February, 1913.} Annual Address. Xxix 
the Maurya Empire, were not Persians as had been previously 
supposed, but were Brahmins of the Sama Vedic School accus- 
tomed to horse-sacrifice. The same writer quotes a passage 
from a palm-leaf manuscript to show that the poet Bhatti was 
the son of Sridhar Swami of Valabhi. On the other hand, a 
young scholar, Babu Surendranath Sastri, endeavours to estab- 
lish that the poet was no other than the Bhatti Bhatta to 
whom Dhruba Sen, the third of Valabhi, granted a village in 
653 a.p. Babu Brajalal Mookerjee takes up the question of 
the date of the great astronomer Varahamihira and reaches the 
conclusion that he chose the ‘Saka year 427 as the starting- 
point of his astronomical calculations, possibly to commemorate 
the date of his own birth. Mr. Pargiter, one of our ex-presi- 
dents, whose retirement from this country deprived us of the 
last member of the Indian Civil Service who had attained 
In addition to this paper, 
ical contributions. Mr. 
Ramaprasad. Chanda endeavours to establish that the Kam- 
d that the inscription on the 
ple of Siva 
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