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may, I think, on this double authority, take these two statements to be 

 established facts. 



The only difference between the two legends is this, that the Hugli 

 legend refers the whole to the reign of Husain Shah, i. e. about thirty or 

 forty years later. 



The history was written by Shaikh Pir Muhammad Shattari in 104J2, 

 or A. D. 1633, during the reign of Shahjahan. 



Mr. Damant's essay and the text of the MS. will appear in No. III. of 

 Pt. I. of the Journal for this year. 



2. On the Temjple of J ay sa gar, Tipper Asdm. — By J. M. Fostee, 

 F. S. A., JSFdzirah, A'sdm, • 



(Abstract.) 



This paper is accompanied with two photographs of the Jaysagar 

 Temple, several plans, and plates of the architectural ornaments. The 

 temple was built by Rudra Singh, alias Chuckungpha, in memory of the 

 heroic death of his mother. Rudra Singh, whose father Ghadhadhar 

 Singh had been the last Buddhistic king of Asam, adopted the Hindu 

 faith from the commencement of his reign in 1695, A. D. 



Mr. Foster's essay with several plates will be published in Journal, Pt. 

 I., No. IV., for 1874. 



Mr. Blochmann drew the attention of the members to some of the 

 architectural ornaments, many of which were Muhammadan in design, 

 especially the winged fairies in Course F., and the fairy on horseback, 

 which looked exactly like the pictures he had seen in MSS. of the Prophet 

 when sitting on the ' Buraq' and ascending to heaven. 



3. On the Supposed Identity of the Greehs with the Yavanas of the 

 Sanskrit Writers. — By Ra'jendrala'la Mitea. 



(Abstract.) 

 The author reviews the opinions of various Sanskrit scholars on the 

 the meaning of the word * Yavana.' Whilst several of them attribute to it, 

 more or less distinctly, the meaning of ' western foreigners,' Dr. Kern in 

 his preface to the Brihat Sanhita maintains that ' Yavana' signifies ' a Greek 

 and a Greek only.' It is, therefore, necessary that the whole question 

 should be re-examined. For this purpose, the writer has collected 

 passages from the Egyptian, Hebrew, Assyrian, and pre-elassic Greek, where 

 the forms Uinim, Javan, Javnan, and Ionian occur, and he shews that 

 in these passages, as also in the lo legend, the word ' Ionian' refers to a 

 mixed population or ' ancient Eurasians'. He then enumerates the passages 

 from Panini, Manu, the Mahabharata, Vishnu Purana, the Vis'wamitra 

 legend in the Ramayana, Kama Parva, and many other Sanskrit works, 

 where the Yavanas are mentioned. He also discusses the similar passages 



