February, 1914.] Annual Address. 



XXV 



Lately, I regret to say, we have had to postpone the publication 

 of further works for a period of at least one year, through want 

 of the necessary money. This is a point which I greatly re- 

 gret. It is very disappointing, especially to those who have 



onous 



remuner- 



ation and out of a pure love for learning— to find that the 

 results of their labours cannot, for want of funds, be placed at 

 the disposal of scholars in other parts of the world. 



The building of the new premises for the Society has not 

 yet been taken in hand. We will all be sorry to leave these 

 historic rooms which are associated with the work of so manv 

 great scholars, but I am told this building is beyond the possi- 

 bility of adequate repair and at the same time I realize that we 

 must provide a house befitting the dignity of the Society, with 

 an up-to-date library in which to keep the valuable collection 

 of books and manuscripts which we now possess. I hope that 

 it may be possible to make a beginning before next year. It 

 was decided by the Building Committee in June last year to 

 apply to the Government for permission to sell or lease a part 

 of our garden, and it was decided also to write to the Mining 

 and Geological Institute in India regarding their former offer 

 to contribute a lump sum for accommodation in the Society's 

 buildings. As soon as these points have been settled, the 

 Building Committee will get to work. 



I now turn to the literary and scientific work done by the 

 Society and its members during the year. Professor Olden- 

 burg whom we had the honour to welcome in our city last year, 

 an Honorary Fellow of this Society, read " A note on Budd- 

 hism " in January 1913, which gave in a short compass an in- 

 teresting review of the Buddhistic researches made in Europe 

 and eventually in Asia during the last thirty years. After pay- 

 ing a tribute to our Society the erudite Profe-or discussed the 

 relative priority of the Northern and Southern schools of 

 Buddhism and arrived at the conclusion that the Southern 

 type, as embodied in the Pali literature, is the older one, and 

 that the Philosophical thought common to both has been evol- 

 ved out of the Upanishad portion of the Vedic literature. Mr. 

 K. P. Jayaswal, in his article on " The date of Asoka\< Coro- 

 nation "places on the evidence of the thirteenth rock edict, 

 the coronation in the year 272 B.C. and Chandra Gupta s 

 accession to the throne of Magadha in 324-25 B.C. In an 

 article entitled " The plays of Bhasa and King Darsaka of 

 Magadha " the same writer maintains on the authority of the 



Darsaka 



a 



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successor to Ajatasatru, was an historical personage appearm 

 in the Pali chronicle under the name of Naga-Dasaka 



Mr. C. R. Kaye, in an article on the " Bakshah Manu- 

 scripts • ' examining the manuscript in question from the stand- 

 point of a mathematician and philologist, concludes that it is 



