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Grammar, Lexicography and Prosody which have been recovered 

 from Tibetan sources. He shows that Indian works continued 

 to be translated into Tibetan, not only during the time of Bu-ston 

 in the fourteenth century A.D., but even as late as 1684 A.D. 

 when the Tibetan version of the Sarasvata Vyakarana and of 

 its commentary was prepared under the auspices of the Dalai 

 Lama Tsans-Dwyans-i?gya-Jitsho at Potala. 



Mr. Monmohan Chakravarti has contributed no less than 

 three long articles on Archaeological subjects to our Journal 

 during the year under review, the most important of which is 

 one on the Temples of Bengal and their general characteristics. 

 The article is copiously illustrated and throws considerable 



light on a subject which has hitherto only been lightly touched 



upon- The other articles deal respectively with certain 

 disputed or doubtful events in the History of Bengal during the 

 early Muhammadan period, and the city of Gaur and other 

 ancient sites in Bengal. In an article on 6< Certain disputed or 

 doubtful events in the History of Bengal, No. 2 " Babu 

 Monmohan Chakravarti controverts Major Raverty's assertions 

 that Muhammad-i-Bakht-Yar sacked Bihar and Nudiah in 589 

 H. and 590 H. respectively. As a fact these events seem to 

 have taken place after 593 H. In his "Notes on Gaur and 

 other old places in Bengal " the same writer discusses a number 

 of important problems connected with the political histon 

 of Bengal, especially with that of its five capitals, viz : 

 Lakhnauti, Pandua, Tanda, Rajmahl and Murshidabad during 



the Mahomedan rale 1200-1757 A.D. 



Mr. William Irvine gave us a final contribution of his most 

 valuable series of notes and observations on the Later Mughals. 



" The Malla-Yastika grant of Nandana " by Babu Para- 

 mesvar Dayal is a paper on a copper- plate inscription in Sans- 

 krit discovered in the district of Gya. The inscription which 

 is dated the year "232" (supposed by the writer to be of 

 the Gupta era) records the grant by a chieftain named Nanda- 

 na, of the village Malla Yastika, to a Brahman named Ravi- 

 Svamin of the Gargya Gotra and Yajurveda. In his article 

 on the " Mathura Inscriptions in the Indian Museum " Babu 

 Rakhaldas Banerjee reproduces mechanical facsimiles of the in- 

 scriptions and discusses their readings and translations as pub- 

 lished by Dr. Mitra, Professor Dawson, and Dr. Liiders. The 

 same writer in his paper on Saptagrama gives a systematic 

 account of the place from the period of its conquest by the 

 Mahomedans to the time of the Portuguese settlement. " In a 

 note added to the paper Dr. Bloch edits an Arabic inscription 

 left unnoticed by Dr. Blochmann, who published some time ago, 

 in the Journal of the Society, most of the Arabic and Persian 

 inscription that still exist at Saptagrama. 



Only one number of the Memoirs was published during the 

 year under review, namely, A Polyglot List of Birds in Turki, 



