48 Address. [Feb. 



on the Mahdhhdsliya, and gives an inscription of Yakshapala from the 

 Sati Ghat in Gaja, and fresh readings of three Chandela copper-plate 

 grants which have already appeared in our Journal, two edited by Mr. V. 

 A. Smith,* and one by Dr. Rajeudralala Mitra.f They are dated in the 

 end of the tenth and the beginning of the eleventh century, and were 

 inscribed by order of Dhangadeva, Devavarmadeva, and Madanavarma- 

 deva, Rajas of Kalanjara. Mr. Howorth continues his valuable series of 

 papers on Chingiz Khan and his ancestors, and the Rev. S. Beal has a 

 paper on Nagarjuna Bodhisattwa and the King Shatopahanna. Pandit 

 Bhagwan Lai Indraji gives an account of the Sirpur (Khandesh) grant 

 of Maharaja Rudradasa, and Mr. Logan contributes to the discussion of 

 the vexed question of Sankaracharya's date which, from all that has been 

 written, may be placed at the end of the seventh and beginning of the 

 eighth century of our era. A feature of the year's issue is the collec- 

 tion of folk-lore from Southern Lidia by Pandit S. M. Natesa S'astri, 

 from Western India by Putlibai D. H. Wadia, Salsette by G. F. D'Penha, 

 and Kashmir by the Rev. J. H. Knowles. 



Indian Notes and Queries. — With the Indian Antiquary may be men- 

 tioned ' Indian Notes and Queries,^ edited by Captain Temple and a 

 competent staff. It admits short notices and articles, questions and answers 

 to those questions, on all points connected with the physical and ancient 

 geography, antiquities, history, fauna and flora, or products of India ; or 

 with its people, their history, distribution, languages, castes, customs, 

 trade, and occupations. In fact, everything connected with India is 

 admitted, except politics and religious topics of a controversial character. 

 This periodical fulfils a distinct purpose, somewhat similar to that of its 

 English namesake, and should be acceptable to the members of this 

 Society as a useful adjunct to its own publications. Another interesting 

 serial, also edited by Captain Temple, is the ' Legends of the Panjdb,' 

 which is intended to give the exact words used by the narrators them- 

 selves with a running translation and notes in explanation where neces- 

 sary. Of this work two volumes have been published, and the third ia 

 under issue. 



Other Journals. — The last number of the Journal of the Bomhay 

 Branch of the Boyal Asiatic Society is taken up with Professor Peterson's 

 tbird report on the Sanskrit manuscripts collected by him for Govern- 

 ment, or catalogued as occurring in the Western Presidency, of which, 

 also, a notice by Professor Biihler appears in the Viemia Oriental Journal. 

 Attention may be drawn to the account of the Buddhist Sanskrit 

 manuscript by Dharmottaracharya, which is to be published for this 



* xlvii, (1), p. 81, 84. 

 t Ihid, p. 73. 



