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the Somavansi Kings of Kosala. These charters, written in 
characters of the 10th century, refer to a dynasty of four 
kings who reigned for over half a century. They were called 
Trikalinga Adhipati and their dominions included Tosali, which 
the writer corrects into Kosala. am not quite sure that this 
emendation is well founded; and it has been suggested on good 
Monmohan Chakravarti furnished an edition of the Pabanaduta, 
which was first brought to the notice of the Society in 1898 by 
Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Sastri. The work appears to 
have been written by Dhoyika, one of the court poets of Laksh- 
man Sen, the last Hindu King of Bengal. Pandit Yogesa 
Chandra Sastree discussed the question of the identity of the 
Prime Minister of the same king, Halayudha, the author of 
Brahmana Sarvasa. Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Sastri con- 
tributed a paper on the history and development of the Nyaya 
Philosophy, which must be regarded as one of a highly controver- 
sial character. It is well known that the Nyaya Sutras, attribut- 
ed to Gautama or Akshapada, have been studied in this country 
with the aid of the Vashya, the Vartik and other commentaries 
by eminent Sankrit writers. Hindu Logic, however, has travelled 
to China and Japan, and there it has been studied for centuries on 
somewhat different lines, as the students there start with Dignaga 
as the last of the great writers on Logic in India, The work of 
Dignaga was translated into Chinese about the middle of the 7th 
century by Hiouentsiang ; and two of his disciples, one a Chinese 
and the other a Japanese, wrote great commentaries on it. The 
history of the introduction of Hindu Logic into China and Japan is 
a subject of abiding interest, and was examined recently by a dis- 
tinguished Japanese scholar, Mr. Sugiura, in a thesis presented to 
the University of Pennsylvania. We have, therefore, from Chinese 
Logic as it existed in the beginning 
independent treatises on Philosophy. He maintains that the 
system was originally Hindu, dating back to pre-Buddhistic times, 
that it was modified by an infusion of Buddhistic ideas and 
subsequently altered again by the Saivas. The question, as I 
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by the former cover several centuries of the history of Tibet, and. 
