General Meeting. [February, 1905. 
Other Members of Council. 
The Hon. Mr. Justice F. E. Pargiter, B.A., I.C.S. 
Kumar Ramessur Maliah. 
I. H. Burkill, Esq., M.A. 
H. E. Kempthorne, Esq. 
~ W. D. Dods, Esq. 
The Hon. Mr. A. Earle, 1.C.8. 
Lt.-Col. J. H. Tull Walsh, 1.M.S..- 
_R. O. Lees, Esq. 
H. H. Hayden, Esq., B.A., F.G.S. 
E. Thornton, Esq., F.R.I.B.A. 
The Meeting was then resolved into the Ordinary. General 
Meeting. 
His Excettency Lorp Curzon, G.M.S.1., G.M.1.E., Patron, 
in the chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
Thirty-six presentations were announced. 
Mr. J. De Grey Downing and Captain G. W. Megaw, I.M.S., 
were ballotted for and elected Ordinary Members. 
_ It was announced that Mr. B. C. Sen and Rai Lakshisankar 
Misra Bahadur had expressed a wish to withdraw from the Society. 
The President announced that Mr. P. R. Bramley, Babu Gopal 
Chandra Chatterjee and Mr. Mahammad Rafiq elected members of 
the Society on 3rd February, Ist June and 6th July 1904, respectively, 
not having paid their entrance fees, their election have become null 
and void under Rule 9, and that the election of Rey. S. Endle has 
been cancelled at his own request. 
- The General Secretary exhibited two photographs of the 
stone image of Buddha forwarded by the Commissioner of the 
Chittagong Division, and read the following note on it prepared 
by Pandit Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana :— 
This image represents Buddha sitting on Padmdasana or 
lotus-seat which is defined as a particular posture in religious 
meditation in which the devotee sits with the thighs crossed, with 
one hand resting on the left thigh, the other held up with the 
thumb bent towards the heart, and the eyes directed towards the 
tip of the nose. 
The image, which is a specimen of neither the Indo-Greek, 
Indo-Scythian or Dravidian sculpture, is the representation of an 
Arakanese Buddha which differs a little from the Buddhas of 
Burma proper. The image must have been prepared about the 
year 1560 A.D., when Chittagong was completely conquered by the 
Arakanese and was made a province of Arakan. Chittagong 
remained a province of Arakan up to 1666 A.D., when it was 
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