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village in the Himalayas, of about the end of the Gth century, which 

 gives the names of twelve kings of Singhapura, a small kingdom in the 

 Panjab mentioned by Hiuen Tsiang. The nest by the same editor, 

 Dr. Buhler of Vienna, is a careful transcript and translation of the 

 recently discovered twelfth Edict of Asoka at Shahbazgarhi. This 

 discovery happened thus : — In 1887, Dr. Burgess visited Yusafzai and 

 Hazara and took impressions of the great inscriptions in Baktrian Pali 

 of the Asoka edicts. When at Shahbazgarhi he looked carefully, in 

 company with Captain H. A. Deane, the Assistant Commissioner, for 

 the missing twelfth edict, making enquiry of the cattleherds for any 

 inscribed stones. Later in the year a heavy fall of rain washed the earth 

 from a stone, the mere crest of which was previously above the surface, 

 and laid bare a portion of the inscription. Captain Deane, on noticing 

 this, had the face of the stone laid bare and transmitted impressions to 

 Dr. Burgess, who had them photographed. M. E. Senart saw the 

 impression when visiting Dr. Burgess at Mathura, in January 1888, 

 and was so interested in the discovery that, having previously edited 

 the Asoka inscriptions so far as accessible, he arranged to visit Shah- 

 bazgarhi personally, and has given a second version of this edict, which 

 was first read to the Bombay Asiatic Society, and since to the Societe 

 Asiatique, with emendations and comments and an edition of the Mans era 

 version, which has just been issued separately as "Notes d'Wpigrapliie 

 lndierme." The fourth inscription in this publication is a long but sadly 

 mutilated prasasti from Dabhoi in Gujarat. Then follow three long 

 inscriptions from the Central Provinces, the stones being now in the ISTag- 

 pur Museum, edited by Professor Keilhorn from Dr. Burgess' im- 

 pressions. The part closes with a Rashtrakuta grant of Krishna II., 

 dated S'aka 832, by Dr. E. Hultzsch. 



Part II, will contain a copperplate grant of S'ri Harshavardhana, 

 and other papers of interest ; and a series of Arabic and Persian in- 

 scriptions will appear shortly. The great inscription mentioned by Dr. 

 Fitz Edward Hall (J. A. S. B., Vol. XXXI, pp. 6, 7), so long desiderated, 

 has been found by Dr. Burgess at Sicloni Ehurd, in the Lalitpur District. 

 It has been translated by Dr. Kielhorn, and will be published in the 

 new journal. The work will thus be valuable for the historian as a 

 standard work of reference. 



The volume on the Autiquities of Dabhoi (a?ic. Darbhavati), an- 

 nounced last year, has been carried through the press by Dr. Burgess, 

 for H. H. the Maharaja of Baroda. It is beautifully illustrated with 

 numerous photolithographs and photocollotypes, from the very careful 

 drawings by Mr. Cousens and his staff, and is produced in a style that 

 does credit to the liberality of an enlightened native priuoe. A much 



