February, 1911.] Annual Report. xvii 
represents a quarter of a century’s progress in the study of an 
interesting and important dialect of North Behar. Supple- 
ments to the Punjabi Dictionary by Rev. Graham Bailey are an 
important contribution to our knowledge of the Punjabi dialect. 
Pandit Raghu Nath Svami gives an account o i 
work named Rasiapaasana by Vairocana. Pandit Venkatesh 
Vamana Sovani in his article entitled the ‘‘ Discovery of a lon 
metre in Prabodhacandrodaya’’ cites an instance of rhythmical 
Sanskrit prose supposed to have been invented to give expression 
to the sense of the sublime which cannot be expressed by 
ordinary verse or prose. Vijayadharma Suri, a learned Jaina 
priest, contributes a paper on his edition of the Yoga-Sastra as 
a rejoinder to the review of the same published by Dr. Ferdi- 
nando Belloni Fillipi in the Zeitshrift der Deutschen morgen- 
landischen Gesellschaft. In a Memoir Mahamahopadhyaya 
Haraprasad Sastri publishes a Sanskrit work called Rama-carita 
composed by poet Sandhyakara Nandi in the reign of Madana 
Pala: the workis important as it describes some incidents of the 
life of King Rama Pala of the Pala dynasty. 
There are also many useful and interesting contributions 
on historical topics. In an article entitled ‘‘ Reference to 
abylon in the Rigveda,’’ Mr. A. C. Sen cites several legends 
from the Vedas with their corresponding stories from the Zend 
Avesta to establish that the word Vamri used in the Rigveda 
stands for Babylon, as it is identical with the word Bawri o 
the Avesta and Bibli of Cuneiform inscriptions. Mahamaho- 
padhyaya Hara Prasad Sastri in his article on the origin of the 
Indian Drama gives a critical analysis of Natya Sastra by 
Bharata and asserts that the dramatic art of the Brahmanas 
began with the Indrayatra festival in the pre-Greek period. In 
his paper on the causes of the dismemberment of the Maurya 
mpire the same writer tries to show that the great empire of 
Asoka came to an end by the opposition of the Brahmanas 
who guided the policy of Pusyamitra. In a separate paper he 
observes that the verses which were taken by Dr. Rajendra Lal 
Mitra and Mr. Bendall as introductory to the Prajfiaparamita are 
really parts of a different work called Abhisamayalankara by 
Maitreyanatha. ‘‘ Maharaja Kanikalekha’’ is the title of a 
paper in which Mahamahopadhyaya Satis Chandra Vidyabhu- 
sana gives from Tibetan sources some accounts of King Kanish- 
padhyaya in another article entitled Yasovijaya Gani describes 
the life of a Jaina philosopher who in his numerous works has 
reserved a comprehensive review of Brahmanic logic as 
the 17th a oe “on 
the paper on the kingdom of Nya-khri-tsan-po, Kev. A. Franc 
sighari that shi capital of the first Tibetan king was 
situated in Ladakh and that the Tibetan script originated in 
