i 38 Proceeding* of the Asiatic Society. [May, 



The paper concludes with a very interesting chapter, entitled 

 11 Proposed Criteria towards fixing the dates ofPatfhdn buildings atDihli" 

 ] )r. 1 d h a m read some portions of the paper and expressed the 

 hope that Mr. Tremlett's notes may soon be printed in Part I 

 of the Society's Journal. 



II. — On the Relation of the Uria to the other modem Aryan 

 languages, by J. B e am e s, Esq., B. 0. S. 



Mr. Beames, in this paper, alludes to the appearance of a 

 Bengali pamphlet, i Uria not an independent language,' by Babu 

 Kantichandra of Balasore. Though 'destitute of philological acumen,' 

 the book had caused some sensation, and induced Mr. B e a m e s to 

 institute a comparision between Uria and Prakrit. He had come to 

 the conclusion that Uria was a sister, not a daughter, of Bengali. 



Mr. Beames hopes in a short time to bring out his Comparative 

 Grammar of the Aryan Languages of India, in which the arguments 

 will appear in a fuller form. 



Babu E a j e n d r a 1 a 1 a M i t r a then rose and addressed the 

 meeting at some length. He said that all along he had been of opinion 

 that Uria was a daughter of Bengali, and that Mr. Beames' argu- 

 ments had not changed his opinion. He thought that Mr. Beames' 

 proofs were very limited, both in number and force. The differ- 

 ences between Uria and Bengali were altogether so insignificant, 

 that no calm observer would look upon them as anything but 

 slight dialectical deviations or differences in pronunciation. He 

 certainly believed with Mr. Beames, that a ehdsa of Gumsar would 

 not understand a chdsa of Dacca ; but he also believed that a peasant 

 of Kent would not understand a peasant of York, and yet no one 

 would call the dialect of either a sister of the English Language. . 



Mr. B e a m e s' paper and Babu Kajendralala Mitra's 

 strictures will shortly appear in the second fasciculus of the Philolo- 

 gical Part of the Journal. 



III. — Note on a Persian MS. entitled ~Miu- at ul Quds, a Life of Christ 

 compiled at the request of the Emperor Albar by Je r ome Xavie r, 

 —by H. Blochmann, Esq., M. A., Calcutta Madrasah. 

 The curious Persian MS. which I have the pleasure of exhibiting 



to-night, was given to me by the Kev. Mr. Don of the Calcutta Free 



