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books, who interposed to prevent the resort to arms and divided the relics 

 of Buddha to the seven claimants. 



Babu Nandalal Dey visited the Kalnha hill in the Hazaribagh district 

 on the 21st April 1890. With the sole exception of the image of Kule^vari 

 he found the images at the place to be all Buddhistic, and so he suspects 

 that the place is the Makulaparbata of the Burmese Buddhist annals. 

 The place has subsequently been visited by Dr. Stein and he confirms 

 the statements of the Babu. 



In the district of Jessore there is a place named faila kupa, 

 where there is an old mosque which Maulvi Abdul Wali, the Sub-Regis- 

 tar of the place, has identified with a masjid erected by the great Musal- 

 man Sultan of Bengal, Alauddin Husain Shah, at the request of Huzrat 

 Maulana Muhamad 'Arab, a holy man who flourished at his time. The 

 work was commenced by Husain Shah's son, N^asir Shah, — who subse- 

 quently became King of Bengal. 



Mr. E. D. Maclagan, C.S., of Multan, has succeeded in identifying 

 many of the places mentioned in the account of Multan Sarkar in the 

 third book of the Ain-i-Akbari. He has also succeeded in proving that 

 the rivers Indus and Chenab did not then flow in their present channels. 



Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri read three papers on the 

 history of the re-organization of the Caste System in Bengal under the 

 greatest of its Hindu kings, namely, Vallala Sena. His authorities are 

 two copies of Vallala-carita, copied in 1707 and 1791. He has proved that 

 the work contains a genuine history of the administration of Vallala Sena 

 and he has discovered that the Acaryyas of Bengal, the astrologers, 

 diviners, and pacifiers of planetary deities, though they pass at present as 

 Brahmanas, are none else than the Magi, or the descendants of the Median 

 and Persian priesthood. 



From Vallala-carita Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri has 

 shown that the present low position of the wealthy and influential caste 

 of Sonar banias in Bengal is owing to the fact that they were Buddhists, 

 they ridiculed the Brahmanas, they joined the Buddhist Pala kings 

 against Vallala and they were connected with the Palas by marriage 

 also. Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri has shown from the 

 same authentic source that the Kaivarthus, so influential in the 

 district of Rajshahi, were once the lords of North Bengal, that they 

 headed a successful rebellion against the Palas, that when worsted they 

 joined Vallala, who raised their status in the Hindu society and gave 

 them the governorship of South Bengal, where in the sub-divisions of 

 Ulubaria, Tamluk, and Kontai they are still very influential. 



Mahamfihopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri's papers have appeared 

 in the Proceedings. 



