1890.] Address. 59 



Jupiter, and Mr. Fleet has a note on the same subject, as well as on the 

 Coins and History of Toramana. In a paper on the country of Mala- 

 kolta Dr. Hultzsch shows that this country is most probably Southern 

 India beyond tlie Kaveri River. Dr. R. Schram gives a series of Tables 

 for the conversion of Indian dates, which will be found of service in con- 

 verting dates of our own calendar, or of the Hindii lunar-solar year or 

 solar year into days of the Indian period and vice versa. 



Mr. J. F. Fleet, C. I. E., continues his notes on the calculation of 

 Hindu dates. 



The Journal of tJie Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 

 contains papers on a new Edict of A'soka, by Mons. E. Senart ; on 

 Nyayabindhutika of Dbarmotara, by Dr. Peterson ; Purnavarma and 

 S'ankaracharya, by the Hon. K.*T. Telang ; the Epoch of the Gupta era 

 and Phonology of the Vernaculars of Northern India, by Dr. R. G. 

 Bliandakar. 



The Madras Journal of Literature and Science, for the session 1888- 

 89, contains several interesting papers. The most important is the 

 second part of Dr. Oppert's exhaustive paper " On the Original In- 

 habitants of Bharatavarsa, or India," in which he deals with the Gaudians, 

 a term he derives from the root 7co, mountain. An account is given of 

 the more important sections of the Gaudian population whose identification 

 offered the least difficulty and who have from time immemorial occupied 

 an acknowledged position among the inhabitants of India. The tribes 

 specially treated of are the Kolis, Gaulis, Kulindas, Kois, Konds, Kands, 

 Gonds, Kodagas, Todas, Kotas, Kuruvas, Kui-ubas or Kurumbas. The 

 work is copiously annotated and will be very valuable to students of 

 early life and language in India. The Rev. G. M. Rae gives a full 

 investigation of the Legend of St. Thomas and comes to the conclusion 

 that there is no evidence that St. Thomas ever did visit India, and that 

 the traditions relating to him have their origin in the Persian founders 

 of the Church of Malabar. M. Sethagiri Sastri has investigated the 

 Etymology of some Mythological Names. Mrs. L. Fletcher gives a 

 brief account of the life and travels in Southern India of Abu 'Abdullah 

 Muhammad, or, as he is commonly known, Ibn Batutah, in Southern 

 India, with a note by Mr. L. White King and Captain Tufnell on the 

 coins of the kings mentioned by him. 



Mr. E. Rehatsek has contributed to the Journal of the Anthropolo- 

 gical Society of Bomhay an interesting paper on Hindu Civilisation 

 in the Far East, as represented by architectural monuments and inscrip- 

 tions, dealing with the most recent discoveries of monuments and in- 

 scriptions in Cambodia and Southern Annam, made by M. Aymonnier. 



In the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Mr. Cecil Bendall 



