it is now proposed that the older prose work should be edited in its stead.

Professor Wilson's "Hindu Sects" was mainly based on the present Digvijaya, and the Sarvadars'ana Sangraha of Mádhaváchárya which was published in No. 63 and 142 of the Bibliotheca Indica, and European scholars have frequently asked for an edition of Anantánandagiri's work. It contains the legendary history of Sankara Achárya and his times, and amidst much that is misstated and untrustworthy, throws great light on the state of the Hindu mind at that period and the philosophical ideas then prevalent.

The work will occupy not more than three Fasciculi.

They also recommend that Mr. Cowell's offer be accepted to edit the Maitri or Maitráyani Upanishad with Rámatírtha's commentary, and an English translation. It will occupy about two Fasciculi.

Dr. Weber in 1855 (Indische Studien, vol. 3, p. 480) remarked that the Society had published editions of all the more important Upanishads, with the exception of the Kaushitaki, Maitráyani and Váshkala. At the beginning of this year we published an edition of the first; the present proposal takes up the second. Of the third we have very slender hopes, as though its translation is given in D'anquetil du Perron, no traces of the Sanscrit original have as yet been discovered and the name does not occur in the very full Telugu list of Upanishads furnished by W. Elliott, Esq., and published in our journal for 1851.

ADOPTED.

Communications were received

1. From Babu Gopeenauth Sein; abstracts of meteological observations taken at the Surveyor General's Office in November and December last.

2. From F. E. Hall, Esq., a paper containing some fragments of Ravana's commentary on the Rig Veda.

3. From W. T. Blanford, Esq., contributions to Indian Malacology., No. 3, containing description of new operculated land shells from Pegu, Aracan and the Khasi hills. ́

4. From W. Theobald, Jr., Esq Notes of a trip from Simla to the Spiti Valley and Chormorre (Tohomoriro) Lake during the months of July, August and September last.

Extracts from this paper were read by the author, for which a vote of thanks was passed to him.

Mr. Oldham moved that the above papers be referred back to the Council for consideration, with a view to their publication.

Dr. Fayrer seconded the motion.

The President proposed as an amendment

That it be left to the discretion of the Secretaries in communication with the Committee of papers and in the conduct of their duty as Editors of the journal, to consider the question of their publication. A discussion arose which was terminated by the adjournment of the meeting being carried on the motion of Col. Strachey.

LIBRARY.

The undermentioned books and periodicals have been added to the Library since the meeting in April.

Presented.

Calcutta Christian Observer for April.-BY THE EDITOR.

Official, Classified and Descriptive catalogue of the contributions from India to the London Exhibition of 1862.-BY THE BOARD of Revenue.

Dickinson's address to members of the House of Commons-Pamphlet.— BY THE B. I. ASSOCIATION.

On the origin and authenticity of the Arian family of Languages. By D. Framjee. By the Author.

Journal of the Statistical Society of London for March 1862, Vol. XXV. Part 1.-BY THE SOCIETY.

A list to the end of 1861 of the Fellows of the Statistical Society.-BY

THE SAME.

Journal Asiatique, Vol. XVIII. Nos. 71 and 72.-BY THE PARIS SO

CIETY.

Kumára Sambhava, 8th Sarga, edited by Pundit Prem Chandra Tarkabágísha with his commentary.-BY MR. E. B. COWELL.

Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India-Palæontologia Indica, Vol. I. Part 2.-BY THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE SURVEY.

Ditto Ditto.-BY THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

The Oriental Baptist for April.-BY THE EDITOR.

The Oriental Christian Spectator for January.-BY THE EDITOR.

Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Vol. V. No. 5, and Vol. VI. No. 1.-BY THE SOCIETY.

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Vol. XI. No. 47,-BY THE SOCIETY.

Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol. XVIII.

No. 69.-BY THE SOCIETY.

Reinaud's Memoire Sur les commencements.-BY THE AUTHOR.

Exchanged.

The Athenæum for January and February, 1862.

The Philosophical Magazine, Vol. XXIII. Nos. 152, 153.

Purchased.

The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Vol. IX. Nos. 49, 50, 51. The American Journal of Science and Arts, Vol. XIX. No. 97.

Abhandlungen fur die kunde des Morgenlandes Gesselschaft, Vol. II. No. 3. Sanskrit Worterbuch, (Roth and Boehtlingk.)

Comptes Rendus, Tome LIII. Nos. 21 to 27 and Tome LIV. Nos. 1 to 8 with an Index to Tome LII.

Flugel's Mani.

The Literary Gazette, Nos. 182 to 191 and No. 193 of Vol. VII. New Series.

Maynard's Dictionnaire de la Perse.

The Natural History Review, Vol. VII. No. 5.

Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Numismatic Society, New Series, Nos. 1 to 4.

The Quarterly Review, Nos. 220, 221.

Revue des Deux Mondes for 15th January, 1st February, 15th February and 1st March.

Revue et Magasin De Zoologie, No. 12 of 1861.

Reinwald's Catalogue Annuel Libraire Francais, Vol. IV.

Reeve's Conchologia Iconica, Nos. 214, 215 and 216.

Raverty's Translation of the Selections from the Poetry of the Afghans.

Spiegel's die altpersischen Keilingschriften.

Annales des Sciences Naturelles-Botanique, Tome XIV. No. 6.
Vuller's Lexicon, Fas. VI. Part 3.

Vendidad Sadi, Part 7.

The Westminster Review for January, 1862.

Windischmann's Sancara.

Journal des Savants for December, January and February.

LALGOPAL DUTT.

FOR JUNE, 1862.

The Meeting of the Asiatic Society was held on the 4th instant.
A. Grote, Esq, President, in the chair.

The Proceedings of the last meeting were read and confirmed.
Presentations were received-

1. From Major J. C. Haughton a Silver coin found at Kurn Bil near Jubbulpore, and a Lead Siamese coin found at Tavoy.

The following is a letter from Major Haughton on the subject:MY DEAR ATKINSON,

I have the pleasure of handing for addition to the Society's collection two coins.

The silver coin was obtained by me many years ago from the side of Kurn Bil near Jubbulpore. It is of a type common as far as Caubul. I think it is figured by Prinsep and described by Cunningham.

The large Leaden coin is an ancient Siamese one, part of a "treasure trove" dug up at the capital of Tavoy-Waydee-during the year 1857. The inscription is almost entirely illegible. I believe the figure on the obverse is intended to represent a dragon.

Believe me,

(sd.) J. C. HAUGHTON.

2. From the Geological Society of London, several publications of the Society.

3. From the Imperial Academy of Vienna, several publications of the Academy.

4. From the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburgh, several Nos. of the Memoirs and Bulletin of the Academy.

5. From Mr. Woodrow, two silver coins from the Sunderbuns.

6. From L. S. Jackson, Esq., C. S., a silver coin.

The following is a note on the coin by Mr. E. C. Bayley:This coin, which was found by Mr. L. S. Jackson, C. S., at Rajshahye, belongs clearly to the Bengal Pathan series.

Its inscription, though for the most part in good order, is not altogether legible; it bears a date, which in ordinary Arabic numerals, reads 933, on the strength of which Mr. Laidlay has assigned it (Bengal Asiatic Society's Journal Vol. XV. p. 333) to Mahmood Shah, son of Hussen Shah, the last of the Independent kings of Gour.

The chief difficulty in admitting this attribution is, that we are distinctly told in Stewart's History of Bengal, who, however, does not quote his authority, that Mahmood Khan succeeded his nephew, whom he murdered in 940 A. H.; and, secondly, that he died in 945, after a reign, including the period of his deposition, of five years.

This information is emphatic and precise. Mr. Laidlay does not seem to have had Stewart's History before him, as he confounds this Mahmood Khan with Mahmood, the son of Duria Khan Lohani, the distinction between each of whom and Mahmood Khan Lodi, all successively kings of Bengal at or about this period, is clearly drawn in a note at page 131 of Stewart's History. Moreover the obverse legend calls the king " Gheiasuddeen," a title which there is nothing to show, as far as I know, that Mahmood Shah ever assumed, and the word in the obverse legend, which Mr. Laidlay read as 66 Abool Mozuffer," cannot, on the present coin, be so taken. I at first read it as Ibn Toghlak, and for this reason was inclined to read the first figure on the date as a Bengali seven, and so to throw the coin back by two centuries,-considering the obverse inscription as that of Mahomed bin Gheiasuddeen Toghlak of Delhi, who was also the Suzerain Sovereign of Bengal, and believing the reverse to bear that of Bheiram Shah, whom Mahomed Toghlak made king of Bengal at Sanargaon in 725 or 726 A. H., and who died in 739 A. H.

But I must confess that the concluding formula of the reverse legend (Khallad Allah Mulk wa Sultanat) comports better with the later date, as it has I think been found hitherto on no coins earlier than those of the Lodi Dynasty.

Still the discrepancy of dates is almost too great to be accidental. To Mr. Laidlay's reading, (Nazir Shahi) moreover of the central legend the present coin gives little colour.

Mr. Laidlay distinctly says that he had several specimens and varieties of the coin before him while writing; it is probable, accordingly, that his attribution had better grounds than the sole coin which he has figured, would afford.

The attribution of the coins must therefore I think be considered open to future revision.

Read a letter from Mr. Stainforth, requesting that his withdrawal from the Society might be cancelled,

Agreed to.