46 Literary Intelligence. [No. 1, 
history of Zend and Pehlevee literature, accompanied by translations 
and grammars of these languages, the second to explain the 
Zoroastrian dogmas, and to give an account of the origin and develop- 
ment of this religion and of its relations with Vedism. 
The Royal Asiatic Society have commenced a new series of their 
Journal, the first part of which contains a paper by Dr. J. Muir on the 
Vedic Theogony and Mythology. This is to be followed by others, 
the Author’s object being to examine the religious ideas of the 
Rig Veda and ‘to compare them occasionally with the corresponding 
conceptions of the early Greeks.’ 
The Oriental Translation Fund Committee are, we regret to see, 
unable to proceed with any new publications for want of funds. 
They propose, therefore, to complete, as soon as practicable, De Slane’s 
translation of Ibn Khallikan and to close their labours. 

The following is from General Cunningham, dated October last. 
“The coins of Sophytes to which Captain Stubbs refers, have only 
been found in the N. W. of India, as far as I am aware: and I am 
therefore inclined to assign them to Sophites, or Sopeithes, or 
Cuphites, the king of the Kathi, who was contemporary with 
Alexander. The coins themselves appear to be of the same age as 
those of Alexander and Seleukos. 
“ Thomas’s article on Indian Weights promises to be interesting — 
I have been collecting materials for the same subject for nearly 
20 years, and Ihave made many curious discoveries—I see that he 
quotes Sir William Jones as fixing the weight of the Krishnala, or 
Rati seed, at 1,5, grain: but I am satisfied that this is a simple 
misprint of Jones’s manuscript, for 1% or 1.833 grain, which is as 
nearly as possible the average weight of thousands of seeds which I 
have tested. The great unit of medieval and modern times is the 
taka of not less than 145 grains, of which 6 make the chha-téka, or 
chhatak, equal to 870 grains, or nearly 2 ounces—and 100 make the 
setaka or ser, the derivation being sat-tdka or 100 takas—For conve- 
nience I have taken, in all my calculations, the rat: seed at 1.8229 
grain—Then 80 ratis, or 145.832 was the weight of the tangka of 
copper, and also of the golden swvarna, which multiplied by 6 gives 
874.99 grains, or exactly 2 ounces for the chhatdka or chhatak. One 

