No. 35.— 1887.] NOTES ON jatakas. 



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NOTES ON CERTAIN JATAKAS RELATIVE TO 

 THE SCULPTURES RECENTLY DISCOVERED 

 IN NORTHERN INDIA. 



[A Paper bearing the above title was read before a General Meeting 

 of the Society on November 2, 1874, At a Committee Meeting held 

 on February 1, 1875, it was resolved "that another number of the 

 Journal, including the translations of the Jatakas referred to in 

 General Cunningham's report of his recent discoveries, be published 

 at the earliest possible date." No Journal however, was, issued until 

 1879 : meanwhile several Papers (including the above*) which had 

 been read before General Meetings were lost sight of, and have 

 never been printed. Recently, among the miscellaneous papers left 

 by the late Maha Mudaliyar Louis De Zoysa, was found the following 

 " Supplementary Note " on the sculptures at Bharhut. This Note 

 does not seem to have been read before the Society, but may well find 

 a place in the Journal even after the lapse of years. An " Appendix " 

 of correspondence, &c, bearing on the subject has been added. — B., 

 Hon. Sec.'] 



|Sng| N connection with the paper I had the honour to read 



1 November 2, 1874, on some of the sculptures re- 

 presenting Jatakas of Buddha recently discovered by Major- 

 General Cunningham, Director-General of the Archaeological 

 Survey of India, at Bharhut [Appendix A, B], I have the 

 pleasure to submit a Note on some other sculptures found at 

 the same place, and on which there is an exceedingly 

 interesting correspondence in the Academy, which Professor 



* E. g., " Text and translation of a rock inscription at Pepiliyana," by 

 L. De Zoysa, Mudaliyar (Eead June 3, 1873) ; " Translation from the 

 Pansiya-panas Jataka" by L. De Zoysa, Mudaliyar (Read September 25, 

 1873) ; " On a snake found in the Southern Province, supposed to be new 

 to Ceylon," by W. Ferguson, Esq. (Read November 2, 1874). 



By L. de Zoysa, Mudaliyar. 



at the General Meeting of the Society held on 



