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not older than the eleventh century a.d., although Dr. 

 Hoernle, who edited the manuscript for the first time in 1888, 

 assigned the date of its composition to the 3rd or 4th century 

 a.d. Babu Rakhal Das Banarji, in his article called "Lakhs- 

 mana Sena," agrees on epigraphical grounds with Dr. Kiel- 

 horn in maintaining that Laksmana Sena ascended the throne 

 of Bengal in 1119-20 a.d. and ceased to reign in 1170-71 

 a.d. Babu Manmohan Cliakravarti in an article on " Bhatta 

 Bhavadeva ' ' maintains that Bhavadeva, author of several well- 

 known works on Hindu social laws, was a Radhaya Brahmana 

 who flourished in West Bengal in the 11th century a.d. 



Mahamahopadhyaya Hara Prasad Shastri, c.i.e., in his 

 article on "The Visen Family of Majhawali" discusses 

 several theories on the origin of the Visen Kshatriyas and 

 identifies the founder of their family Visvasena, a Kshatriya Raja 

 of Benares. Pandit Anando Koul in an article on " The His- 

 tory of Kasmira " gives , on the authority of Hasan, a Persian 

 Historian, an account of eight kings who are said to have 

 reigned in Kasmira from 191 a.d. to 521 a.d., but whose names 

 do not appear in the Rajtarangini. 



" Sri-pa-ho—a, Tibeto-Chinese tortoise chart of divination" 

 is the title of a memoir in which Mahamahopadhyaya Dr. 

 Satish Chandra Yidyabhusan, after pointing out the venera- 

 tion in which the chart is held by the Tibetans, who hang it 

 on their walls and doorframes to keep off evil spirits, traces its 

 history from its introduction into Tibet from China in 639 a.d. 

 to its development in its present form by the Fifth Dalai 

 Lama in the 1 8th century a.d. In a paper headed " Tibetan 

 M.S. vocabularies by Capuchins," Rev. Father Felix gives 

 an account of a Tibeto-Italian Dictionary supposed to have 

 been written by Father Francesco Orazio Delia Penna about 

 1/38 a.d. ana presented to the Bishop's College, Calcutta, 

 in 1824 a.d. The same Father in his paper " On the Per- 

 sian Firmans granted to Jesuits by the Moghul Emperors, 

 and Tibetan and Newari Farmans granted to the Capuchin 

 Missionaries in Tibet and Nepal," describes briefly some Tibet- 

 an and Newari documents unearthed from the missionary 

 archives at Agra, two of which bearing the seals of the Dalai 

 Lama and his Regent, and dated respectively 1741 and 1751 

 a.d., are supposed to have been used as passports by Capu- 

 chin Missionaries for the purpose of preaching Christianity in 

 licet. Similar documents engraved on copper-plates and con- 

 ferring further privileges on the aforesaid missionaries were 

 received from Jayaranjit MaUadeva and Jayaprokxsa Malla- 

 deva, of Nepal, in 1737 and 1740 a.d. respectively. All 



such documents are bound to prove of great value to anti- 

 quarian scholars. 



In an article entitled ' « The Pitt-Diamond and the eyes of 

 •Jagannatti," Father Hosten recounts the storv which charges 



