XViii Annual Report. [February, 1911. 
Turkestan. The same writer, in a paper entitled Ladvags-rgyal- 
rabs, relates the history of the kings of Ladakh, supplementing 
-in many imporiant particulars the brief account given by Dr. 
Schlagintweit in ‘‘ Die Kénig von Tibet.’’ The article called 
‘* Buddhist legends of Asoka and his times’’ by Pandit Laksh- 
man Sastri with a prefatory note by Mr. H. C. Norman repro- 
duces the Pali story of how Asoka found the Buddhass relics 
and distributed them over India. In his article on the history 
of Kashmire, Pandit Anand Koul restores from Hasan’s Per- 
sian history an account of thirty-five Kashmirian kings who are 
not mentioned in the Rajatarangini. 
Babu Rakhal Das Banerji has contributed several papers 
on inscriptions, one of which deposited in the Indian Museum 
and dated 436 A.D. records the dedication of a certain object 
to Mahadeva by a minister of king Kumara Gupta I, while ~ 
another recovered from Natore in Northern Benga! and dated — 
432 A.D., though badly corroded, is of great interest as it seems — 
to be the earliest’ copperplate grant known to us. ‘‘The- 
Madhainagar Grant of Lakshman Sena” published by the writer 
proves that the Sena kings of Bengal belonged to the clan of 
the Karnata-Ksatriyas and had matrimonial connection with 
the Chalukyas. The same writer in a puper entitled the ‘‘ Dis- 
covery of seven new-dated records’’ notices seven short inscrip- 
um. 
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