574 Literary Intelligence. [No. 6. 



The copper coin which appears to belong to the Cashme- 

 rian Dynasties of Indo- Greeks, but is common also in the 

 Sind Sagur Doaba, many 



Copper coinage of Baraoro, a few 



The coins of Sri Earn, a few 



The prevailing coin at Mulpoor is a minute bronze coin, worth 



about half a farthing, having on one side a rude image of Kadphises 



or Kanerkes, and on the other what appears intended for a figure of 



plenty seated. I have not met with it elsewhere. 



I have visited Maunkyala several times, but have found very few 



coins or relics in that neighbourhood. 



Literary Intelligence. 



The 2nd No. (vol. vii.) of the ' Zeitschrift' of the German Oriental 

 Society contains the first half of a paper by Professor Neumann on 

 early Chinese civilization. Dr. Grotefend criticises Col. Eawlinson's 

 reading of the Behistun inscriptions. Dr. Max Miiller notices the 

 first portion of Dr. Ballantyne's Edition of the Mahabhashya. 

 There is a paper by Dr. Hitzig on Gazzali's Ihja-ulum-al-din, and 

 another by Dr. Grotefend Piper on the I-king of Confucius. 



Among the notices, there is a communication from Dr. "Weber of 

 Berlin, exposing another fictitious publication similar to that of 

 St. Croix in 1778. Some Danish missionaries imposed on by a 

 Tranquebar Brahmin published in the Missions berichte aus Ostin- 

 dien (Halle 1742) a paper entitled, ' An abstract of the Tadsur 

 Vedam, one of the four Law-books of the Brahmins.' There is also 

 a criticism of Pertsch's Chronicle of the family of Eajah Krishna 

 Chandra of Nuddeah, just published at Berlin. The Catalogues of 

 MSS. in the Berlin and Leyden Libraries, which are the subject of 

 two other interesting notices, will be more particularly mentioned 

 hereafter. 



An Oriental Society has been founded at Constantinople. Its 

 members already number forty, and its first meeting was held on 

 the 11th February last. The Journal commenced by M. Cayol, is 

 henceforward to appear under the Society's auspices. 



