118 Ball — On Stone Implements from Chota-Nagpur. [June, 



Duncan of A'grah, wrote a book entitled 'Imarat-ul-Akbar, j^\ &[?**, 

 on all the buildings of the reign of the emperor Akbar, wherein he gives a 

 detailed account of the edifices which were then to be seen at A'grah. 



' Although this book was written at the same time when Sil Chand 

 wrote his c>)U*Jl fij&, I do not know, how Sil Chanel's book was approved 

 of by Government and made public, and that of the other man, rejected. 



' It seems that Sil Chand had given the measurement of all the 

 lands in A'grah in bighahs and biswas, which was the only thing Govern- 

 ment wanted to know ; hence his work was approved. 



' I am quite sure, the Asiatic Society has never seen the work written 

 by Chhitar Mai. It is certainly a most valuable work, and the Society 

 should keep a copy of it ; and if it be translated by you into English, 

 it would make a most splendid work. 



' This book was fortunately brought to me by a friend and I now send 

 it to you by book post, so that the Society may take a copy of it, and return 

 it to me as soon as possible, as I myself wish to take a copy of the same, 

 and return it to its owner.' 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On some Stone Implements oftlie Barmese type, found in JPargana 

 Dalbhum ; District of Singbhum, Chota-Nagpur Division. — By V. Ball, 

 M. A., F. G. S. 



Prom time to time I have laid before the Society* specimens of more 

 or less well-formed stone implements from Chota Nagpur. With one excep- 

 tion these, whether flakes or of the chipped axe shape, would, I suppose, by 

 those who employ the term, be classified as paleolithic. On the present oc- 

 casion, "however, I am enabled to exhibit some of a completely different char- 

 acter, one in fact, which in this part of the world at least, has been found to 

 belong exclusively to the stone implements from Barma and the adjoining 

 countries. 



The history of this discovery is as follows : When passing through 

 the station of Chaibassa last November, Mr. Eitchie, the Superintendent 

 of Police gave me the larger specimen and promised to get for me some others 

 of which he had heard and also, as far as possible, to trace out the facts con- 

 nected with their discovery. Subsequently, in January, he forwarded to me 

 the two other implements and the following mythical account of their origin 

 which he received from the natives. 



The large adze was found " about two years ago by one Baidonath 

 Perdan of the village of Kyma Pattra (on the west side of the S ubanrika 

 river and not far from that river) in his sugarcane field embedded in the 



* P. A. S. B. 1865, p. 127 ; 1867, p. 143 ; 1868, p. 177 ; 1870, p. 268 ; 1874, p. 96. 



