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Kamtapur, by Husen Shah of Bengal. Babu Jadu Nath Sarkar 

 has written two papers, one on the revenue regulations of 

 Aurangzeb and the other on Shaista Khan. In the former paper 

 he has translated two rare farmans of tlie Emperor Aurangzeb 

 obtained in a Persian MS. in the Berlin Royal Library. The 

 second paper has been maiuly based on the Bodleian Library 

 MS. of the continuation of Shihabuddin Talesh's Fathiyyah-i* 

 ibriyyah. The paper gives an analysis of the continuation 

 and a history of Shaista Khan's civil administration. Babu 

 Rakhal Das Banerji writes an account of the Gurpa Hill in 

 the District of Gaya, which he attempts to identify with the 

 Kukkutapadagiri of the Buddhists. The rock and tlie pillar 

 inscriptions of Asoka contain many references to animals. Babu 

 Monmohan Chakravarti, in a paper in the Memoirs^ has at- 

 tempted to identify these animals. The Umga Hill inscription 

 deciphered by Babu Parameshwar Doyal give the history of 

 local dynasty in the 13th and the 14fch century in the 

 southern portion of the Gaya district. The information sup- 

 plied by tliis inscription corroborates that given by Captain 

 Kittoe in the Journal of the Asiatic Society in the year 1847. 

 Babu Monmohan Chakravarti has also written two other papers, 

 one on the poet Dhoika who flourished at the court of the 

 last Hindu king of Bengal, Lakshmanasena, and the other on the 

 Sanskrit Literature of Bengal daring the Sena Kings. In a 

 paper entitled *' Some notes on the Mahipala inscription 

 of Sarnath," Mr, Yenis controverts the meanings ascribed 

 to some of the words in the inscription by Mr, J, Ph. Vogel. 

 Especially valuable are contributions made to the Journal and 

 Memoirs during the past year by Lt. Col. D. C. Phillott, dealing 

 with the spoken language of Persia. The study of Persian 

 dialects is a subject which is daily receiving more attention from 

 European scholars, and Col. Phillott's papers— such as "Some 

 Street Cries collected in Persia," '^ Some Persian Kiddles col- 

 lected from dervishes in the South of Persia/' *' Persian Saws 

 and Proverbs," and "Some Cun^ent Persian Tales'* must prove of 

 the utmost value and interest to all students of modern Persian 

 as well as to students of Indian Philoh^gy. Tlie articles must 

 also be of considerable interest to folklorists and anthropologists. 

 Col. Phillott also published with the efficient aid of Mr. Azoo 

 a set of stories in the dialect of Hazramaut, forming a valuable 

 addition to a subject which has received the attention of eminent 

 Arabic scholars in Europe. It is a matter for congratulation 

 that we find such a marked revival in our publications of 

 interest in the languages of Islam, which, in comparison with 

 Sanskrit, have been sadly neglected in recent years. Among 

 the papers contributed during the year on Tibetan Litera- 

 ture, mention may be made of two read by ^Nlahamahopa- 

 dhyaya Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana on '* Dignaga^ and his 

 Pramanasamuccaya " and •* Indian Locric as preserved in Tibet'* 

 in which he has noticed twenty-five Buddhist Sanskrit works to 

 IiO<^ic. These works are valuable, as they form connecting links 



