24 JntiKoI Address. [Feb. 



Of Hindu Kings during tlie |)eriod after the Gupta Empire, a 

 certain Maharaja Bhoja has long been a much disputed personage, 

 till the researches of Mr. Fleet conclusively proved that no connection 

 existed between this Bhoja and the famous King Bhoja of Kanauj 

 but that the former belonged to a family of petty chiefs, whose 

 property was in the modern Districts of Benares and Ondh. A new 

 Copper-plate Inscription of this Bhoja, edited by Dr. Bloch in last 

 year's Journal, shows that a portion of their territory also lay in the 

 Marwar State in Rajputana, and it furnishes us with the date 705 A.D. 

 for the reign of this king. Of the Gaqga Family of Orissa, a new 

 document, an Inscription in the Cate^vara Temple in Oiissa has been 

 discovered and edited for the Society by Babu N. N. Vasu, while Babu 

 M. M. Chakiavartti for the first time hns tried to establish on epigraphi- 

 cal evidence a Date for the erection of the famous temple of Jag anna tha in 

 Puri. 



Dr. Hoernle's edition of Copper-plate Inscriptions from Assam opens 

 up a new page in the history of Ancient India. Nothing hitherto was 

 known of those kings of Kamariipa, and they appear to have had no 

 connection with other dynasties of Eastern India. Their date rests on 

 palteographical conclusions ; it is believed to have been the 10th and 

 11th century A.D. 



Babu S. C. Das's papers on the Antiquities of Chittagong according 

 to Tibetan sources, and an Account of travels on the shores of Lake Yamdo- 

 Croft, carry us further, beyond the frontiers of India proper ; and to 

 Tuikish or Mongolian tribes probably also belong the New Inscriptions 

 from Swat and Boner, discovered by Major Deane, and published with 

 excellent facsimiles by Dr. Stein. Their decipherment hitherto has 

 baffled the efforts of scholars ; but from independent evidences they are 

 believed to be the records left by a Turkish dynasty who reigned over 

 those countries, between the 6th and 8th century A.D. and who claimed 

 descent from the famous Kusana King Kaniska. Dr. Hoernle's Note on 

 Block-prints from Khotan also deals with an unknown character. These 

 prints were apparently a sort of Buddhist prayer-book, repeating the same 

 formula over and over again. The fact that they have been printed from 

 inked blocks, is beyond doubt, and lends great interest to them. Dr. 

 Hoernle moreover notices some resemblances between their characters 

 and certain letters of the Kharosthi or Bactrian Pali script, which was 

 used exclusively during the first centuries of our era in the country 

 beyond the present North- West Frontier of India. 



In the department of coins, mention must be made of a valuable 

 paper by Mr. V. A. Smith, describing several new and rare Indo-Bactrian 

 and Hindu Coins ; also a few notes on Coins of Civaji by Mr. Codring- 



