February, 1913.] Annuai Report. Xv 
India in the July and August number. His note on the tradi- 
tion that subterranean passages exist, connecting Delhi with 
several places in its vicinity, has a topical interest ; while in 
his article on the ‘* Mouthless Indians of Megasthenes,’’ he ad- 
vances an ingenious theory as to how a historian and an ambas- 
sador came to report the existence of a people who lived on 
the smell of fruits, and having therefore no use for mouths, 
presumably had none. A hundred modern Arabic Proverbs: 
collected by Captain Murphy of the 30th Punjabis, during a 
six months’ stay in Damascus, should prove very useful to the 
increasingly large number of officers, and others who are now 
interested in modern Arabic. The same Journal—viz. that of 
August— contains a poem in Persian by the Emperor Shah 
Alam II. Side by side is a translation by Maulavi Hidayat 
Hussain. 
The December number is remarkable for a very beautiful 
- and ingenious quatrain by the late Mr. Azoo. It is in Arabic 
written on the quatrain by Dr. Suhrawardy. i 
The ‘‘Vyavaharamatrka of Jimitavahana ” forms the 
subject of a Memoir by the Hon’ble Justice Sir Ashutosh 
i 
disputed questions as the acquisition of title by prescription, 
adoption of an only son, etc. abu | “ee 
a paper on ‘‘ The date of Varaha Mihira” supposes that Varaha 
Mihira chose the Saka year 427. (a.D. 505) as the starting point 
of his astronomical calculations very probably to — 
rate the date of his own birth. ‘ Who were the Sungas ? é 
is the title of a paper in which Mahamahopadhyaya ri co 
Shastri maintains that epee ee nore be cachig rt 
i e Buddhists 
po pa sper Persian origin aS was previously 
e Brahmans of the Samavedic 
rm_horse-sacrifices. Mahamaho- 
padhyaya Shastri ina note on neal 
Sata naomi eee iano inane Nath i 
Shastri in a note on ‘‘ Cavalry mh coos ‘. sein rere 
Nae nH 
Brahmana Bhatti sae eo en Dhravasena ILI of Valabhi 
me ingot, rarer of the China Branch of the 
