PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



£DITED BY 



The Honorary Secretary. 

 No. X. DECEMBER, 1904. 



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

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Issued February 11th, 1905. 



