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Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, 



[April, 



of Bombay, the accompanying copy of a letter to the address of His Lordship from 

 Mr. J. Prinsep, Secretary to the Asiatic Society, dated the 28th ultimo. 



2. I am directed at the same time to express the wish of His Lordship, should 

 the Right Honorahle the Governor in Council be aware of no objection to the mea- 

 sure, that an officer qualified for such a duty and interested in it, may be deputed 

 for a limited period without loss of allowances, and with power to incur some 

 reasonable amount of contingent expense, to take a facsimile of the inscriptions 

 alluded to, and generally, to collect all information which can be had regarding 

 them, as suggested in Mr. Prinsep's letter. 



3. It will be observed that the names of three officers have been indicated by 

 Mr. Prinsep as being peculiarly well qualified for the duty in question. 



I have the honor to be, &c. 



(Signed,) W. H. Macnaghten, 



Simla, )8fh April, 1838, Secy, to the Govt, of India, with the Govr. Genl. 



By permission of General Court, the facsimile of a circular copper-plate 

 on its nay to M. Jacquet of Paris was exhibited ; also drawings of two 

 coins of Undopherres or Gondophares of new types, in which the letters of 

 the name were very distinct. 



The circular plate is a kind of primer, containing the Nagari Alphabet, arranged, 

 the vowels in the centre and the consonants in their several classes around, with 

 the letter Sri in a cipher, and the Buddhist invocation ^frr^f^^"?!! 1 ?! namo Arahan- 

 lanam, between each compartment. 



The margin contains a family pedigree in three lines, in a kind of vernacular of 

 which the following is a literal transcript. 



OTTO"^ W^TTi. cTcq^T^ffr ^TT^xr^-: crrq^cT^TTlT ^ 



^ra^re^Ti^ stum cretrsre ^ sr. TpncHpsrcro. ftcffaipn**? 



Prosperity, grlory and fame Samvat 1681, in the light half of Kartik, 5th, 



Thursday. Kddyasingha (?) native of Mathura in Pushkara gaon (?) in his succession 

 was Sri Guna Chandra whoses uccessor was Sri Sakala Chandra • his successors 

 were two sons, the first own son was Tulsidas ; — the second son Surahantri, — his 

 successor was Mohan Sain, of whose descent, in the Gohila tribe, a village was 

 named after him Japdlu. He had two sons, 1st Chanchala das, the 2nd Dharma 

 das ; by whom this jantra or Siddha chakra (magic circle) for the reward of the 

 virtuous acts of Tulsi dds is made, and on the margin the names of Tulsi dds's 

 ancestry are written. 



Literary. 



A letter was received from Mr. Sec. H. T. Prinsep, forwarding- by 

 desire of the Hon'ble Mr. Ross, President in Council, a Pushto or Pan- 

 jabi Grammar, prepared by Lieutenant Leech, of the Bombay Engineers. 



The Secretary explained that the Committee of Papers had determined 

 that the two former grammars (Belochki and Baruiki) by the same intelli- 

 gent gentleman were not adapted for publication in the Researches, but 

 would be more useful as a separate volume. 



Resolved that with reference to the Pushto Grammar of Dr. Carey, 

 already in existence, the works be referred to the librarian to consider on 

 the mode of their publication. 



The President in Council likewise presented for such notice as the 

 Society might think fit, a paper on the Siabposh Kaffirs, with specimens 

 of their language and costume, by Captain A. Buunes. 

 [Printed in the present number.] 



