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Vol. LXXI. No. 2 of the Jouraal for 1903 is almost ready for 

 issue. 



The extra number is devoted to translations of extracts from the 

 Bengali poem Candi, by our late lamented Honorary Member, Professor 

 E, B. Cowell of Cambridge. The poem was composed by Mukunda 

 Ram Oakravarti, who lived during the latter half of the sixteenth and 

 the early part of the seventeenth century, and seems to have passed his 

 life in the districts of Bardwan and Midnapur. It is a picture of Ben- 

 gali village life as it actually existed in the sixteenth century, before 

 any European influences had begun to affect the national character, and 

 it is this vivid realism which gives such a permanent value to the des- 

 criptions. 



The papers published in the other numbers of Journal Part I 

 mostly deal with historical and linguistic matters. First of all, there 

 is a valuable account by Professor C. Bendall of the history of Nepal 

 and surrounding kingdoms from 1000-1600 A . D. It is based on materials 

 collected by Professor Bendall during his last journey to Nepal, which he 

 undertook in the cold weather of 1898-99, in the company of our Joint 

 Philological Secretary, Mahamahopadhyaya Hara Prasad Shastri, and 

 it will be repiinted as an introduction to the joint report on their dis- 

 coveries, to which we may look forward at an early date. Professor Ben- 

 dall collected a great number of colophons of MSS. furnishing historical 

 dates, and by the help of these as well as by the native chronicles in 

 the Maharaja's library, especially a palm-leaf MS. of a Vamaavali he 

 put together a very detailed record of the chronology of the kings, that 

 ruled over Nepal and adjacent countries from 1000 to 1600 A. D. Babu 

 Monmohan Chakravartti has done the same for the Eastern Ganga 

 kings of Kalinga, who ruled over Orissa from the 12th century A.D. 

 His materials generally consist in dated temple-inscriptions, of which 

 many are to be found in Orissa as well as in the country south of it, 

 now included in the Madras Presidency. The history of Western Bun- 

 delkhand has been described in an article by Mr. C. A. Silberrad, I.C.S. 

 It gives an English translation of a modern vernacular history, written 

 by Diwan Bijhe Bahadur Mazbut Singh, which is valuable on account 

 of the many local traditions to which it refers. 



As regards Muhammadan History in India, Mr. W. Irvine, late of 

 the Civil Service, has given us a further contribution on the Later 

 Mughuls, dealing with the events during Farrukhsiyar's reign from 

 March, 1713, to April 21st, 1716; while Dr. Eoss has published an ac- 

 count of Faqir Khair-ud-din Muhammad, the historian of Shah 'A lam. 



The history of the Licchavis of Vaisali forms the subject of an 

 article by Pandit Satisa Candra Vidyabhusana. The author's theory 



