OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 
Part I .—HISTORY, LITERATURE, &e, 
No. II.—1878. 
Mathura Notes. — By F. S. Growse, M. A. Oxox., B. C. S. 
(With, eleven plates.) 
The following scraps from my note-book have been hastily thrown 
together in the midst of the worry and confusion occasioned by my sudden 
and most unexpected transfer from a district, to which I had become great¬ 
ly attached, and where I had confidently hoped to spend with much pleasure 
to myself and some slight advantage to the public the few years that yet 
remain of my career in the executive branch of the service. I cannot avoid 
this personal explanation, as it supplies the only adequate apology for the 
very unfinished state in which these fragments appear. I had intended to 
work up several of them into separate articles ; but the opportunity of 
doing this has been denied me, and I have no choice but either to send 
them as they are, or else allow them to perish amidst the general wreck in 
which all my household gods are now involved. 
1. Gosciin Mari Vans of Brindaban , and the sect of the Bddhd Vallabhis. 
One of my inchoate projects was the compilation of a series of notices 
illustrating the life and doctrine of the different Vaishnava Reformers of 
the lGth and 17th centuries, who all made Brindaban their head centre. 
Though both the men themselves and their writings are scarcely known by 
name to European Orientalists, they have had an enormous influence on the 
tendencies of modern Hindu thought, and the sects which they founded 
still continue to gather converts from all parts of India. To last year’s 
volume of the Society’s Journal I contributed an article on Swami Hari 
