384 Note on the origin of the Armenian Era. [Jult, 



P. S. — I may also mention that the kow-tow or nine prostrations, 

 as knocking the head nine times on the ground, is in these countries 

 always performed by inferiors approaching their superiors." 



Translation of a Tibetan sloka, found on a white piece of China 

 scarf, called ^*j T P v <v T p T zjT)K|*v : 6,krashis kha £,tags, or " scarf of 

 benediction." 



The same in Roman Character. 



Nyin-mo ide-legs mts'han ide'-legs, Nyin-mahi gung yang 6de- 

 legs-shing, 



Nyin mts'han rtag-tu irda-legs-pahi, rfkon-chog ^sura-gyi ikra- 

 shis shog. 



Translation. 



" Blessed the day ; blessed the night ; the mid-day also being blessed : 

 may day and night, always return (bring) the special favour of the 

 three most precious (holy) ones." 



(Or thus; the favour of the eminent three holy ones) the z^ T 

 Qjfi|<sj T £j being rendered, in Latin, insignis, eminens, &c. 



Note. — Oa the cloth the n^QISJ^y is mot sufficiently distinct ; I took it first 

 for ^^ T Q[fi|AJ as in the two former lines ; but now I correct it as it probably 

 stands on the cloth. 



ZOth May. A. Csoma Korosi. 



III. — Note on the origin of the Armenian Era, and the reformation of 

 the Haican Kalendar. By Johannes Avdall, Esq., M. A. S. 



While the Abyssinians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Persians, Bactrians, 

 and other primitive nations of Asia, have each had their respective 

 epochs, the people of Armenia, where the descendants of the second 

 grand progenitor of mankind began to increase and multiply, are not 

 without a national era of their own. It is not my intention to enter 

 here into a description of the various eras that have from ancient 

 times obtained among the people of the East, as they have been 

 successfully treated of in the chronological works of learned authors. 

 I shall only confine my observations to the origin of the Armenian 

 era, and the reformation of the Haican or Armenian kalendar. 



