1834.] Asiatic Society. 411 



Read a letter from M. Richy, Judge of Chandernagore, presenting on 

 the part of M. Gabcin de Tassy, a copy of his 



Notice sur les f£tes populaires des Hindous d' apres les ouvrages Hindoustani. 



The following works were also presented : 



Commeataire sur Le Yacna, L'ua des Livres Religieux des Parsis, by Eugene 

 Burnouf, vol. I. — by the author. 



Origin of the Sikh Power in the Punjab, and Political Life of Muba Raja Run- 

 jeet Singh, &c. compiled by H. T. Prinsep— by the compiler. 



Journal Asiatique, Nos. 71, 72 and 74 — by the Asiatic Society of Paris. 



Transactions of the Society of Arts, &c. vol. xlix, I and II parts — by the Society, 



Proceedings of the Geological Society, Nov. 6, 1333, Dec. 4*. 



Illustrations of the Botany, and Natural History of the Himalayan Mountains, 

 &c. Part II.— by F. J. Eoyle, Esq. F. L. S. and G. S. M., R. A. S. 



Meteorological Register for July, 1834 — by the Surveyor General. 



The India Journal of Medical Science for September — by the Editors. 



The following Books were received from the Book-sellers. 



Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia, History of Natural Philosophy. 



, Rome, 1st vol. 



, Stebbing's History of the Church, 2nd vol. 



Antiquities. 



A native drawing of a compartment of one of the sculptured slabs of a 

 building near Bhilsa, was presented by Dr. G. S. Spilsbury. 



This appears to be the very building whence Mr. Hodgson took the facsimile 

 of his inscription, presented at a former meeting : the sculpture represents the 

 erection or consecration of a Bauddha temple or Chaitya. It was visited in 1817 

 or 18 by Captain Fell, who described the inscriptions on the walls in one of the 

 news-papers of the day. 



Read a letter from Mr. Tbegeab of Jaunpur, descriptive of two gold 

 coins of the Canouj group, recently discovered in digging on the site of 

 an old fort called Jaichand's koth near Jaunpur. 



[We shall have pleasure in inserting this paper when we have collected suffici- 

 ent of the Canouj coins to make a plate. The inscriptions on the present coins are 

 very distinct, in the character No. 2, Allahabad column, and the names are new.] 

 Further observations on the Hindu coins by Major Stacy, were also 

 submitted. 



A note from Mr. Spiebs, of Allahabad, forwarded 4 coins dug up lately 

 near that place. 



They belong to what has been called the Behat group. 



A paper by Col. Bubney, Resident at Ava, was read, giving a translation 

 and copious commentary in illustration of the Burmese inscription at Bud- 

 dha Gaya : of which the original facsimile taken by his brother Captain 

 Geobge Bubney, on the spot, accompanied. 



This will be published at length ; the principal discrepancy between Col. 

 Burney's translation and that made by Ratna Paula is in the date, which the 

 former carries back two hundred years, namely, to 408 Burman era, (A. D. 1106.) 

 The first figure is rather indistinct in the inscription, and may be read either as 



* This day's proceedings contains a notice of Lieut. Burnes' Memoir on the Geo- 

 logy of the banks of the Indus, the Indian Caucasus and the plains of Tartary. 

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