2 Pandit Haraprasad (^astrl — Visnupur Circular Cards. [Jam. 



The following gentlemen are candidates for election at the next 

 meeting : — 



W, C. Macpherson, Esq., I. C. S., proposed by Dr. G. A. Grierson, 

 seconded by Dr. A. F. II. Hoernle. 



Surgeon-Lien tenant Charles E. Williams, I. M. S., 6th Punjab 

 Infantr3% Edwardesabad, proposed by Dr. G. A. Grierson, seconded 

 by C. R. Wilson, Esq. 



The following gentlemen have expressed a wish io withdraw from 

 the Society : — 



Major J. Hayes Sadler, B. S. C. 

 Dr. G. H. D. Gimlette, M.D. 



The Philological Secretary exhibited a personal relic of General 

 Cunningham. 



Pandit Haraprasad ^astrl exhibited a second set of Visnupur Cir- 

 cular Cards and I'ead the following note. 



A single pack contains forty-eight cards, in twelve groups of four 

 each. The first four have each a figure, which though apparently a 

 female figure, on closer examination appears to be the figure of a Malla 

 king dressed in female attire. This is the Ace. The second four have 

 two wrestlers. These are valued at two. The third four have three 

 leaves. The fourth four have four conch shells ; the fifth, five flowers ; 

 the sixth, six carpet cushions ; the seventh, seven swords ; the eighth 

 eight Balcula fniits ; the ninth, nine full blown flowers; the tenth, ten 

 plums. Tlie eleventh four have each a horseman and the twelfth each 

 an elephant rider. They are valued at 11 and 12 respectively. 



The point of the game is this. He who gets the number seventeen 

 first in a group of four players, wins the stakes. The cards are first 

 shuffled then cut by the right-hand man, and one card is dealt to each 

 player from right to left. Then the right-hand man is given another 

 card. If he gets more than seventeen he loses the stakes and throws 

 away his cards; if he gets seventeen he wins ; if he gets less, he has 

 the option of either demanding another card or allowing cards to be 

 given to others. If nobody gets seventeen, nobody wins. If a man 

 gets two horses, two elephants, two aces and two twos, he also 

 ■wins. 



Some of the designs in this pack are the same as in the Visnupur 

 Circular Cards already described in Journal, Part I, p. 284, But 

 others are not. The elephant rider, the horseman, the wrestlers and 

 the king in the Ace remind one of the Asvapatis, Gajapatis and 



