xxviii Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [April, 1846. 



Purchased. 



10. The Classical Museum, No. 10. 



11. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, No. 109. — January, 1846. 



12. Journal des Savants. 



13. Shaw's Metal Work. 



14. The Hindustani Manual. By Duncan Forbes. — 



15. Bhagbut Gita. 



Exchanged. 



16. The Athenaeum, January 3d, 10th, 17th, 24th, and 81st, 1846- 



17. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. — By Professor Jameson. 



Read the following memorandum by the Secretary, accompanying a 

 copy of a Pali inscription laid on the table for the inspection of mem- 

 bers : — 



The inscription was sent, through Mr. Beadon, by Mr. Latour, Magistrate of Be- 

 har. Further details as to the exact place of its discovery have been requested to be 

 supplied ; in the meantime care has been taken to attempt to decypher the character, 

 which is as a whole new ; some of the letters will be readily recognized as coincident 

 with certain of the old Pali of the Jats, but the greater part are of a decidedly Ti- 

 betan type. Mr. Paul, who with the late Pundit Kamlakanta was employed by my 

 predecessor Mr. J. Prinsep in aiding to decypher, has been referred to as a Tibetan 

 scholar. The Pundit, Sarodah Pershad, will also prepare a list of the recognizable 

 characters of the Pali occurring in it. "When these preliminary labors have been 

 performed, should Dr. Hseberlin, the Reverend Mr. Long, Captain Marshall or other 

 Orientalists of the Society not desire to take up the examination, I would suggest 

 its being referred to Mr. Hodgson, the inscription being in all probability valuable, 

 and on subjects relating to the early history of Buddhism. The site of its discovery 

 (ancient Maghodha) and the philological affinity of its characters both point to this 

 conclusion. 



Dr. Hseberlin having intimated his willingness to examine and report 

 on the inscription, if provided with information regarding the facts of 

 its discovery, the Secretary was instructed to make it over accordingly 

 to that gentleman, with all the information that had transpired relative 

 to it. 



Read the following letter from Colonel Low (Penang) : — 



To the Secretary of the Asiatic Society. 



Province Wellesley, Penang 10th Feb. 1846. 



Dear Sir, — I will esteem it a great favour if you can supply me with specimens, 

 where they differ from each other, of the inscriptions in the Pali or Pracrit 

 character which have been discovered hitherto in the East — since such would mate- 



