204 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [No. 2. 



From Major Anderson, enclosing an English translation of Ibn 

 Huokul's account of Khorasan. 



From W. Muir, Esq., forwarding a Meteorological Eegister 

 kept at the Secretariat office at Agra, for the month of December," 

 1852. 



From L. Bowring, Esq., sending a fac-simile of a Sanscrita 

 Inscription, found near Thanesar. 



The following is Mr. B.'s account of the way in which he discover- 

 ed the inscription. 



" I have the pleasure to send you a copy of an inscription which 

 I saw recently on a tablet of red sandstone in the temple of a fol- 

 lower of the Goraknath persuasion, in the town of Pehewa, which is 

 about 15 miles west of Thanesar. I was marching from Patiala toward 

 Thanesar, and halted at Pehewa which is on the banks of the Saras* 

 wati river and is a place of pilgrimage of some note, having been 

 formerly known under the name of Prithiidak. It is included in the 

 limit of the sacred territory known as the 40 kos, that is, the dis* 

 tance between certain places, or the four points of the compass, 

 within which the skirmishes of the Pandavas were carried on. The in- 

 scription was copied after my departure by the Thanadar of Pehewa* 

 and is, as you will observe, reversed. I am not sure whether it will 

 prove to be legible, as a part of the inscription is effaced. It is 

 possible, however, that there may be interesting matter in it. 



" I am not aware whether the Society has ever been furnished 

 with an account of Thanesar, which bears marks of great antiquity, 

 and is considered particularly sacred on account of the celebrated 

 tank of Kurukshetra. I obtained an interesting notice of it from 

 one of the Brahmans of the place. 



" The old town of Samana, of which the ruins are very extensive, 

 is another very remarkable spot, in which many coins and traces of 

 ancient buildings are found. It is about 30 miles W". K. "W. of 

 Pehewa, and in the Patiala territory." 



From E. C. Bayley, Esq., announcing that he has heard of an 

 ancient inscription at a place called Rhunniarah, and is trying to 

 get a fac-simile of the same for the Society. With reference to the 

 paper on the Kotuch Kings of Kangra, which he alluded to in a 

 former letter, he states — 



