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has been given in Triihner's Record, and among the papers of particular 

 interest to us in India may be cited — Professor Jolly's on the Law 

 Code of Harita : Professor Oldenberg's on the Upanishads : Mr. Johann- 

 son's on the Shahbazgarhi version of Asoka's Edicts ; Professor Biihler's 

 on the Mansehra version of the 13th Edict of Asoka ; Professor Leu- 

 m.ann's on the Avasyaka commentaries of Jain literatare t Professor 

 Peterson's on the Nyayavindu-tika, an ancient Buddhist woi'k on 

 logic. Dr. Burgess read a paper ou Archceological researches in India. 

 A proposition by Professor Kuhn in favour of a scientific investiga- 

 tion of the languages spoken on the N.-W. Frontier of India was 

 adopted. 



The State Council of Kashmir has sanctioned the publication of a 

 systematic catalogue of the Maharaja's collection of Sanskrit MSS. 

 at Jammu, under the editorship of Dr. Aurel Stein, Principal of the 

 Oriental College, Lahore. This collection was mainly formed by the 

 late Maharajah Ranbir Sing and contains over 4000 works ; among them a 

 very considerable number of Sanskrit MSS. It is preserved in the 

 Raghunath Temple, at Jammu, and has never previously been explored 

 by a European scholar. 



Dr. Stein has also been engaged in researches relating to the Bdja- 

 tarangi7n of Kalhana, the Royal Chronicle of Kashmir, with a view to a 

 new edition of this work. Dr. Stein has been able to secure the Godex 

 Arclietypus of all extant Kashmir MSS, of the Rajatarangini, written 

 in the 17th centuiy. 



The most important paper of historical interest in our Journal, Part 

 I, is a joint paper by Mr. V, A, Smith and Dr. Hoernle giving a de- 

 scription and reading of an inscribed seal of Kumara Gupta 11. A 

 photocollotype plate of the seal to full size accompanies the paper. The 

 seal was found at Bhitari, in the Ghazipur district N.-W. P., and is made 

 of a mixture of about 63 parts of copper to 36 of silver. Dr. Hoernle 

 has discovered that this seal is of far greater imjoortance than was at 

 first supposed, because it is of a Kumara Gupta II. ; the inscription on 

 it gives for the first time a genealogy of the early Gupta dynasty that 

 enumei'ates nine generations instead of only the seven hitherto known, 

 and this genealogy throws light upon many unsolved problems regarding 

 the early Gupta coinage and the general course of Indian history 

 during the period of the dissolution of the Gupta empire. Dr. Hoernle 

 has illustrated his remarks on the latter subject by the addition of a syn- 

 chronistic table of the reigns of the early Guptas, their contemporaries 

 and successors. This paper certainly forms a veiy valuable and im- 

 portant contribution to early Indian history. 



Babu Saratchandra Das, C. I. E,, has contributed an interesting 



