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With reference to this last undertaking he would once more call 

 upon all that take an interest in the complete publication of the Vedas 

 to lend him their aid in procuring MSS. of the Sanhita of the black 

 Yajur veda and its commentary by Sayan acharya. 



A life of Sakya Sinha, the great Bauddha prophet of Maghda, is in 

 the press, and will ere long be published in the Bibliotheca Indica. 

 The work is entitled Lalita-Vistara and was compiled in Sanskrita 

 about the end of the sixth century from ballads in an obsolete patois of 

 that language, composed evidently by bards (Bhdt) at a much earlier 

 period. Several MSS. have been procured for collation, three of them 

 from Nepal, obtained through the liberality of our learned associate 

 Mr. B. H. Hodgson of Darjeling. The editor, Babu Rajendralal 

 Mittra has promised an English translation, which will appear along 

 with the text. 



At Lahore an Agri-Horticultural Society has been founded by the 

 exertions of the indefatigable Mr. H. Cope. 



The Rev. J. Long is engaged in compiling a Typographia Bengalen- 

 sis which will comprise an account of all Bengali and Sanscrit works, 

 published in the Lower Provinces. 



Notice of a Ruin in Singhbhum, 



To Dr. A. Sprenger, Secretary of the Asiatic Society. 



Sir, — A conversation having taken place at the last meeting of the 

 Asiatic Society with reference to the ruins of ancient cities found at 

 different times in India and particularly with respect to a communica- 

 tion on this subject which had been received relative to one supposed to 

 exist in Singbhmn y I was requested to procure the last report of the 

 Mirzapur Mission, in which the Rev. R. Mather gives an account of ex- 

 tensive ruins found by him on a tour. The Rev. R. Mather made in 

 January, 1850, a tour to Singrauli ; passing from Mirzapur to the Table 

 Land of Ghorawal, then to the Kymore range near the valley of the 

 Soane, and so on to the coal mines of Kotah 90 miles from Mirzapur. 

 With regard to this place Mr. Mather says — 



" Before leaving home I had heard from Major S. that in this neighbourhood, 

 were certain ancient Hindu structures, the origin of which was totally unknown, 



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