APRIL — SEPT. 1859.] 



Proceedings. 



167 



It consists of 63 double Cadjans inscribed on two sides of each 

 pair, in the Burmese character, and ornamented with Mythological 

 figures executed with the style employed in writing. The Manu- 

 script was obtained in Burmah, by Colonel Trevor of the Madras 

 Horse Artillery and given by him to Sir Charles Trevelyan. 



Resolved, that the best thanks of the Meeting be offered to Sir 

 Charles Trevelyan for his present of the Manuscript, which the 

 Committee will endeavour to have examined with a view of as- 

 certaining the nature of its contents translated in full, or abstract. 



Read letter, communicated by Sir C. Trevelyan, from Captain 

 Playfair of the Madras Artillery, Assistant to the Political Agent 

 stationed at Aden, forwarding a Photograph of an ancient Hebrew 

 Inscription lately discovered in digging the foundation for the new 

 Barracks at Front Bay, with a fair copy, Glossary and Translation, 

 as obtained from a German Jew on the spot. 



The interest turns on the date of the inscription which appears 

 to be an epitaph, and according to the translation given and inter- 

 pretation placed on it by Captain Playfair would testify to the 

 presence of Jewish Residents at that Port some 2000 years ago. 



Resolved, that the best thanks of the Committee be offered to 

 Sir C. Trevelyan for this interesting communication and that mea- 

 sures be taken to obtain a second and independant reading and 

 translation of the inscription, and that the letter with both copies 

 of the inscription and such elucidation of its contents as may be 

 obtained be eventually made over to the Journal Sub-Committee 

 for publication. 



The President laid before the Meeting a set of copper plates re- 

 cording a grant by a local chief of the Chola family amongst whose 

 titles occurs that of " Lord of Nandadurga." This fact is of some 

 value in a historical point of view as confirming a very generally 

 asserted statement, but which has often been doubted, that the 

 Western boundary of Tondamandalam extended to Nandidrug. 

 The fact of a chief of Chola race being designated by the title of 

 Lord of that place goes far to establish the accuracy of the ancient 

 tradition. 



The grant differs from all those of similar description hitherto 

 observed in the circumstance of the edges of the copper plates 



