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PAGE Rev. GEORGE SHIRT, M.R.A.S.:
ARCHEOLOGICAL NOTES: XIX.- Passing through TRACES of a DRAVIDIAN ELEMENT in SINDHI ... 293
Fire' ... ... ... 126 W. F. SINCLAIR, Bo. C.S.:
XX.-Trojan and Indian HINDU and JAINA REMAINS in BIJAPUR and the
pre-historic pottery, and NEIGHBOURHOOD ... ... .. ..
the Svastika symbol ... 170 Conti Pomiglianesi ... ...
Additions to Note XX. ... 289 The Firearms of the Hindus (see pp. 136, 289)
XXI.-The Old Tanjor Note-A Canarege Inscription ... ...
Armoury... ... ... 193 -stan-Dåghestån, &c. ... ... .. .
Hypoethral Temples ...
... ... ... ... 137 V. A. SMITH:
Contracted Burials' ...
... ... 182 Query: Saka and Samvat Dates
Ancient Burying-ground at Mungapet16, and Crosses 234 SORABJI KÅVASJI KHAMBÅTÅ:
MAJOR J. W. WATSON, Rajkot:Pârst Funeral and Initiatory Rites ...
FRAGMENTS RELATING TO ANANDAPURA in SAURASHThe Telephone ... ... .... ... ..
TRA ... ...
... ... ... .. 7 R. B. SWINTON, late M.C.S.:RAJMARALI WORDS
... ... 180
MAJOR E. W. WEST:
Golden Masks (see p. 160) ... ... ... ... 26 Prov. C. H. TAWNEY, M.A., Calcutta - Ancient superstitions regarding "meeting eyebrows" 87
Assyrian Dress illustrated by that of the Hindus ... 181 ED. THOMAS, F.R.S., &c., London -
PROF. MONIER WILLIAMS, D.C.L., Bodleian Prof. The Phrygian Inscriptions at Doganla ... ... 228
of Sanskrit at Oxford :M. J. WALHOUSE, late M.C.S., London :
Parel Funeral and Initiatery Rites (see p. 268) ... 397 ARCHÆOLOGICAL NOTES: XVI.-Chivalry in Lower
A Case of Samadh in India ... .... ... ... 284 India ... ... 21
Modern Avatleas of the Deity... ... ... 287 >> >> XVII.-Some Hindu Snake Kabir-panthla and Sat-nimis-(addition to the above) 308
Notions ... ... 40 GAIKWADI: XVIII.-Sepulchral Customs 44 L Query-Names of Countries ending in -stan..... 27, 235
MISCELLANEA. Buddhism in Putu ... ... ...
.. ... ..29 Antiquity of Insurance in India, by R. B. Swinton, MS. of the Pratitakhya of he Sama Veda ... ... 80 late M.C.S. ... ... .. Geldner and Geiger's Zend publications... .. ... 30 Archæology in Japan ... ... The blinding of ShAh Mansur by his rebellious son... 87 Banyans at Astrakhan in 1722 ... ... The Hissarlik relics-the Swastika, by H. M. Westropp 119 Mr. Henry Blochmann ... ... Polyandry in the Himalayas, by Dr. O. R. Stalpnagel, Prof. Gerçin de Tassy ... ... Lahor
"" ... .. ... 132 The Sun Worshippers of Asia ...
Ramayana-Early Italian version
BOOK NOTICES. Iter Persicum, par Etienne Kakaach Zalonkemeny ... 80 J. G. da Cunbal. Sahyadri-Khanda of the Skands Parka 208 Gesta Romanorum, by Rev. C. Swan and W. Hooper,
History of the Tooth-relic of Ceylon, -8.286 B.A., by O.T. ... .. ... .. ...... 81
1 The English and their Monuments at The Adi Granth, by Dr. E. Trampp.-M. ... ... 67
Goa, -S.... ... ... ... ... 236 MAlavikA et Agnimitrs, par Ph. Ed. Foucaux,-0. T... 60 Dr. M. Williams'. Modern India and the Indians,-S. 236 Beames's Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Rev. M. A. Sherring's Hindu Pilgrims,-8. ... ... 286
Languages of India, vol. II.-M. .. ... .. 87 Lieut. N. Powlett's Eastern Legends and Stories,-8. 286 Dr. D. Wright's History of Nepal
Morris's Descriptive and Historical Account of the Islamisme d'après le Coran, par M. G. de Tassy; Islam
Godavery District -. ... ... ... ... ... 237 and its Founder, by J. W. H. Stobart, B.A. ... 119 Histoire de l'Asie Centrale, par Mir Abdoul Kerim The Vederthayatna ... .. .. .. .. .. 189 Boukhary,-8. ... .. . ... .. 887 Prof. B. K. Douglas's Life of Jenghiz Khân ... ... 140 Viscount Strangford's Original Letters and Papers Prof. Dowson's History of India as told by its own upon Philological and kindred subjecta,--. ... 269 Historians, vol. VIII.,-8. ... ... ... ... 1&2
Prof. Tielo's Outlines of the History of Religion,-M. 269 J. G. da Cunha's History and Antiquities of Chaul and Prof. Whitney's Language and the Study of Lan.
Bassein.-S. ... ... ... .... ... ... 183 guages,-9. ... ... ... .... ... ... 270 La langue et la Littérature Hindoustanies in 1877, par Talboyo Wheeler's Early Records of British India.-9. 271
M. G. de Taasy,-E. R.... ... ...
