PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



EDITED BY 

 JhE JiONORARY jS ECRETARI ES. 



No. y, MAY, 1898. 



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 writing, and send them to the Asiatic Society at Calcutta, It will languish, 

 if such communications shall be long intermitted; and it will die away, if 

 they shall entirely cease."— Sir William Jones. 



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Issued 28th May, 1898. 



