FIRST 



CONTENTS 



OF THE 



PART OF THE 20th 



VOLUME. 



• I. Page 



Translation of various Inscriptions found among the Ruins of Vijayanagar. By 

 E. C. RavensJiatv, Esq., Bengal Civil Service. With Preliminary Observa- 

 tions, by H. H. Wilson, Esq., late Secretary of the Asiatic Society, 1 



II- 



Analysis of the Dulva, a Portion of the Tibetan Work entitled the Kah-Gyur. 



By Mr. Alexander Csoma Korosi, Siculo-Hungarian of Transylvaiiia, ...... 41 



III. 



On the Administration of Justice in Nepal, ivitJi some account of the several 

 Courts, extent of their Jurisdiction, and modes of Procedure. By B. H. 

 Hodgson, Esq., British Resident in Nepal, 94 



IV. 



Essay on Sanscrit Alliteration. By the Rev. Willia7n Yates, 135 



V. 



Translation of an Inscription in the Burmese Language, discovered at Buddha 



Gaya, in 1833. By Lieutenant- Colonel H. Burney, British Resident at Ava, 161 



VI. 



Results of an Enquiry respecting the Law of Mortality, for British India, deduced 

 from the Reports and Appendices of the Committee appointed by the Bengal 

 Government in 1834, to consider the expediency of a Governinent Life Assu- 

 rance Institution. By Captain H. B. Henderson, Asst. Mily. Audr. Genl., 

 Secretary to the Committee, 190 



