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Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 



[No. 1, 



Lord of Grauda, Navakoti, Karnata, and Utkala, the auspicious 

 Maharaja Purusottama Deva to Poteswara Bhatta— 



" On Monday, the 10th of Aries (Baisdkha) in the year 25 U* on 

 the occasion of an eclipse, I, while in the bed of the river Ganges, do 

 present to yon the Brahmin-inhabited village of Purusottamapura 

 with all its appurtenances, waters, gardens, and fields, that you and 

 your heirs may enjoy the same as long as the sun and moon will last. 



" As long as the sun and moon will run their course, and as long as 

 the earth shall last, for even so long may the gift of mine of fruitful 

 land last (with you). Whoever robs a Brahmin of his land, whether 

 the same be his gift or that of others, shall be born a maggot in 

 ordure for the period of 60,000 years. Sri Madanagopala Sarmana.f 

 My marks, " figures of a conch, a dagger and a sword." 



Communications were received — 



1. From the Assistant Secretary to the Government of Bengal, 

 copy of a report from the Executive Engineer of the Tirhoot division, 

 on the subject of the saline matter which pervades the surface soil of 

 that district. 



2. From Lieutenant- Colonel J. Abbott, a letter containing a de- 

 scription of the elephant statues recently exhumed at the Delhi palace. 



3. From Dr. F. E. Hall, a letter containing a reply to the remarks 

 made by Baboo Rajendralal Mitra on an article published by him in 

 the Society's Journal for 1861 entitled, " The Inscription of Erikaine 

 now Eran, re-deciphered and re-translated. " 



4. From Baboo Gropixiauth Sen, abstract of the hourly meteorologi- 

 cal observations taken at the Surveyor General's office in October last. 



5. From Baboo Bajendralal Mitra, " On the ruins of Buddha G-ya." 

 The Baboo read the above paper, and the thanks of the meeting 



were voted to him on the motion of the President. 



6. From the Military Secretary to his Excellency the Governor- 

 General, a note on the Didunculus Strigirostris with photograph, being 

 an extract from a New South Wales paper. 



7. From the President, a note on a coin of the new Bactrian King 

 Theophilos. 



# The letter U evidently stands for Utkala, and the question is, was there 

 ever an Utkala era ? 



f The word in the original is clearly Saranam, but I take it to be a missoript, 

 for it is not at all likely that the donor should think of invoking the god 

 Madanagopala at the end of the document. The place is where the minister of 

 Mohapatra should sign j and I take the name to be of such an officer 



