JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



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VOL. XLIX. 



PART I. (History, Antiquities, Sec) 

 (Nos. I TO IV.— ISSO: with 22 Plates and 2 Map-.) 



EDITED BT 



JhE j^HILOLOGICAL ^ECRETARY. 



" It will flourish, if naturalists, chemists, antiquaries, philologers, and men of science 

 in different parts of Asia, will commit their obser^'ations to writing, and send them to 

 the Asiatic Society at Calcutta. It wiU languish, if such communications shall be long 

 intermitted : and it will die away, if they shall entuely cease." SiR Wii. Jones. 



CALCUTTA : 



PRINTED BY J. W. THOMAS, AT THE BAPTIST illSSIOX PRESS, 



ANT) PrBLISHED BY THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY, 57, PARK STREET. 



1880. 



