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Literature have been made in our own Bibliotheca Indica. Of the Shes- 

 rab-kyi-pha-rol-tu-phyin-pa (commonly called Sher-chin) or the S'atasd- 

 hasriha Prajnapdramitd, Babu. Pratapachandra Grhosa has now published 

 a second fasciculus ; and of the i?togs-&rjorZ-^pag-&sam-7ikhri-sin (or 

 shortly Pag-sam-khri-sih) or the Avaddnakalpalatd, edited by Babu 

 Saratchandra Das, the first fasciculus has just been issued. An especially 

 important feature in the latter edition is that it gives side by side the 

 original Sanskrit text of the work and its Tibetan translation. It is much 

 to be regretted that we have not been able to follow the same plan in 

 the case of another important Buddhist work, the Nydyabindu Tiled, 

 of Dharmottara Acharya. A manuscript of this work was discovered, 

 some time ago, by Professor Peterson in the temple of Santinath, in 

 Cambay.* His offer to edit it for the Society was gladly accepted ; 

 and it was at first intended to publish the text of the Tibetan translation 

 by the side of the Sanskrit original. But failing to obtain a copy of the 

 translation, it was resolved no longer to defer the publication of the 

 Sanskrit original. It is now in the press, and it is hoped that the first 

 fasciculus will appear before long. Quite recently Professor Peterson 

 has succeeded in obtaining a copy of the text, as well as another copy 

 of the tika, so that there will be no difficulty in ensuring a good text. 

 Perhaps I may best notice in this connection two other Buddhist Sanskrit 

 works. One is the Svayambhu Purdna which is being prepared for pub- 

 lication in the Bibliotheca Indica by Pandit Hara Prasada S'astri, from 

 MSS. in the Society's and the Cambridge University's Libraries. The 

 other is the " AshtasdhasriJca Prajiiap>dramitd," the edition of which has 

 now been completed by Raja Rajendralala Mitra. 



Numismatics. 

 A very large number of coins, amounting to upwards of four 

 thousand specimens, have during the year been examined and re- 

 ported on by Dr. Hoernle, our Philological Secretary. Most of the 

 coins found in Northern India are, under the provisions of the Treasure 

 Trove Act (VI of 1878), forwarded to the Society for examination 

 and distribution to the principal Museums of India ; and the detailed 

 reports on them are regularly published in the Proceedings of the Society. 

 The total number of coins thus reported on was 2,460. They belonged to 

 coin-troves found at various dates in Jabalpur, Shahpur (Panjab), 

 Sialkot, Sarun (Bihar), Rohtak, Rawal Pindi, Bijnour (N.-W. Prov.), 

 Wardha (Cent. Prov.), Hoshangabad. Among them were 456 gold, 786 

 silver, 83 mixed silver and gold, 1,130 mixed silver and copper, and 5 



* Journ. Bo. B. R. A. S., Vol. XVIII, No. XLV, (Extra Number) p. 33. 



