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Kerti, near Achin: Śrt Vijaya he identifies with Palembang to the South-West of the Island. And finally he shows that the expedition against Kadâram was undertaken because the expansion of the Palembang State brought it into hostility with the overseas possession of the Cholas. These possessions seem to have been retained by them, until some time in the reign of another great Chola monarch, Kulôttunga. Incidentally, in the course of his illuminating remarks on these expeditions, Prof. Krishnaswami Aiyangar identifies many old names, including Mânakkavaram with the Nicobar Islands.
Such is a summary of the Professor's researches into the military proceedings of Rajendra Chola, but it will repay scholars to read carefully how he arrives at his conclusions. Incidentally his remarks show that some of the medieval Indian rulers led anything but quiet lives.
Rajendra had many titles. Among them was that of Mudikonda Chola, the Chola who took crown-jewels, still perpetuated in many placenames. So is that of Gangaikonda Chola, already explained. He had also a third well-known title, Pandita Chola, the Chola who was the patron of learning. The last two appellations have a bearing on his character as an administrator. He cleverly used the Ganges water collected in his Northern conquests in establishing a magnificent irrigation tank, round which people were induced to settle because of the sacred water he had poured into it He also caused an educational institution to be established for the acquisition of religious knowledge with fourteen professors attached to it, who had definite salaries provided from a settled fund. There were other foundations of a like nature in his reign.
This care for education was carried on through the eleventh century A.D. by Rajendra's successors, Rajadhiraja and Vira Rajêndra. The first founded a similar theological college and the latter another of the same kind, attached to which was a hostel for students and a hospital of fifteen beds, one surgeon, two men servants, two female nurses and a ward servant. All this is gleaned from inscriptions, which thus show their value if read with intelligence.
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together, is being utilised to invaluable historical purpose. R. C. TEMPLE. JOURNAL OF THE UNITED PROVINCES HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Vol. III, Pt. I. December 1923. Longmans, Green & Co., Calcutta.
This issue contains, as usual, some important articles, worth the attention of all Indian scholars. It commences with "Documents of the Seventeenth Century, British India, in the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane." This is unquestion. ably a very valuable piece of work on a difficult subject-difficult because of the arrangement of Papers relating to the East Indies in the Public Record Office. The searcher, without this article to his hand, would have to search first in the Colonial Series-East Indies, in the Domestic State Papers, and in the State Papers-Foreign; and even then he would have to know what he was about in a way open to few. This means that the Public Record Office is largely shut to the searcher for information about India; experto crede. But there is a great deal useful to him in that Office nevertheless.
Professor Krishnaswami Aiyangar has thus once again proved that Indian scholars are taking the vast collection of epigraphic remains of their country into serious consideration, and are gradually building up the history of the mediaval rulers, to show the present and coming generations what manner of men they were and what they looked on as works worthy to be done for their country. In this way the labours of many scholars over a long period, in making available to the, student what is otherwise a mass of uninteresting and unintelligible forgotten names collected
The paper before us, however, goes deeply into the question. It tells us all about the "Colonial Office Records, East Indies, now C. O. 77," the Colonial Entry-Books, the State Papers, Domestic, as they relate to India, State Papers, Foreign, of the same nature, and about a large collection of State Papers, Miscellaneous (Domestic and Foreign). Then there are Records of Parliament and Council (Privy Council, Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, i.e., Oliver Cromwell), the Legal Records (Chancery Proceedings, with a very va. luable list of defendants when the East India Company was plaintiff): Admiralty Court Records and Navy Board Records, Exchequer (K.R.)Port Books, Board of Customs and Excise, Treasury Records including Accounts (Declared Accounts, Audit Office). Finally there is an Appendix giving a list of the published Calendars
of Records and Uncalendared Intervals. It would be hard to find a more important compendium for scholars and searchers.
The next paper is a continuation of the important "Place-Names in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, by Mr. Paul Whalley, late of the B. C. S." This is followed by an interesting correspondence on the "Stone Elephant at, Ajmere [sic]" between Mr. H. Beveridge and Prof. P. B. Joshi, and an even more interesting paper on Indian Education in the Seventh Century A.D., being I-tsing's account in 672-688 A.D., by Prof. R. K. Mookerji.
Then Sayyad Iftikhar Husain Saheb gives the story of Haji Sayyad Shah Waris Ali of Dewa, near Bara Banki. He was a Husaini Sayyad, born in or about 1819, and influenced "the religious conceptions and ideals of an incredibly large
