1896.] Pandita H. P. fastri — ExhihitioH of ArcJumlogical PJiotographs. 89 



As Ml". Rockhill has observed, the much-maligned Hue, ever since 

 he wrote his charming volumes on Tibet aud Tartary, has been con- 

 tinually accused of errors, and then always found to have been correct 

 after all. The more we learn of Tibet and Mongolia, the more is the 

 marvellous accuracy of the geographical, philological, and general 

 observations of that learned and adventurous Lazarist father made 

 evident. 



In the Tibetan list two mistakes occur. The words Wag " Ram," 

 and spEou " Monkey," should be Luk and Spreu. 



I remain, Sir, 

 Your obedient Servant, 



Graham San db erg. 



Chaplain of Sabathu. 



The Joint Philological Secretary Pandita Haraprasad ^^•'^^'^'^ ®^" 

 hibited three Archaeological photographs forwarded by Mr. W. Banks 

 Gwyther, Esq., Under-Secretary to the Government of Bengal, Public 

 Works Department with a note by Mr. Ume^a Candra Vatavyala, Offi- 

 ciating Magistrate, Baguda. 



Photograph N'o. 1 belongs to an image found in a tank in the vil- 

 lage of Durgapur near Mahasthana in Bagnda. It is a female figure 

 probably of Tara Devi one of the Bauddha f'aktis so much worshipped 

 in Medieval India. It contains an inscription which is nothing else but 

 the ordinary Confession of Buddhist faith. "Ye dharma hetuprahliavah 

 etc. " 



No. 2 belongs to an image discovered under a tree in the town of 

 Baguda, of a Bodhisattva and a f akti in an amatory condition sitting 

 on a throne. 



No. 3 belongs to an image which lay among a pretty large number 

 of broken images in the village of Tilah. It is also that of a Bauddha 

 fakti sitting on a throne supported by a tiger. She has four arms 

 carrying a gada or mace a cahra or discus, a kiimhha or watei'pot in three 

 of her arms. The object in her fonrth arms is indistinct. 



Mr. Ume^a Candra Vatavyala has caused all the tliree images to be 

 brought over to Baguda. They might, now, with profit, be brought to 

 the Indian Museum. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Materials for a Garcinological Fauna of India, No. II. The 

 Brachijura Oxijstoma. — By A. Alcock, M. B., C.M.Z.S., Superintendent 

 of the Indian Museum. 



The paper will be published in the Journal^ Part II. 



