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from the banks of the Damooda, for the Museum of Economic Geology 

 and requesting the opinion of the Society thereon. — (Referred to the 

 Curator, Museum of Economic Geology.) 



From Captain M. Kittoe, forwarding a transcript of an inscription 

 cut on a thick brick, found in a field near Jaunpoor, and strongly 

 advising the Society to send him all the old Copper Plates now in the 

 Museum for re-transcription and classification. Capt. Kittoe continues, — 



" Having, while on my recent tour heard of a fine pillar at Pahladpoor, 

 near Jhagupoor, I sent my inscription hunters to examine it. It is the 

 same pillar which Major Burt brought to Mr. Prinsep's notice just as our 

 lamented friend was leaving for Europe. The Major only sent an impres- 

 sion, of the single line, which occurs about midway on the pillar, and this 

 impression was mislaid. I have now several copies before me, and moreover 

 two or more of the " shell pattern," only most highly ornamented, with dra- 

 gon-like flourishes, and a sentence to each in the Thibetan Sanscrit character, 

 which I here enclose.* You will observe that there are six syllables, so are 

 there six shells. But Thibetan writing is within the scrolls or dragons of the 

 shell pattern. 



The pillar is apparently a pillar of victory of some Kshetri prince, whose 

 name is unfortunately effaced. The character is that found in the caves of 

 Western India, given by Col. Sykes and Mr. Wathen. I have no pure copies 

 of the shells, or I would have sent them. Mr. Laidlay has most ingeniously 



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guessed at the meaning, and supposes the words to be Aum mane padma 



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 horn, but here the six syllables are differently expressed, in the Thibetan, 



and in two ways. 



From the position of Pahladpoor, some inclined to think it has been the 



" Temple of the vast solitude of Fa Hian." Referred to the Oriental Section. 



From Dr. E. Roer, Secretary Oriental Section, returning Captain 

 Ellis's letters and their enclosures, and intimating the Section's opinion 

 that the questions therein contained should be translated into English, 

 and the most interesting ones printed in the Journal. Also submits a 

 translation of the questions for the information of the Society. 



From the same — forwarding the following extracts of letters from 

 European scholars with regard to the publication of the Vedas. 



* These have not yet come to hand ; we shall be very glad to receive them. 

 —Eds. 



