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be obtained from one or two recent instances. Thus the Tibetan 
translation of the logical work of Dignaga, which must be placed 
in the front rank of works on modern Nyaya, but the original of 
which is not available in this country, enables us to trace the 
history of the rise and development of this branch of Hindu 
Philosophy. I need only refer to the scholarly paper on the sub- 
ject by Mahamahopadhyaya Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana, pub- 
lished in the November number of our Journal. Another valu- 
able paper from the same learned member which opens the first 
volume of our new series of Memoirs indicates how additional 
light may be thrown on the somewhat obscure problem of the 
progress of Tantricism by an intelligent study of Tibetan scrolls 
and images. The existence of the Tantra Sastras may thus 
apparently be traced at least as far back as the 6th century 
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have to be shared by the Buddhists along with the Brahmins. Tt 
would be a mistake, however, to suppose that the only department 
Pali literature as well. It has been usually supposed hitherto 
that no Pali books were ever translated into Tibetan, and that the 
Tibetan monks confined their attention to versions of Buddhistic 
works written in Sanskrit. It now turns out, however, that almost 
the entire Pali Tripitakas are preserved in Tibetan in translation. 
It is difficult to say whether the translations were made direct 
from Pali into Tibetan, or, as seems not unlikely, were first trans- 
lated into Sanskrit and then into Tibetan. The Sanskrit versions, 
however, are extremely rare. Scholars interested in Pali litera- 
ture must consequently turn to Tibetan sources to determine to 
what extent interpolations have been introduced by the Buddhists 
of Ceylon and Burma into their religious books, Under these 
circumstances, I trust the case is not put too high in favour of 
Tibetan studies, when it is maintained that they are likely to open 
up sources from which considerable light may be expected upon 
the history of Sanskrit as well as Pali literature. 
more than average interest and importance. Babu Ganga Mohan 
Laskar, a young epigraphist of talent who made a spebiad tad? of 
the epigraphy an paleography of Northern India as a research 
scholar under the Government of Bengal, and who has pre- 
pared a complete concordance to the Inscriptions of Asoka, 
contributed a note on four new copper-plate charters of 
