4 Votes on alteration of JlvJes. [Jan. 



to a Deputy, not the king liiraaelf— perhaps to his much-loved eldest 

 son Muhammad Sultan, called Klian-i-Shahid, who fell fighting against 

 the Mughals at Lahor in the following year G84. This prince was 

 Governor of Multan during the later years of his life, but exercised 

 authority over the whole of the western portion of the Empire during 

 Balban's absence in Bengal in the operations against Tughrul Khan. 

 The word of which a fragment occurs at the beginning of the second 

 line may be either aI% or ^^U. The commencement of the third line 

 is not legible without a knowledge of what comes before. The group 

 of letters may be ^^^^ (jcd instead of as printed above. The construc- 

 tion of the^'cf ig faulty ; we should expect >«>^ ^Uxjyoi or H^j^] - ti^J^^i 

 IS perhaps a mistake of the stone-cutter for ^>^^f, but the dot of the 

 c; is clear, (^i^), as a participial adjective with a passive signification of 

 the form d-i^s, may be appended in the masculine form to a feminine 

 noun. The word U^^^^-^l is doubtful. The"J$, which is placed above the 

 second (j», looks more like i/, which, however, gives no sense. Neither of 

 the (^s is pointed, and the u seems to be written before instead of after 

 the first 4. The word of which there is a fragment at the beginning of 

 the fourth line is probably icij^^^^, only ^ being visible. The name 



z*-^^, "the deaf and dumb," given to the sacred month of Rajab is an old 

 epithet of Arabian paganism, indicating that in that month (which 

 stands by itself alone in the midst of the Arabian year, the other three 

 sacred months being consecutive) the noise of battle is never heard. 



The alterations in the Rules which had been proposed by Council 

 were brought up for discussion, A letter from Raja Rajendralala 

 Mitra strongly objecting to the alterations was read, and then remarks 

 were made by several members. Dr. W. King supported Raja Rajen- 

 dralala Mitra's objections, and Messrs. Mehta and Donaldson and 

 Babus Asutosh Mukharjia, Gaurdas Bysack, Jogendrachunder Ghose, 

 Rajinikanta Gupta and Nobin Chundra Bural spoke against the pro- 

 posals to increase the subscriptions and to substitute annual for quar- 

 terly payments. Messrs. Munro, Sclater and Pedler approved of the 

 proposal to increase the subscriptions. The alterations were then put 

 to the vote, one by one, with the following result : 



For. Against Result. 



I. Alteration of Rule 2 (a) I All other present Rejected. 

 II. do. Rule 14 (c) 5 6 Rejected. 



III. do. Rule 16 3 7 Rejected. 



