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authority was the Vrihat Kathá or Kathá Sarit Sagar, and that this 

 they declared maintained that Kosambhi was on the Ganges. However, 

 they brought me a portion of this work to-day, and admitted that 

 on referring to it they found that it merely said that the Ganges 

 flowed through the realm of Kosambhi, but that one passage almost 

 distinctly said that Kosambhi was not on the Ganges, for it said that 

 the king built it away from, rivers to avoid being washed away by 

 them. This book, however, declared that it was founded by ' Satá- 

 kánik,' translated as i him of the hundred battalions' and son to 

 ' Sahasrakanik, king of the 1000 battalions.' Can Kosambhi be 

 the ' Sanakaniha' of the Allahabad and Sanchi inscriptions ?" 



We are at last in possession of a cast in clay of the famous inscrip- 

 tion on the Behar pillar of which an incorrect reading was published 

 in our Journal many years back. The cast is in the hands of 

 Babu Bijendralal Mittra, who hopes to succeed in deciphering and 

 translating it. 



Several facsímiles of this inscription have been at diíferent times 

 procured, but the impressions given by them have been too faint and 

 indistinct to allow of the text being correctly read. We owe the 

 present cast entirely to the exertions of Mr. Charles Hollings of Gyah, 

 who deserves the Society's cordial thanks for the perseverance with 

 which he has endeavoured to meet their wishes in regard to this 

 pillar and the important record which it is believed to bear. 



Capt. Lees is engaged in printing for the use of his College the 

 Kholdi Barín ( ^,y. ¿^ ) of Wahshi ( ^^j ) who died A. H. 992. 

 He was born in Kirman, but as he resided chiefly at Yazd, he is 

 generallv called Yazdi. The Kholdi Barín is a short Masnawi, written 

 in charming Persian and in the same metre as Jámi's Sabhat ol-Abrar, 

 and is deservedly popular. The author is sometimes, in India, con- 

 founded with Wahshi-i Dawlatabádi, but though poems are ascribed 

 to him, nothing certain appears to be known about him. Wahshi-i 

 Dawlatabádi must apparently be Wahshi-i Káshi, a pupil of Mohta- 

 sham i Káshi, who carne to India, and lived here for a long time. 

 He died in India A. H. 1013. 



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