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lated, of the same material. The figures were all Buddhist, and they 

 decided the character of the building in which they were found. Among 

 the sculptures were the bases of several large pillars bearing inscrip- 

 tions in corrupt Sanskrit and the G-npta character. Some of the statues 

 had similar inscriptions. The bulk of the stones, sculptures, and statues 

 found were broken into ballast for the repair of roads, but a few were 

 rescued for the Society's Museum. Among these are several which 

 bear inscriptions, and the paper supplies transcripts and translations 

 of these. Three of the inscriptions bear dates, and according to one of 

 them, the monastery was founded by the Scythian king Ooerki, 

 Sanskrit Huvishka, B. C. 50—30, whose dominion in India seems to 

 have extended so far down as Mathura. Another dated inscription 

 gives fragment of the name of a king which has been conjectured to be 

 Vasudeva. 



The President then called on Mr. Blochmann, to read his Notes on 

 certain Persian Poets styled Sultan. 

 Notes on the Poems of Prince A'zam uddin, a grandson of Tipu Sultan, 



and on three other Persian Poets, knoiun under the name of Sultan, by 



Mr. H. Blochmann. 



Among the presentations announced this evening the Diwdn-i- 

 Sultdn deserves a short notice. The book contains a collection 

 of ghazals, or love poems, by Prince Muhammad A'zamuddin, a 

 grandson of Tipu Sultan. The name of the father of the poet is 

 Prince Muhammad Shukrullah, whose brother,Prince Grhulam Muham- 

 mad, is the only surviving son of Tipu. Prince A'zamuddin, as I am 

 informed by the donor, was born in 1809 at Shahnagar, near Calcutta. 

 Like his brother, Shahzadah Bashiruddin, who lives at present at 

 Chinsurah, he was a man of extensive learning. He died in Septem- 

 ber, last year. 



According to the custom of all Persian poets, — a custom which has 

 become an established rule since the times of Sa'di, — Prince A'zamuddin 

 wrote under an assumed name. He chose the name of Sultan. The 

 collection is stated in the preface to have been made by Mir Ghulam ' Ali 

 of Calcutta, who says that the poems of the Prince amount to fifty 

 thousand lines, and upwards. Of these the book before the Meeting 

 contains a selection of about six thousand lines. Before the book 

 was sent to press, the Prince had been asked to revise some of the 



