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folk-songs with a translation and index, and Mr. P. Pincott, the results of 

 a laborious examination of the arrangement of the hymns of the Adi- 

 granth of the Sikhs. Captain Talbot furnishes an account of the rock- 

 cut caves and statues at Bamian, illustrated with notes by Mr. W. 

 Simpson and Captain Maitland, and by plans and drawings of these re- 

 markable Buddhist remains. 



Foreign Journals. — Turning now to foreign Oriental Societies, I would 

 call attention to the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Paris (Journal Asia- 

 tique), which containsM. Senart's continuation of hispaperson the language 

 of the edicts of Piyadasi (Asoka) and M. H. Sauvaire's continuation of his 

 contributions to our knowledge of Musalman numismatics and metrology, 

 also M. S. Levi's paper on the Brihatkathdmanjari of Kshemendra. 

 The Journal of the German Oriental Society (Zeitschrift der JDeutschen 

 Morgenldndischen Gesellschaft) , published in Leipsic, has several papers 

 of interest :-— one by Dr. E. Hultzsch, on a ' Collection of Indian manu- 

 scripts and inscriptions,' in which an account is given of a journey 

 made through upper India, with a list of some 483 manuscripts collected 

 by the author, of which 115 are Jaina works: the list gives bare titles 

 without detailed comment or explanation. Dr. Hultzsch also notices and 

 translates inscriptions from the temple of Vaillabhattasvamin in the fort 

 of Gwalior, one of which was previously published in our Journal.* He 

 then describes and translates an inscription on stone at Dholpur dealing 

 with Chandamahasena : five copper-plates from Tezpur in Assam of a 

 Raja Vallabhadeva ; two fragments of inscriptions of the Bundelkhand 

 Chandels preserved at Allahabad and others from Benares, and gives 

 us an index to the words of the Bharhat inscription. Professor Jacobi 

 continues his Jaina studies in the same Journal, and contributes a 

 paper supplementary to his treatise on the origin of the Svetambara and 

 Digambara sects. His conclusion is that the origin of the Bodiya 

 sect is much later than that of the Digambaras, and that the separation 

 of the latter from the Svetambaras was a gradual process commencing 

 in the time ef Bhadrabahu and continued through the next generation. 

 He also has a note on the nirosthyavarna, or absence of labial letters 

 in a portion of the Basakumdra charitra ; and on the play of words called 

 yamaka (in which the word at the end of each line commences the next 

 line) that occurs in the Sutrakritdnga. Professor Pischel, in his Vedica, 

 furnishes notes on various words and phrases taken from the Rig- Veda. 

 I would also mention Professor Buhler's continuation of his notes on the 

 Asoka inscriptions, in which he more particularly compares the second half 

 of the thirteenth edict from the Girnar and Khalsi inscriptions, and a note 

 by the veteran O. Bohtlingk on a previous paper of Dr. Buhler. H. H. 



* Journal XXXI, p. 407. 



