xviii Annual Report. (February, 1915. 
descendant of Jata Varman, the founder of an independent 
Kingdom in East Bengal in the 11th century a.p. 
“The Jhalrapatan Stone Inscription of Udayaditya’’ de 
ciphered by Sahityacarya Pandit Bisvesara Nath Sastri records 
the building of a temple of Siva in 1086 4 D., during the reign 
of Udayaditya, a successor of Pramara Bhoja. 
‘* A Forgotten Kingdom of East Bengal’’ is the title of a 
paper in which Babu Nalini Kanta Bhattasali gives some ac- 
count of the City of Karmanta (modern Kamta in Comilla) 
which is said to have been the capital of the Kingdom of 
Samatata where the Khadga family reigned in the 7th cen- 
tury A.D. 
Rev. H. Hosten in a paper entitled ‘‘ The Twelve Bhiiyas 
or Landlords of Bengal’’ presents us with a list of the twelve 
Bhiiyaés as given by Frair Manrique in 1640 a.p., and infers 
from the existence of twelve Bhuiyds in countries other than 
Bengal that ‘‘the council of twelve’’ is an ancient institution 
in India. The same writer in a paper entitled ‘‘The Pitt Dia- 
mond and the Eyes of Jagannath, Puri,’’ quotes authority to 
show that the story of theft of the Pitt diamond from the 
Statue of Jagannath was descredited by Anquetil du Perron as 
early as in June 1757 a.p. 
S. P. V. Ramanuja Svami in his paper on ‘‘ Jayamang- 
ala’ tries to prove that the author of the commentary on 
Kamasitra was Jayamangala, who is not to be confounded with 
Yasodhara, the copyist. Babu Vanamali Chakravarti in his 
paper on ‘* The Nature of Moksa ’’ tries to show that moksa or 
liberation, according to the Nyaya, was a condition not devoid 
of pleasure. Rai Bahadur B. A. Gupte in a short note on 
‘“* Kath Kari’’ supports Sir James Campbell’s derivation of the 
word from “‘ Kath’’ and “‘ Kari’’, meaning a catechumaker. 
kings. 
In an article entitled ‘‘ Fr. Jerome Xavier’s Persian Lives 
of the Apostles’’ issued i 
position between 1604 and 1607. The article is supplemented 
with appendices by Messrs. H. Beveridge and Aga Muhammad 
i 
Kazim Shirazi. 
In the Journal for July and August Mr. Beveridge in his 
paper on ‘ The date of the death of Shah Beg Arghun, the ruler 
of Sind ’’ proves from historical data that the date inclines to- 
on ‘ Sirhind or Sahrind’’ Mr. Beve 
name Sirhind was changed into Sahrind by Shah Jehan. In 
