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 INTELLIGENCE, 



AND 



MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES. 



LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



ASIATJC SOCIETY. 



X HE Afiatic Society iuftituted in Bengal for inquiring 

 into the Hifiory and Antiquities, the Arts, Sciences, and Lite- 

 rature of Afia, ha vi ng refolved to give with each fubfeqnent vo- 

 lume of their Rcfearchcs a lift of fuch oriental fubje&s as re- 

 quire further illustration, and to invite communications on the 

 fubjeft, have felecled the following, and prefixed them to 

 (heir laft volume, lately publifhed at Calcutta. 



/. Religion, Policy, Jurif prudence, Manners, znd Cujloms. 



1. An accurate defcription of the different feftivals and 

 falls prevalent in India; together with an inveftigation of 

 their origin, and of the reafon and fignification of their pecu- 

 liar ceremonies. As thofe are very numerous, the following 

 are fpecified as objects of primary inquiry : 



Among the Hindus-^-Doorga Pooja, or DuflTerah ; Kales 

 Pooja, Dewalee, Jonmon Afhtomer, Churkh Poena. 



Account of the pilgrimage to the temple of Jaganatha, at 

 Purfotom. 



Among the Mufulmaris — Eed ul Zoha, Eed ul Fetr, Eed 

 Ghudeer. 



2. An enumeration of the different cads of Hindus, with 

 the cuftoms peculiar to each, as exifting in the prefent time 

 — See an enumeration from the antient Sanfcrit records, 

 Afiatic Refearches, Vol. V. p. 53. « 



3. A connected hiftory of the Several Mufulman tribes ex- 

 ifting in India : among thefe, an account of the lingular tribe 

 known by the name of Borah, is particularly required. 



4. vrbat 



