66 Dr. T. Bloch. — Three new inscriptions from Oaya, [June, 



Professor Ren^ Zeiller, Ingenieur en clief des Mines, Membre de 

 r Insfcitut, is not only one of the leading palaeontologists of Europe but 

 lias made a special study of the glossopteris flora of South Africa, South 

 America, and of India, and was the first to establish the true character 

 of Vertehraria as the rhizome of glossopteris. 



It was announced that Mr. J. Gr. Lorimer had expressed a wish to 

 withdraw from the Society. 



The Secretary reported the death of Mr. E. E. Oliver, an Ordinary 

 Member of the Society. 



The President presented fo Babu Sarasi Lai Sarkar the Elliott 

 Gold Medal for his essay dealing witli the properties of recurring radix 

 fractions. 



The President announced that he had received an invitation from 

 the Director, Ecole Fran9aise d' Extreme-Orient, Saigon, to the Con- 

 gres International des Orientalistes at Hanoi in December 1902, and 

 gave further particulars. 



The Pliilological Secretary exhibited some drawings of the ruins 

 at Oaur and Panduab, in the District of Maldah. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Three new inscriptions from Gaya. — By Dr. T. Bloch. 



( Abstract.) 



Two of those Inscriptions belong to the time of Nayapala, that is 

 about 950 A.D. They mention Paritosa, S'udraka and Visvarupa, 

 father, son and grandson, local chiefs of considerable independence, 

 who are known to us already from two other Gaya inscriptions. They 

 built a number of temples at Gaya. One of those two new inscriptions 

 is now inside a small shrine in the compound of the Vishnupad Temple. 

 It says that Visvarupa adorned Gaya by temples of Gadadhara and 

 other deities. It is itnpossible to say to Avhich temple it refers ; it is 

 certainly not the present temple of Gadadhara, which, as all other 

 shrines at Gaya, is of much later date. Inside the modern Gadadhara 

 temple exists a duplicate of this inscription, at least the 2nd and 3rd 

 verses of both are identical. Unfortunately, the remaining portion of it 

 is now covered by a statue of Vishnu, and the owner of the temple does 

 not allow to remove it, in order to copy the whole inscription. As, 

 however, it opens with an invocation to the Sun-God, we may conclude 

 that it referred to the erection of a temple of that deity. 



