February, 1905. ] Annual Report. 
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papers published in these numbers are of historical and linguistic 
value and ranged from the 6th century B.C. to the 19th century 
and from the Hastern extremity of Assam to the Western, pro- 
vinces of the Indian Empire. 
Taking the papers chronologically :—Babu Parmeshwar Doyal 
identified the Pragbodhi cave, where Buddha sat in meditation for 
some time before he came to Budh Gaya, with a stone chamber about 
14 or 15 li from the Bodhi tree in the range of hills called by 
General Cunningham, Prigbodhi mountain. The chamber, says 
the writer, had never before been visited by an antiquarian. 
he late lamented Dr. C. R. Wilson identified Sandanes of the 
Periplus with Sundara Satakarai of the Puranas and placed his 
short reign between 83 an A.D. or 
Babu Gangamohan Laskar, a research scholar, has deciphered 
_ three copper-plates from Khurda written in what is called the 
Kutila variety of the Nagari character and placed the donor of the 
grant before the latter half of the 7th century. These plates give 
Some information about the Sailodbhava dynasty of Kalinga, with 
Seven kings, is dynasty was already known from the Baguda 
plates explained by Dr. Kielhorn. x 
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_ _, Coming down to Mahommedan history, Mr. Beveridge 
_ Gtiticised General Maclagan’s paper on the Jesuit Mission to the 
oe Emperor Akbar published in our Journal for 1896, p. 38, and a 
_ Portion of Dr. Wise’s paper on the “Bara Bhiyas of Eastern | 
engal” published in our Journal for 1874. In the former the 
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© the Later Mughals is continued. Mr. J. F. Fanthome’s paper 
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