2 Proposed sale of the Society's Premises. [January, 



The President announced that he had received four essays in com- 

 petition for the Elliott Prize for Scientific Research for the year 1901. 



The question of disposing of the Society's premises, of which inti- 

 mation had already been given by circular to all resident Members in 

 accordance with Rule 64A, was brought up for discussion. 



The Meeting considered the Report of the Sub-Committee and 

 decided that the matter be referred back to the Sub-Committee with 

 the request to frame an estimate of the probable cost of acquiring a 

 new site and erecting a new building with and without accommoda- 

 tion for a Secretary in a suitable neighbourhood, and also to take 

 such steps as might seem sufficient to ascertain definitely what sum 

 is likely to be received by the sale of the present house and site. 



Proposed by the Hon'ble Mr. C. W. Bolton, C.S.I., and seconded 

 by Captain L. Rogers, I.M.S., and carried. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On Trilokanatha in the Kar/da Valley. — By J. Ph. Vogel, LL.D. 

 (Abstract.) 



The writer himself gives the substance of his paper in the follow- 

 ing terms : — 



" The substance of the present paper may be briefly stated thus : 

 That in the Candrabhaga Valley and also in the southern side of the 

 mid-Himalayan Range on the Upper Bias, Trilokanatha is the name 

 by which the Bodhisattva Avolokite^vara is indicated, while along the 

 lower course of the Bias river the same name is assigned to ^iva 

 represented either as a linga or as a five-faced statue which in its 

 attributes shows a marked resemblance to some of Avalokita's images." 



Remarks : — Avalokita's attributes resemble those of Visnu of the 

 Hindu Pantheon, the preserver of the Universe, one who is all good. 

 In Patan, Nepal, he is often the same as the Sun God without the 

 horses and the chariot. At Vaidyanatha an image of this deity is 

 worshipped as Suryanarayana. 



2. On the Secret Words of the CulUas. — By The Revd. T. G. Bailey, 

 M.A. 



(Abstract). 



This is a very interesting paper on the tribe of hereditary thieves and 

 cattle poisoners of the Punjab. They poison cattle because they eat the 

 carcass. Each company of puluas has one cattle-poisoner, who charges 

 six or eight annas for poisoning a suitable animal. They kill cows and 

 bullalos with balls of poison, — white, black, and green, — but horses do not 



