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The Chairman said that he felt sure they would approve the 

 action of the Council in having recorded the vote of condolence for 

 one of the Society's most distinguished and most regretted speakers. 



The Resolution was confirmed in silence, all rising. 



6. The Chairman : Mr. Arunachalam is well known to you 

 all, and is a far older Member of this Branch of the Royal Asiatic 

 Society than myself, and I cannot feel that he requires any 

 introduction at my hands. His love of study is well known to all 

 of us , and he has always been ready to place the fruit of that study 

 at the disposal of this Society. Some of us have already seen the 

 Paper he is about to read, and I think that all of you will agree 

 when you have heard it that it is of an extremely interesting 

 description. 



7. The author read the following Paper, interspersing it with 

 philosophical discourses he had translated, and adding numerous 

 and learned explanatory comments : — 



