JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



EDITED BY 



THE SECRETARIES. 



VOL. XXI. 



Nos. I. to VII.— 1852. 



"It will flourish, if naturalists, chemists, antiquaries, philologers, and men of science, 

 in different parts of Asia, will commit their observations to writing-, and send them to the 

 Asiatic Society at Calcutta. It will lai^imhr-ii^uch communications shall be long 

 intermitted ; and it will die away if^rt^^al^^g^scease."— Sir Wm, Jones. 



CALCUTTA : 



PBINTED BY J. THOMAS, BAPTIST MISSION PBESS. 



1853. 



