


February, 1908. | Annual Report. xiii 
Lama of Lhasa are supposed to be in the old Uigur form of the 
Mongolian character, derived from the Syriac, and introduced 
by Nestorian Missionaries. The Rev. H. Francke, in his papers 
on “ The Paladins of the Kesar Saga,’ * narrates several folk-tales 
from Tibetan sources, current in Lower Ladakh, or in Western 
Tibet. Rai Sarat Chandra Das, Bahadu ur, C 1.E., in his paper on 
“A Written Language in Mongolia,” shows that writing was intro- 
duced into Mongolia in the 13th century A.D., by Sakya Pandita 
of Western Tibet, during the reign of Gutan, the grandson of 
Chinghis Khan; and in his ‘ Notices of Orissa in the Early Records 
of Tibet” the Rai Bahadur mentions several Buddhist authors that 
flourished in Orissa, Mahamahopadhyaya Satis Spat Vidya- 
usana, in his three papers on ‘‘ Indian Logic as preserved 
in Tibet, ” notices the Tibetan versions of seventy- coat Buddhist 
works on logic, written in Sanskrit; these, with two exceptions, no 
longer existin India nor in Nepal. The Mahamahopadhyaya, dur- 
ing his recent visit to the Tibetan monasteries of Labrang an 
Phodang, in Sikkim, examined a few valuable historical works on 
Indian Philosophy, a short account of which is embodied in his 
paper on “The § hya Philosophy in the land of the Lamas. 
sula,” ey Babu Rakhal Das Banerji. The paper gives an 
account of five seals containing impressions of Buddha, Lokes- 
vara, Avalokitesvara, and Tara, with the well-known formula “ Ye 
dharma, "etc. Dr. Annandale, who brought these seals from the 
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avdan ‘the sommes activity of the “ Labbies ” and their 
ancestors, 
There is also a series of interesting papers on India proper. 
Babu Bhaves Chandra Banerji, in his “Notes on the Vedic 
Sacrifices,” observes that sacrifice was the only religious rite 
practised by the Vedic Aryans. He divides sacrifices into seve! : 
classes, and holds that in the earliest times the Aryans used t 
