424 Proceedings of the Asiatio Soeiety. [No. 4, 



3. From Eev. I. Lowenthal, Peshawur, " A paper on the Non- 

 Semitic character of the Pushto language." 



This paper was read to the meeting by the Secretary. 



The Librarían submitted his usual monthly report for September last. 



FOE NOYEMBEB, 1860. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Soeiety was held on 

 the 7th instant, 



The Ven. Archdeacon J. H. Pratt, as Sénior Member, in the chair. 



Presentations were received — 



lst. From Professor Grifíith, through Mr. W. Halsey, a singular 

 iron sun-dial called Pratocla or Pratola, (serving also for an hour-glass 

 a gun and a spear) believed to have been made by Sirdar Lena Singh 

 for Lord Hardinge. 



2nd. From the Poyal Geological Soeiety of London, the 29th 

 Vol. of their Journal. 



3rd. From A. Sconce, Esq., the following Arabic Books : — Will- 

 met's Arabic Lexicón, Schultens's Hariri and De Sacy's Arabic Gram- 

 mar, and Niebuhr's Travels. 



4th. From the Editors of Eajah Badhakant's Subda Kulpa- 

 drúma the lst No. of the new edition of the Encyclopedia, to- 

 gether with a brief sketch of the Pajah's life. 



5th. From Baboo Kaliprasuno Singh the 2nd No. of his valua- 

 ble work " Paraná Sangraba," being a Bengalee translation in prose 

 of the " Mahabharat." 



The Pratoda (noted above) was accompanied by the following ex- 

 tract from an oíd Hindoo work on astronomy, communicated by 

 Pundit Bapu Deva. 



1, I am explaining the instrument called Pratoda (a goad) invent- 

 ed by Ganesa, by which the hour oí the day can be easily known. 

 Take a straight stick of modérate thickness of the tree called 

 Dalbergia Sisu, of any length. 



2. Make it of the form of a right prism whose ends should be 

 regular polygons having as many angles as the number of ghatiJcas 

 contained in the excess of the longest day above the shortest (at the 

 given place) ; and for the convenience of holding it join a chain (or 

 string) to its top : (and mark the numbers of ghatikas from that of 

 the gliatilcas of the shortest day to that of those of the longest on 

 the upper parts of the sides of the prism successively.) 



