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lislied in our Journal,* and also on two copper-plate grants of Jayachaa- 

 dra of Kanauj, the translation of one of which was previously published 

 in Colebrooke's Essays,f and of the other in our Journal. J Dr. E. 

 Hultzsch, now attached to the Archaeological Survey of India, revises the 

 transcript and translation of an inscription found in the fort of Gwulior 

 and originally published in our Journal. § The same writer retranscribes 

 and edits the Bhagalpur plate of Narayauapala which is preserved in 

 our library and has also been published in our Journal. || If to these 

 be added the paper by the Rev. S. Bead on the age and writings of the 

 great Bodhisattwa Nagarjuna, the record of work done similar to that 

 undertaken by this Society is highly to be commended. I would add 

 that the papers quoted as correcting articles that have appeared in our 

 Journal, exhibit a judicial, scholarly tone, fully appreciative of the work 

 done by members of this Society, and giving the result of later and 

 mora perfect investigation. 



Other Journals. — Subsidiary to the Indian Antiquary and subserving 

 a distinct purpose is the Indian Notes and Queries intended to conserve 

 such waifs and strays of philology, archaeology, and folk-lore as might not 

 be considered of sufficient importance for the other Journals. With this 

 may be mentioned Captain Temple's ' Panjab Legends,' a serial work 

 sufficiently described in its title. The last number of the Journal of the 

 Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society contained a number of papers 

 read during the years 1883-4-5, and since then no others have appeared. 

 The Ceylon branch of the same Society appears not to have issued a num- 

 ber during 1886, but, in the Journal of the North China Branch, we have 

 a paper by Mr. G. Phillips on the seaports of India and Ceylon, and, in 

 connection therewith, I would mention one, in the Journal of the Royal 

 Asiatic Society of London, by the Rev. J. Edkins, on ancient navigation 

 in the Indian ocean, which, however, appears to be only introductory 

 to the subject, as it is chiefly taken up with a critical examina- 

 tion of the early Chinese writers. Other papers of interest to us 

 in the same Journal are one by Sir Monier Monier- Williams, one of our 

 centenary members, giving an account of Buddhism in its relation to 

 Bi-ahmanism and one by Mr. R. Sewell, of the Madras Covenanted Civil 

 Service, on Buddhist symbolism, a subject apparently attracting some at- 

 tention at present, as the papers by Mr. H. Murray- Aynsley in the Indian 

 Antiquary show. Mr. G. A. Grierson also gives specimens of Bhojpuri 



* Journal XXXI, p. 411 : Arch. Rep. II, 357. 



f Ess. II, p. 286. 



% Journal X (i), p. 98, 



§ Journal XXXI, p. 418 : Arch. Rep. II, 354. 



|| Journal, XLVII, (i), p. 384. 



