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39. Treat men kindly, and you will be secure from evils which they might bring on you, and safe from snares which they might lay for you.
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40. Let alone that which does not refer to you, and occupy yourself with your own more serious affairs which tend to your salvation.
41. The remembrance of God heals sick minds, and drives away diseases and miseries.
42. It is better to lose one's eyes than to look at that which disgraces religion.
43. Leave that which is little in favour of that which is much, and what is scanty for what is ample.
44. One who is fond of equity and justice is beloved when he is a master, and praised when he is a servant.
45. Give up prodigality; for the liberality of a prodigal will not be praised, nor will his poverty meet with compassion.
46. A step in rank, though it be high like a mountain which winds do not shake, does not
ASIATIC The Journal of the Bengal Asiatic Society, Part II, No. 2, for 1883, opens with a series of Folktales from the Upper Panjab, by the Rev. C. Swynnerton. The stories in this series of thirty-two are generally very short, and mostly in the form of fables. They have been translated for the writer, not by him, and while doubtless preserving the original form of the stories we could have wished to have seen them produced in simpler phrase with more of pure Anglo-Saxon vocables.
The next paper, by Ch. J. Rodgers, on "The Rupees of the months of the Ilâhî years of Akbar," is a very interesting one. It is well known that some of the coins of the Ghazni dynasty have the name of the month as well as the number of the
year on them, and in a previous paper, "On the copper coins of Akbar," Mr. Rodgers gave examples bearing the names of six of the months of the Пlâhî year. He mentions six coins of Jahangir struck at Lahor, and one at Qandahår, all of the same year, bearing the names of seven of the months. Of Akbar's 49th Ilâhî year he has two rupees struck at Tatta, three at Lâhor, one at Aḥmadâbâd and one at Burhanpår-all seven being of different months, and from other years he has coins of the remaining five months. On some square coins of Jahangir, weighing from 210 to 217 and 219 grains, are couplets into which are woven the Persian names of the Ilahi months. The paper is illustrated by two plates, on which are figured 24 coins.
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Mr. Rodgers enters a strong protest against the "curiosity" collecting propensities of educated Europeans, and those who make scarce coins into
make a noble possessor of the honour insolent, but a step in rank easily makes an ignoble person insolent, like the dry grass which the passing wind disturbs.
47. Those who are liable to commit faults like to publish the faults of others, in order that their own may be more easily excused.
48. The remembrance of God enlightens the eyes and pacifies the mind.
49. Leave off extravagance by keeping to the happy mean, and to-day remember to-morrow.
50. No one reaches the height of perfections unless he actively wages a sacred war..
51. The chief part of wisdom is to cling to truth and justice.
52. The chief of faults is secret hatred.
53. The height of virtue is to control anger and lust.
54. Sometimes there is destruction hidden under the thing we seek.
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sleeve-links, bracelets, &c., and the constant working up of both gold and copper coins by native workmen. So many coins have disappeared from the cabinets of our Indian Asiatic Societies' Museums, however, that we cannot join him in the desire to get back to India what are now safe in public Museums in England. They are far more accessible there for Orientalists than they would be even in Calcutta.
Mr. R. Roskell Bayne contributes "Notes on the remains of portions of Old Fort William, discovered during the erection of the East Indian Railway Company's Offices," illustrated by five plates, in which he discusses and illustrates the positions referred to by Holwell and Orme, and fixes with satisfactory exactitude the position of the Black Hole, of horrid memory.
Mr. G. A. Grierson has a long paper on Behåri declension and conjugation, to which Dr. Hoernle adds several pages of remarks.
The last paper is on the temples of Vaidyanatha at Deoghar in the Santal Parganas, by Dr. R&jêndralala Mittra. This is a long paper in which numerous well-known Hindu myths are given at length, many of them related of a score of other places as well as of Vaidyanatha;-the deception of Ravana by Vishnu, for example, in which the latter in the disguise of a Brahman undertakes to kold for a little the jyotirlinga, which Ravana had obtained, and then dropped it in the sand, is also told of the Gokarna linga.
The list of the jyotirlingas as given from the Vaidyanatha Mahatmyam is-" 1, Sômantha in Saurashtra ; 2, Mallikarjuna at Srisaila; 3, Maha
