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close to the junction of that river with the Indus. with Manikyala is suggestive. The climatic It stands too, close to the "Road of the Great conditions are exactly fulfilled. Kings" leading from Taxila to Kasmir. The
It is curious that the existence of this beautifully containing walls of the city can be traced all
situated and strongly constructed place should round. Some of them still rise eighteen feet in height and they are beautifully built in the
have been apparently unknown to Sir Alexander
Cunningham. I discovered the place quite by chequered style of the ancient stúpas of Gandhåra
accident, having been directed to it by a Native, and Kophene. Within the city, which in size
who told me that I should find there an old answers probably exactly to the dimensions given
inscription. by Hiuen Tsiang, there was a citadel to the west looking down on the stream, and at least three
The tope to the south-west is crowned by a stapas, two of which have been rifled probably
modern Muhammadan tomb. by the Sikhs, together with a fortified peak tower. Mánaka or Mânika, as Cunningham informs us, ing over the ruins to the east. Within a mile of was a prince living in the time of Kanishka and the city to the south-west, but on the opposite the probable founder of the great tope Manakyala. bank of the shallow river, are the remains of an The Muhammadana have appropriated this prince old stúpa, and in connection with it there are and raised him to the dignity of a Pir. May I indications of buildings of considerable extent. venture to suggest that Pir-Manaka is probably
The Muhammadans have a little shrine (sidrat) the city which was visited by Hiuen Tsiang, close under the citadel hill, which they call and which he described as the capital of Urass ? Pir-Manaka, and the ancient name is preserved
CHARLES SWYNNERTON, F.S.A., also in Manakrai, which is applied to the modern Potosi, Black Mountains ;
Chaplain. village close by. The coincidence of these names' March, 1891.
NOTES AND QUERIES. LUCK AND ILL-LUCK.
on any important business. Hindus should mark (a) In Telingana.
their foreheads on such occasions, and a MusalWith reference to Indian Notes and Queries mån should wear rings inscribed with texte, or Vol. 1. note 218,- in the Northern Circars red
silver armlets containing texts from the Quran is not objected to by the Musalmans during
or other holy book beneath his sleeves. He must the Muharram, but is on the contrary much
break in half the piece of wood, through which affected by them.
he passes the girdle that ties his trousers, and Masulipatam. H.G. PRENDERGAST. should not put on his trousers standing but sit
ting, at any rate while he draws the pdochas (6) In Bihar.
over his legs. It is advisable to put on clothes, proved to have
SAYYID KHAIRAYAT AEMAD. been prosperous, on going to visit a hakim or Gaya.
BOOK-NOTICE. CRANTS POPULAIRES DES APORANS, recueillis par JAMES what gives rise to the envy which I referred to DARYBSTETER. Paris; Leroux ; 1890.
in my opening sentence. Here we are beaten on I received this volume with pleasant expecta- our own ground. If there has been hitherto tions, I opened it with surprise, and I closed it one domain of science which Anglo-Indians have with envy. Any work by M. Darmesteter was made peculiarly their own, it has been the study certain to be both original and scholarly, and of Indian dialects and Indian folk-lore. But readers of his Lettres sur l'Inde were justified in even on this ground of study, the ever-increasing looking forward with interest to his promised demands of official work have given little leisure collection of Afghan song and folklore. But for the complete and thorough exploitation of the result has surpassed the expectations. We
any particular tract, and few facilities are afforded have here a portly volume of some 700 pages, con- by a Government, which, however sympathetic, taining not only a selection of Afghan songs finds itself unable to spare either the men or the with text, translation, vocabulary and commen. money for research by specialists. What the Gov. tary, but three admirable essays on the language, ernment of India cannot do, a foreign Government the literature, and the history of that nation. has done. It has enabled a scholar of the The work is the direct result of the liberality of the highest eminence to come to India and to thoroughFrench Government, which deputed M.Darmesteter ly survey an area, of which but the outlines to India on a mission d'études :" and this is have been hitherto known. Let it not be
