xvi Annual Report. [February, 1913. 
Royal Asiatic Society, has contributed a paper to the Journal 
throwing a good deal of new light, from Chinese sources, on 
some important questions connected with the era of Vikrama- 
ditya and foundation of the Kushan Kingdom in India. It is 
stated that the word ‘‘ Kyniska,”’ or ‘‘ Kaniska,’’ is not a proper 
name, but that it simply means a king, and that the real founder 
of the Kushan dynasty was Kadiphes who was surnamed ‘‘ Ksa- 
traonam Ksatra Kyniska Kosano,” hero of heroes, King of Kush- 
anas. Kadiphes who took possesion of the Punjab and Wes- 
tern Magadha in 57 B.c. is supposed to have been identical 
with King Vikramaditya of Hindu tradition. 
. KE. D. Ross reprints in a special number of the Journal, 
entitled Tibetan studies, fourteen articles by Alexander Csoma 
de Korés. These articles which were contributed to the Journal 
by Csoma during the years 1832-1840 are of permanent value 
to Tibetan scholars. They lay scattered over eight different 
volumes until they were carefully collected together in one 
i Ross 
_ A paper by Lama Dawa Somdup contains the English trans- 
lation of Gejor Dumpa’s prayer which gives a picture of the 
viously supposed, and that there is nothing ambiguous or 
unintelligible in it. Pandit Mohanlall Vishnulall Pandia makes 
a critical examination of the transcript of Atapura Inscription 
giving an account of the Belkhara Inscription and the 
Machli-Sahara grant, Babu Rakhal Das Banerji states that the 
inscription set upon a stone-pillar at Belkhara in the Mirzapore 
. an ects King Harisa Candra, son of J aya Candra, 
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