February, 1915.] Annual Report. XVii 
On an application from the Education Department of the 
Government of India, asking for certain back volumes and 
numbers of the Society’s Journal and Proceedings, wanting 
in their set, complete sets, as far as available, were supplied as 
a presentation to Government. 
Philology, ete. 
During the year under review several important papers of 
philological and antiquarian interest were contributed to our 
Journal and Memoirs. 
na Memoir entitled ‘‘ Fragments of a Buddhist work in 
the Ancient Aryan Language of Turkistan,’’ Dr. Sten Konow 
publishes the text, with an annotated translation, of six 
manuscript leaves—recovered from Khotan—which give us 
some idea of the form of Buddhism prevailing in Central Asia 
in ancient times. ce 
In a Memoir entitled ‘‘ Catuhsatika of Arya Deva,’’ Maha- 
mahopadhyaya Hara Prasad Sastri, C.I.E., publishes frag- 
ments of a rare Sanskrit work of Arya Deva called Catuh- 
Satika, with the commentary of Candrakirti, which were re- 
covered from Nepal and throw much light on the early philo- 
n a paper entitled ‘‘ India in the Avesta of the Parsees,”’ 
Sham-ul-Ulema Dr. Jivanji Jamshedji Modi shows that India 
boundary, as Nineveh formed the western, of the vast Iranian 
country. 
Mahamahopadhyaya Dr. Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana in a 
paper entitled ‘<‘ The Localisation of Certain Hymns of the Rig- 
veda ’’ tries to prove that all the hymns of the Rigveda were 
not composed while the Aryans, in the course of their south- 
eastern journey, still lingered in Eastern Kabul and the Pun- 
jab, but that some of the hymns were composed even when the 
Aryans had advanced to the east as far as the river Kausiki at 
the eastern boundary of the district of Darbhanga. 
‘The Date of Chashtana’’ is the title of a paper in which 
Babu Ramesh Chandra Majumdar tries to prove that. Chash- 
tana, the founder of a long line of Saka Kings, flourished at 
Ujjaini at about 78 a.p. 
Visvaripa, T e writer contributes another paper to our 
Journal entitled ‘The Belabo Grant of Bhojavarman”’ which 
Tecords the grant of some land to a Brahman named Rama- 
deva Sarman during the reign of Bhoja Varman, who was a 
