February, 1905. | Annual Report. 
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 The came to Budh Gaya, with a stone chamber about 
14 or 15 lifrom the Bodhi tree in the range of hills called by 
General Cunningham, Pragbodhi mountain. The chamber, says 
the writer, had never before been visited by an antiquarian. 
The late lamented Dr. C. R. Wilson identified Sandanes of the 
Periplus with Sundara Satakarni of the Puranas and placed his 
short reign between 83 and 84 A.D. 
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 S’ailodbhava dynasty of Kalinga, with 
seven kings. This dynasty was already known from the Baguda 
plates explained by Dr. Kielhorn. 
Mr. W. N. Edwards and Mr. H. H. Mann described some 
interesting fortifications situated just over the boundary line of 
British territory in the independent Daphla country and gave the 
local traditions connected with them. ‘These traditions reach back 
to the 13th century of the Christian era. 
Babu Monmohan Chakravarti’s paper on the Chronology of 
the Hastern Gayga kings of Orissa has already been referred to in the 
last Annual Report. It is a scholarly paper giving a collected history 
of these kings from the 11th century to the 15th century based 
upon inscriptions. The author says, “ Their history (7.e. of the 
kings of the Ganga dynasty) now rests on surer grounds than the 
unreliable traditions embodied in the Madala Panji.” 
The works of the genealogists or ghatakas of Bengal have never 
been explored by Oriental scholars, yet they embody valuable in- 
formation about the great races inhabiting Hastern India from the 
7th century downwar ds. For this reason we welcome Pundit 
Yogesa Chandra S’astree’s paper on the Kap section of the Varendra 
class of Brahmans, though short, as the beginning of an important 
line of research. 
Coming down to Mahommedan history, Mr. Beveridge has 
eriticised General. Maclagan’s paper on the Jesuit Mission to the 
Emperor Akbar published in our Journal for 1896, p. 38, and a 
portion of Dr. Wise’s paper on the “ Bara Bhityas of Hastern 
Bengal” published in our Journal for 1874. In the former the 
writer expatiated on certain chapters of the Ain-i-Akbari dealing 
with the position of Akbar as a founder of a religion; and in the 
latter the author gave much valuable additional information about 
Isa Khan, one of the twelve Bhiyas. Myr. W. Irvine’s monograph 
on the Later Mughals is continued. Mr. J. F. Fanthome’s paper 
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