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the vigour with which the operations of the Archaeological Surveys have 

 been conducted all over Iudia,and the increasing care and attention given 

 to the preservation of the monuments of the past by local Governments. 



Publications. The Indian Antiquary continues, as hitherto, facile 

 princeps among Indian Archaeological Journals. The year's issue is 

 especially distinguished by the numerous valuable contributions by Mr. 

 J. F. Fleet, Prof. Kielhorn, Pandit Sh. B. Dikshit, on various difficult 

 or still unsolved problems connected with the calculation of Hindu 

 dates and eras, such as the Twelve-year cycle of Jupiter, and the Gupta, 

 S'aka, Kalachuri and Newar eras. I may specially notice Prof. Jacobi's 

 elaborate paper on methods and tables for verifying Hindu dates, tithis, 

 eclipses, nakshatras etc. which occupies the whole of the June issue, and 

 will be welcomed by all who may have occasion to verify the dates of 

 ancient documents. Mr. Fleet and Professors Buhler and Kielhorn, also, 

 give us a continuation of their readings of Sanskrit Inscriptions ;. and 

 Mr. H. H. Howorth of his history of " Chingis Khan and his ancestors." 

 Dr. A. F. Rudolf Hoernle gives " an account of the Bakhshali Manuscript, 

 with extracts and translations " from it ; and Mr. E. Rehatsek of the 

 " Z afarndmah-i-Ranjit Singh, of Kanhayya Lai." Capt. J. S. King con- 

 tributes a paper on " the Story of the murder of Ali 'Adil Shah I. of 

 Bijapur." The Rev. T. Foulkes gives an account of the " Vicissitudes of 

 the Buddhist literature of Ceylon," and Dr. Edkins of " Confucius and his 

 Mission." In addition we receive instalments of republications and papers 

 published elsewhere by Professor Weber, on " the Literature of transla- 

 tions of the Jains," and by Mr. Senart on " the Inscriptions of Piyadasi," 



A new Journal, which promises to become in one respect a 

 formidable rival of the Indian Antiquary , is the " Epigraphia Indica 

 and Record of the Archaeological Survey." It is edited by Dr. Jas. 

 Burgess, C. I. E., the indefatigable Director of the Archaeological 

 Survey of India, with the assistance of Professors Buhler and Kielhorn, 

 Dr. Hultzsch and other linguistic scholars, whose names are a gua- 

 rantee for the trustworthiness and success of the new serial. It is 

 to be issued in parts of about 56 pages each — four in the year — and will 

 form really a continuation of the " Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum" 

 of which Sir. A. Cunningham issued Vol. I. some years ago, and Vol. 

 Ill is under preparation by Mr. Fleet. 



Part I. has been recently issued, and Part II. is ready for issue. 

 In a short introductory note the Editor states briefly the importance 

 of epigraphical research in its bearing on Indian history and antiqui- 

 ties. The first inscription is a copper-plate grant of the Pallava 

 king S'ivaskandavarman of about the 4th century, which is philo- 

 logically of great importance. The second is a prasasti from, a 



