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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[OCTOBER, 1880.
älteste literatur der Inder, ein Wissenschaftliche beilage zum Programm der kantons-chule."
Prof. A. Weber has issued an earnest appeal for the constitution of a Sanskrit Text Fund' to take the place of the now moribund if not dead
Sanskrit Text Society. "It is to be hoped that his proposal may be successfully carried out, as no country has so large an interest as England in everything connected with Indian literature."
"Prof. R. Pigchel has completed his edition of Hemachandra's Páli Grammar." He has also "edited and translated the A8saldyana Suttam, the 93rd sutta in the 2nd portion of the Majjhima Nikdya. It describes how the Brahmane, irritated by the promulgation of Gautama's doctrine of the equality of castes, persuaded Assalâyana, a young and distinguished scholar, to undertake to over. throw Buddha's arguments-the result being that he was defeated and became a convert to Buddha's views. Reference is made to the state of things existing among the Yonas and Kambojas,"-and, "if, as seems probable, the Yonas of this passage are the Baktrian Greeks, the date when the sutta assumed is present form cannot be earlier than the 3rd century B.C." "Dr. Oldenberg has published the Dipavamsa, an ancient Buddhist bistorical record.” "Also the second volume of the Jataka and its Commentary, edited by Prof Fausboll, has been published.”
German Oriental Society.-The Society has pub- lished rol. xxxiii. pts. 3 and 4. and vol. xxxiv. part 1. Among the papers they contain is one by M. Vambéry, 'On the speech of the Turkomans, and on Machdumkuli's Diwan;' Professor Spiegel has a short paper on Adar Gusbasp;' J. H. Mordtmann has one entitled 'Die Himjarischen Inschriften in Tschinili Kiosckh ;' Dr. A. D. Mordt. mann one 'Zur Pehlevi Münzkunde, Die ältesten Muhammedanischen Munzen;' and another (vol. xxxiv)--his fourth contribution on the same subject, a very long and important paper on-Die Munzen der Sassaniden,' which has been printed since the author's death. M. Adolf Holtzmann writes on 'Die Apsaras nach dem Mahabharata, and Prof. Aufrecht gives a short paper on 'Eine seltene Verbalform'; J. Klatt has one on Dhanapâla Rishabha panchaśika,' of interest as referring to Jaina worship; and Count Victor von Strauss und Torney, one on the Bezeichnung der Farben blau und grün in Chinesischen Alterthum': Prof. Ethé has one on Nåşir Chusrau's Rasandinama oder buch der Erlauchtung'; MM. Stickel and Tiesenhausen write on Die Weltbezeichnungen auf Muhammedanische Münze;' Dr. G. Saleman
Ueber eine Pehlevisch-Arabische Münze;' and Dr. Fleischer gives a notice of a find of Sassanian coins at Oberlausitz, and suggests that they may have found their way thither by trade from Trebizond.
Asiatic Society of Bengal.-No. 1 of the Journal for 1880 contains, first, & " Description of the Great Siva Temple of Gangai-Kondapuram and of some other places in the Trichinopoli Distriot" by Lieut. Col. B. R. Branfill,-- paper which in another form has already appeared in this Journal (ants pp. 117 ff.); second, on "Rude Megalithic Monuments in North Arcot" by the same, which is also, in a more extended form, already in type for the Ind. Antiquary. The third paper is on the coins of the Maharajas of Kangra, by C. J. Rodgers. Kangra is on a tributary of the Biâs, and the ancient chiefs were called the Rajas of Trigartta-the country of the three rivers, the Bias, Ravi and Satlej. These râjas claimed descent from Susarma Chandra, governor of Multån at the time of the Mahâbhârata. Mr. Rodgers in his remarks follows closely the information collected by Gen. Cunningham (Archæol. Rep. vol. V. pp. 152ff.). The coins seem to be found in great numbers in the Panjab, and range from the middle of the 14th to the middle of the 17th century A.D. Mr. Rodgers gives a plate of twenty-four specimens.
Major H. S. Jarrett has a "Note on an inscription found upon & stone lying near the ruins of a Masjid on Lanka island, Wular Lake, Kashmir." The inscription is in Persian, and reads, May this edifice be as firm as the foundations of
the heavens, May it be the most renowned ornament of the
universe, As long as the monarch Zayn 'Ibåd holds festival
therein, May it be like the date of his own reign,"happy."
The date in the chronogram is 847 A. H., equivalent to A.D. 1443—4 during the reign of Zayn-ul 'Aabidin or Zayn 'Ibêd. This inscription is mentioned in the Persian history of Kashmir by Muhammad A'azam, and thus affords Major Jarrett an opportunity to draw from that work an outline of the history of the country from A.D. 1305 to 1443.
The subject of the fifth paper is a more important one,-" Coins of the Sunga or Mitra Dynasty, found near Råmanagar in Rohilkhand :--the property of H. Rivett-Carnac, Esq. Described by A. C. Carlleyle." R&managar has been identified by General Cunningham with Ahichhatra
* For references to Ahichchhatra, seo Jour. A. 8. Ben. vol. XXX, pp. 197, 198, J. R. 4. 3. vol. IV, p. 88; and
Vol. V, p. 298 : Wilson's Vishnu Pur. (4to ed.) p. 1870., and Moghaddta (Rost's ed.), p. 343.
