PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For April, i 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was 

 held on Wednesday, the 4)th April, 1883, at 9-15 p. m. 

 The Hon'ble J. Gibbs, Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The following presentations were announced : — 



1. From the Hon'ble Rao Saheb Visvanath Narayan Mandlik, — Ca- 

 talogue of Manuscripts and Books belonging to the Bhau Daji Memorial. 



2. From the St. Xavier's College Observatory, — Observations taken 

 from July to December, 1882. 



3. From the Translator, through W. A. Clouston, Esq., — Persian 

 Poetry for English Readers, being specimens of six of the greatest classi- 

 cal poets of Persia : Ferdusi, Nizami, Sadi, Jelal-ad-din Riimi, Hafiz, and 

 Jami. With Biographical Notices and Notes, by S. Robinson. 



4. Prom the Authors, —(1) Indische Essays, by Nisikanta Chatto- 

 padhyaya ; (2) The Yatras ; or, the popular Dramas of Bengal, by Nisi- 

 kanta Chattopadhyaya ; (3) Note on the Pali Grammarian Kachchayana, 

 by Lieut. -Col. G. E. Fryer, with some remarks by Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle; 

 (4) A Grammar of the Classical Arabic Language, translated and compiled 

 from the works of the most approved or naturalized authors. Vol. I, by 

 M. S. Howell ; (5) Der Buddhismus in seiner Psychologic, by A. Bastian ; 

 (6) Remarks on certain dates occurring on the coins of the Hindu kings 

 of Kabul, expressed in the Gupta Era and in Arabic (or Quasi-Arabic) 

 Numerals: with Postscript, by Sir E. Clive Bayley; (7) On the Genealogy 

 of modern Numerals, Part II, by Sir E. Clive Bay ley. 



5. From Babu Sailajanandam Agha, High Priest of Vaidyanath, 

 through Dr. Rajendralala Mitra, — (1) Vaidyanatha-Mahatmyam j and (2) 

 Purashcharana Rashambudhi. 



