Gor people say that they becameMuhammadan s on ly three gen eration s ago .
2 . On n ew or little-k n own Butterflies fromthe D ido-Malayan region .
—By LIONEL D E N I CE ’VI LLE, E sa ,& c .
The paper wi l l be published in the Journ al, Part I I .
PIE K ARY
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Berlin . D er Kon igl ich Preus sischen Akademie der Wissen schaften zu
Berlin ,—Abhan dlun ge n , 1892 .
Sizun gsberichte, XXV I—XXXVII I .Bombay .
The In dian An tiquary, —Vol . XXIII, Part 282 .
Budapest . Société Hon groi se de Géographie,—Bul letin , Tome XXI,No . 7 .
Calcut ta . I n dian E n gin eerin g,—V ol. XV, Nos . 6—9 ; an d I n dex toV ol . XIV .
I n dian Medical Gazette, —In dex, V ol. XXVIII .Maha-Bodhi Society,—Jour n al, V ol . II,No . 9 .
Photographic S ociety of In dia,—Jour n al, V ol. VII,No. 2 .
Chicago . The American An tiquarian an d Orien tal Journ al,—V ol. XVI
,
No . 1 .
Copen hagen . K . Nordisk e Oldskrift -Selsk ab ,—Aarboger, I I Roek k e,VIII Bi n d, 4s Heft .
Dresde n . Ge sell schaft Iri s zu Dresde n ,—Deutsche E n tomologi sche
Zeitschrift,Ban d VI, Nr . 2 .
Flore n ce . La Societa Ital ian a di An tropologia, E tn ologia e Psicol ogiaComparata,—Archivo p er L ’
An tropologia e la Etn ologia, TomeXXIII,No . 2 .
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The Hague . Kon in k lijk In stituut voor de Taal,—~Lan d-eu Volkenku n de van Nederlan dsch- In die,— Bijdragen tot de Taal-Lan d -eu
V olk en ku n de van Nederlan dsch-I n di ’
e,5e V olgr, Deel X,
Afiever
in g 1 .
Havre . Société de Géographie Commercial e du Havre, —Bul l e tin ,
Novembre—Décembre, 1 893 .
Lon don . The Academy,—Nos . 1 1 3457 37 .
A n thropological I n stitute of Great Britai n an d Irelan d,Journ al
,Vol . XXIII
,Nos . 2 an d 3 .
The A then aeum,—Nos . 3457—60 ; an d I n dex
,July to Decem
ber,1893 .
Geologi cal Soci ety,—Quarterly Journ al , V ol . L , Part 1 .
I n stitution of Mechan i cal E n gin eers,—Proceed i n gs
,No . 3
,
Nature,—Vol . XLIX
,Nos . 1265—68 .
Royal A siatic Soci ety of Great Bri tain an d Irelan d ,—Journ al,Vol . XXVI
,No . 1 .
Royal Astron omical Soci e ty,—Mon thly Notices, Vol . L IV,
No . 3 .
Royal Geographical Socie ty,— Geographical Journ al , Vol . III,No . 2 .
Royal Microscopical Society, —Journ al , Part 6, 1893 .
Man chester . The Man chester Literary an d Philosophical Society,
Vol . VIII,No . 1 .
Mun ich . Der K . B . Akademie der Wissen schaften zu Mun chen,Math e
matisch-Phy s ikal ische n Classe, Abhan dlun gen,Ban d XVII I,
Abth. 1 .
SitZun gsberichte, Heft . 3, 1892 ; 1 un d 2
Philosophisch -phi lol ogischen u n d historische n classe,
S itzun gsbericht,Heft . 3 un d 4
,l892 1 u n d 2
,1893 .
Mu ssoorie . The I n d ian Fores ter,—Vol . XX,No . 2 .
Paris . Journ al Asiatique,— Tome II (IX e Série ), No . 2 .
Société de Géographie,—Comptes Ren du s des Sean ces
,
Nos . 1 et 2 , 18941 .
Rome . La Societa degl i Spettroscmpiste Ital ian i,—Memorie, TomeXXII
,No . 12 .
St . Petersburgh . Russian Imperial Geographical S ocie ty,
- Proceedi n gs
,Tome XXIX, No . 5 .
S tockholm . E n tomologisk Tidsk rift,—Ban d XIV,Heft 1—4 .
Kon gl. Sven sk a V eten sk aps—Ak ademien s
,
— Biban g, Afdeln
in g I , Ban d XVI II I I, XVIII I II,XVIII IV
,XVIII .
Taipi n g . Perak Gover n me n t, —Gazette,Vol . V II, No . 3 .
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ROSEN,V . Les Man uscri ts Arabes (Collect-ion s Scien tifiques de ’ L ’
In stitut des Lan gue s Orie n tal es, St . Petersbourg, i) . 8vo. St .Petersburg
, 1877 .
Les Man uscrits Persan s (Collec tion s Scien tifiques de L ’
I n stitut des Lan gue s Orie n tal es, St . Petersbourg, i i i ) . 8vo . St .
Petersburg .
L .
’
ACAD E'
MIE IM PE'RIAL E D ES S C I ENCES , ST . PETERSBOURG.
MARCH,FRANC I S A . The Spelli n g Reform . 8 V O. “
fashin gton .
BUREAU OF EDUCAT ION,WASH INGTON .
Report of the Cor n el l U n iversi ty Library for the year 1892-93 . 8 V O.
Ithaca, 1893.
CORNELL UN I V ERS ITY,ITHACA .
Return s of the Rail a n d River-Born e Trad e of Ben ga l d uri n g the
quarter e n din g the 30th September 1893 . Fcp . Cal cu tta,1894.
GOVERNM ENT OF BENGAL .
Man ual of Stan di n g I n formation for the Madras Presiden cy,1893 . Fcp .
Madras,1893 .
Report o n the Admin is tration of the Madras Preside n cy duri n g theyear 1892 - 93 . Fcp . Madras . 1893 .
GOVERNMENT OF MADRAS .
Report on the Admi n i s tration o f th e Pun jab a n d i ts D epe n de n cies for1892 93 . Fcp . Lahore
,1894.
GOV ERNMEN I‘ OF THE PUNJAB.
Mon thly “ f eather Revie for Oc tober,1893 .
«Ate . Calcutta,1894 .
Origin al Me teorological Observatio n s of Calcutta,Al lahabad
,Luck n ow
,
Lahore, Nagpur, Bombay an d Madras for October 1893 . 4to . Cal
cutta, 18945.
METEOROLOGICAL REPORTER, GOVERNMENT OF IND IA .
Alphabetical List of Photographs in the Nor th-Wes tern Provi n ces an dOudh
,Provi n cial Museum, Luck n ow, correc ted to Sls t December
1892 . 8 VO. A l lahabad,1893 .
PROVINC IAL MUSEUM , LUCKNOW .
GOEJE,M. J . D E . Bibl iotheca GeographorumArabicorum
,Part 8 . Ki tab
a t-Tan bih. Wa’
l-Ischraf Auctore al-Masudi. 8vo . Batavia, 1894 .
UNI VERS ITE ’
D E LE I DE .
f E RIO D I‘
c A LS f U RCHA SE D ,
Al lahabad . North I n dian Notes an d Q ueries,—V ol. I I I
,NO. 10.
Berli n . Deutsche Litteraturzeitu n g,— Jahrg X IV , Nrn .
- 5 1 .
Zeitschrift fiir E th n ologie,—Heft 5, 1893 .
Cassel . Botan isches Cen tralblatt,—Ban d LVI, NOS. 7—12 .
Library. 73
Ge n eva . Archives des Scie n ces Phys iques et Naturelles,
—Tome XXXI,
No . I .
lottin gen . Der Ko n igl . Gesel l schaft der IV is sen schaften ,v —Go ttin gische
gel ehrte An ze ige n ,Nrn . 22—2 t
,893 .
Nachrichte n,Nrn . 15—18, 1893 .
Leipzig . An n al e n der Physik u n d Chemie,— Baud L I , Heft 1 un d 2
Beibliitter,Ban d XVII, Stiick 12 ; X V III, l .
Leyde n . I n tern atio n al e s Archiv fiir Eth n ographie, Ban d VI , Heft 6 .
Lon don . The An n al s an d Magaz i n e of Natural History, (6 Series ),
Vols . XII,No . 72 ; XII I , 73 .
The Chemical News,— V ol . LXIX, Nos . 1783- 85, 1789 .
The E n tomologist —V ol. XX V I, No . 367 .
The E n tomologis t 3 Mon thly Magaz in e,—V ol. V (2 n d series ) ,Nos . 48 an d 49 .
The Journ al of Bo tan y,— Vols . XXXI, Nos . 372 XXX II,
The Lo n don ,Edin burgh , an d Dub l i n Philo s ophical Magaz in e
an d Journ al of Scie n ce,—5 th Series, V ol s . XXX V I , Nos . 223
XXXVII, 224.
Numismatic C ircular,—V ol. II,No . 15 .
The Quar terly Jour n al of pure an d appl ied Mathematics,
Vol . XXVI,No . 104 .
New Have n . The American Journ al of S ci e n ces,— V ol . XLVI (3rd .
Series ), No . 276 .
Paris . L ’
Academic des S c ien ces ,— Comptes Re n dus de s Sean ces,Tome
CXVI I, Nos . 19—25 ; et Tabl e s , V ol. CXV l .
A n n al e s de Chémie et de Physique,—Tome XXX (6
Série ) , Décembre 1893Revue Critique d ’ Histoire et de Littérature
,—Tome XXXVI
,
Nos . 41, 46—50.
Revue Scien tifique,—Tome I (49 S érie ) , Nos .-I—7 .
Philadelphia . Man ual of Con chol ogy, -Vol . XV , No . 1 ; 2 Serie s, IX , 1 .
Vie n n a . Vien n a Orie n tal Jour n al ,—V ol. V II,No . 45 .
BOOK S f U RCH ASE D .
RAY, PRATAPA CHANDRA . The Mahabharata, tran slated in to E n glishProse
,Part 87 . 8vo . Calcutta, 1893 .
RODGERS , CHARLES J . CO IN -collec tin g in Northern I n dia . 8 ro . Alla
habad, 189 4 .
PROCE E D I N GSOF THE
AS IATI C SO C IETY OF BE N -GAL,
f o a f li l L , 1894.
The Mon thly Ge n eral Meeti n g of the Asiatic Socie ty of Be n gal was
h eld on Wedn essday, the 4th April, 1894, at 9—15 P. M .
Dr. A. F . R . Hoern le, Vice-Presiden t, in the chair .The fol lowi n g Members w ere prese n tDr . A. W . Alcock, Babu Gyan en dra K -umar RaiChowdhuri, G. A .
Grierson ,E sq. , T. H . Hol lan d,E sq.
,Babu Sarat Chu n der Lahary,W .A .
Lee, Esq. , KumarRameshwar Maliah, C . R . _Marriott, Esq.,C.R. Wilson ,
E sq. ,
Themin utes of the last meet i n g were read an d con firmed .
Thirty-eight p re sen tation s were an n oun ced, de tail s :of which are
given in the Library Lis t appe n ded .
The fol low in g gen tl eman is a can didate for election at the n extMeetin gShams-ul-ulama Maulavi Muhammad Shibl i Noman i, Profe s sorof Arabic in the Muhammadan Ang lo-Orien tal College, Aligarh, proposed by Sir Syed Ahmed, s econ ded by T . W . Arn old
, E sq.
The Secretary reported the death of the followi n g MemberBabu Y adulél Mul l'ick .
The Chairman an n oun ced that the Coun c i l had elec ted Mr . A .
Pedler, to officiate as Treasurer in the place ofMr. C. L i ttl e .
Dr. Alcock shewed a n umber of reli c s smal l metal images, &c. )obtain ed by Babu P . C . Mukherj i, in the Bhagal pur District, an d
76 Will iam Irvin e— In scrip tion fromShamsabad . [APRI L,stated to have bee n exhumed from a k un k er quarry at Chan dipur, n earPatharghatta .
Patharghatta (ride Cun n i n gham ,Archeeol. Survey Repor ts, Vol .
XV,1882, p . 36) i s S ituated n ear 'Kolgon g, on the Gauges , an d i s
remark able for some sculptured caves . Near Kolgon g al so are rocktemples an d rui n s .The most perfect of the rel ics was an eight -petal lotus
,each petal
sculptured in high rel ief on the i n s ide a n d Open in g an d foldin g on a
hin ge,the whole en closi n g a cen tral man y -armed femal e figure .This was con sidered by experts to be late, an d corrupt, Bud dhis tic .
The fol lowi n g papers were read1 . Note on an I n scrip tion fromShamsdbdd, F drru ldtd bdd D istrict,
N .-W.P .
- By W I L L IAM IRVINE, E sQ .
, B . C. S.
, (retired )The accompan yin g copy of an i n scription has bee n lyin g by me
for a good man y years . I t was prepared by my order an d se n t to meo n the 1 1th February 1878, by Mun shi Ibrar Hasan Khan ,
then Tahsildar of Qa’
imgafij. It i s taken from a ston e on a mosque upon theto; (s ite of the ol d fort ) at Shamsabad ILhOr, a tow n n ear the Ga n ges,in pargan n ah Shamsabad Wes t, Farrulghabad District . From the copythe ston e appears to be 51 i n che s x 22 i n ches, the l e tters seem to beraised, an d the verses are arran ged in two rows of three misra‘ each,havin g a row of scrol l or n ame n ts be tw ee n them . If the word s Kl id n a-i
I lahi (702 H .
,Augu st 1302 to August 1303 A . are take n as
yieldi n g the date, the mosque i s a comparative ly an cie n t buil di n g . In
an y case, the Muhammad K_ han n amed in the first l i n e can have n othin gto do with Muhammad K_ han , Ban gash, the foun der of Farruli iabad(Born 0 . 1660, died 1743 A .
I have referred to Dr . Fiihrer’
s volume, con tain in g lists of in scription s in the N .
-W . Provi n ces, an d I fi n d n o men tion of the on e ofwhi ch I n ow sen d you a copy, for publ icatio n , if thought of an y value .
[The fol low in g tran scrip tion an d tran slation has bee n furn i sh edby Maulawi
‘Abdu-l-haqq ‘Abida s) a“ ! US web 1
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U . C. Batabyal—Neu: Copp er
-
p la te Gran t of D harmap dla . 7 7
D in parwar-i-Muhammad Iihfm-i-bulan d rutbat.Burdast gI
‘
I-i-daulat ba sauljan -i- ihsan .
Darad cu gan q-i- ta‘at an muhsi n -i- zaman a .
Tartib dad masj i d az‘aun i lutf i-yazdan .
Tarikh 1 -an Rizai j ust az khir(ad ) bigufta.
6 . Shud kl_ _1an a i- Ilahi tai iLch 1 masj id I k
_han .
we
r
e
?
Literal Tran slation .
1 . The n ourisher of the faith o fMuhammad, th e, Kh an of high ran k .
2 . Has carried away the bal l of fortun e w ith the polo- stick ofben eficen ce.
3 . As that be n efactor of the age has a des ire for devotio n .
4 . He arran ged for (i. e. ,bu i l t) a mosque by the help of the
grace of God .
5 . The date thereof Rizai sough t of w isdom , she said .
6 . ILhz‘ma-i- Ilahi (God ’ s house) was th e date of the mosque of
the K_han .
In l in e 2 m ay ,» (burdast ) is a co n traction of cum! 8b) ; (burda ast)which i s the prese n t perfec t-te n s e of L9 3
5) ? to carry .
In l in e shou ld be éj '
s w isdom,the letter i s n ot writte n in the
origin al . I t must be an oversigh t .The date
,accordin g to the Abjad cal culatio n , comes to 702 H .
,as
wil l appear from the fol lowin g i llustrat ion
2 . On a New Copp er-
p late Gran t of D harmapala .
—By UM ES CHAN DRABATABYAL, E SQ .
,O.S.
Abstract .The HONORARY PH ILOLOG I CAL S ECRETARY
,in drawin g atte n tio n to the
i n teres t which attached to thi s di scovery,said that the members presen t
w ould remember that our kn owledge of the hi story of Be n gal duri n g the9 th an d 10th cen turies depe n ded almost e n tirely on a few i n scription s .The first ki n g of the Pala dy n asty, GOPALA I, was represe n ted by on e
78 Library . [APRI L,short in scription dated in the seve n th of his re ign . His successorD HARMAPALA, who came to the thron e about 830 A . D ., has hithertoal so been represen ted by a sin gle Epigraph at Bodh Gaye‘ t
,the co n te n ts
of which give us l ittle in formation . The presen t Copper-plate gran twhich has been foun d by Mr . Umes Chan dra Batabyal cl ose‘
to the
an cie n t city of Gaur, an d in which D harmap ala makes a gran t of certainlan d
,was therefore of more than usual importan ce . The plate carries
our kn owl edge of the Pala family two degrees above that of Gopala.
Mr. Batabyal reads the n ame of the gran tee as Bhattan arayan a, whichi s the same as that of on e of the five Brahman s brought in to Ben galby AdiCara . If it i s the same Bhattan arayan a, the n the question of thedate of AdiCaramay be taken as approximately fixed, an d wemay becertai n that AdiCara preceded, in stead of fol lowi n g
,the Pala dyn asty .
There has n ot bee n suffici en t time ye t to have the plate examin edby experts, but a ful l accoun t of i t w ill be publ i shed in the Journ alin due course .
3 . Noviciae I n dicae VII . D escrip tion of a n ew Mecon opsis fromSikkim,
—By D . FRAIN, E sa ,MB .
4 . Noviciae I n dicae VII I . Some addition al sp ecies of Con volvulaceae,—By D . PRAIN, E sa ,
MB .
The papers w il l be publ ished in the Journ al, Part I I .
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,Vol . XIII, No . 109 .
Bombay . Bombay Natural His tory Socie ty,— Jour n al , Vol . VIII,No . 3 .
The In d ian An tiquary,—V ol. XXIII, Part 283 .
Calcutta . Geological Survey of In d ia,— Records, Vol . XXVII, Part 1 .
I n d ian E n gin eerin g,—Vol . XV, Nos . 10—13 .
Copen hagen . Kon gelige Nordisk e Oldsk rift Selsk ab,—Aarboger, I I
Roek k e, IX Bin d, 1 Hefte .Edin burgh . Royal Society of Edi n burgh.
, Proceedin gs,V ol. XIX .
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V ENKATASESHAYARYA, V ETSA. A San skri t-Telugu Diction ary . 8vo .
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WALSH,J . H . TULL . Hemp Drugs a n d I n san ity . 8 vo . 1 894.
List of Deep-Sea Holothurian s,col lected durin g season s 1887
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On certai n Spiders which mimic A n ts . 8vo. Cal cutta,1 89 1 .
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MI SC E L L A N E OU S PRE SE N T A T I ON S .
Caaama,M . Erken n e n Erleb e n E rschl iessen . 4to . Mun i ch
,1893 .
GICEBEL, K . Gedacht n isrede auf Karl von Nageli . 4to . Mun ich,
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FAMINTZIN,A . Ubersicht der Lei s tu n ge n auf dem Gebiet-e der Botan ik
in Rus slan d, 1890 un d 1891 . 8vo . St . Pe tersburg,1892—93 .
VV IED MANN,D R. FERDINAND . Ehs tn isch-D eu tsches .WOr terbuch,
Lieferu n g 1
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2e Fascicul e, an d Plates .MON S I EUR A . BARTH .
Report on the Admin istratio n of the Cen tral Provin ces for the year1892—93 . Fcp . Nagpur, 1894 .
CHIEF COMMI SS I ONER CENTRAL PROVI NCES .
BEAMES , JOHN. Grammar of the Be n gali Lan guage . 8vo . Oxford,1894.
CLARENDON PRES S, OXFORD .
BAILEY, F . M . Co n tributio n s to the Queen slan d Flora. 8vo . Brisban e1893 .
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Report on the River-Born e Traffic of the Low er Provin ce s Of Ben gal ,an d on the I n lan d Trade o f Cal cutta, an d on the Trade of Chittagon gPort for the year 1892—93 . Fcp . Calcutta, 1893 .
Resolutio n review in g the reports on the w orki n g of Mun icipal ities inBe n gal duri n g the year 1892—93 . Fcp . Cal cutta
,1894 .
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North In dian Note s an d Querie s for Jan uary 1894 . 4to . A l lahabad1894.
GOVERNM ENT OF INDIA , HOME D EPARTMENT .
Records of the Botan ical Survey of I n dia, V ol. 1,
'
Nos . 1 an d 2 . 8vo .
Calcutta, 1893—94 .
GOVERNMENT O F IND IA, REV . AND AGRI . DEPARTMENT .
An n ual Admi n is tration Report of the Forest Departme n t,Madras
Preside n cy , for the fif tee n mo n ths e n di n g 30th Jun e,1893 . Fcp .
Madras , 1893 .
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MUL LER,F 1\’IAX. The Sacred Books of the East,V ol. XLI . 8vo . Oxford
1894.
INDIA OFFI CE,LONDON .
Report of the An n ual Meetin g of the In dian Association for theCul tivation of Scie n ce for 1892 an d 1893 . 8vo . Calcutta
,1892—93 .
IND IAN A S S O C IAT ION FO R THE C ULTIVAT I ON OE SC IENCE .
The Light of the East for February 1894 . 8vo . Cal cutta,1894 .
THE E D ITOR,L IGHT OF THE EAST .
Mon thly Weather Review for '
September 1 893 . 4to . Cal cutta, 1894.
Origi n al Meteorological Observation s of Cal cutta,A l lahabad
,Luckn ow,
Lahore, Nagpur, Bombay, a n d Madras for S eptember,1893 . 4to .
Calcutta,1894 .
METEOROLOGICAL' REPORTOR TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA .
Bulletin of the Microscop ical Socie ty of Calcutta, V ol . II I,Nos . 1 an d 2 .
8vo. Calcutta, 1894 .
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GRIEG, JAMES A . Ophiuroidea (D en Norske Nordhavs -Expeditio n ,
1876—1878 . XXII . Zoologi ) . Fcp . Chris tian ia, 1893 .
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Bull e tin of Miscel lan eous I n formation of the Royal Garde n s,Kew,1893 .
8 V O. Lon don , 1893 .
ROYAL GARDEN S , KEw .
S cien tific Memoirs by Medical Officers of the Army Of In dia, Part,VIII . 4to . Calcutta, 1894 .
SANITARY COMM I S S IONER WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF IND IA .
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—Heft 4, 1889 .
Calcutta. In dian Medical Gaz ette,— V ol. XXIX, No . 3 .
G e n eva. Archives d es Scien ces Physique s et Naturel les,—TomeXXX I,No . 2 .
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atter, Ban d XVIII, Stuck 2 .
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,Vol . XLI .
-8vo .
Oxford, 1894.
VALENTIA, GEORGE. Voyages an d Travels to I n dia, C eylon ,the Red Sea
,
Abyssin ia, an d Egypt, in the years 1802, an d
1806,Vols I—III . -
.4to . Lon do n , 1809 .
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the En gl i sh Govern me n t in Ben gal : in cludin g .a reply to themi srepresen tation s of Mr . Bolts
,an d o ther writers . 4to. Lon don ,
1 7 72 .
PROCE ED I N GS
OF THE
AS IATI C S O C IETY OF BE N GAL
f o g MA Y c? f uN E , 1894,
The Mon thly Gen eral Meetin g of the Asiatic Soc iety of Be n galwas held on Wed n es day
,the (5th Ju n e, 1894, at 9—15 P . M .
S URG EON -CAPTA IN A . W . ALOOOK,M .E .
,in the chair.
The fol l owi n g Membel s we1 e p1 esen tH . K . W . A1 n old, Esq Babu Gyan en dra Kumar Rai Chaudhmi,
A . Ho o g, E sq, C. R . Marxiott,E sq.
,A . Pedler, E sq.
,C. R Wilson ,
E sq.
The min ute s of the April Meeti n g were read an d con firmed .
The Coun ci l reported that n o meetin g was held in May, as a quo
rumof members w as n ot presen t .Fifty- n ve prese n tation s were an n oun ced, detai l s of which are given
in the Library Lis t appe n ded .
The follow i n g gen tleman,duly prop osed an d sec on ded at the April
Meetin g of the Socie ty,was ballotted for an d ele cted a n Ord i n ary
memberShams -ul-Ulama Mau lavi Muhammad Shibl i Noman i.
The fol l owin g ge n tleme n are can didate s for election at the n extmeetin g
Surgeon -Captain D . M . Meir,
prep osed by SurgeonCaptai n J . H . Tul l Wal sh
,secon ded by Surgeon -Captain A . W . A lcock .
Ku n war Kushal Pal Si n ha, M . A .
,proposed by Colo n e l H . S .
Jarrett, secon ded by Dr . A . F . R . Hoern le.
84 W . Hoey— Séhgamfi Copp er-P late. [MAY JUNE,
The fol l owi n g gen tleman has expressed a w ish to w ithdraw fromthe Socie ty
Maj or M . J . Meade,S.C.
The SECRETARY reported th e death of the follow i n g membersPrin ce Iskan der A liMirza, Bahadur,Babu Bhudeva Muk erjea, C.I .E .
Kumar In drachan d ra Sin gh .
J . P . Scotlan d , Esq.
, C. E .
The CHAI RMAN an n oun ced the followi n g el ection s made byCoun ci l :Dr. A . F . R . Hoern le
,as Officiatin g Philological Secretary, vice
Mr . G . A . Grierson .
Dr. A. W . A lcock,as Natural History Secre tary
,vice Dr . J . H . Tul lWal sh .
Dr . Wal sh , as An thropological Secretary, vice Dr . Alcock .
The CHAI RMAN al so an n oun ced that Dr . Wal sh had resign ed theAn thropol ogical Secretaryship of the Socie ty .
The CHAIRMAN read a l etter, dated l0th May 1894, from thePrivate Secre tary to the Viceroy an d Gover n or-Gen era l of I n d ia,con vey i n g Lord E lgin ’ s acceptan ce of the offi ce of Patron of the
A siati c Society of Ben gal .
The CHAIRMAN also read letters from Dr . Rein hold Res t,Mon sieur
Loui s Pasteur, Sir Will iam He n ry Flower , Dr . Edward Fran klan d,an d Professor Theodor Noeldek e, expressi n g than ks for bein g electedHon orary Members of the As iatic Society of Ben gal .
The PH ILOLOGI CAL SECRETARY exhibited the SOhgaura Copper-plate,an an cien t in scriptio n in AcOk a characters (see Plate I ) presen ted tothe Society by Dr . W . Hoey, an d read the foll owi n g n otes on
the same by Dr . Hoey an d Mr . V . A. Smith,I .C .S.
N ote on the Séhgaurd Copp er-Platefi By D R. W . HOEY, I .C.S.
Shortly after the Rapti river passes Gorakhpur city it makes aserIes of rapid ben ds , an d o n e of these occurs j us t after i t has bee nj ow ed by the Ami river . It i s abou t a mile - an d -a -half across then eck of this be n d, an d the whole l e n gth is a series of moun d s
,more
or le ss con tin uous , a n d these give their n ames to the homestead s orvi l lages, begi n n in g with Tikar on the North, then Kaithauli, SOhgaura,
PRe s omcs .As Soc .BENGALJ894 .
PLATE 1
Phot o-etehmg 0 Calcutt a .Ju n e 189 4
THE SOHGAURA COPPER- PLATE
Fu ll Size .
86 W . Hoey— SOhgawrd Copp er-Plate. [MAY JUNE,
n ear each corn er, an d i t i s evide n t that i t was in ten ded to attach theplate by rivets to some other objec t. The upper portion of the plate,to the exten t of about on e- third of the surface
,i s occupied by symbols,
su ch as are common ly cal led Buddhis tic, an d the remai n i n g two-third sof the surface are covered by an i n scription in four l in e s . Both symbol san d l etters are cast in high rel ief
,an d are in a state of almost perfect
preservation . The back of the plate i s rough .
The symbol to the left i s a con ven tio n al represen tation of a tre e,con sisti n g of a stem an d three l eaves w i th stalks
,stan di n g i n side a rai l in g .
The n ext object may be described as a pavilion w ith curved con vexroof restin g on four pil lars, an d surmou n ted by a duplicate s imilarcurved roof, restin g on three supports, an d topped by three short pole s .Next in order comes an obj ect like a lon g-han d led spoon , w ith a
k n ob at the en d of the han d le, sta n din g on the kn ob The four thsymbol i s the so-called co n ven tion al “ Buddhi st caitya, formed ofthree curves
,surmoun ted by a crescen t, w i th a bal l en closed . The fifth
symbol , placed above the l in e,con sists of a d isc or bal l (the sun ) , w ith
a crescen t (th e moon ) , placed ob l iquely above it .The sixth symbol i s a curved tree - stem
,withou t l eaves, s tan din g
in a rail in g . The seven th an d last symbol i s a repetition of the secon d,n amely, the two- storied pavilion .
The tree of the first symbol may be in te n ded for a sail (Shared
robusta) tree . The leafles s tree can n ot be ide n tified, n or can I explai nthe spoon - l ike object. The shape of the roofs of the pavil ion s suggests that the figures are i n ten ded to represen t bu i ldi n gs con structed of
wood an d bamboos .The n umber of characters (aksam) in the i n scriptio n i s as
follows
Total 72
The characters are an cien t Nagari, of the Maurya period , an d
appear to me n ot to differ materially from those used in Acok a’
s Girn ar
i n script ion ,as give n by Dr . Burges s in Plate V of V ol. IV of the Archaeo
l ogical Survey Reports of Western I n dia.
A lmost every l etter is perfect, an d can be read at sight withoutdoubt or hesitation .
The on ly exception s are as followLin e 1 , character 1 1 . This character is blurred, bu t seems to be a
q p . The dot on it seems to be an usvdm.
W . Hoey— Séhgaw d Copp er-Plate. 87
Lin e 3, character 9 . This letter i s sl igh tly damaged,an d may be
ei ther a c, or I
The las t l e tter in l in e 1 , i s plai n ly at k, though of smal l si ze,owi n g,
appare n tly, to wan t of space . Most of the le tters are about i n ch inheigh t.The lan guage seems to be Pan ,
but I am u n abl e to tran slate th edocume n t . The in i tial 5 in l i n e 2, an d the i n i tial a in l in e 4, certai n lymake the begi n n in gs of word s .The plate was fou n d several years ago durin g the excavati on of the
fou n dation s of a hous e at Sohgaura n ear Gurmhi, the seat of a con s iderable an cie n t town in the Gorakhpur d i s tric t . Gurmhi i s abou t eightee nmil e s d i stan t from Gorakhpur, a l ittl e eas t of south .
The gen uin en ess of the p late i s beyon d question .
No copper- plate i n scription of n early equal an tiqui ty has ever beenfoun d, so far as I amaware
,an d the discovery n ow an n oun ced is
,there
f ore,of co n s id erabl e i n terest an d importan ce .The tran sl i teratio n of the Sohgan ra copper -plate as read by me i s
as fol low sn ataaan w n afiefin aafufaw
fi rqfa n fifien fia’
wfifzafi an n i’n
fireafi n vjn aafliw fifl fi
“ Fan fw famfw aflm‘smaNote on the same—By D R. A . F . RUDO L F HOERNLE .
There are some more let ters in this in scrip tion which appear tome doubtfu l .Li n e 1
,l etter 7 , may be a gh ; an d l etter 1 ] appears to me rather
to be Hm. The dot above i t i s attached to the le tter,
an d may bemerely on e of the un even n e sse s of the cast . There are n umerou s(appare n tly) mean i n gless d ots on the surface s of the p late
,bei n g the
resul t of the plate havin g been cast in a san d -moul d of imperfec t smoothn ess such dots
,e.g.
, are seen to the left of l etters 3 , 4, 5 , in l in e 1 . Thew ord here i n te n ded may be sascmé (Shr . cé sawé ) . The l en gth of
vowel s doe s n ot s eem to be always in dicated .
Lin e 2, le tters 1 an d 2 are n ot quite clear . Letter 2may be fa ti,
though there are traces of a l eft-han d tai l , scarc ely v is ibl e in thefacsimile plate
,w hich suggest the readi n g fi t si. Le tter 6 i s probab ly
on ly H dha . Le tter ] 0 i s probably on ly a t a ; the dot i s attach ed tothe l et ter
,an d i s probably n ot an a n usvara but on e of the above- n oted
imperfec tion s of the cas t . Letter 13 i s n ot f? (H,but g (in . The w ord s
here are ere dare kéflt - agczlan i (Sk r. kwh- drgalc'
in i or perhaps kam
88 J . Cockburn -A D ec/
ritep lug. [MAY (it JUN E,
dgd rdzzi t.e.,these two bolts of storehouse s or these two store
They w oul d seem to refer to the two house s, d epicted above thew ri tin g .
Lin e 3,le tter 11
,may be q dam; there i s a d i s tin ct dot on the
right of the top ; though this agai n may be merely o n e of the imperfectio n s of the cast . Letter 14 is un certai n ; It looks like if l w ith itsleft (smaller) l imb crossed by a straight lin e . I t can hard ly be iv“? 16,as read by Mr . Smith th e stroke for the vowel 6 wou l d be attached tothe left side of th e right (lo n ger) l imb Of the con son an t Z. It i s ju stposs ibl e
,that there are really two let ters we
,made verymi n utely
,
a n d 1: m. There are several le tters,in thi s in scription s
,made smal ler
than the res t . The last l etter a»? k in the first l in e,i s an other in s tan ce
of such a mi n ute letter. These min ute le tte rs may have been origin al ly omitted, an d w ere afterward s in serted in the avai labl e space .Other rather smal ler letters are No . 2, H gh, in l in e 3, an d below itNo . 2 , it? It, in l in e 4. The smal l n es s of these appears to be due to thehole betw ee n them .
Li n e 4,letter 1
,i s in all probabil ity H s (n ot it p ) . The left
(lon ger ) l imb an d i ts tai l are cl early traceable in the origin al, an d can
be just distin guished in the facsimil e plate . Letter 6 may be i f
am.
In the origi n a l there is a dis tin ct dot to the right of W a,just d is cern
ible in the facsimile . This wou ld give the w ord cmittiyd Letter14 has a curious form ; the body of i t i s clearly g h, a n d the markattached to the top of it, is the usual mark of the vowel but in a re
versed pos i tion ; moreover, there i s a dot w ithin the an gle of this mark .
The meeti n g resolved that a vote of than ks be give n to Dr . Hoeyfor the copper-plate .
The NATURAL H I STORY S ECRETARY exhibited a Diori te plug,for
warded by Mr . J . Cockburn , Opium Departmen t, an d read the fol lowin g n ote that accompan ied the specimen
“ Some years ago, probably in 1880, I prese n ted a specime n of a
polished cel t of D eorite to the In dia n Museum . The specimen was
from the Ban da District, an d i s remarkable for havin g a perforationthrough i t which wou ld at first sight lead to the in fere n ce that i thad bee n hefted in the modern way, that is , w ith the han dle througha n eye in the head of the hatchet, i n s tead of the head bein g p ut
through a n eye in the han d le,which was the usual pre -his toric method .
As there has been n o kn own i n stan ce of a perforated cel t havin gbeen foun d in I n d ia, the specime n in question ought to be extremelyvaluabl e, were it gen ui n e . This u n fortun ately it i s n ot, an d the
J . Cockburn A D iorite p lug. 89
e n cl osed core has bee n dril led out of it an d ought to fit th e perforatio n .
To begin wi th,the cel t i tself i s a gen u i n e an tique— but the per
foration i s a forgery . This Specimen was brought for sa l e to a ge n t l eman in the Archaeological Survey at Ban da by a n agate lapidary n amed ,Kiratally,
who d ied lately, so there i s n o harm in men tio n i n g his n ame .The perforatio n in the ce l t was smeared w i th red - lead
,a n d o n
exami n i n g the specime n carefully, I at o n ce pro n oun ced it a forge ry .
To begin w ith , th e perforation was at right -a n gle s to the edge,an d th e
implemen t did n ot look l ike a n ad ze .
2 n dly. I con sidered the perforation too smal l to admit a moderately stron g an d prac ticable han dle— though there are specime n s of
E uropean perforated axe s in which i t i s n ot much larger.Sad ly . On removi n g a portion Of the pigme n t which had bee n
freshly appl ied , I at o n ce said that the borin g had bee n recen tly don e .
However I purchased the specime n as a forgery , for 8 or 10 rupees,a n d prese n ted it to the Mu seum—as such .
On my retur n to Ban da ,in 1883 or 1884, Kiratally presen ted me
w ith the accompan y i n g core , which he said he had himself bored out
of the celt he sold me . The semi-polished face t at o n e cor n er of thean gu lar en d sh ow s the origin al weathered surface of the cel t .
The flat en d shows where it was broken off, whe n i t stood up as a
pi l lar after the borin g had bee n n early completed .
The fragmen ts were probably k n ocked ou t from the opposite en dw i th a chisel , he n ce the pi llar in its l e n gth w il l n ot corre spo n d w iththe ce lt in th ickn es s, though it ought to n early do so in diameter
,the
difi eren ce bei n g due to th e los s of material which has bee n bor edaway .
I have n ot been abl e to fit the plug to the specimen in the Museum,
but th ere can be n o doub t as to the authen ticity of th e fragme n t .
Application might be made to the authoritie s of the I n dian Museumto exhibit the cel t a t th e meet i n g of the S ociety at which the paper i sread . I prepose to prese n t the plug to the I n dian Museum after theSociety has don e w ith it .
The meth od of borin g adopted is very an cien t an d very efi ective .
A tube of copper, bras s, or tin n ed sheet- iro n i s u sed as a dri ll , the cutti n gedge bei n g charged with fi n ely powdered emery powder . The emeryis fromthe mi n e s of Pipra, in Rewah, which woul d appear to have bee nworked for the past years .
Mr . Flin ders Pe trie, in his paper on The Mechan ica l Methods of
the A n cien t Egyptian s,”
has proved by partia l ly bored specime n s, thatthe Egyptian s perforated hard rocks in thi s way .
90 C . J . Rodgers— Jahan gir’
s lll ohm'
s an d Rup ees . [MAY JUNE,I may men ti on that I met at the Shop of Kiratally, on e of the most
en terprizin g n ative Coi n Collectors in I n dia, aman from Kan ouj, who,
when he obtai n ed a rare coin,always careful ly copied it, an d sold his
copies to the public . I have see n n umbers of hi s forgerie s Kiratally ifwasa perfec t Flin t Jack, an d could turn out flin t flakes
,cores , an d arrow
heads which cou ld hardly be disti n gui shed from ge n uin e . He was a
fi rst-rate workman ,an d had there bee n a larger field in I n dia for th e
sal e of sto n e impleme n ts might have emu lated that misguided i n dividual .
The followi n g papers w ere read1 . Coin s Supp lemen tary to Thomas ’
Chron icles of the Pa tha n Kin gs
of D elhi, No . 5 .
—By C. J . RODGERS, ESQ , Hon orary Numismatist to the
Governmen t of I n dia .
The paper w i l l be publ ish ed in the Journ al, Part I .2 . Jahan gir
’
s ZlIohn rs an d Rup ees,—By C. J . RODGERS, ESQ . ,Hon o
rary Numisma tist to the Governmen t of I n dia .
I . I have ju st come across a passage in the Tozuk -i-Jahan giriw hich Imarked years ago, but which had qu i te escaped my memory whe nI wrote my “ Catal ogue of the Coin s of the Mogul an d Suri Emperorsof In dia,” for the Pan jab Govern men t. It i s in the chapter headedufi
l‘wb U NA? j l wi gs an d run s thus,at page 96 of the ’
A ligarhE dition of 1864, edi ted by the Hon
’
ble S ir Sayid Ahmad, K .O.I E .
Jr”
93)
“ rifle re)
? ”A? “if (thy ?
earl-rflit“
cs1‘
s o w ls)[s amp le y) AS at ”
) uéj"?
rLfl ) o a)
; it‘d» )
ur fllw l ) 0m”) EM » w) ? “ 5“ w) ? 5 “ M y ”
Aim”may, 66 51 an
(é);pi; c amb hin C515“
L391.» 1) i jx" eJllu o G Amb G U
I-T“
s tatany
“ da m
This passage i s exceed i n gly valuable . A t page 5 he gives an ao
cou n t of the coin s he ordered to be struck . The silver coin s he ment io n s are of 100 tolas, 50 tolas, 20 tolas, IO tolas, 5 tolas, l tola,
tola,tola
, (n isar 1—‘
ath of a tola . He does n ot me n tion a n y coin of more
than a tola, except mu l tiple s . Now ,in all Coi n Catalogues there are
rupees of Jahan gir weighi n g from 2 10 to 221 grai n s whereas his u sualrupees weigh o n ly about 1 76 grai n s . The Mohurs of his early years
,too, run up to 2 10 grain s, as again s t the usual w eight of 168 grai n s .The chan ge made by the Emperor dates from the 11 th of Ardibihisht
,
C. J . Rodgers J ahcin gir’
s Mohurs an d Rup ees . 9 1
Of the 6th year of his reig n . In my catal ogue,a mohur of Farwardin
of year 6,weighs 218 grain s , but i t has a loop attached an d would pro
bably weigh but 2 10 grai n s without i t . An othe r mohur of D i,the same
year, we ighs 168 gra in s , D i bein g the te n th mon th an d Earwardin thefirs t ; while Ardibihisht i s the secon d mon th of the year . Of rupees ofthe 6th year in my list i s On e struck in Ardibihisht w eigh in g 2 17 g rai n son e of Lahor, of Tir 2 1 7 , an d o n e of Lahor, of Amardad ,
of 175 grai n s .Tir i s the fourth mon th
,a n d Amardad i s the fifth
,so that we see that
the orders of the Emperor reached Lahor after the s triki n g of thesetwo rupees . They did n ot reach Kashmi r a n d Qan dahar
,however, so
easily, for in my ca tal ogue are 3 rupees of Kashmir of the 7 th year,
weighin g 209 5,2 10 a n d 2 1 1 grain s
,a n d on e of Qan dahar weighin g
209 5 .
There is a difficu lty, however, in the pas sage . I t says that the increas e in the mohur an d rupee was on ly three ratis . Now
,three ratis
i s a n ordi n ary variation in rupees fromw ear an d tear, as can be s ee n by
a casua l glan ce at an y Coi n Ca talogue, an d such a smal l i n creme n t w ou ldn ot i n con ven ien ce a n ybody . The w ord for 3 in Persia n i s a“ , I propose to cha n ge it to or 30. I fi n d that 30 rati seeds gathered byme on the fie ld of Karuk hshetra w eigh 44 gra i n s
, an d 44 i s the diff ere n ce between 1 76 a n d 220. I fi n d, however, that 30 rati seeds gatheredby me at Nfirpur in th e Kan gra District weigh 54 grai n s, s o that wemu s t kn ow what kin d of ratis were in use in Agra
, where probablyJahan gir held his Court .Suppose we a lte r the word rati to masha, the n three mashas are
e qual to 24 ratis . Now , 24 of the Nurpur “
atis d raw exactly 44 grai n s .Some time ago I obtai n ed from th e bazar a ston e w eight, a masha,
it
w eighed 9 ratis . This is the masha in use amo n gst j ewel lers an d
sel lers of precious sto n es .I thi n k the word shoul d be masha, an d n ot rati. Ratis are n ever
u sed for w eighin g thi n gs that are a mash-a I n weigh t. on ly for weigh i n gfractio n al parts of the masha . Both methods of correctin g the tex tagree w ith the weigh ts of rupees in our col lectio n s . I have n ot a n y
other editio n of the Tozuk . The Urdu tran slation gives 3 ratis,so I
presume it was made fromthe Aligarh Edition .
The differe n ce in the w eigh ts of the mohurs i s n ot the same as thedifi eren ce in the rupees 210 grai n s . It i s , how ever, n eare n ough . Some Of the early mohurs w ere o n ly 202 grain s . A s thosein the Lahore Museumare as fresh as if they had come from the min tye sterday, wemay say that that was their origi n al weigh t . A fterward sthey rose ' to 210 grai n s .
I believe this is the o n ly pas sag e in which Jahan gir n oti ces his
9 2 C . J . Rodgers— Johdn gz’
r’
s Zlfohn i's a n d Rup ees . [MAY JUNE,heavy mohurs an d rupees . It gives us th e key, however, to hi s earlycoin age . Perhaps in the Library of the Asiatic Society there is a goodman u script of the Tozuk -i-Jahan giri. The passage certain ly n eedscorrection .
I I . In the Tozuk -i-Jahan giri,Aligarh Edition of 1864, by SyudAhmud
, at p . 207,we have the follow in g .
“ a“ ;
If“ V 319 )
o rv [sagg ing b an i, 39 3 An s
Afi iuléao) ¢
a» ; dim; but»
u(g.13 | r Aim
Tahiti
mea “M b )
? (u h) ? l l' 61“ “
v
ii w t ) “ 33wit/0,6 f ee
We 5? 1 °“ 1 u ‘ o
{15j ! u» :
g a inthis ; 19
213j111, am
) was fi r: sin[ Sus i
(a
cc
raj
/o
!; w g sl
fi . a n ;On
ce
I n the U rdu tran slation of the Tozuk , pri n ted at the Nigami Press,
Cawn pore, in 129 1 H . (1 874 A . the first part of thi s extract i s thu stran slated —
p . 154, &c., 195) K6 753
” l ill -lo afi i [5 pi“ Lit”
u7s° U fi€31) ) l
wsjlin
‘sRad -J 8A”) ) ,l J r
")
In the Pe1 sian we I ead that the w eights of the tan kas wei e to beten , twen ty t imes the weights of the mohurs or rupees . In the Hidnwe read they w ere to be halves of the same, an d the n ew coin s aretermed tan gas n ot tan kas .
Agai n in the latter part of the Persian we read “
M 511 ? ”
thi s has n o mean in g . I t ought to be d “ j lj -gfi besides copper .
I wou ld remai k that the tan ga s w ei e s iyah a n d safecl, the siyahw ere of bil lon ,
an d the coi n s of the Lodis,an d of Firoz Shah Tughlaq
e n eai ly all of th is kin d . The sufed tan kas were silver,an d thi s
n ame was given to the coi n s which were stru ck by Bihar an d HumayI
'
In,an d the ir forefathers . The tan gas were a lways fraction al p arts of a
rup ee : they w ere n ever heavy coin s , or valuabl e coi n s .
My obj ect in draw in g the atten tion of the members of th e Societyto this passage, i s to obtain variou s readi n gs of the parts overli n e-d .
There must beman uscripts Of the Tozuk -i- Jahan giri,by the dozen ,
in
differen t libraries in I n d ia . Will members kin dly ass is t in ascertai nin g the true readin gs .
94 L ibra ry . [MAY J UNE,
Chicago , II] . The American An tiquarian an d Orie n tal Journ al, —Vol .XVI
,No . 2.
Colombo . Ceylon Bran ch of the Royal Asiatic Society,— Jour n al,Vols .
XI an d XII I .Proceed i n gs
,1889 -90.
Fran kfurt a . 0 . Des Naturw is se n schaftl iche n Verein s des Reg .
Bez . , Fran kfurt, —Hel ios, Jahrg XI, Nrn . 10—12 .
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102 Mitra, S . C.
—0n some Behari Customs an d Practices . [JULY,
THE S ECRETARY reported the death of the followin g membersMahamahapadhyaya Kaviraja Shyamaldas (Ordin ary Member) .
B . H . Hodgson,Esq. , (Hon orary Member) .
THE SECRETARY reported that Mr . E . D . Maclagan had compoun dedhis subscriptio n as a n on -residen t member by the paymen t in a S in glesumof RS. 300.
Dr . Alcock exhibited an d remarked upon some marin e In vertebrateslately dredged at a con siderable depth by the survey Ship I n vestigator .
’
The first Specimen exhibited was a n ew species Of Brachiopod , of thegen us Terebratula, remarkable for its huge size, an d in bein g slightlyin equ ilateral as w el l as from the depth of i ts habitat (719 fathoms) ,an d from the fact that i t was on e of the first species of the gen us recorded from I n d ian waters .The species w il l be described an d figured in Pt . II . of the Journ al.The secon d Specimen exhibited was the curious Thalassin id Crus
tacean,Ca locaris macan clreée, Bell , lately dredged in the Laccadive Sea
at a depth of 636 fms . , the bottom temperature bein g about 44° Fahr .
This species w as in terestin g on accoun t of the w ide exten t of its ran ge .First dredged in Loch Eyn e, Off the south-west coast of Scotlan d, at acon siderable depth, an d subsequen tly in Scan din avian waters, it wasn ext reported from the Gulf of St . Lawren ce
,an d then from the an ti
podes of New Zealan d . It i s n ow recorded as an addition to the In dianfaun a .
The third Specimen exhibited was a n ew Species of Crab of thegen us Calapp a, Special ly n oticeable, first for its large siz e, an d
secon d ly for the depth (11 2 fms . ) at which it occurred .
The Species of the n umerical ly smal l gen us Ca lapp a were as a ru lel ittoral in habit, but thi s Species belon ged to the fau n a of the deep sea,
al though it exhibited n o con spicuous structural modification s for life ata depth . The Specimen w i l l be described in Journ al Part I I, an d w i l lbe figured in an early is sue of “ Il lustration s of the Zoology of theR . I . M . S . I n vestigator.
”
The followin g papers w ere readOn some Behari Customs an d Practices —By BABU SARAT CHAN
DRA M ITRA,M .A .,BL . Commun icated by PAND IT HARAPRASAD SASTRI
,
M . A.
Abstract . )In Behar a w ife ’s elder S i ster i s regarded as a superior member of the
family who is to be approached in a respectful attitude ; while in Ben gal,She is regarded,as a boon compan ion ,with whom on e is at l iberty to crack
Mitra,S . C.
-North I n dian Folk -lore about Thieres an dRobbers . 103
j okes . Mother ’s brothers w ife i s regarded as a superior in Ben gal , buts he i s n ot SO regarded in Behar .
TO beat w i th a broken cookin g-vessel i s regarded as a great in su l tin Behar an d if the vessel be covered w ith soot it i s doubly i n su l ti n g .
The Behari women,when they meet after a lon g time , give ven t to
their feel in gs in l oud lamen tation an d take each other in their arms .
The Beharis greet thei r frien ds by sayin g “ RamRam.
”
T he Han u
man,is regarded in Behar as a sacred an imal, an d i s n ever molested
though it often commits mischief.They thin k that they get loosen ess of the bowel s when these are
displaced, an d the best remedy for loosen ess amon g them i s rubbin g the
abdomin al parts .Behari women are fo n d of w earin g bras s orn amen ts . They Ofte n
have to i n voke the ass istan ce of iro n smiths to fit these on their perso n .
People sufferin g from severe il ln es s often take a vow of measurin g thewhol e distan ce from their home to a sacred place w ith the ir personan d often rai se a stan dard in hon or of the Mon key-
god .
2 . North I n dian Folk - lore about Thieves an d Robbers .—By BABU
SARAT CHANDRA M ITRA, M .A .
,B .L . Commun icated by PAND I T HARA ~
PRASAD SASTR I,M .A .
(Abstract )The Thieves an d Robbers in In dia are said to be un der the special
protection of a femal e deity, who i s kn own un der various design ation sas Kali, in Ben gal ; D evi or Mdta in Hin dustan ; an d Bharcin i amon gthe Thugs . The images of this goddess in the immediate n eighbourhood of Cal cutta,
n amely,that at Kalighat an d that at Chitpore,u sed to be
greatly hon ored by Dacoits before the E n glish became the rul ers ofBen gal . There are man y protectresse s of robbers kn own all overBen gal as D ahate Kali; at Man asaDevi, n ear Kalka, a fair is stil l held inhon or of a robbers ’ deity though the fair has at prese n t chan ged itscharacter very material ly . The Ben gal col lection of proverbs are ful lof al lu sion s to th ieve s, dacoits . No fewer than fifteen have been givenin the paper . There was a curiou s way in which the thieves us ed toget the i n strume n ts of hou se -breakin g made by the blacksmiths . Theyu s ed to go, s ecretly at dead of n ight
,to the blacksmith ’s Shop an d
depos it a piece Of iron an d a few pice by w ay of wages , an d, the n extn ight at that very hour they u sed to get the i n strumen t deposited there .
There i s a proverb in Ben gal that the thief an d the blacksmith n evermeet an d yet the in strumen t for hou sebreakin g is at work .
Remarks — In the Mriceha katika,the god Kartika, the Gen eral of
the Gods, i s regarded as the patron of thieves an d the origin ator of the
104 Library.
art of steal in g, an art which used to be taught careful ly to thefupperclasses of the In dian Society, as a part of liberal education . See Dacak umaraeharita .
The pap ers w i l l be publ ished in ful l, in the Journ al, Part I II .3 . Note on the s tridulatin g p owers of the Ocyp ode Crab (Ocypo da
cera tephthalma, Pall) . - By SURGEON -CAPTAIN A . R . AND ERSON, B .A.,
M .B . ,Surgeon
-Na tura list to the Marin e Survey.
The papers wil l be publ ished in the Journ al, Part I I.
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C e n sus of I n dia, 189 1 . Ge n eral Tables for Bri ti sh Provi n ces an d
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Mon thly Weather Revi ew for February 1894. 4to . Calcutta,1 894 .
Origi n al Meteorological Observation s of Calcutta, Al lahabad, Luck n ow,
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durin g 1892 -93 . Fcp . Calcutta, 1894 .
S URVEYOR GENERAL OF IND IA.
The Fourth An n ual Report Of th e Zemin dary Pan chayet, Cal cutta
,
held on Saturday the 3rd March, 1894 . Fcp . Calcutta,1 894.
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NO. 197 .
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The Chemical News,—V el. LXIX,
Nos . 1800—1803.
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,No . 37 1 .
The E n tomologist ’s Mon thly Magazin e, - V el. V (2n d Series ),NO 52 .
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The Lon don ,Edin burgh
, an d Dublin Philosophical Magazi n e,
V el . XXXVII (5th Series), No . 227 .
The Messe n ger of Mathematics,—V ol. XXIII (New Series ),NO . 6 .
Numismati c Circular,— V el . I I, NO. 19 .
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Académie des Scie n ce s,—Comptes Ren dus des Sean ces
,
Tome CXVIII ,NOS. 9—14.
An n al e s de Chemie et de Physique,—Mars et Avril
,1894 .
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,
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I
K IRBY,W. F . J . Hiibn er Exotische Schmetterli n ge
,Plates 21—25
,
27 30. 4to. Brussel s, 1894.
L EVI,SYLVA IN . Le Theatre I n dien . 8 V O. Pari s, 1890.
OPPERT, GUSTAV . On the Origin al I n habitan ts of Bharatavarsa OfI n dia . 8 ve . Len de n ,
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110 D ea th ofMr B . H. Hodgson . [AUG.
The fol lowin g obituary n otice was read by Dr . A . F . RudolfHoern le *
In Brian Houghton Hodgson the Society has to deplore the les s ofon e of its Oldes t an d most distin gu ished members . He join ed theSociety on the 24th April, 1833, as an Ordin ary Member
,an d on the
6th Ju ly,1858, he was elected an Hon orary Member . He was , probably,
the largest con tributor that the Society ever pos ses sed . The paperspublished by him in the Society ’s Asiatic Researches ”
an d JOurn al
amoun t to a total of 1 12 besides, he made large don ation s of exceedin glyvaluable man u scripts an d Specimen s of Natural History . In fact,the progres s of the Society duri n g the whole period of his residen cein In dia, was in tim ately con n ected w ith him , an d the Society Showed
i ts appreciation of his s ervices by votin g him a bust on the eve of
his departur e from In dia, on the 6th February, 1844. He first came outto In d ia in 1818, the year of Warren Hastin gs ’ death his term of
s ervice was fin i sh ed before Lord Hardin ge became Govern or-Gen eral,
an d he survived in to Viceroyal ty of the secon d Earl of E lgin,dyin g
on the 23rd May of this year,in the n in ety-fifth year of his age. A lmostall his period of public work was spen t in Nepal
, where he was
appoin ted Secretary in 1820,
an d Reside n t in There,
“ by hisprofoun d kn ow ledge of the peopl e, their coun try, lan guage, an d rel igionhe succeeded in makin g the Briti sh n ame n ot on ly feared but respected .
”
In 1843 he resign ed the servic e , an d return ed home . Two years afterwards, how ever, he came back to In dia,where he settled at Darj eel in gto con tin ue his researches, ti l l 1858, when he fin al ly retired to
E n glan d .
Brian Hodgson ’s chief merit li es in havi n g utili sed, w ith ex
traordin ary zeal an d in du stry, the un ique opportun ities which he en j oyedfor the coll ectin g of material s that helped to advan ce our kn owl edge ofI n dia in the w idest s en se . Nor was his in terest in thin gs In d ianl imited to an y on e departmen t of s cien ce . Most of our kn ow l edge ofNepal we stil l owe to him . Though he was n ot a l low ed to explorethat coun try himself, an ymore than European s are to this day,
yetby his person al i n fluen ce w i th the govern in g class
,by in terviewin g all
stran gers who vi sited the Court an d sacred places of Nepal, an d by
s e n din g out n ative coll ectors in every direction,he was able to accumu
late an immen s e store of trustworthy in formation about the people an dthe coun try . The resu l ts are to be foun d partly in the n umerous paperswhich he con tributed to th is Society but s ti l l more in the in valuablecollection s ofman uscripts, an d specimen s of Natural Hist ory with which
3“ See also an obituary n otice by J . S. C. in TheAcademy, Jun e 2, 1894 .
Phi lological Secre tary .
-E .rhibition of Assamese Gold Coin . 11 1
7he en riched the museums of Europe as w el l as of I n dia .
“ I t was fromthe MSS . he the n sen t to Paris that E ugen e Burn ouf was e n abled tou n dertake the firs t accurate examin ation of the origin of B uddhi sma n d equal ly importan t was his acquis ition of the great Tibetan E n cyclopze dia,
in 334 volumes , w hich n ew repose in the l ibrary of the I n diaOffice . He was al so the first to col l ect vecabularies of the u n writte ndialects of the hil l tribe s throughout I n dia, from the Himalayas toCeylon . But he was n o l es s devoted to Natural History . The pages ofthe Journ al of thi s Society bear ful l w i tn es s to his research es . No les sthan el even species of the Mammalia an d on e gen us of the Aves of
I n dia are n amed after him ; an d both the In dian Museum an d theBritish Museum owe man y of the ir Specimen s to his gen erosity. Tothe solution of practical question s, too, he con tributed h is share of
pion eer-work such as the possibi l itie s of commerce between Nepal an d
Briti sh I n dia,the pol icy of e n roll in g Gurkha battal ion s in the n ative
army,the su i tability of the Sub -Himalayas for san itariums, an d
others .Though Brian Hodgson received n o mark of distin ction from hi s
ow n Govern men t, our Society— his ow n Society— gave him (as a lreadys tated) a bust
,placed in the room in which we meet to-day, the Royal
Society made him a Fel low,an d the Oxford Un iversity gave him the
D . C. L . degree . Fran ce al so gave him the Legion of Hon our ,a medal
Special ly struck by the Seciété Asiatique,an d the Correspon din g Mem
hership of the In stitute . But his real distin ction i s hi s w orks, of whichthree col lected volumes were published in 1874 an d 1880.
The PH ILOLOGI CAL SECRETARY exhibited a n ol d Assamese Go ld Coi n ,
an d read a n ote o n the same, by E . A . Gait, E sq.
, C. S .
The n ote wi l l be publ ished in the Journ al, Part I .The follow in g papers were read1 . Abstract Con ten ts of on e of the AhomBalhis of Asdm.
—By E . A .
GAIT, E sq.
,C . S .
The papers w i l l be published in the Journ al, Part I .2 . Guru Gobin d Sin gh an d Ban dah.
—By WM . IRVINE, Esq.
,I . C . S.
,
Retired .
3 . An Accoun t of the Collection of D eep Sea Crustacea recen tlymadeby theR. I . III . S .
“ I n vestigator,
”
in the Bay of Ben gal an d Laccadive
Sea —By SURCEON-CAPTA IN S A . W . AL COCK a n d A . R . ANDER SON .
The paper wi l l be publ ished in the J ourn al, Part II .
1 12 Library. [Ava
LIB RARY .
The fol low in g additio n s have been made to the Library sin ce theMeetin g held in July last
TEQAN SA CT ION S, PR\OC E E D I N G S A N D jOU IiN A LS,
p resen ted by the respective Societies an d E ditors .
Bombay . The I n dian An tiquary,—Vol s . XXII, December 1893, Part
II ; XXIII, Part 285 .
Buen e s Aires . La Academia Nacion al de C ie n cias en Cordoba,—Boletin ,
Tome XII, No . 1 .
Calcut ta. A siatic Society of Be n gal,—Journ al, Part I,Nes . 1 an d 2 .
Proceedin gs,Nos . 5 an d 6,1 894.
I n dian E n gin eerin g,—Vol . XVI
,Nos . 1—4.
The Medical Reporter,
-Vol . IV,No . 2 .
PhotOgraphic Society of I n dia,—Journ al , V ol . VI I, No . 7 .
Cassel. Des Verein s fi'Ir Naturk un de zu Kassel,— Bericht
,XXXIX .
The Hague . Kon in k lijk In stituut voor de Taal,-Lan d-en Volken
ku n de van Nederlan dseh - I n die,—Bijdragen tot de TaaI-Lan d-en
V olk en k u n de van Nederlan dsch-I n die, 5e V elgr. , Deel X,Aflever
in g 3—4 .
Havre . Seciété de Geographie Commerciale du Havre,—Bul l eti n , Mai
Juin,1894 .
Lon don . The Academy, —NOS. 1 155—58 .
The Athen aeum,
-Nos . 3478—8 1 .
In stitution of E lectrical E n gin eers—Journ al, V ol. XXIII,NO. 112 .
Nature,—Vol . L
,Nos . 1 286—89 .
Numismatic Circular,—Vol . I I, No. 20.
Royal Geographical Society,—Ge ographical Journ al,Vol . IV
,
NO. 1 .
Man chester . The Man chester Li terary an d Philosophical Society,
Memoirs an d Proceedin gs , Vol . VIII (4th Série) , No . 2 .
Moscow . La Société Imperial e de s Natural istes de Moscou,—Bul le tin
,
No . l , 1 894.
Mu ssoorie . The In dian Forester, —Vol . XX,No 7 .
Paris . La Société de Géographie,—Bu l letin , Tome XV,No . 1 .
Comptes Ren dus des Séan ce s No . 13, 1894.
La Société Philomathique de Paris,
- Bulletin,1892—93 ,
1893—94.
,1 14, Library. [AUG.
Return s of the Rai l-Born e Traflic of the Cen tral Provi n ces duri n g thequarter e n din g 3 1st March 1894 . Fcp . Nagpur
,1894.
CHIEF COMMI S S IONER, CENTRAL PROVINCES .
MCCULLOCH, R . W. Rice Growin g an d i ts preparation for Marke t.8vo . Brisban e, 1894.
D EPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,BRIS BANE .
Admin istration Report on the Jai l s of Ben gal for the year 1893 . BySurgeon -Maj or D . W . D . Comin s . Fcp . Cal cutta, 1894 .
An n ual Report on Emigration from the Port of Cal cutta to Briti sh an d
Foreign Colon ies, 1893 . By R . Macleod . Fcp . Cal cutta,1894.
An n ual Report o n In lan d Emigration for the year 1893 . By R .
Macl eod . Fcp . Calcutta, 1894 .
Report on the Calcutta Medical I n stitutio n s for the year 1893 . BySurgeon -Colon el R . Harvey . Fcp . Calcutra,1894.
GOVERNMENT OF B ENGAL .CHRI STY
,M I L LER . The Voyages of Captain Luke Foxe a n d Captai n
Thomas James, in search of a North -West Passage in 1631—32,
Vols . I an d II . 8vo . Lon don , 1894.
The I n dian An tiquary for December 1893 Part II, an d April 1894.
4to . Bombay, 1894 .
North I n dian Notes an d Queries for May 1894 . 4to . Al lahabad, 1894.
GOVERNMENT OF IND IA, HOME DEPARTMENT .
Han dbooks of Commercial Products. No . 23, S ilk. 8vo . Calcutta ,1893 .
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, REV . AND AGRI . D EPT .
Settl emen t Report of the Amballa District, 1893 . By A . Ken sin gton .
Fcp . Lahore, 1893 .
Settl eme n t Report of Karn al-Ambala . By J. M. Douie . Fcp . Lahore,
1891 .
GOVERNMENT OF THE PUN JAB .
A Gu ide to the Z oological Collection s exh ibited in the In vertebrateGal l ery of the I n dian Museum . 8vo . Calcutta, 1894.
IND IAN MUSEUM .
KRUYT,ALB.
C . Woorden lijst van De Baree,—Taal. 8 V O. The Hague,1894 .
KONINKLIJK INSTITUUT VOOR D E TAAL, LAND -EN V OLKENKUND EVAN NED ERLAND SCH- IND I E .
CREDNER, H . Zur Histologie der Falten zahn e Palaozeischer S tegocephalen . 4to . Leipzig, 1893 .
D ELI’
I‘
ZSCH,FRIEDR ICH . Beitrage zur E n tzifi erun g un d Erk larun g der
Kappadokisehen Keilschrifttafeln . 4to . Leipz ig
,1893 .
F I S CHER, OTTO . Die Arbeit der Muskeln un d die Leben dige Kraft desMe n schl iche n Korpersi 4to . Leipzig
,1893 .
Library. 1 15
B ULTS CH, FRIEDRICH . Die Erzahlen den Zeitforme n bei Polybios ein
bei trag zur Syn tax der Gemein griechischen Sprache . 4to . Leipzig,
1893 .
ILBERG,JOIIANNES. D as Hippokrate s-Glossar des Eretian es un d Sei n e
Urspriin gliche Ge stal t . 4to . Leip zig,1 893 .
ME I STER, R ICHARD . Die Mimiamben des Heredas, herausgegebe n un d
erk lart mit ein em an han g tiber den dichter,die iiberlieferun g u n d
den dial ekt . 4to. Leipzig, 1893 .
P FEFF ER, W . Druck -un d Arbeitsl ei stun g durch Wachsen de Pflan zen
4to . Leipzig, 1893 .
SOCIN,ALBERT . ZumArabischen Dialekt von Marok k o . 4to . Leipzig1893 .
STUDY,E . Spharische Trigon ometri e, Orthogon al e Substitution e n un d
E l l iptische Fu n ction en , ein e an alyti sch-geometrische un tersuchun g4to . Leipzig, 1893 .
D ERKoNIGL . SACHS I S CHEN GESEL LSCHAFT D ERW I S SEN SCHAFTEN,LE I PZ IG .
Admin istration Report of the Marin e Survey of In dia for the officialyear 1893—94 .
MARINE SURVEY O F IND IA, POONA .
Memoran dum on the s n owfal l in the moun tain districts borderin gNorthern In dia an d the abn ormal features of th e weather in I n diadurin g the past five mon th s,wi th a forecas t of the probabl e characterof the south -we s t mon soo n rai n s of 1894. Fcp . S imla, 1894 .
METEORO LOG I CAL REPORTER TO THE GOVERNMENT OF IND IA .
An n ual Report of the Board of Regen ts Of the Smithson ian I n stitutionfor the year e n din g Jun e 30th, 189 1 .
SM ITHSON IAN IN STITUTI ON,WASH INGTON .
PER I O D I CA LS PURCHA SE D .
Calcutta . In dian Medical Gazette,—V ol . XXIX,Ne. 7 .
Ge n eva . Arch ive s des Scien ces Physiques et Naturelles,—Tome XXXI
,
No . 6 .
Leipzig . An n alen der Physik un d Chemi e,—Ban d LII, Heft 4 .
Lon don . The ChemicalNews , —Vol s . LXIX,NOS . 1804 an d 1805 LXX ,
1806 an d 1807 .
Numismatic C ircu lar, - V ol. II,No . 20.
Pari s . Revue Scien tifique,—Tome I (4e Série) , Nos . 25 et 26 ; I I, 1 et 2
1 18 Shastri, H . P .
—An cien t Ben ga li Literature. [NOV .
The fol l owi n g gen tl eman is a can didate for election at the n extmeetin g
Fran k Fin n ,E sq.
,B .A.
,proposed by Surgeon -Captai n A . W .
Al cock, secon ded by A . Ped l er, E sq.
The fol low i n g ge n tl eman has expressed a w i sh to w ithdrawfrom the Society
Coun t H . Con den hove .
THE SECRETARY reported the death of the fol low i n g membersProfessor Wil liam D wright t itn ey (Hon orary Member) .Babu Gyan dra N n th Chaudhury,
WV . M . Osmo n d ,E sq. l (
Ordi n ary Members) .
THE SECRETARY read a Circu lar from the Royal Society of New
South IvV ales , e n umerati n g pri zes to be given for origin al res earches
on certain subj ects con n ected w ith Au stral ia . This can be seen in
the Society ’ s Oflice .
The fol low in g papers w ere readI . The Top ography of the Arabia n Sea in the n eighbou rhood of the
Lacearlive Isla n ds .
—By COMMANDER C. F . OLDHAM,R . N . Commun icated
by the Natura l History Secretary .
2 . The Physica l features of some of the Laccadive Islan ds,with somesuggestion s as to theirmode of formation — By COMMANDER C. F . OLDHAM
,
R . N . Commu n icated by the Na tural History Secretary .
3 . An Accou n t of the Shore an d Sha llow-water BRACHYURA collectedon board H . M . Surrey Steamer, “ I n vestigator
,
”
durin g 1893—94— By
A . ALCOCK , ESQ ,M .E .
, a n d A . R . AND ERSON,ESQ ,
B .A .
,MB .
4 . On a New Sp ecies of F lyin g Lizard fromAssam.~—By A .
ALCOCK , ESQ ,M .E .
,
The papers w i ll be publish ed in the Journ a l,Part I I .
5 . An cien t Ben ga li Literature u n der .Muhammadan Patron age—ByPA N D IT HARA PRASAD SHASTR I
,M .A .
Ala-U dd in H n sain Shah was on e of the greatest Sovereign s ofBen gal . He rose from the humble posi tion of a men ial servan t to aKayastha oflicer, of the later Il lias ShfihiDyn asty of Ben gal . It is saidthat hi s Master, Subuddhi Khan , did n ot s cruple even to beat hi shumble Muhammadan Servan t . The secret of Hu sain
’
s success appears to have bee n his con ci liatory policy towards the Hi n dus . He gavehigh offices u n der the State to learn ed Brahman s an d shrewd Kayasthas . RL
'
Ip an d San é ton w ere his min is ters . Hiran ya an d Gobardhanheld un der him the Viceroyalty of the whol e of Satgaon .
The fami ly
Shastri , H . P .
—Anm‘
en t Ben gali Literature. 1 19
of NarottomD z'
ls rose to emi n en ce duri n g his reig n . He tolerated theHi n du religion . Chaita n yaism flourished an d spread duri n g his time .
San skrit l earn i n g rev ived duri n g the prosperous period of the rul eo f his dy n asty .
Followi n g the example Of their Nob l e Master,the Provi n cia l
Govern ors a n d Ge n eral s al s o assumed a co n ci liatory pol icy towardstheir Hin du subj ects . This e n ab l ed Husa i n to make ex te n s ive con quest sin every d irecti on . He co n qu ered a port ion of Tripura, an d the greaterpart of Chattagram . He destroyed the powerfu l dyn asty of Kamtapur ,
in the n orth,a n d led several exped ition s again st the Ki n g of Orissa .
He afforded an asylumto the last fugi tive Ki n g of Jau n pur, an d therebyri sked the d isp leasure of the pow erfu l Lodi Kin g of Delhi . All th ishe w as e n abled t o do b ecau s e the Hin dus w ere frien dly towards him
,
an d he had n othi n g to fear at home .
On e of the mean s by which he an d his Ge n eral s con ci l iated theHi n du s was the e n courageme n t of their Vern acular literature . BeforeHusai n 8 t ime the Be n ga li s posse s s ed a Vern acu lar l iterature . The Ra
mayan a had been tran slated by Ki rttivasa an d the Bhagavat by Gun arajKhan . There were i n n umerab l e popu lar version s Of the stories of Ma
n asa,Man galcan di, an d D harmaraj. The Man asa Man gal
,by Bipra
D as,was composed in 149 5 . But i t appears that as yet the Mahabharata
had n ot been tran slated . It was a great des id eratum . Popu larH in du ism can scarc e ly do w ithout a Ben ga l i version of the Mahabharat
,
an d a Muhammadan Gen eral of Hu sain Shah u n dertook to have i ttran slated u n der his ow n partron age. His n ame was Paragol Khan .
1 do n ot kn ow how the n ame w i l l sp el l in Persian . Paragol was theLashar or Gen era l of Husa i n Shah
,a n d held his Court at Chittagon g . (1)
He employed a n ative bard Paramecvar, who w as d ign ified w iththe t itl e of K a ri
’
n ara . (2) The Mahabharat that was tran slated was
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120 Shastri,H . P .
—An cien t Ben gali Literature. [Nov.
Jaimin i’
s an d n ot V aisampayan a’
s . (3 ) Jan iamajaya Seems to havein curred the w rath of a Rish-i
,who cursed him,
an d the curse producedleprosy . The ki n g in d is tress sen t for V yasa, who ordered the kin gto hear from his pupil
,Jaimin i
,the story of the Mahabharata . The
in terlocutors are Jan amajaya an d Jaimin i. It i s curi ou s that theJaimin i Bharata i s n ot to be foun d in its en tirety in San skrit . TheOn ]y Pa rva
,that is extan t, i s the Acvamedha Parra . But the Ben gal i
v ersion co n tain s the whole of the Jaimin i Bharata . From thi s itappears certain that 400 years ago, in Husain Shah ’s time, the Jaimi n iBharata w as procurable in its en tirety . I have procured a copy of
Paragol’
s Mahabharata,very n early complete
,at Komilla,
from a shopkeeper who came from Chittagon g .
At the en d of the Aera n iedha Parn a of this work which run st hrough 1 2 l eaves on ly
,there i s a curiou s passage (5) to the effect that
Paragol’
s son , Chut i Khan ,had ordered Crik ar Nan d i, an other poet, to
give a ful l accoun t of the wars described in that Parva . This stimalated my travel -l i n g Pu n dit Bin od Vihari Kavyatirtha to see if ChutiKhan ’s Acvamedha Parva was procurable . After a di ligen t search inTripura durin g the last rain y season his exerti on s were rewarded w ithmarked success . He foun d in the collection of Babu An uk fi l Chan draRay ,
a lan dholder in the vicin ity of Komilla, a copy of Chu ti Khan ’
s
w ork, complete in 87 l eaves . He has brought a complete n otice of thew ork, from w hich it appears that Chu ti Khan was as great a patron of
(3 ) W 1 33?“ an! law is ?“
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'oin age of the Gup ta
Period .
—By V . A . SMITH, E sq., I . C. S .
2 . On the hypothesis of the Babylon ian Origin of the so-called lun ar
zodiac—By D R. G . THI BAUT .
The papers w i l l be pub l ished in the Journ a l, Part I .
3 . The fi drshhl Jahdn - n umci,of Sayyid I ld lii Buhhsh d l Husain i
An gaéza-bddi. —By H . B EVERIDGE
,ESQ .
,late C. S .
(Abstract)Mr . Beveridge
’
s paper co n s is ts of an an alysi s a n d partial tran slationof the Be n gal chapters of Bakhsh of Maldah ’
s M . S . w ork call edthe Ig iurshid Jahan Numa. l lah '
i Bakhsh gives a detai led accou n t of
the a n tiquitie s of Gaur an d Pan dua an d copie s of the i n scriptio n s tobe foun d there . He began his book so lo n g ago as 1853, but it hasn ever bee n published ,
an d so mos t of h is in scrip tio n s have appearedalready in the Society ’ s Journ a l, an d in Raven shaw ’
s Gaur . Five in scriptio n s how ever, appear to be n ew,
via,those of 7 1 1
, 9 1 3 ,943
,1000, an d
1059 A . H . He has al so given chron ograms of the deaths, &c .
,of the
Sain ts of Pan dua via,Jalalu- d-dln Tabr
'
izi,
‘A liu- l-Haqq
,an d Nur
Qutb an d much curious an d n ove l i n format io n about their shri n es, 850 .
He has al so d escribed a coi n of Mahmud Shah of 944 A . H .
Mr.Beveridge recomme n d s that the Society shoul d publish Pers ian
extracts from D el hi Bak hsh '
s work, via , pp . 4 a n d 5,so far as they
describe the compositi on a n d con te n ts of the Jahan Numa,an d pp . 1 45 (begin n in g w ith the accoun t of Pan dua)— 224
,omitti n g
the pla n s an d certain portion s . It does n ot appear n ecessary to prin t therest of the volume except portion s of pp . 246 an d 280
,an d the author ’ s
accou n t of h imself from p . 49 7 to the en d . Mr . Beveridge has give ntran slatio n s of the importan t parts of the book . By referri n g to themthe coun ci l w i l l be able to judge what portio n s of the tex t should bepri n ted .
The date , 738 A . H . or 1 337,given by Ilahi Bakhsh for Jalalu- d -din ’
s
departure from Pan dua i s very in teresti n g as i t agrees with Ibn
Batuta’ s accoun t . That traveller saw Jalalu -d -din in Sylhet or Assamabout 740 A .H.
,a n d before Jalalu -d -din had go n e to the Maldives . Mr
Haraprasad Qés tri—Remn a n t3 of Buddhismin Ben gal. 135
Beveridge has al so given a n extrac t from the tran slatio n s of the BombayGeographica l Soci e ty co n firmatory of the traditio n that Jalalu- d - d i n is
buried in the Mald ive i s la n d s .
This paper w i l l be pub li shed in ful l in the Journ a l,Part I .
4 . D iscovery of the remn an ts of Buddhismin B en ga l— By PA N D IT
HARAPRASAD QASTRT, M . A .
Dharma-worsh ip prev a ils in W' estern an d Souther n Be n ga l . It
has the fol low in g n oteworthy features w hich d is tin gu ish it from o therforms of H in duw orship .
1 . The n ame of the dei ty i s e ither Dharma -raj or simply Dham ~
ma . His w orship i s cal led Dhamma pilje.
2 . His templ e s face e ither East or South . But he i s ofte n wor
shiped u n der a tree a n d sometimes in the ope n magadan .
3 . Wh ere he has a perman e n t habitatio n he i s represe n ted by a
piece of roun d s to n e w i th o n e or two bra ss n ail s, called gap ,
”
drive nthrough i t . In other places he i s worshiped in the form of a ghata ,
orearthen jar, ful l of water .
4 . His priests a re Den is , Pods, Bagdis , an d men of other lowcastes . Brahma n as rare ly w orship himas Dharma .
5 . Daily w orship is n ot i n s i s ted upon . The w orship i s mostly of
a votive character .6 . The an n ual festival , which i s ge n erally held on the ful l moo n
in th e mon th of V aioak ha,i s a time of great rej oicin g for the l ower
classe s,from wh ich the h igher classes ge n eral ly hold al oof .
7 . The pri n cipal feature of thi s an n ua l fe stival w as the athleticfeat of sw in gin g on a l ofty pol e which was put a stop to in 1868 un derorders of Gover n men t .
8 . At this festiva l a lon g poem is recited which goes u n der then ame of D harma magga l or D hamma Thdhurér Gan .
9 . Dhamma i s worshiped w i th ma n tras which appear to be verycurious .
There are reaso n s to thi n k that this i s a rem n an t of Buddhism,an d
all th e n i n e poin ts e n umerated abo ve lead to the same co n clu sion .
1 . The n ame of the de ity i s Dharma -raj. This i s a n other n ameof Buddha for the Amara Kesa says — Eliliii (we? 33? uhrra emma :Dharma i s al so the first of the B uddhis t Triad . Buddhismwas i tse lfkn ow n to i ts fol low e rs by the n ame of Sad -Dharma or simply Dharma .
Babu Qarat Can dra D as quotin g from an un pub l ished w ork o f the Tibeta n Taran ath,
says,that after the de struc ti o n of Higher B uddhism by the
Muhammada n s,
.the popular a n d tan trik B uddhismremai n ed in Be n gal.an d w as k n own u n der the n ame of Dhamma .
136 Haraprasad Qasti‘i—Remn a n ts of Buddhismin Ben gal. [D EC.
2 . Dhamma i s popu larly sai d to be a form of i a . This i s disproved by the fact that hi s templ es face the East while i a templesface the West . The worship un der a tree remi n ds o n e of the worshipof the Brk sa Caityas of the Buddhi s ts or of the Bodhidruma .
3 . The brass n ail s on the s ton e s represen ti n g Dhamma are said tobe hi s eyes . Now,
in the Buddhist Triad Dhamma used to be repre
se n ted by a stup a w ith two eyes on the n eck, i. e.,just where the ston e
umbrellas begin , a n d the s tupa was the great obj ect of worship in a
Buddhi st Vihara .
4 . Dhamma i s p erhaps the on ly deity, who i s w orshiped byother castes than Brahman s . The flguris , Goalas , ilIaya rd s, Bd ruis an d
othersmay be priests of Dhamma . But D ams are regarded as partienlarly fit priests for the deity . Now D oms have n ot as yet admittedbrahman as to be their domestic prie s ts . There are Pan di ts amon g D amswho perform all their rel igious ceremon ies for them . Dhamma i s said tohave given the D ams a been that they shoul d be his con sti tuted priestsan d that they should be al lowed to drin k w in e an d eat hog ’s fle sh .
Babu Qarat Can dra D as quotin g from an u n publi shed work of Taran ath says, that durin g the reig n of Nasiruddin ,
a D omBuddhis t obtain edsidclhi or fi n al success an d organ i zed tan trik Buddhism the n s till prevai l in g in Ben gal .
5 . Wherever a Buddhi st rui n has bee n expl ored, the explorer hasbeen rewarded wit-h a n umber o f Votive stup as in clay or s ton e .
Wooden stripes in the form of ha n tas or wooden caskets w ith highs teeples are still to be foun d graci n g Dhamma tree s . Horses of
burn t earth are offered more freque n tly than hautas . Some of theDhamma Thakurs are said to be Jagrata or wi de -awake a n d tha t theirfavour always gran ts succe ss to the worshiper . Numbers flock to some ofDhamma temples an d offer him Puja for recovery from d iseases
,gain
in g advan cemen t in l ife an d so for th . The ofi erin gs are made over tothe pri es t of the temple, a Domor JlIayard or Teli, an d he presen ts i t tothe dei ty . But proud brahman as when they offer a n y vo tive offerin gdi sdain to have i t presen ted by a low fel low an d so they bri n g theirow n priests . I n some temples in the vici n ity of large b rahman a popa latio n ,
there are two priests, on e low born ,an d the other brahman a for
prese n ti n g votive offeri n gs . In on e case the brahman a has completelysupplan ted his low born rival, an d he n ow w orship s the dei ty w ith Qaivaman tras an d looks upon himas i a . But in the dai ly worship he d ivide sthe n aiveclya, or rice offerin g, placed on a brass plate in the shape o f a
con e,i n to two semi - con es makin g a tre n ch w ith hi s fin ger
,an d ofi ers
the j oin t n aivedya to the joi n t deity sayin g fn arq H‘fRT‘
S‘IW as :
ll' See page 3350 of D harma MAIjgal published at Calcutta in BS . 1295 .
1 38 Edward Barlow—J Vote o n the food- in sects of thema n tis .
:
[D EC.
The n ame of the deity,his lowly pries thood a n d the story of the
Dharma Man gal raised a stron g presumptio n in my min d in favour ofthe Buddhist origi n of the w orship . In review i n g the w ork “ DharmaMan gal ” publi shed by the Baggards l Press, I wrote in on e of the an n ualreports of the Be n gal Library that the Dharma cul t migh t either be a
remn an t o f decayed Buddhism or that i t might be some formof n on
Aryan worship . But the d i scovery of theman tra an d the fact that thean n ual festival is held o n th e birth-day of Buddha l eave l ittl e doubtof the Buddhis tic origi n of this cul t .
5 . Zlfa terials for a F lora of the Ma lay Pen in sula, NO. 7 .
—By Gr.K ING,E sa ,
M .E . ,LL .D .
,C.I .E .
The paper w il l be pub l i shed in the Journ a l,Part II .
6 . A short n ote on thefood - in sects of thema n tis Hierodula bipapilla ,
Serv .—By E DWARD BARLOW, E n tomology Assista n t, I n dia n M
'
useum.
About the begin n in g of the mo n th of November las t,I recei ved
two l ivin g spec ime n s of a. Man tis, Hierodn la bzfp ap illa ,Serv . ,
from an
employee of the Museum,Mu n shee Kassimuddin ,
who had capturedthemat n ight in the vicin i ty of Harriso n ’ s Road where they had bee na ttracted by the glare of the el ectric l igh t . The morn i n g after theircapture they w ere as l ively as ever, evide n tly n ot havi n g suffered muchfrom b ein g con fi n ed the whol e n ight in a closed paper bag ; an d so
,
b ein g curious to w itn e s s what I had previously read ab out the l i fehistory an d veracity of these i n sects , I con fi n ed them in a large glas srearin g - cage , e special ly selecti n g this kin d of cage as bein g large an deasily see n i n to w ithou t d isturbin g the in sect s . The i n sects o n bei n gtran sferred from the paper bag to the reari n g- cage showed sign s ofgreat deligh t, evide n tly thin ki n g that they had gain ed their l iberty .
On the first day of their co n fi n eme n t I placed a doze n l ivi n g specime n sof a fly (Mn sca Sp . ) commo n ly fou n d amon g kitche n refuse an d otherrubbish
,an d pati e n tly w ai ted to w atch their man oeuvres . Theman
t ises o n perceivi n g the flie s were at o n ce on “the al ert
,
” pu ttin g th emselve si n to their characterist ic atti tude ; an d whe n the flies se ttled w ith i nreach of their formidabl e en emie s they w ere sei zed w i th u n fai lin gexactitude a n d promptn ess betwee n the two foreleg s , an d devouredw ith great avidity, n ot immed iately, but after the lapse of a few
mi n utes .
I kep t feedi n g the two man ti ses o n flies of the same k i n d o n lyeach devouri n g ab out seven flie s a day ; a n d when the supply of thesew as n early exhausted , I pu t in a few specime n s o f th e common largegreen bl ow -fly (L n rt
'
lt'
a These the man ti ses did n o t seem to relish
Edward Barlow—Note on the food - in serts of theman tis . 139
much,for they attacked them w i th great reluctan ce appeari n g to be
almos t frigh te n ed of them— a n d on ly devoured them whe n they coul dget n oth i n g el se .
The 7 th a n d 8 th of November bein g hol idays,
I did n ot atten doffice
,con seque n tly the i n sec ts w ere left w ithout an y food . A tte n di n g
the Museum o n the 9 th i n stan t, my first though t was of the man t ises,
a n d on goi n g up to the cage I beheld a s igh t which ful ly il lustrate dthe voracious n ature of these i n sects
,for duri n g my ab se n ce the
stro n ger on e of the two, n ot fi n di n g other food, had del iberately mad ea meal of his w eaker compan ion , devouri n g the e n tire abdome n , l eavi n gthe w in gs
,l egs
,&c .
, of hi s un fortun ate victim strew n about in thecage .
My n ext experimen t on the remain i n g ma n ti s was to fi n d out ifthere were an y ki n ds of i n sects that i t woul d n ot eat
,an d havin g read
that these raptorial Orthoptera have been n oticed by difleren t observersto devour caterpillars , grasshoppers, butterfli es, bee tle s, a n d eve n smal lbirds
,I placed in the cage two l ivin g specimen s of a bug (Cyclop etfia
which had bee n sen t to the Mu seum from Poo n a as i n festi n g L eguminosce an d other species of E rythrin a . Previously the ma n tis had bee nkept w i thout food for two days as a just pu n i shmen t for its crime
,s o
on perce ivi n g the bugs it sei z ed the on e n earest to it w i th great eagern ess, an d, turn in g the head from side to side, made two attempts tobite i ts vi ctim ,
the taste of which, however, i t appeared to dislike ,sh ow in g sig n s of its d i sl ike by w ipi n g its mou th agai n st i ts right foreleg several times . I w atched the man tis , off a n d o n
,for about two
hours , but ex ceptin g the two attemp ts it had made to eat the bug itnever moved
,til l its v ictim lay dead betwee n its two forelegs, when
i t let it drop .
The n ext day I placed in the cage some specimen s of an other kin dof a bug (Physomern s which had been se n t to the Museum fromPoon a as i n festi n g Con volvn lacece. The flesh of this bug al so appearedto be distasteful to th e ma n ti s, an d though it destroyed severa l specime n s
,i t wou ld n ot eat them. Con s ideri n g its con ditio n at the time
havin g bee n w i thou t food for severa l days— I ami n clin ed to thin k that
bugs do n ot form the food of ZVIan tt's ; but to prove this man y moreexperime n ts w oul d be n ecessary . U n fortun ately my observatio n s hadto be aban don ed here, as the man ti s d i ed soon after its refusal to eat
the bugs, from sheer starvation I th i n k .
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MULD ER, E . V ervolg van het on derzoek betreffen de Het Keton zuur
afgeleid van Wijus teen zuur, en over het Parabran digdruiven zuur .
8vo . Amsterdam,1894.
SCHOUTE, P . H . Regelmassige Schn i tte u n d Projection en des achtzelles .
Sechszehn zelles i1 n d vierun dzwan zigzelles im Vierdimen sion al enRaume . 8vo . Ams terdam , 1894 .
SCHOUTEN, D R. G . De V exs n ellin gen van B oogers Orden . 8vo . Ams terdam,
1894 .
146 Library. [D EC.
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Washi n gton, 1894.
Report of the Un ited States Natio n al Museum for the year en din gJun e 30th, 1892 . 8vo . Washin gton
,1893 .
SMITHS ONIAN INSTITUTI ON,WASH INGTON .
The TheOSOphic Glean er, V ol. IV,Nr . 3 . 8vo . Bombay, 1894 .
TH EOSOPH ICAL SOC IETY,BOMBAY
LEIGHTON, V I RG I L L . The Developme n t of the Win g of Stern a Wilson n .
8vo . Massachu setts, U . S . A. , 1894 .
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f E R IO D l C A L S f U RC H A SE D .
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,No . 5 .
Berlin . Deutsche Litteraturzeitun g, - Jahrgan g XV,Nrn . 241- 39 .
Orien tal i sche Bib l iographic— Ban d VII, Heft 2 .
Zei tschrift fiir E th n ologie,—Heft I I- IV, 189 4 ; un d Ge n eralRegis ter zu Ban d I—XX (1869
Braun schw eig . Jahresbericht iiber die Fortschritte der Chemie u n d
verwa n d ter Theil e a n derer Wisse n schafte n ,— Heft 2
,1890.
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V ol. XXIX, No . 1 1 .
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,1894 .
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Nr . 1,1894.
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2,1894 .
Philologisch -hi stori sche Klasse,—Nr . 2
,
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Beiblatter, —Ban d XVIII,Nr. 10.
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l6th Series ),NOS. 79—82 .
The Chemical New s,—Vol . LXX,Nos . 1821—25 .
The E n tomologis t,—Vol . XXVII, Nos . 3 74—77 .
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Nos . 362—65 .
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The Lon don ,Edi n burgh an d Dublin Phi losophical Magaz i n e,
—Vol . XXXVIII,Nos . 230—33 .
Library. 147
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-V ol .
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,No . 3 ; 2
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150 I n dex .
A n derson (Dr . A . an accoun t of the shore an d Shal low-waterBrachyura coll ected on board H .M . SurveySteamer “ In vestigator
,
” durin g 1893 -94
n ote on the stridulatin g powers of theOcypode crab (Ocyp oda cera top hthalma)
An n ual Meeti n gReport
An thropol ogical Committee, el ection ofA n thropol ogyArabia n Sea, topography of theArchaeological Committee, election of
Ar n old (H . K . elected Member of Fi n an ce an d Visitin gCommittee
elected Memb er of History an d Archaeologi
cal Committeeel ected Member of Library Committee
A ssam,flyin g Lizard from
A ssamese Gold Coi n ,exhibition of
Babylon ian OriginBan dah, Guru Gobin d Sin gh an d
Barlow (Edward) , a short n ote on the food- i n s ects of theman tisBasu (Chan dra Kan ta) , pri ze awarded toBasu (Nagen dra Natha ), e le cted a n Ordin ary MemberBatabyal (Umes Chan dra) , on a n ew copper -plate gran t of Dhar
mapalaBathybial Fishes, collection ofBehari Customs an d P ractice sBen gali Li teratureBeveridge n ote on Maj or Fran cklin ’s description of Gaur
the Iihfi rshid Jahan - n uma of Sayy id I lahiBakhsh al Hu sain i A n gréza
-badiBhagalpur, fi n d of Old coin s inBibliotheca I n d ica
budget shew in g the expen ses on theBose (P . N elected Member of Physical Scien ce CommitteeBrachyura ,
shore an d shal low -waterBuddha ’s Ordin ation , golden Book ofBuddhi sm in Ben galBui ldin gButterflie s from the Lido-MalayanButterfly E at/za lia Ira
In dea'. 1 5 1
Bysack (Gaurdas ), el ected Member of History an d ArchaeologicalCommittee
e lected Member of Library Committeee lected Member of Philologi cal Committeeel ected Member of Physical Scien ce Committee
Cen tral Prov i n ce s, fi n d of Old coin s in
Charles (Dr . R . Havelock) , the Nasal In dex compared upon the
Head an d Sku l l, w i th n otes upon the Nasal B on es an d an
terior Nasal ApertureChatteijee (M . N . el ected an Ordin ary MemberChaudhury (Gya n dI a Nath ), death of
Chemical Examin at ion of certai n I n dian Foodstufi sChilzis tradition s, n otes onCockburn (J . n ote on a D IOI Ite plugCoin ,
Assamese goldcabin etcommittee, electi o n of
reports 011 fi n ds of Oldsupplemen tary to Thomas ’ Chro n icl es of th e Pathan Kin gsof Delhi, NO. 5
Coi n age of the Gup ta periodCommittees, el ection ofCon den hove (Cou n t II ) , w i thdrawal ofCon tin en tal Agen cyCon volvu laceae , some addition al sp ecie s ofCopper plate Gran t of Dharmapala
,,SOhgau1 a
Cote s (E . C. elected Member of Natura l H is tory CommitteeCoun cil, members of
Proceedin gs durin g 1893, abstract ofCrab, OcypodeCrimin al Pun i shmen t in Tibetan Jail sCroft (S ir A . W . elected Vice -Pre siden tCrooke elected Member of An thropological CommitteeCrus tacea, col lection of Deep SeaCun n in gham (Major-Gen eral S ir death of
obituary n otice of the deathof
Cun n in gham (Dr . D . elected Member of Library Committeeelected Member of Natural His toryCommittee
152 Iriders .
Cun n in gham (D r. D . elected Member of Physical Scien ceCommittee
Customs an d Practices , BehariDames (M . el ected Member of An thropological CommitteeD as (Sarat Chan dra) , elected Member of An thropological Com
mitteeshort n ote on the Golden Book of Buddha ’ s Ord i n atio nTibetan Jai l s an d Crimin al
Death of Members 1,41 , 75, 84, 102, 1 18,
Delh i fi n d of old coin s inD harmapala,
copper-plate gra n t OfD io xite plug, exhibition of a
Discovery of the remn an ts of Buddhism in Ben galDouglas (Li euten an t J . n otes o n Chilas trad ition sDriver (W . H . el ected Member Of History an d Archaeo
logical CommitteeDuthie (J . F . elected Member of Natura l History Commi tteeE l ection of Members 55 , 83, 101 , 109 , 1 1 7 ,
E lgin (Lord ), accepted the offi ce of PatronE l iot (J el ected Member of Phys ica l S cie n ce CommitteeE l l iott Prize for Scien tific ResearchE l l iott (The Hon . Sir C. elected Vice -Presiden t
vote of than ks toE l son (S . R . elected Member of Phy s ical Scien ce CommitteeE ssays for the E ll iott Prize for Scien tific Research ”
E ‘
Itlll tl lla I ’
Ua
Fadi n g Histori esFat an d Oil
Fi n an ce an d Vis itin g Committee, el ectio n ofreport on
Fi n n (Fran k ) , e lected an Ord in ary MemberFlora of the Malayan Pen in su la 42
,
Flower (Sir Will iam Hen ry ) , elected a Hon orary Memb erletter of than ks for bein g elected a
Hon orary MemberFlyin g Lizard from As samFolk - l ore about Thieves an d RobbersFood- in sects of theman tisFoodstuffs ,Forrest (G . elected Member of Library Committee
138
154 I n dex .
Hoern le (Dr . A . F . R. ) exhibited a s il ver coin sen t by Mr .
Rodgersn ote on the Sohgaura copper-plateobituary n otice of the death of Maj orGen eral S ir A . Cun n in gham
obituary n otice of the death of Mr . B .
H . HodgsonHoey (Dr . n ote on the Sohgaura copper-plateHol lan d (T . exhibited n ew varietie s of peri doti teHon orary Members, death of 1
,41
, 102,
election of
Hyde (The Rev . H . elected Member of History an d Archaeol ogical Committeeelected Member of Lib-1 aiy Committee
I lahi Bakh sh al Husai n i An gré za-badi (Sayyid ), Khurshid Jaban
n uma of
In dian Mu seumIn do -Malayan region ,
butterflies from theI n scription from ShamsabadI n vertebrates, marin eIrvin e (William ) , Guru Gobin d Sin gh an d Ban dah
n ote on an I n scription from ShamsabadIskan der AliMirza, Bahadur (Prin ce ), death ofJahan gir ’s Mohurs an d RupeesJai l s, TibetanJarrett (Colon el H . elected Member of Coun ci l
el ected Member of Library Committeeel ected Member of Phil ological Committeew ithdrawal of
Jehan Qudr Muhammad Wahid Ali (Prin ce) , el ected member ofLibrary Committee
‘Kan gra district, fi n d of old coin s inKhudabak sh Khan ,
Bahadur (Moulvie) , el ected Member of Philological Committee
Khfi rsh-id Jahan n umaKin g (Dr . George) , elected Member of Physical Scien ce Com
mitteematerial s for aflora of theMalayan Pen i n sula 42,
Kin g (Dr . W il l iam) , Wi thdrawal ofLa Touche (J . J . el ected Member of Physical Scien ce Committee
In dex .
Ladakh , history of
Lafon t (The Rev . Fr . el ected Member of Physical Scien ceComm itte e
Libraryadditio n s tocommittee
,el ection of
Life Members , death ofLitera ture
,Ben gal i
Little electedLi zard from A ssamLon don Agen cyLyal l (C. J el ected Presiden tMaclagan (E compou n ded subscription as n on -re side n tmember
Maclagan (Gen eral Robert) , death of
Malayan Pen in su la, flora of theMalda
,fi n d of old coi n s in
Man n (J elected Member of Cou n ci lel ected Member of Library Committeee lected Member of Philological Committee
Jll cmtz's,food- in sects of the
Mari n e I n vertebra tes , exhibition of
Marx (D r . Karl ) , three documen ts re latin g to the History of
Ladak h
Material s for a Flora of the Malayan Pen in sulaMeade (Maj or M . J W ithdrawal ofMecon opsi s from SikkimMembers
,death ofel ection ofl ist
,report on
of Coun cilW i thdr awal of 40
,56
, 84
MeteoriteMiddlemis s (C . elected Member of Natural History Committee
elected Member of Physical Scien ce CommitteeMiln e -Edward s (Profess or d eath ofMitra (Sarat Chan dra) , n orth In dian Folk- l ore about Thieves an d
Robberson some Behar’
i Customs an d PracticesMohurs an d Rupees, Jahan gir ’
s
Moir (Surgeon -Captai n D . elected an Ordin ary Member
1 55
156 In dex .
Mon thly Gen era l Meetin gs 1, 37 , 55, 75, 83, 101, 109 , 1 17 ,
Mozufferpur, fi n d of old coin s inMuhammad bin Sam,
si lver coin supposed to be on e ofMuk erjea (Bhudeva ), death of
elected Member of Phi lological CommitteeMuk erjea (Nilmon i) , elected Member of Philological Committee “
Muk erjea (P . C. rel ics obtain ed byMuk erjea (Sivn arayan ) , elected an Ordin ary MemberMuk hop édhyaya (Dr . Asutosh) , elected Member of Library Com
mitteeelected Member of Phil ologicalCommittee
el ected Member of PhysicalScien ce Committee
Mul l ick (Y adulal ) death ofNasal I n dex compared upon the Head an d Sku llNash (A . accoun t of Babu Chan dra Kan ta Basu , essay fur
n ished by
Natural History Committee , election ofSecretary exhibited a Diorite Plug
Nepal , Tribes, Clan s an d Cas tes ofNew South Wales , Circu lar from the Royal Society ofNicéville (L . de ) , e lected Member of Library Committee
el ected Member of Natural History Committeeexhibited a rare Nymphal id butterfly, Euthalia.Iva,
on n ew or l ittl e -kn ow n Butterfl ie s from theI n do Ma layan region .
Noeldek e (Theodor ), elected a Hon orary Memberletter of than ks for bein g elected a Hon or
ary MemberNoetlin g (Dr . Fritz ) , elected Member of Natural History Com
mitteee l ected Member of Physical Scien ce Committee
North In dian Folk - lore about Thieves an d RobbersNoviciae I n dicae, V II an d VIIINyayaratn a (Mahamahopadhyaya Mahesachan dra) , elected Mem
ber of Coun ci le lected Member of Library
Committee
1 58 I n dex .
Philological Committee, budget draw n up by theelection of
Secretary exhibited an old Assamese gold coin
exhibited the Soligaura Copper -plateread a n ote on Maj or Fran cklin ’s D escrip
tion of GaurPhysical feature s of some of the Laccad ive Islan ds
,w i th some
suggestion s as to their mode of formationScien ce Committee, election of
Practices,Behari Customs an d
Prain descript ion of a n ew Mecon opsis from Sikkimelected Memb er of Natural History Committeeel ected Member of Physical S cien ce Committeesome add ition al species of Con volvu laceae
Prese n tation s,an n ou n cemen t of 1
,37 55, 7 5, 83, 101 , 109, 1 1 7,
Presiden t , el ec tion of
Presiden tial AddressPubl icat ion s of the SocietyPun i shmen t in Tibetan Jai l sRan kin g (Dr . George) , elected an Ord i n ary MemberRay (P . on the Chemical Examin ation of certai n I n dian Food
stufi s , Part I .
,Fat an d Oil
Relics,exh ibitio n of
Report on the “ E l l iott Prize for Scien tific ResearchRivett-Carn ac (J . w ithdrawal ofRobbers
,Folk - l ore about Thieves an d
Rodgers (C. J coin s supplemen tary to Thomas ’ Chron i cles ofthe Pathan Kin gs of Delhi
,No . 5
el ected Member of Coin s Commi tteeexhibitio n of a silver coi n se n t byJahan gir
’
s Mohurs a n d RupeesRest (Dr . Rei n hold) , el ec ted a Hon orary Member
let ter of than ks for b ei n g elected a Hon orary Member
Royal Society of New South Wal es, Circular fromRupees, Jahan gir ’
s Mohurs an dSarbadhik ari (Rai Raj Kumar) , e lected member of A n thropo
l ogical Committeeelected member of PhilologicalCommittee
Sarkar (Dr . Mahen dralél ), elected Member of Coun cil
‘
7 ’
In dea’
.
Sarkar (Dr . Mahen dralail) , el ected Member of Library Committeee lected Member of Philol ogical Com
mit teeelec ted Member ‘ of Physical Scie n ce
CommitteeScotlan d (J . P ) , death ofScu l ly (Dr . el ected Member of Coi n s Committee
elected Member o f Fi n an ce a n d V i s iti n g Committee
el ected Member of Library Commit teeel ected Member of Natural His torv Committeeel ec ted Member of Phys ical Sc ien ce Commi tte e
S ecretarie s, ele ctio n of
oflice ofSewel l w ithdrawal ofShamsabad, I n scription fromShastr i (Harap rasad) , a n cie n t Be n gal i Li terature u n der Muham
mada n Pa tro n agediscovery of the rem n an ts of Buddhism inBen gale lec ted Joi n t Philological S ecretary
Shibl i Neman i (Shams -ul—U lama Maulvie) , el e cted an Ordi n aryMember
Shore a n d Shal low -water Braci’zyma
Shyamaldas (Mahamahapodhyaya Kaviraja) , d eath ofelec ted Member of His toryan d Archaeological Committe e
Sibsagar, fi n d of old coi n s inSiemen s (Dr . IV ar n er ), d eath ofSikkim
,Meco n opsi s from
Simpson (Dr . IV . el ected Member of Coun cile lected Member of Physical S cien ce Committee
Sin gh (Rai Bahadur D han apati) , w ithdrawal ofSin gh (Kumar In drachan dra ) , death of
Si n gh,Bahadur (His High n ess Raj ‘a elected an
Ordin ary MemberSPin ha (Ku n war Kushal Pal) , elected an Ordin ary MemberSmith (V . el ected Member of Coin s Committee
fur ther Observation s on the His tory an d Coin ageof the Gupta period
l 9
160 I n dex .
Smith (V . n ote on the Sohgaura copper-plateSocie tie s I n sti tutio n s
,&c .
,to which the publication s of the As iatic
Society -have been sen t durin g the year,or from which pub l ication s have bee n received
Sollgaura copper-plate, exh ib iti on ofSpre n ger (Dr . A loys ) , death ofStokes (Sir George Gab riel ) , el ected a Hon orary MemberTark alan k ara (Mahamahapodhyaya Chan dra Kan ta) , elected a
Hon orary MemberTemple (Maj or R . elected Member of History an d Archfeolo
gical Committeeel ected Member of Phi lological Committee
Thibaut (Dr . elected Member of Phi lological Committeeon the hypothes is of the Babylon ian Origin
of the se- cal led lun ar zodiacThieves an d Robbers , Folk-lore aboutThomas ’ Chro n i cle s of the Pathan s Kin gs of Delhi, No . 5
,coi n s
supplemen tary toThuillier (Col . elected Member of Physical Scien ce Committee
Thurston (E ), elected Member of An threpelogical Committeeel ected Memb er of Coi n s Committeeelected Member of Natural History Commi ttee
Tibetan Jai l sTopography of the Arabian SeaTreasurer, election ofTribedi (Be n i Madho ), membership can cel ledTribes
, Clan s an d Castes of NepalVan sittart (Captain Eden ), n ote on the Tribes, Claus an d Castes
of NepalV en is elected Member of Philological CommitteeVice -Presiden ts
,el ection of
Viceroy an d Govern or-Gen eral of I n d ia,acceptan ce of the oflice of
Patron by theVisitin g Committee, electio n of
V est (Surgeon -Captai n William ), compou n ded subscription as
n on -residen t memberelected an Ord in ary Member
VV addell (Dr . L . w i thdrawal of“ 7 511511 (Dr . J . H . Tul l ), appoin ted An thropo l ogical Secretary
elected Natural History Secretary
LIST OF OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF COUNCILOF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL
FOR THE YEAR 1893 .
The Hon . Si r c . A . Elliott,K . c . s . I .
V ice-Presiden ts .
A . Pedler, E sq.,F . R. S .
C. J . Lyall, Esq.,M . A . , LL .D . , C. S I ., C . I . E .
D r . A . F . R . Hoern le.
Secretaries an d Treasurer .
G . A . Grierson ,E sq.
, C . S.
D r . J . H . TullWalsh .
The Hon . Mr. H . H . Ri sley,C . I . E .
C. R. W ilson ,E sq.
,M . A .
Pan dit Haraprasad Sas tri, M . A .
C . Little, E sq., M . A .
Other .Members of Cou n cil.
Babu Pratapachan dra Ghosha, B . A .
L . de N i ceville, E sq. , F . E . S.
Colon el H . S . Jarrett .D r . Mahen dralal Sarkar, C . I . E .
E . C . Cotes, E sq.
The Hon . Mr. Justice Amir Ali, C . I .
Colon el J . Wa terhouse, B . S . C .
Maheimahopadhyaya Mahesachan dra Nyayarat n a ,
L IST OF ORD INA RY M EM B ERS .
R. Residen t . N . R. Non -Residen t . A . Ab sen t . N . S. Non -Subscribin g .
L . M . Life Member . F . M . Foreign Member.
N . B .
—Members who have chan ged their residen ce sin ce the list was draw n
up are reques ted to give in timation of such a chan ge to the Secretaries , in orderthat the n eces sary alteration may be made in the sub sequen t edition . Errors or
omis sion s in the follow in g lis t should also be commu n icated to the Secretaries .
Members who are about to leave In dia an d do n ot in ten d to return are particularly reques ted to n otify to the Secretaries whether it is their desire to con tin ue
Members of the Society ; otherwise, in accordan ce with Rule 40 of the Bye-Law s ,
their n ames will be removed fromthe lis t at the expiration of three years fromthe
time of their leavin g In dia .
Adamso n,Maj or Charles Hen ry E l l ison
,M . s . e.
,Depu ty Commission er . Sagain g.
Adie,Surgeon -Captain J . R. , M . B . E urop e.
Ahmad Khan,Hen . Mau lvi S ir Sayid , Bahadur,K . C. S. I . Aligaa
'h.
Ahmud,Shams -ui-ulan a Mau lvi, Khan Bahadur,
Arabic Profe ssor,Preside n cy College . Ca lcutta .
Alcock,Surgeo n -Captai n A lfred Wil l iam
,M . e .
,Superin ten den t,I n d ian Mu seum.
A'
li,Sir A’
li Qadr Syud Hassan,Nawab Bahadur
K . C. I . E . Murshedabad .
Amir A’
li,Hon . 0. I . e .
,M . A . Barrister-at-Law
,
Judge,High Court . Calcutta .
A n derson,John
,M . D .
,F . R. S. , F . L . S. E urop e.
A n derso n,J . A . Ca tcu tta .
A n derson,Dr . R . Bombay.
Arn old , Hen ry K erchever “ falter . Ca lcutta .
Arn old,Thomas Walker
,B . A .
,M . R . A. S.
,Pro
fes ser,Muhammadan A n glo -Orie n tal Coll ege .
Aligar .
Arthur,O. G. , C. s . E tah,N .
- IV .P .
Ashan -u l lah,Khan Bahadur, Nawab . D acca .
Attar S i n gh,Bahadur
,Mahamahopédhyaya Sirdar,S ir
,K . c . 1 . M . H. F .
, Chief of Bhadour.
Ludian a .
1889 Aug . 29 . Azi z-ud-din Ahmad,Deputy Collector an d Magis
trate . Carn ival.
Baden -Pow ell , Bade n He n ry, C. I . E ., C. S. E urope.
Bail l ie, D . C. , C. S. Nain i Tal.
Baker, Lieute n an t Don ald . Calcutta .
Baker, E . C. S . North Cachar .
Bal l,Val e n tin e, M . A.
,F . R. s .
, F . G . S. E urop e.
Ban erji,Hon . Gurudas, M . A.
,D . L .
, Judge, HighCourt . Ca lcutta .
Barker,R . A .
,M . D . , Civi l Surgeon . E urop e.
Barman , Kishor Kumar RadhaDev, Juvraj of Hil lTipperah . Tipp erah.
Barman,D amudar D as . Calcutta .
Batabyal, Umes Chu n der, C. S. Malda .
Beames,John , C. S. E urop e.
Beighton,T . D .
, C. s . Ca lcutta.
Beveridge, He n ry, C. S. E urop e.
Bhakta,Krishn a GOpal . Calcutta .
Bhattacharjee, Jan ak iNath . Ca lcutta .
iddulph, Col. J .
, B . S. C. Gwalior .
id ie Surgeon -Ge n eral G .
,C. I . E .
,F . L . s .
,M . B .
E urop e.
Bigg-Wither,Maj or A . C. , B . A.
, A. I . C. E . E urop e.
Bilgrami, Syud A'li, B . A.,A. R. s . M .
,F . G. s .
Hyderabad .
Blan ford,W . T ., A . R . s . M .
,F . R . s .
,F . G . s .
,F . R . G . s .,F . Z . S . E urop e.
Beddin g, The Rev . A . Ramp oreHaut.
Bol ton , C. W. , C . S . E urop e.
Bon n erjee, Womes Chun der,Barris ter, Middl eTemple . E urop e.
Bose, Bhupe n dra Nath, Sol icitor. Calcutta .
Bose, Pramatha Nath, B. SC., F . G. s .
, GeologicalSurvey of I n dia .
Bose,RaiNal i Nak sha, Bahadur, Chairman ,
Burdwan Mun i cipal ity . Burdwan .
Bowie , Colon e l M . M ., Commission er, C. P .
Nagpur .
Brad shaw,Surgeon -Maj or -Gen era l A . F .
,Hon orary
Surgeon to the Viceroy, M . D .
,c . B . Simla .
Bran d is, Sir Dietrich, K . c . I . E .
,PH . D .
,F . L . s .
,F . R . S . E urop e.
Brown,Dr . E . H . E urop e.
Bural , Nobin chan d,Solicitor . Calcutta .
Bysack , Gaurdas . Ca lcutta .
Calcutta,The Rt . Rev . the Lord Bishop of . Calcutta .
Caspersz, A . A .
, Barrister-at-Law . Calcutta .
Dé,RajaBaik un tan éth
,Bahadur . Balasore.
D eussen,Dr . Pau l . E urop e.
D han apatiSi n gh D ughar,RaiBahadur . Azimgan j .Diler Jan g, Nawab Syad Ashgar Ali, Khan Bahadur, C. S . I . Calcutta .
D oyl e,Patrick, 0. E .
,M . R . I . A.
, M . I . c . E . I ., F . R . A. s . ,F . R . s . E .,F . G. s .
,F , R. Met. s .
,L . s . (Exam ) .
M . Lon d . Math . Soc , F . S. s .,Fe ] . San . I n st ,
M .
Aus . I n st . M . E . Calcutta .
Driver,Walter Hen ry Parker . Europ e.
Drury, Dr . F . G . Calcutta .
Dudgeon,Gerald Cecil,Lebon g Tea Compan y . D ar
feelin g.
Duthie,J . F .
,Director, Govern me n t Botan icalSurvey,
Northern I n dia . Sahara n p ur .
Dutt, Gerin dran ath . B a twa .
Dutt, Kedarn ath, Depy . Collector . Pooree.
D utt,Narsi n gh . Howrah.
Dutt, Romesh Chu n der, B . C. s . , Barrister-at-Law,Midd le Temple . B urdwa n .
18 70Mar . 9 . Ed in burgh,H . R . H . The Duke of . E urop e.
18 71 Dec . 2 . E lio t, J .,M . A.
,Meteorological Reporter to the Govt .of I n d ia . Simla .
1892 May 4 . E l l iott,Hon
’
ble Sir C. A .
,K . o. S . I .
,Lieut . -Gover
n or of Ben gal . Ca lcutta .
1 886 Jan . 6 . E lson , Samuel R., Be n gal Pilot Service . Calcutta .
189 1 Aug . 27 . Ern est,Diego
,Merchan t . D elhi.
1879 July 2 . R . Fin ucan e,M .
,O. S. E urop e.
1 869 Sept 1 . A . Fisher, Joh n Hadde n ,
C . 8 . E urop e.
1886 Apri l 7 . N .R Fleet, Joh n Faithful ] , C. I . E .
, C. s . Poon a .
1893 May 3 . A . Forb es,Maj or H . F . Gordon . E urop e.
1892 May 4 . R . Forrest,G . W . , B . A. ,
As si stan t Secretary to theGovern me n t of In d ia
,Home Departmen t . Ca lcutta .
1876 July 5 . N .R Foulkes , The Rev . Thos . , F . L . S.
,M . R. A. S.
,F . R . G. S .
Salem,Zl
'
Iadras Presiden cy .
1893 Jan . 1 1 . N .R Gai t,E . A .
,C. S. Shillon g.
1880April 7 . N .R Gajapati, A'
n an da Ram,K . C. I . E .
, Raga of V izian agram . V izia n agram.
1859 Aug . 3 . L M Gas trell, Ge n eral James Eard ley . E urop e.
1867 Dec . 4 . A. Gay,E M . A F . R . A . 8 . E urop e.
1 889 Jan . 2 . R . Ghose, Jogen drachan dra, M . A ., B . L . Calcutta .
1883 Aug . 30. R . Ghose, Man mohan . Ca lcutta .
1889 Mar . 6 . R . Ghosha, Bhupen dra Sri . Ca lcutta .
1 869 Feb . 3 . R . Ghosha,Pratapcha n dra, B . A. Ca lcutta .
1884 Dec . 3 . NR Gile s, George M . J ., M . B F . R. c . s .
, Civi l MedicalOfficer, Lawre n ce Mili tary Asylum . San awar.
1886 Sept . 30. Gimlette, Surgeo n George Hart Desmon d , Be n galMe d ical Service, M . D .
,M . ca ,
M . R. c . s L . s . A ,
Sutua ,E . I . R.
Goethals, His Grace The Most Rev . Dr . Paul,S . J . ,
Archb ishop . Ca lcutta .
Golam Sarwar,Maulavi . Ca lcutta .
Goodwi n -Auste n,Lieut . -Colon el H . H .
,F . R . s .
,F . 2 . s .
,
F . R. G . S. E urope.
Gosain ,Hem Chun der . Ca lcutta .
Greeven ,R. , C. S. M
'
ussoorie.
Grierson ,George Abraham
, C. S. Howrah.
Griesbach , C . L .
, C. I . F . G . s . , D eputy Superinte n de n t
,Geological Survey of. I n dia .
Gupta, Rajan ikan ta . Calcutta .
Haig, Lieute n an t Wolseley . Altola .
Hardi n g, Fran cis He n ry , B . A., C . S. eusiugh.
Harrison,Lieuten an t W . A .
, R. E .
Heilgers, Robert Phil ip, Co n su l for H . I . M . th eEmperor of Au stria an d Hun gary, K n ight of theImperial Order of the Iro n Crow n , Comman deurOrdre Imperial e de Medj idie, F . R . G. s .
,F . R. s . s .
Calcutta .
He n dley, Surgeon -Maj or Thomas Holbein,C . I . E .
Hickson,F . G . Calcutta .
Hill,Samu e l Charle s . Chiusu-rah.
Hoern le, A . F . R.
, PH . D .
,Prin cipal of the Cal
ou tta Madrasa .
Hoey,W .
,C S. E urop e.
Hogg,Al exan der . Calcutta .
Hollan d , Thomas H . Calcutta .
Hooper, John , C . s . , Secretary, Board of Reve n ue .Allahabad . N .
- IV . P .
Hou s toun , G . L . ,F . G. S. E urop e.
Howe ll,Mortimer S loper
, O. S.
, E . Shahjahan
pur .
Hughes, G ., C. S. E urop e.
Hu ssein , Syud, B . A ., Secy . to Ni zam of Hyderabad ’s
Cou n cil . Hyderabad .
Hyde,The Rev . He n ry Barry
,M . A. ,
Be n gal Ecclesias tical E stablishmen t . Calcutta .
Irvi n e,William , G. S. EuropI skan der A'
liMirza,Pri n ce . bl urrshedabad .
Jackson ,William Grierson , C. S . E urop e.
Jahan Qadr MuhammadWeihidA li,Bahadur
,Pri n ce .
G arden Reach. Calcutta .
Jarrett, Lt.-Col . H . S.
, B . s . C Secy . to the Boardof Examin ers . Calcutta .
Johore, H . H . the Maharaja'. of,K . C. S . I . New
Johore, Siugap ore.
Ke n n edy,Pri n gl e, M. A. Mozufi
’
erp ur .
Khuda Baksh, Khan Bahadur, Maulavi . B an ki
pur .
Ki tts,Eustace John
, C. S. Europ eKin g, Brigade - Surgeon G .
,c . I . E .
,M . B .
,F . L . s .
,
Supdt ., Royal Botan ic Garde n Sibp ur.
Kin g,Lucas White, B . A.
,LL . B . C. S.
,Deputy Com
mission er . D ehra Ismail Khan .
Ki n g,W .
,B . A . D . SC.
,Director
, Geologi cal Surveyof In d ia . Ca lcutta .
Kupper, Hon . Lala Bun behari. Burdwan .
Lahari, Sarat Chu n dra . Hooghly.
Lake , Philip, B . A .
, (Can tab ) , Geological Survey ofI n d ia . E urop e.
Lal,Pan dit Brij Bukhan . Public Works Depart
men t . Kurn a l, Pun jab .
Lan man , Charles R.
, Corre spon di n g Secre tary ofthe American Orien tal Society, Professor of Sansk rit in Harvard Col lege . Cambridge, Mass . U.
S. America .
Lathom-Brown e, The Rev . D . G . ,Chaplain . Shewboe.La Touche, James J oh n Digges
, B. A., C. s .
,
Allahabad .
La Touche,Thomas He n ry Digges
,M . A . Deputy
Superi n te n de n t, Geological Survey of I n dia .
Lee,J . Bridges, M . A. , F . G . s . , F . c . s .
,F . z . s .
,Barrister-at-Law . Lahore.
Lee,W . A . Ca lcutta .
Little,C.
,M . A. , Ben gal Education Service . Calcutta .
Lovelock,A . S . E urop e.
Luso n,Hewlin g, C. s .
,Calcutta .
Lyall , Charles James , M . A,LL . D . C. s . I . C. I . E .
,
Secretary, Govern me n t of I n d ia, Home Departme n t . Calcu tta .
Lyell, George . Ca lcutta .
Lyman,B . Smi th . Philadelp hia,Pa .
, U. S. America .
Macauliffe,Michael , B . A. , c . 8 . E urop e.
Maclagan ,
’
E . D .
,M . A.
, C. S. Simla .
Maclagan , Ge n eral Robert, R . E .,LL . D . ,
F . R. s . E .,F . R . G . s . E urop e.
MacLeod,Brigade- Surgeon Ke n n eth, M . D . Europ e.
Ma herson , Dun can J .
, C. S . Gya .
1880Aug 4 .
Nolan,P . C. S. Rajshahye.
Norvill, Dr. Frederic H . D ibrugarh.
Nyayaratn a, MahamahOpadhyaya Mahesachan dra,C. I . E . Calcutta .
Oldham,Brigade -Surgeon C . F .
,F . R. G. S.
E urop e.
Oldham,R . D .
,A. R . S. M . ,
F . G. s .
,Deputy Super
in ten den t, Geological Survey of I n dia .
Oliver, Edw . Emmerson,M . I . C . E . E urop e.
Oun g, Moun g Hla, Fi n an cial Departmen t, Governmen t of In d ia . Calcutta .
Pan dia,Pan dit MOhan lall V 1shn ulall, F . T . S., Prime
Mi n ister,Partabgarh State in Rajputn a via
Man dsaur .Pan d it
,Hon . Ajodhian ath . Allahabad .
Pargiter, Frederick E ., B . A.
,C . S. Calcutta .
Partridge, Surgeon -Maj or Samuel Bowen ,
‘
M . D .,
E urop e.
Peal,S . E . Sibsagar, Assam.
Ped ler, A l exan der, F . R . s .,
Ben gal Education Service . Ca lcutta .
Pe n n el l,Aubray Percival, B . A., C. S. Ran goon .
Peppe,T . F .
,Tiril Tea E state . Ran chi, Lohar
d ugga .
Percival, Hugh Melvile, M . A., Be n gal EducationService . Calcutta .
Peters,Surgeon -Major C. T .
,M . B . Bij apur, Bom
bay.
Phillott, Capt . D . C. E urop e.
Pillay,P . Sun daram . Trivan drum.
Prain,David,M . A. ,
M . B . ,L . R . C. s .
,I . R. S. E ., 1 . L . s
Royal Botan i c Garden . Sibpur .
Praman ick , Asutosh . Calcutta .
Prasad, Han uman ,Rae s an d Zemin dar . Chun ar .
Prasada,Pan dit Jwala, M . A .
,Assistan t Commis
sion er . Rai BareliPrideaux
, Colon e l W1lliamFran cis, B. S. 0. E urop e.
Rai,Bipin a Chan dra, B . L . Calcutta .
Ray Prasan n akumar, D . SC. , (Loud . an d Edm. )Professor
,Presiden cy College . Calcutta .
Raye, Brigade -Surgeon Dan ie l O’
Con n ell, M . D .
Ca lcutta .
Risley,Hon . H . H .,
B . A. , C. s ., C. I . E . Europ e.
Rivett-Carn ac, John He n ry, C . 1 . E .
, F . S . A., C. s .,
OpiumAge n t . Ghazip ur.
Rowe,F . J .
,M . A.
,Ben gal Educatio n S ervice .
Calcutta .
Roy,Kumar D en en dro Narayan . Ca lcutta .
Roy,MaharajaGirjan ath . D in agepore.
Roy, Peary Mohu n . Calcutta .
Rustomjee, H . M . Calcutta .
Sadl er, Major J . Hayes,B . S. c. Muscat .
Samajpati, Suresh Chun dra . Ca lcutta .
San dberg,The Rev . Graham,
B . A.,Barrister-at
Law,I n n er Temple . Chaplain . Ca lcutta .
Sarkar, Dr . Mahen dralal, C. I . E . Ca lcutta .
Sarvadhikari,Rajk umar,Rai Bahadur . Calcutta .
Sastri,Pan dit Haraprasad, M . A. Calcutta .
Scin dia,His High n es s the Maharajah .
Sclater,William Lutl ey .,
M . A . E urope.
Scotlan d, Joh n Parry, C . E . Europ e.
Scully,Dr . Joh n . Ca lcutta .
Sen -Gupta, Kal i Prasan n a . Calcutta .
Sen ,Hiralal , Exci se Departme n t . D in agep ore.
Sen ,Naren dran ath . Calcutta .
Sen , Y adu n ath . Balia via Cuttach' .
Sewell,R.
, M . C. S . Bellary .
Shaw e,F . B . Leh Ladalt .
Shill i n gford, F . A . Purn eah.
Shymaladas , Mahamahopadhyaya Kaviraj, PrivateSecy . to the Maharajaof Udaipur . Udaip ur .
Simpso n ,Edmu n d James, L . R . C . P . E .
,F . L . P . s . G. ,L . M . G. E . , Civi l Surgeon . Rai Bareli.
Simpson,D r. W . J .
,Heal th Officer
, Cal cuttaSin gh , Maharajah Kumara S irdar Bharat, C. S.
ZlIirzap ore.
Sin gh, Thakur Garuradhawaya Prasad, Rajé ofBeswan , Beswan Fort . A ligarh.
Si n gh, Kumar In drachan dra . Calcutta .Sin gh,Réja Lachman . Agra .
Sin gh ,H . H . The Maharaja S ir Luchmessur,Baha
dur,K . C. I . E . D arbha n ga .
S in gh,Hon
’
ble Raja Oodaypratab . Bin ga .
Si n gh, H . H . Prabhun arain,Bahadur
,Maharaja of
Ben ares .
Si
ggn
. H. the Maharaja Pratap Narain . Ajodhya,
u
Sin gh,Hon . RajaRameshwara,Bahadur . D arbha n ga .S ihha, Balaichan d . Calcutta .
Sin ha, Raja Bhupe n dra Bahadur, Raja of Bij oypurMirzap ore.
Sk refsrud , The Rev . L . 0 , I n dian Home Mis s ion tothe San thals . Rampur Hat.
Smith,A . Mervyn , C. E .
, F . S. A. Calcutta .
Smi th,N . F . F . E urope.
Smith,Vi n ce n t Arthur
, C. S. Budaun .
Solf, Dr. W . H ., German Con sulate Ge n eral .
rop e.
S tein,Dr . M . A . E urope.
Stephe n,Carr .
,B . L . E urop e.
Swin hoe,W .
,Attorn ey- at-Law . Calcutta .
Tagore,The Hon . Maharaja Sir Joten dra Mohun ,Bahadur , K . C . S I . Ca lcu tta .
Tate , G . P,,Survey of I n dia . Quetta .
Tawn ey, C. H .
,C . I . E .
,M . A . E urop e.
Taylor,W . C.,Settleme n t Officer . Khurda .
Temple,Maj or . R . C.
,S. C . Ran goon .
Thibau t,Dr . G .
,Professor
,Muir Ce n tral College .
Allahabad .
Thomas,Rob ert Edmo n d Skyri n g . Calcutta .
Thompson,H . N . llf ouywa .
Thuillier, Major-Ge n l . Sir He n ry E dward Lan der,R . A., o. s . I . , F . R . s . E urop e.
Thuillier, Colon e l . H . R.
, R. E .,Surveyor-Gen eral
of I n d ia . Ca lcutta .
Thursto n ,Edgar. Madras .
Trefftz, Oscar . E urop e.
Tremlett, James Dyer, M . A .
,c . S. E urOp e.
1893 May 3 .N .R V an dya, Raja Ram Chan dra . Mayurbhan ga,
D istrict Ba lasore.
1890 Feb . 5 ,N .R V en is , Arthur, M . A.
, Former Bode n San skritScholar
, Oxford ,Pri n cipal, San sk ri t College
,Be n are s ,Profes sor, Queen ’ s College . Ben ares .
1 885 May 6 . R . V erdeau, Ivan . Ca lcutta .
3'Waddell, Lauren ce Austi n e, M . B . Europ e.
Walsh , Surgeon -Captai n J . H . Tul l,I n d ian Medi
cal Service . Ca lcutta .
Waterhouse, Col . James,B . s . C.
,A ssistan t Sur
veyor-Ge n eral, Survey of In d ia . Ca lcutta .
Watson ,Lieut . Edward Y erbury . llIyin gyan .
Watt, Dr . George, c . I . E . Simla ,
Whitehead, The Rev. Hen ry, Ca lcu tta .
Wilson, Charles Robert, M . A.
,Be n gal Educatio n
Service . Calcutta .
Woodburn ,The Hon . J C. S. Nagp ur .
Wood thorpe, Col. Robert Gosset t, C. B .
,R. E .
,D e
puty Quarter-Master-Gen eral . Simla .
CORRESPONDING MEMBERS.
Macgowan ,Dr . J . E urope.
Kramer, A . von . Alex an dria .
Porter, The Rev. J . Belfast.Giische, Dr . R . Berlin .
Murray,A . L on don .
Schlagin tweit, Prof . E . von . Berlin .
ASSOC IATE MEMBERS .
Lafo n t,The Rev. Fr . E .
,S. J .
, C. I . E . Ca lcutta .
Bate, The Rev . J . D . Allahabad .
Abdu l Hai,Mau lavi,Madrassah . Calcutta .
Gi le s, Herbert . E urop e.
Rodgers , C . J . Amritsar .
Moore, F .
,F . R. s .
,F . L . S. Lon don .
Fiihrer, Dr . A . Luck n ow .
D as, Saratchan dra .
, C. I . E . Calcutta .
Samasrarn i, Satyavrata. Calcutta .
Briihl,P . J . Seebp ur .
LIST OF MEMBERS WHO HAVE BEEN ABSENT FROMINDIA THREE YEARS AND UPWARD Sfi“
3“ Rule 40.—After the lapse of 3 years from the date of a member
leavin g I n dia, if n o i n timation of hi s w ishe s shal l in the i n terval havebeen received by the S ociety, his n ame shal l be removed from the Lis tof Members .The followin g members w i l l be removed fromthe n ext memberthe Society un der the operation of the above Rule
Surgeo n -Ge n eral G . Bidie, C. I . E . , F . L . s .,M . B .
Joh n Hadde n Fisher, E sq., C. S .
E . Gay, E sq. ,M . A. , F . R. A . s .
WilliamGrierson Jackson , Esq.
, C. S.
Captain E . H . Molesworth .
LOSS OF MEMBERS DURING 1893 .
BY RETI REMENT .Babu Hari Charan Basu .
P . J . Carter, E sq.
F . C. Charmin g, E sq. , C. s .Babu Radhaballabha Chaudhuri .Gen eral S ir He n ry Col lett .P . Do n aldson ,
E sq.
J . S . Gambl e, Esq.
C ol on el T . H . Haldich, R . E .
T W . H . Hughes, E sq.
L ieute n an t-Colon el T . M . Je n ki n s,M . S . C.
W . H . Jobbin s, E sq.
R . H . Macl eod, E sq., C. S .
Nawab Syud Mahomed Zain ool Abideen Khan BahadurFeroze Jun g .
Colo n e l S . B . Miles .J . W . Ol iver, Esq.
A . Simson,E sq.
Raja RamNarain S i n gh .
BY DEATH .
Ordin ary Members .
Nawab Bahadur Abdu l Latif Khan , 0. I . E .
Hen ry F . Blan ford, E sq. , A. R . S. M .
,F . R. s . ,
G . S. (LifeMember . )Lieuten a n t -Gen eral George Byre s Main warin g .
E . O’
Brien ,E sq. C . S.
Babu Up e-udra Chan dra Roy .
Pan di t Haridas Sas tri , M . A .
Mahai'éja S ir Hare n -dra Kishore Si n gh,K. C. I . E .
James Wood-Mason,Esq.
Hon orary Members .
Maj or-Ge n eral Sir A . Cun n i n gham,R . E .
,K. C . I . E .
,C .
Mon sieur E . Re n an .
Profe ssor J . 0 . Westwood .
BY REMOVAL.
Arthur Lew is , '
B . A.
Lieut . -Col. Edward Mol l oy .
Lieut .-Col. C
Babu Sumbhu Nath Suk ul.
Pa n d it Ben i Madho Trebed i
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Journ al, Part II
Proceedin gs 902 4 0
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22,-130
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