58 Address. [Feb, 



paper on the Life of Sumpa Khan-po, the autlioi' of the Re/iumig, a 

 Tibetan chronological table, comprising 12 Vrihaspati cycles of 60 years, 

 each commencing with A. D. 1026 and ending in A. D. 1745. A trans- 

 lation of this table is given in the paper. He has edited Fasciculus 

 No. 2 of the Avaddna Kalpalatd which has been issued in the Bibliotheca 

 Indica, also for the same series, the Tibetan work Pagsan T'hi Shing, 

 in prose, which will appear shortly. 



Mr. Grierson's valuable paper on Modern Veraacular Literature 

 in Hindustan, noticed in last year's Address, has been much enlarged and 

 published in book-form with collotype illustrations, as a special number 

 of the Journal, Part I, for 1888. The Society is to be congratulated on 

 having secured such an interesting and important work. From the 

 scheme of the work the vernacular languages dealt with only include 

 roughly, Marwari, Hindi and Bihari, with their respective dialects and 

 Bubdialects ; consequently Sanskrit, Prakrit, Arabic, Persian and Urdu 

 works are excluded. 



At the March meeting Babii Gaur Das Bysack read an interesting 

 paper on a- Buddhistic Monastery at Bhot Bagan (Howrah), on two 

 Tibetan MSS. found there, and on Puran Gir Gosain, the founder of the 

 monastery. 



At the same meeting Mr. T. Munro exhibited some plans of old 

 Calcutta, and read a note on the Founder and founding of Calcutta. 



Mr. V. A. Smith has presented a very valuable and suggestive 

 paper on Grseco-Roman influence on the civilisation of Ancient India. 

 In this ]3aper, which is now in course of publication, the author endeavours 

 to trace the working on Indian soil of Greek ideas which resulted from 

 the invasion of Alexander the Great, and which, though traceable in the 

 fields of religion, poetry, science and philosophy, is most obvious in the 

 domains of architecture and sculpture, with which the essay chiefly 

 deals. Mr. W. H. P. Driver's paper on a tradition of Lohardugga also 

 awaits publication. 



The works published in our Bibliotheca Indica have already been 

 noticed. 



TJt.e Indian Antiquary, as usual, contains a large number of papers 

 and notes of historical interest. Among which may be noted Dr. E. 

 Hultzsch's collection of extracts from Kalhana's Bdjatarangini. Those 

 from the 1st Taranga treat of the dynasty of Gonanda III, and a list is 

 given of 24 kings of this dynasty. 



Pandit Natesa Sastri, continues his papers on Southern Indian 

 Folklore, as does Putlibai D. H. Wadia his series on Folklore in Western 

 India, and Taw Sein Ko commences a series on Folklore in Burma. 



Professor Kielhorn, C. I. E,, has a paper on the 60-year cycle of 



