1889.] 



on the Civilization of Ancient India. 



The sumo occidental influences left enduring marks on the religion 

 and mythology of India, modified her epic poetry, and in the opinion of 

 some competent judges, affected even the grammar, logic, and philo- 

 sophy which are the most characteristic and original products of Indian 

 thought. 



The investigation of the relations between the early civilization of 

 India and that of Western nations is still very incomplete, but it has 

 proceeded sufficiently far to warrant the belief that further research will 

 magnify rather than diminish the debt due by India to Assyria, Baby- 

 lonia, Persia, Greece, and Rome. 



Addendum. 



When compiling the Bibliographical List (ante, page 113) I 

 omitted to notice the following papers : — 



(1.) Indo-Grecian Sculptures from the N.-W. Frontier, by Major 

 J. Abbott (with a Plate). Proc. As. Soc. of Bengal for 1854, page 394. 



This communication briefly notices a large box of sculptures pre- 

 sented to the Society which were " dug from the site of a temple on 

 the left bank of the Indus, called Kala, close below Ghazi Huzara. 

 The winged female is from another old site at present called Shah ke 

 Tere in Quatur. They are very inferior in grace and execution to 



those from Trans-Indus Those at Kala seem to have belonged 



to a Buddhist temple of small size, but very richly and eleborately 

 sculptured, the material being black clay-slate." The plate represents 

 a head from Rawalpindi. 



(2.) Note on a small Indo-Greek Sculpture, by the same, %b%d, for 

 1868, page 261. The figure described and presented to the Society is 

 one of the Atlantean class, purchased from a native, who had found 

 it in an old fort of the Yusufzai at the foot of the mountains. 



(3.) Account of some of the Sculptures in the Peshawar Museum, 

 by Rev. W. Loewenthal, ibid, for 1861, page 411. 



The account given is, unfortunately, extremely meagre. It men- 

 tions Buddhas almost innumerable, kings of various sizes, a lady sitting 

 on a lion, playing the lute, reliefs, and elaborate figures of warriors m 



