XV1 Annual Report. [ February, 1906. 
number he gave an account of Anuruddha Thera, a learned Pali 
author of Southern India, in the twelfth century A.D. 
Babu Ganga Mohan Laskar, M.A., a research scholar, de- 
ciphered four new Copper-plate charters of the Somavamsi kings of 
Kosala and Kataka, sent some time ago fromthe Patna State in 
the Central Provinces to the Society. They form an addition to 
the six charters of these kings edited by Mr. Fleet in the Epigra- 
phia Indica (Vol. III, pp. 323-359). Of these new land-grant 
charters, one belongs to Maha-Bhavagupta I. and the rést to 
Maha-Sivagupta. ‘The language and characters of both the old 
and new charters are the same. 
The identity of Halayudha, the author of Brahmanasarbasva 
and Prime Minister of Lakshmana Sena, son of Balldla Sena 
and Abul Faz. 
Of papers of Linguistic interest there was one containing a 
collection of 100 Kolarian riddles current among the Mundaris in 
Chota Nagpur by the Rev. Paul Wagner, and another on the 
Similarity of the Tibetan to the Kashgar-Brahmi Alphabet by the 
Rev. A. H. Francke, which was published in Vol, L, No. 3 of the 
Memoirs, 
No less than half a dozen valuable papers on Tibetan subjects 
were contributed by Rai Sarat Chandra Das, Bahadur, O.LE. 
