February, 1920.] Annual Report. ix 
The last index published to the Journal and Proceedings 
was for Vol. X, 1914, and although arrangements had been made 
for the preparation of the indices for Vols. XI-XIII, 1915-17, 
Fa ate was received from the compiler. The work of indexing 
the scientific portions of the Journal and Proceedings, Vols. 
XI-XIII, and the Memoirs, Vols.3 and 5, has now been 
entrusted to Mr. C. O. Bateman and sa MS. Index is ready 
for press. Arrangements have now b made to index the 
philological —- of these Vols. of ne Journal and Proceed- 
ings and Memoir 
Exchange of Publications. 
ing the year the Council accepted three applications 
for ii abies of publications, viz:—(1) From the Calcutta 
Mathematical Society—the Society’s Journal and Proceedings 
and Memoirs for their Bulletin, (2) from K. Universitets— 
Biblioteket i Lund—the Society’s Journ dae Proceedings and 
Memoirs for the Arsskrift, (3) ) from the Forest Pathologist in 
charge of the United States Department of Agriculture, 
Bureau of Plant Industry, Spokane, Washington—the ee 
Journal and Proceedings and the scientific papers published i 
the Memoirs in exchange for the publications of their yea 
tory 
The Council also sanctioned an exchange of publications 
with the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona, from 
the commencement of the issue of their Journal. 
Philology, etc. 
‘‘ Influence of the five heretical teachers on Jainism and 
Buddhism” is the title of a paper by Babu Bimala Charan Law 
in which he indicates the nature of the influence of the five 
penbeay teachers, the elder contemporaries of Buddha on the 
p Migr of the systems of Hindu Philosophy—Jainism 
Buddhism in particular 
The same writer in another paper entitled ‘“‘ A note on 
Buddha-Ghosa’s Commentaries’’ gives an account of Budha 
Ghosa, a Brahmin of Gaya, who visited Ceylon early in the 5th 
Century A.D. and wrote commentaries on most of the canoni- 
eal Pali works which throw considerable light on the life of 
their author. 
abu Brindabon Chandra Bhattacharyya contributed a 
paper on the identification of fe Asoka pillar, the Jagat 
on certain facts gleaned from the works of Ptolemy per Arzian, 
identifies the ancient town of Tagara with modern Nagra 
