140 International Congress of OrienMUst.t, Paris. [Nov.^ 



Saturday, 11th September. 



TJie last meeting of the Section took place on Saturday morninir. 



Professor Rhys Davids commenced by discussing the alleged 



persecutions of Indian Buddhists by the Brahmans, and came 



to the conclusion that they were not proved. He incidentally 



discussed the meaning of the " anagata-bhayani " of the 



Bhabra Edict of Asoka. 



M. Sylvain Levi laid on the table papers by Mahamahopndhyaya 



Malie9acandra Nyayaratna, Mr. P. C. Mukhei-jee, and Pandit 



Haraprasad (Jastri. Tliey were accepted with a vote of tluinks 



*' a ces collaborateurs lointalns." 



M. Senart then laid on tlie table a paper by Dr. Hoernle, CLE,, 



on ancient MSS. lately discovered in Central Asia. He laid 



stress on the importance of the MSS., and on the interesting 



character of the paper.* 



There followed a vote of thanks to the University of Lyons for 



publishing the Bharatiya-natya-pastra in its " Annales." 

 The Section then closed its sittings with a vote of thanks to the 



President. 

 5. For the sake of completeness, I take the liberty of extract- 

 ing the following notice of the principal papers read in the other 

 Sections, of which I was not a member, from the excellent report given 

 in the Athenmum : — 



" In Section lb. (Iran) far less work was to be done. A paper of 

 Mr. A. W. Jackson may be mentioned, following out Darmesteter's idea 

 of the connexion between the Indian epics and the early Persian 

 legends. 



In Section Ha. (China, &c.), may be noticed M. Deveria's paper on 

 the Manichasans in China. M. Boell also made some notes on the Lolo 

 script. 



In Section lib. (Indo-China) M. Aymonier's paper on King Ya9o- 

 varman and M. Feer's notes on illustrations of the Jatakas in Siam 

 deserve mention. 



In the far larger Section III. {langues musulmanes), presided over 

 by Prof, de Goeje, the proceedings commenced by a paper proposing 

 a new derivation of the word zenrJik from the Aramaic zadlq. The 

 prominent feature of the section's sittings was, however, the announce- 

 ment by Prof. Groldziher of a detailed project for the revival of the 

 great encyclopaedia of Islam originally conceived by the late Professor 

 Robertson Smith. The President communicated notes on two MSS. of 



* This paper Is published in the Society's Journal, Part I, for 1897^ No. 4. 



