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1895.] Nagendraiiafha VaSii —Susunid Rock Inscription. 
Panjabi. Mr. Bomford now shows that what has hitherto been called 
Multani, from the place where it was first observed, is not a border 
language between Sindhi and Panjabi at all. It is the language of the 
Panjab, west of, roughly speaking, the Jhelum, till it meets the Pashtu 
spoken west of the Indus. Panjabi has hitherto been measured by the 
standard of Amritsar, a town some forty miles East of Lahore, midway 
between the Ravi and the Satlaj, and our grammars, dictionaries, and 
literature have been based entirely on the language of the East of the Pah- 
jab. The Grammars stated, and it was known as a general fact, that the 
language of the Western Pah jab differed from that of the East, but 
few attempts, till Mr. Bomford undertook the task, were made to in¬ 
vestigate the points of difference, and it was too readily assumed that 
Panjabi had two dialects,—a Standard and a Western. Mr. Bomford’s 
grammar shows that this is not true. That Western Panjabi can in no 
sense be called a dialect of standard Panjabi , but is altogether a distinct 
language closely connected with , and forming the connecting link between 
Sindhi and Kdcmtrl, 
These three languages, Sindhi, Western Panjabi, and Kagmiri, can 
now be classed as forming a North-Western Family of Indo-Aryan Ver¬ 
naculars, markedly differing from what has hitherto been called the 
Western, but must now be called the Central Family, and having curi¬ 
ously intimate relations with the Eastern language of Assam and with 
the Aryan languages spoken in the provinces of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. 
This interesting fact opens out wide ethnological questions, on which 
I am now engaged, and I hope, at an early date, to be able to place the 
result of my researches before the Society. 
This paper will be published in the Journal , Part I. 
2. On a case of Aghorpanthism from the Sdran District , Behcir.—By 
Babu Sarat Candra Mitra. Communicated by the Anthropological 
Secretary. 
3. Eastern Nagas of the Tirap and Namtsik.—By S. E. Peal, Esq., 
These papers will be published in the Journal , Part III. 
4. Susunid Rock Inscription of Gandra-varman .— By Nagendra- 
natha Vasu. 
This inscription has been found on the Susunia hill, in the district 
of Bankura, 12 miles to the north-west from the head-quarters and 17 
miles south-south-west from the Rfinlganj Station of the East India 
Railway. Passengers travelling by that Railway past the stations 
of Durgapur, Ondal and Ranigaiij, see the hill with its two peaks 
towards the south-south-west verge of the horizon, like the head and 
back of a huge elephant facing the west. The whole hill from the 
