388 Geological Section of the [Aug. 



P. S. — Whether Remusat's ' avenu' be understood loosely, as mean- 

 ing come, or strictly, as signifying come to pass, it will be equally 

 inadmissible as the interpretation of the word Tathdgata ; because 

 Tathdgata is designed expressly to announce that ail reiteration and 

 contingency whatever is barred with respect to the beings so designated. 

 They cannot come ; nor can any thing come to pass affecting them*. 



And if it be objected, that the mere use of the word avenu, in the 

 past tense, does not necessarily imply such reiteration and conditional 

 futurity, I answer that Remusat clearly meant it to convey these ideas, 

 or what was the sense of calling on me for the successive incarnations 

 of these avenus ? It has been suggested to me that absolu, used sub- 

 stantively, implies activity. Perhaps so, in Parisian propriety of speech. 

 But I use it merely as opposed to relative with reference to mere mor- 

 tals ; and I trust that the affirmation — there are many absolutes, many 

 infinites, who are nevertheless inactive — may at least be distinctly 

 understood. I have nothing to do with the reasonableness of the tenet 

 so affirmed or stated, being only a reporter. 



IV. — Geological Section across the Valley of the Nerbudda, from Tendukheri 

 to Bittoul. By J. G. Sfilsbury, Esq. Ben. Med. Est. Plate XXIII. 



In your No. for November last, you expressed a wish that some one 

 should give you a section of the geological features of the country from 

 Tendukheri to the hills south of the Nerbudda. Opportunity has been 

 afforded me of making such a trip, and as probably you may not receive 

 an account from one versed in the subject, I send you such notes as I 

 made on the excursion, together with specimens of the rocks met with. 



The conical hill to the S. E. near Tendukheri is the point from 

 which I started, the same to which Captain Franklin alludes in the 

 1st part of the Transactions of the Physical Class of the Asiatic Society > 

 and which he describes as being capped with basaltic columns. 



The specimens from this hill are T 1, forming a platform with Tl o 

 mixed in detached pieces. Above the platform are trap boulders reaching 



Burmese writings, as the scene of Godama's adventures, to which if the exact 

 site and present designation of each can be assigned from the Sanscrit or the Tibet 

 authorities, it will confer an important favor on Burmese literati." It is highly 

 interesting to see the spirit of inquiry stirring in the high places of this hitherto 

 benighted nation. The information desired is already furnished, and as might be 

 expected, the Burmese names prove to be copied through the Prakrit or Palit 

 directly from the Sanserit originals, in this respect differing from the Tibetan? 

 which are translations of the same name. — Ed. 



* Avenu signifies quod evenit, contigit, that which hath happened. — fDiction- 

 naire de Trevoux.) Tathdgata ; tathh thus (what really is), gata (known, ob- 

 tained). — (Wilson's Sans. Diet.) — Ed. 



