1638.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 667 



[The list of books, principally medical, it is unnecessary to insert. — Ed.] 

 Literary and Antiquities . 

 The revised copy of the Girnar inscription made with the utmost care 

 hy hand, was received from Lieut. Postans, who had since been deputed 

 to Baroda on duty. 



This copy satisfactorily clears up almost all the passages at all dubious in. 

 Captain Lang's original, — it will be necessary to publish a revised translation in, 

 consequence. 



Captain Burnes forwarded copy of, 1st a short Buddhist Pali inscription, 

 from the country of Shah Kuttore, or Chitral south of Badukhshnn, on the 

 river Kooner (the Kaure of Elphinstone, a principal feeder of the Indus) ; 

 2, facsimiles and ectypes of a Bactrian inscription from Kapurdiyheri, the 

 same of which a sketch was formerly taken hy M. Court ; and 3, a small 

 inscription, in a modification of the same character, under the other. 

 [We shall publish these immediately, but we fear without interpretation.] 

 Mr. H. T. Prinsep, Secretary to Government, forwarded copy of a voca- 

 bulary of the language of the Moghel Aimeks, by Lieut. Leech, for such 

 notice as the Society might deem it to merit. 



This is the eighth language or dialect of which Lieut. Leech has made himself 

 master in the course of his present journey. 



Captain Burnes also forwarded for inspection 5 gold coins dug out of 

 the tope of Khaiber. 



They were found a few feet below the surface by a party of Afghans who were dig- 

 ging a trench on the mound to protect themselves irom the attack of another party. 

 One coin was of Mokadphises ; the others were varieties of the Kanerkes group. 



With reference to the legend of the Mokadphises coin, the Secretary announced 

 that he had been fortunate enough to discover a scheme of the Bactrian alphabet, 

 which enabled him to read the whole of the Ractrian legends with much greater 

 facility, and semblance of truth than he had before been able to obtain. The lan- 

 guage he now perceived to be Pdli, although somewhat disguised by being written 

 in an alphabetical system as foreign to its structure as the Persian would be to the 

 modern Bengali. 



[The paper is published in the present number.] 

 Mr. Maddock proposed that the Society should take steps to procure 

 some fragments of the richly carved sculpture of the Kandrah temple, now 

 thrown on the ground and in danger of destruction. 



It seems that permission having been given by Mr. Wilkinson to the Kurda 

 raja to supply himself with stones (meaning probably the loose detached stones) 

 from the black pagoda, the raja had commenced deliberately dismantling the temple 

 and carrying off all the images to ornament his own house ! — in moving one large 

 figure he had been obliged to take down the beautifully carved door depicted by 

 Stirling, and unless stopped there would soon cease to exist this venerable monu- 

 ment so long the principal landmrrk on the coast. 



Resolved, to address Government to suspend if possible the further 

 demolition of the Kandrah temple, or otherwise at least to secure some of 

 its sculpture for preservation in the museum. 



Mr. J. P. Grant, presented for the museum in the name of Mr. Church 

 of Fenang, two bows and a bundle of arrows from that island. 



Col. Stacy presented on the part of Major Yule an ornamental Litho- 

 graph of a gold medal of Shah Jehan, weighing 70 oz, dated 1064 Hej. 



Statistical. 

 Dr. Spry laid on the table various tabular statements which had been 

 prepared under his predecessor and himself, — but, at the request of the 

 President, he withdrew them in order to embody them in a formal report 

 by next Meeting. 



Physical Department. 

 The following extract of a letter from Lieutenant Hutton, on his return 

 from deputation to the Spiti valley, was read. 



Soongnum, 5th July, 1838. 



I am now again at Soongnum in Kunawur, having recrossed the Hungrung Pass 



yesterday, on my return from Speetee, and bid adieu to the Tartars. The Passes 



to Ludak from Speetee were quite impassable from the great depth of snow which 



had fallen full two months later this year than usual, throughout the hills. Every 



