Feb. 1846.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. xxi 



Read the following lettter : — 



H. Torrens, Esq. Secretary and Vice-President of the Asiatic Society. 

 Sir, — Herewith I beg to submit a copy of the Tazalta in Original Sanscrit, 

 being a treatise on Astrology compiled by Neelhantha, a celebrated Pundit of anci- 

 ent times, and I hope you will kindly accept it as a present to the Society, and 

 allow it to be placed in its Library. 



The work is of a curious nature, as it contains several Arabic words written in 

 Sanscrit character ; such as, 



^L&*> *rggj: Moosullah. 

 t^AJf i;f~r?T Intiha. 

 JU3| -^frj^T^f Ittisal. 



Jj^a/o ^cn*j Mukbool. 



^» 



d^lri* anrC^jr^T Ghyr Mukbool. 

 <^ ^ Hadd, &c. &c. 



and I conclude from the system of the Zodiac adopted in it being precisely the same 



as in the (Jxu Ramal, or Astrology of the Arabs, that it owes its origin to the 



Mahommedans ; and the compilation, or rather the translation, must have been 



made during the time this country was invaded bythem. The work, however, is 



in much repute in Hindu Society, notwithstanding the religious prejudices of the 



one being opposed to those of the other, and I therefore presume to offer it as a 



present on account of its curiosity. 



Neelratna Haldar. 



Calcutta, the 1st February, 1846. 



Read the following extracts from a letter to the Sub-Secretary from 

 Lieut. Blagrave, elated 21st Dec. 1845. 



Extracts from a letter from Lt. Blagrave, B. N. I., to the Sub-Secretary, dated 

 AJcul ha Got (Scinde), 21st December, 1845. 



" Many thanks to you and to Mr. Torrens for the kind interest you have taken 

 with us " young Egyptians ;" your proposition is a most advantageous one for us, 

 and no doubt will be gladly accepted, but I doubt whether for some time yet we 

 shall have ought much worth publishing, but there is no saying, for there are many 

 men in Scinde well qualified to write on different interesting subjects, but at present 

 they have either no time or else no inclination to do so ; the Society was got up by 

 a few of us more for the sake of establishing a Museum at Kurrachee, and eventu- 

 ally good local ones at Hyderabad and Sukkur ; we have got about six and twenty 

 subscribers, and have already got an embryo Museum consisting of a little of every 

 thing, fossils, birds, fish, insects, snakes, &c, &c. I and a few others are going on 

 collecting for it, and I hope that by this time next year we shall have a house and 

 something in it to shew, and then we may hope for more assistance from those that 

 have it in their power to aid us ; but as soon as I receive your next letter, which you 

 say it to be an official copy of your proposition, I will send it down to Kurrachee 



