February, 1909.] Annual Address. xxvii 
ledge of which has hitherto been of a somewhat restricted 
character, derived mainly from the Sarvadarsan Sangraha of 
Madhabacharyya and the Madhyamikabritti. Professor Sarada- 
ranjan Roy has, in an interesting paper on The Age of Kalidas, 
re-investigated this interesting problem, and the force of his 
arguments has to my mind a distinct tendency to make the 
one of our young enthusiastic workers, Babu Rakhal Das Baner- 
jee, who has arranged the coins chronologically with numerous 
valuable observations, and has thus furnished a review of the 
Inthe samed ? padhyay 
contributed what must be regarded as a paper on a controversial 
subject, namely, the true reading and translation of the 
Khorosti copperplate inscription from Taxila; and I trust that 
scholars, competent to express an opinion upon this obscure 
topic, will examine the relative value and merit of the reading 
me of th d 
rials and throw considerable light upon problems of absorbing 
interest, the bearing of which has hitherto been imperfectly 
appreciated. There are others, again, who have criticised, and, 
in some instances, succesfully demolished views previously held, 
and have brought out in their true perspective the aspect o 
Some familiar old problems in the light of the latest discoveries. 
T must now pass on to researches in the domain of the pure and 
