Aug. 1845.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. lxxxi 



Read a note from Capt. Latter as follows : — 



My dear Sir, — I beg- to send for presentation to the Society a portion of a very inter- 

 esting Boodhist sculpture, I will in a short time forward a paper illustrating- it. 



Your's sincerely, 



Thos. Latter. 



Read notes from Major Wroughton and Col. Stacy to the Sub-Secre- 

 tary :— 



My dear Piddington,— I received the accompanying note from my friend Colonel 

 Stacy. I send the marble Sculpture at the same time, and if you will be good enough 

 to do with it as Colonel Stacy advises you will much oblige me. You can keep Colonel 

 Stacy's note as a voucher that his wishes on the present occasion have been complied 

 with. 



Ballygunj, July 25t/t, 1845. Robt. Wroughton. 



My dear Wroughton, — Let me request you to send the White Marble Sculpture to 

 Mr. Piddington, Assistant Secretary, Asiatic Society, begging that after the Society have 

 satisfied themselves of its beauties, it may be placed with the rest of my property there. 



The Mosque of which it formed a part is at KellaBeese, 14 marches nearly west of 

 Kandahar. I sent down a collector for coins, and he brought me, on a subsequent trip, 

 three camel loads of stone sculptures, one of which is the present subject, most ancient 

 Togra Arabic with Grecian Band. 



Your's sincerely, 



Futtyghur, Ylth July, 1845. J. Stacy. 



Also the following note by the Sub-Secretary, the sculpture to which 

 it relates being in the room : — 



Supposed Buddhist sculpture from Muttra, and a stone with an Arabic Inscription, 

 presented through Captain P. T. Cautley, by Colonel Stacy. 



Read the following extract of letter from Walter Elliot, Esq. M. C. S. 

 to the Sub-Secretary, acknowledging plans, papers, and a number of 

 the Journal relative to the language and antiquities of Dipaldinna and 

 Amrawatty, which have been forwarded him on the part of the Society 

 in aid of his proposed researches in that interesting part of India : — 



To H. Piddington, Esq. 



My dear Sir,— Allow me to return you my best thanks for the kindness with which 



the Society has attended to my request made through Mr. Torrens for copies of the Dipal- 



dinny plans, and for the trouble you have further taken to send the rest of the information 



bearing on the subject, which must have cost you some pains and time to search out, and 



