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MISCELLANEA, THIRD ALL-INDIA ORIENTAL CONFERENCE, 13. General. MADRAS.
(a) Present position of the study of India The Second All-India Oriental Conference held in
languages. Calcutta in Feb. 1929 resolved to hold the Third (6) Present condition of the old traditional Congress in Madras sometimno in December 1924.
learning. Rao Sahib Prof S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar was Membership of the Conference is open to all appointed Secretary at the address Sri Venkatesa scholars interested in the advancement of Oriental Vilas, Noulu Street, Mylapore, Madras.
Studies, to delegates from the Indian Government, In pursuance of the resolution an organising Oom. Indian States and learned institutions and to mittee has been formed and a programme has been scholars of distinction. The Session will be for devised to include the following subjects.
three days. 1. Sanskrit Language and Literature.
Scholars in India, Burma or Ceylon can either 2. Avesta in relation to Sanskrit.
read or sond papers, provided they are sent six 3. Pali, Jain and other Prakrits, Hindi.
weeks before the date of the Conference, and aro 4. Philology, Sanskritic and Dravidian.
accompanied by a summary and prepared in a form 5. Dravidian Languages and their literature. suitable for publication. 6. Archæology, including Epigraphy, Numis. The Congress will be opened by His Excellency matics and Indian Art.
the Governor of Madras and the Vice Chancellor 7. History, Geography and Chronology.
of the University will be the Chairman of the 8. Oriental Philosophy.
Recoption Cominittee. Those wishing to attend 9. Oriental Science.
can obtain information as to board and lodging and 10. Ethnology and Folk-lore.
other such details from the Secretary at the above 11. Persian, Arabic and Urdu.
1 address. 12. Other Asiatic languages and civilizations.
R. C. TEMPLE BOOK-NOTICES. MEMOIRS OF THE ARCHEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. upon the Imperial harem. Whon questioned about
No. 14. ANTIQUITIES Ox BHIMBAR AND RAJAURI. the cause of their common disfigurement, they re. By RAM CHANDRA KAK, Superintendent of Arch. plied that it was the evil effect of the water of the Bology. Jammu and Kashmir State. Superin. stream that flowed near by. They added that be. tendent, Government Printing, Calcutta, 1923. fore they had he misfortune to be married in these
The Bhimbhar-Rajauri road, which unites the parts, they too were fair and handsome. This, 48 two large tahsils in the province of Jammu, forming was expected, had the desired effect. The ladies together part of the ancient territory of Dar vAbhi. immediately orderod a retreat, and the dilemana sre, has played a prominent part in the history of Was solved." Kashmir from very early times. It was by this One of the most curious features of the old Mughal route that the tyrant Mihirakula retreated into Kash- road are the two gigantic stone elephants, which mir, after his defeat in India, and along it in later have given their name to the Hathinala pags and agos travelled the splendid cavalcades of Jahangir, were possibly intended, as Mr. Kak surmises, to När Jahan, and the nobles of the Mughal court, on sorve as memorials of two favourite elephants of the the annual migration from the heat and dust-storms Eraperor which died here. He quotes the analogy of the Punjab. Mr. Ram Chandra Kak, who has of the statue which Akbar erected in memory of a made a very completo survey of all the Hindu and favourite horso near Sikandra. Apart from the reMusalman remains in the two tahsils above men. discovery of several Mughal sand is and mosques, tioned, tells a quaint story spent one of these annual the most important result of the author's tour in Mughal court pilgrimages. The imperial Zanana Rajauri and Bhim bar tahsils is the existence of was wont to halt en route et Saidabad, where the groups of Kashmirian templos at Saidabad and remains of a barddarf, bridge and tepk are still to Panjndra. Fergusson in his History of Indian and be seen, and "the ladies were so charmed with the Eastern Architecture remarked that, although the limpid water of the stream, and the enchanting form and age of the Gandhara monasteries were purroundinge, that they refused to stir either for sufficiently well known in his time to supply most wards or backwards. The Emperor was in a diler of the links connecting the Kashmiri style with that ma. Persuasion failing, he had recourse to a stra of the outer world, full information could not be tagern, similar to that employed by the hill Rajas of secured until the temples in the Salt Range end Pinjar to scare away Fidai Khan, Aurangzeb's foster other unfrequented parts of the Panjab had toen brother, who had built himself a retreat there. A thoroughly examined. Mr. Kak expresses the hope number of local ladies, who were afflicted with goitre, that the templos, which he has fully described poro brought together. They were made to wait ' in this number of the Memoirs of the Indian
