284 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, [March, 



Views of Ancient and Modern Hindu and Musalman Architecture— 6y Capt. Burt, 



The following were received from the booksellers. 



Lardner'9 Cabinet Cyclopaedia — England, vol. 7. 



Harton's Flora Americana, 3 vols, (purchased.) 

 The usual Meteorological Journal — by the Surveyor General. 

 Oriental Publications. 



Messrs. Th acker and Co. submitted a file of the Alif Leila to page 504 

 completed : 100 pages more were in the press. The translation of the first 

 50 nights was expected daily and would be printed without loss of time. 

 Literary and Antiquities. 



The Rev. W. Taylor, forwarded a duplicate of the continuation of his 

 Report to the Madras Literary Society on his examination of the Mac- 

 kenzie manuscripts. 



General Allard presented facsimiles of two ancient inscriptions from 

 Kashmir. 



Extract of a letter from Captain Burnes, was read, announcing the dis- 

 patch of the Cabul marble slab noticed at a former meeting. 



Raja Venkata Aswa Rao, presented copy of an inscription from a 

 temple at Warangal in the Hyderabad district, in the Telinga character, 

 with a transcript in Devanagari by himself. 



Mr. E. Blundell, Commissioner of the Tenasserim Provinces, in reply 

 to the Society's request, forwarded a translation and restored copy of the 

 inscription on the Great Arracan bell, a description of which (by Captain 

 Wroughton) was published in the December No. of the Journal. 



The Secretary read continuation of his translation of the religious edicts 

 of Asoka from Gujerat and Cuttack. 



[Printed in the present number.] 



He also announced the discovery that a second inscription from Juna~ 

 garh in Gujerat, in Sanskrit, related to the circumstance of the repair of 

 a bridge in the time of Chardragupta, and by the very Asoka his grand- 

 son whose Pdli edicts had just been described. 



[This notice which is of great interest in the study of Indian antiquities, will be 

 published in our next number.] 



Captain T. S. Burt, Engineers, announced in a letter to the Secretary, 

 that he had discovered three new pillars, two of them with inscriptions in 

 the No. 2 character in Malwa, of which he had taken facsimiles for trans- 

 mission to the Society. 



Captain Burt writes also : — 



" 1 paid a visit to the Sanchi monument and copied the third ancient inscription 

 referred to by Captain Smith as being illegible, and of which he did not for that 

 reason take an impression. I am very happy in being able to confirm your remarks 

 as to the shorter inscriptions iu the old character at Sanchi, which from their all 

 being written upon different huge blocks of stone (forming component parts of the 

 terrace or outer wall of the tope) satisfactorily account for the word ddnam, because 

 each huge stone was the ddnam or gift of the individual concerned. 



" I have taken facsimiles of about a hundred inscriptions or more since I left 

 Sehore or Bhilsa on the 13th ultimo, but the greater part are from satti monuments, 

 and not worth sending. One however is 5 feet by 4 a splendid facsimile 1120 odd 

 of the samvat." 



Mr. M. Kittoe, having returned from a trip to explore the site of 

 some coal beds in Cuttack, on which he had been deputed by government 

 at the recommendation of the Coal Committee, laid before the meeting 

 an account of the antiquarian researches he had collaterally been enabled 

 to make at various places in his route. 



[We shall hereafter give a sketch of the tour and need not therefore say more, than 

 that although the heat was so great as almost to paralyze out-of-door exertions 

 still the zealous explorer left nothing unseen or undone on his route : — he re-exa- 

 mined the inscriptions at Dhauli mounted on a frail bambu scaffold, — he copied a 

 Bobaneswar inscription : he drew the whole of the sculpture on the caves at Uda- 

 yagiri,—* jaya stambha on a plain at some distance,— the Jdjipur images,— and 



