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E. REHATSEK :
A NOTICE OF THE ZAFARNAMA-I-RANJIT SINGH OF KANHAYYA LAL ... ... ... 18, 54, 81, 98
CHAS. J. RODGERS, M.R.A.S.
THE RUPEES OF THE SURI DYNASTY
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... 64
PANDIT 8. M. NATESA SASTRI, M.F.L.S.:FOLKLORE IN SOUTHERN INDIA :No. 25. Chandralekha and the eight robbers ...
202, 236 No. 26. The Conquest of Fate ... .... ... 259 No. 27. The Reign of Lakshmi ...
... ... 346 SOME SPECIMENS OF SOUTH INDIAN POPULAR
EROTIC POETRY .. .
PAGE Pror. F. KIELHORN, C.I.E., GOTTINGEN :CHAMBA COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTION OF SOMA
VARMADEVA AND ASATADEVA ... ... ... 7 A BUDDHIST STONE INSCRIPTION FROM SRA
VASTI, OP [VIKRAXA)-SAXVAT 1276 ... ... 61 RAJIM STONE INSCRIPTION OF JAGAPALA OP
THE KULACHURI YEAR 896 ... ... ... 135 Two INSCRIPTIONS FROM TÊRAHI, (VIERAXA) SAIVAT V60
.. ... .. ... .. 201 FOUR REWAH COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTION :
Copper-plate Grant of the Maharanaka Kirti
varman. The (Chedi] year 926 ... ... 224 Copper-plate Grant of the Maharanaka Lala
khapavarmadeva. The (Vikrama) year 1253 227 Copper-plate Grant of the Mahar paka Kuma.
rapaladeva. The (Vikrama) year 1297 ... 230 Copper-plate Grant of the Maharanaka Hari
råjadêve. The (Vikrama) year 1298 ... 234 A BUDDHIST STONE INSCRIPTION FROM GHOBRAWA 307 TAE EPOCH OF THE KALACHURI OR CHEDI
ERA .. . ... ... ... ... ... 315 TAE EPOCH OF THE NEWAR ERA... ... ... 246 Vikrams dates in a Manuscript of the
Mahabhishya... .... .. . COL. W. KINCAID, B.S.C. -
Rambles among Ruins in Central India... MAJOR J. S. KING, BO.N.C. - SOMALI AS A WRITTEN LANGUAGE :
No. 3. Colloquial Sentences THE STORY OF THE MURDER OF 'ALI 'ADIL
SHAR, YITH KING or BIJAPUR, AB TOLD BY
CONTEMPORARY HISTORLANS .. ... 221 An origin for the word Gipsy ... ... Whale and Al-Uwil ... ...
... 267 Arabio origin of bosh... ... ... ... W. E. MAXWELL, SINGAPORE :
Superstition as to circumcision amongst the Malays ... ...
... ... .. 330 Note on the Derivation of Gatta Peroha . 869 W. R. MORFILL, OXFORD :
Progress of European Scholarship No. 11. Transactions of the Eastern Section of
the Russian Archeological Society. Vol. II. Parts 1 and 2 ... ... ... ... ... ... 852
E. SENART, MEMBRE DE L'INSTITUT:THE INSCRIPTIONS OF PIYADAGI :
Chapter II. The Columnar Edicta ... ... 303 GENL. A. HOUTUM-SCHINDLER, TEHRAN :
Pamer Bolor-Oxue ... ... ... ...
The Acacia of Persia and Arabia ... ... ... 145 DR. H. W. SMYTH, BALTIMORE :SACRED LITERATURE OF THE JAINA, TRANSLATED
FROM THE GERMAN OP Pror. WWBER ... 279, 339 DR. AUREL STEIN, PH.D., M.R.A.S. :ZOROASTRIAN DEITIES ON INDO-SCYTHIAN
COINS ... . . .. ... .. ... 89 CAPTAIN R. C. TEMPLE, B.S.C., M.R.A.S.,
F.R.G.S., etc. - Note on the origin of bosh ... ... ... ...
... 999
PUTLIBAI D. H. WADIA :FOLKLORE IN WESTERN INDIA :
No. 11. The two brothers ... ... ... ... 75 No. 13. The Artist's Stratagem, or the
Princess who was resolved never to marry ... 128
PROF. E. WEBER, BERLIN :
THE SACRED LITERATURE OF THE JAINS ... 279, 389
CORRESPONDENCE AND MISCELLANEA. Calonlations of Hindu Dates Nos. 7 to 20, by J. F. 1 A list of Works printed in Persia in the Armenian
Fleet ... ... ... 28, 141, 210, 239, 264, 297 language, by S. J. A. Churchill........................ 116 Progress of European Scholarship, by G. A. The Acacia of Persia and Arabia, by A. Houtam
Grierson, Nos. 9 and 10 ... ... ...24, 821 Schindler ... ... ... ... ... ... ... The Probable Age of some Pallava Remains, by A notice of the Chehar Maqaleh, by 8. J. A.
Dr. E. Hultzsch ... ... ... ... ... ... 30 Churchill ... ... ... ... ... ... ... The Yavanas of Orissa, by H. H. Howorth ... ... 60
The Book of the Falcon, by S. J. A. Churchill ... Curiosities of Indian Literature, by G. A. Grierson. 60,88 A note on the Epoch and Reckoning of the Baka Era, Pamer-Bolor-Oxus, by A. Houtum-Schindler . 114 by J. F. Fleet ... ... ... ....... A note on Judeo-Persian Literature, by S. J. A.
A note on Lókaklla Reckoning, by J. F. Fleet Churchill ... ... .. .. ... .. ... 115 An origin for the word Gipsy, by J. S. King... Persian Literature under the QAjars, by S. J. A. Hakim Quant, by S. J. A. Churchill .. ...
Churchill .. ... . .. .. .. .. 115 Catalogue of the Coins of Southern India ...