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him." 2nd Dharma Kasha, of 700,000 s'lokas, compiled by order of 

 Jayasinha Raja of Jayapur, who is said to have " sent the author to 

 perambulate the Gangetic provinces. He was furnished with a Machiles- 

 wara or compass, and a water clock which as he advanced shewed the 

 coss and its parts." 3rd, Bhrigu Sanhitd, " between 40 and 50,000 

 s'lokas, all on geography." 4th, Garga Sanhitd, " certainly about 2J 

 lakhs of s'lokas." 5th, Mddhavi Kosha, " entirely on geography. It 

 consists of 10,000 leaves or above nine lakhs of s'lokas. It requires 

 three men, or at least two very strong ones, to carry it. It is divided 

 into 56 books describing the Chhapan Desa of India." 6th, Ishta 

 Purdna, " compiled by order of Mana Sing for the illustration of the 

 geography of the Puranas— about 2 J lacks of s'lokas." 7th, Ahahala 

 Sanhitd. " of 56 Sections relating to the 56 grand divisions of India." 

 8th, Suta sanhitd. 9th, Pardsara Sanhitd, u both on geography." 

 Wilford possessed MSS. of most of these, and it would be of interest 

 if they could now be traced. 



The following are extracts from three letters lately received from 

 Professor Holmboe of Christiania, giving the results of his recent 

 researches into Indo- Scandinavian antiquities. The first is an abstract 

 of a memoir on some figures sculptured on a rock in Scandinavia, 

 which will be found interesting to Indian Archaeologists : — 



" Depuis un temps immemorial on voit sur les rocs pres de la 

 mer aux cotes de Suede et de Norvege un grand nombre de figures 

 sculptees, representant des navires, des roues, des voitures, des 

 hommes armcs, des chevaux, des cavaliers, des souliers, &c. Elles 

 se trouvent ordinairement groupees ensemble, ce qui a motive qivdques 

 archt'ologues a les prendre pour des tableaux executes en memoire 

 de batailles, particulierement par mer. Mais il est constate^ que les 

 figures, qui forment une groupe, ne sont pas contemporaines, mais 

 fabriquees a differentes epoques. Le navire on bateau sont des symboles 

 ordinaires de la metempsychose en Orient, et les memes symboles se 

 trouvent parfois sur des pierres sepulcrales dans le Nord. M. H. sup- 

 pose done que ces figures sculptees sur les rocs y sont placees en memoire 

 de personnesdecedees, et que le choix des figures depend ou du gout des 

 parents survivants, ou de la position, sociale du defunt, ou de quelque 

 evenement important de sa vie. Quant aux autres figures, les souliers, les 

 voitures, les chevaux &c. l'auteur renvoie le lecteur a la croyance des 



