424 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [No. 4, 



3. From Eev. I. Lowenthal, Peshawur, " A paper on the Non- 

 Semitic character of the Pushto language." 



This paper was read to the meeting by the Secretary. 



The Librarian submitted his usual monthly report for September last. 



Foe November, 1860. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society was held on 

 the 7th instant, 



The Ven. Archdeacon J. H. Pratt, as Senior Member, in the chair. 



Presentations were received — 



1st. From Professor Griffith, through Mr. W. Halsey, a singular 

 iron sun-dial called Pratoda or Pratola, (serving also for an hour-glass 

 a gun and a spear) believed to have been made by Sirdar Lena Singh 

 for Lord Hardinge. 



2nd. From the Eoyal Geological Society of London, the 29th 

 Vol. of their Journal. 



3rd. From A. Sconce, Esq., the following Arabic Books : — "VYill- 

 met's Arabic Lexicon, Schultens's Hariri and De Sacy's Arabic Gram- 

 mar, and Niebuhr's Travels. 



4th. From the Editors of Eajah Badhakant's Subda Kulpa- 

 druma the 1st No. of the new edition of the Encyclopedia, to- 

 gether with a brief sketch of the Eajah's life. 



5th. From Baboo Kaliprasuno Singh the 2nd No. of his valua- 

 ble work " Purana Sangraha," being a Bengalee translation in prose 

 of the " Mahabharat." 



The Pratoda (noted above) was accompanied by the following ex- 

 tract from an old Hindoo work on astronomy, communicated by 

 Pundit Bapu Deva. 



1. I am explaining the instrument called Pratoda (a goad) invent- 

 ed by Ganesa, by which the hour of the day can be easily known. 

 Take a straight stick of moderate thickness of the tree called 

 Dalbergia Sisu, of any length. 



2. Make it of the form of a right prism whose ends should be 

 regular pobygons having as many angles as the number of ghatUcas 

 contained in the excess of the longest day above the shortest (at the 

 given place) ; and for the convenience of holding it join a chain (or 

 string) to its top : (and mark the numbers of ghatiJcas from that of 

 the ghatihas of the shortest day to that of those of the longest on 

 the upper parts of the sides of the prism successively.) 



