80 Hara Prasad fastri — A supplement to the Amarakosa. [April, 1900.] 



Puruflofctama, the Author of the supplement, has not only retained 

 <he an^ngement, the division of chapters, &c., of Amara but has also 

 followed his order of words, adding new synonyms where necessary and 

 putting in new words and sets of synonyms where, had these been in 

 use, Amara would have put thera. Amara makes a distinction between 

 Buddha and pakyamuni the former meaning a hypothetical being and 

 the latter the great reformer of the sixth century B.C. Of the first 

 Amara gives 18 synonyms and Purusottaraa adds 37 new names. 

 Amara gives only four names of Buddha of the sixth century B.C. 

 Purusottamaadds four more, Savarthasiddha, Maha9ramana, Kulipasaua, 

 and Gopeya. fle adds the names of the members of Gautama's family 

 such as Yo9omati, Rahula, Devadatta and so ou. He also adds the name 

 of Avalokite9vara and gives many synonyms, one of which is Padmapani. 

 In the names of the Suugod Purusottama adds new words one of which 

 is Padmapani. This will explain the fact that the figures of Avalokite- 

 9vara and of the Suxigod are often confounded. Both have almost the 

 same figure in Nepal. In Bengal too 1 have seen images of Avalokite- 

 9vara worshipped as the Sun by Hindus in shrines which are undoubtedly 

 Buddhistic. My only regret is that we have got only four-leaves. 1 

 propose to publish these leaves with notes in the Journal. 



5. Note on a method of detecting free Phosphorus. — By P. B. 

 Muk'^ji, B.Sc, Professor of Chemistry, Presidency College, Calcutta. 

 Communicated hy Mr. A. Pedler, F.R.S. 



The paper will be published in the Journal, Part II. 



