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1 ' So-sor-thar-pa* ' is the title of a paper in which Mahamahopa- 

 dhyaya Dr. Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana gives the Tibetan text 

 with an English translation of a complete code of Tibetan monas- 

 tic laws, which will enable scholars to compare it with the code 

 prevailing in China as translated by Rev. Dr. Beal and that 

 contained in the Pali language as published by Drs. Rhys 

 Davids and Oldenberg in the Sacred Books of the East series. 

 The same writer gives in English an explanation of a Tibetan 

 scroll in the possession of Hon'ble Justice Sir John Woodroffe 

 under the title of " Subduing an Enemy by Charm." This 

 scroll contains pictorial representations of certain magical pro- 

 cesses adopted for the purpose. 



1 ' The Palas of Bengal ' ' is the title of a memoir in which 

 Babu Rakhal Das Banerji brings together all essential evi- 

 dences, epigraphical and bibliographical, published and un- 

 published, throwing light on an important epoch of the History 

 of Bengal, viz. the administration of the Pala Kings who 

 flourished from about 750 a.d. to the beginning of the 12th cen- 

 tury a. d. Under the title of " Four Forged Grants from F arid- 

 pur" the same writer defends, against Mr. Pargiter, his posi- 

 tion as to the spuriousness of four inscriptions, viz. two of 

 the time of Dharmaditya, one of the time of Gopa-candra 

 and another of the time of Samacara Deva. 



Babu Nanda Lai De in his " Notes on ancient Anga 

 gives an elaborate account, historical and traditional, of the 

 ancient kingdom of Anga, known to the Chinese pilgrims early in 

 the 5th century a.d. as the country of Campa and cerrespond- 

 ing to the modern Bhagalpur. A note on " Bodkamta Nartles- 

 vara Image Inscription" by Babu Nalini Kanta Bhattasali 

 gives a revised reading of an inscription published in the 

 Journal of the Asiatic Society for March 1914, and confirm^ 

 the conclusion that the country round Comilla was called 

 Samatata in ancient times. 



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Anthropology 



The most important publication of the year was Sir George 

 D. S. Dunbar's memoir on the Abors and Galongs, which com- 

 prises not only an exhaustive account of the customs of these 

 tribes, but a detailed description of their history and external 

 relations as well. The memoir throws a flood of light on the 

 little known regions of the Eastern Himalayas and is likely to 

 remain for a long time to come the standard work of reference 

 to the tribes in this portion of the Indian Empire. Messrs. 

 Kemp and Coggin Brown contribute an anthropometrical sup- 

 plement to the work. 



It is to be regretted that the map which was to accom- 

 nanv the memoir was not printed in time to be published with 



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