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The cost of printing the work has been estimated at Rs. 9,000, 

 more than half of which will be covered by a special grant of 

 Rs. 5,000, which has been sanctioned by Government, on condition 

 of the Society placing at its disposal 250 copies of the book when 

 completed. 



It will be edited by Mr. H. Blochmann, under the superintendence 

 of the Philological Committee. 



By order of the Council, 

 Ra'jendrala'la Mitra, 



Phil. Secy. Asiatic Society. 

 27th August, 1866. 



The following gentleman was nominated for election as an Ordi- 

 nary Member at the next meeting : — 



Kumar Harendra Krishna Bahadur; proposed by Babu Raj endra- 

 •161a Mitra, seconded by Mr. Grote. 



Babu Rajendralala Mitra read the following remarks on the papers 

 by Messrs. Beames and Blochmann on " Om" and " Amen," submitted 

 at the last meeting. 



" I had expected to have been present at the Society's meeting 

 in September last, and to have made a few remarks on the 

 papers, then submitted, from Messrs. Beames and Blochmann, on 

 the etymology of the word Amen ; but I was unavoidably prevented 

 almost at the last moment ; I take this opportunity, therefore, of 

 noticing a few salient points in the discussion raised by those gentlemen. 

 In my observations on the subject in March 1865, I said that the 

 facts then stated, led me " to the conclusion that the two are the same, 

 or dialectic varieties of the same word, which the Hindus and the 

 Hebrews either had in common before they separated into the two 

 races, or which one of them borrowed from the other." The facts to 

 which I then alluded were the identity of the meaning of the two words ; 

 their strong similitude in sound ; their origin (as it seemed probable 

 to me) from the same roots ; and the mysterious importance attached 

 to them by the races who use them. Mr. Blochmann, commenting on 

 my observations, at the time, was not disposed to question the position 

 I had assumed, and stated that ' the Sanskrit " Om" may have had 

 originally a final n, and also the meaning of an affirmative par- 

 ticle. If so, the syllable om alone would express this fully, so that we 



