JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 
VOL. LXVI. 
PART I. (History, Antiquities, &c.) 
Nos. I to IV, and Extra No. — 1897. 
(With 38 Plates.) 
EDITED BY THE 
jloNOF^ARY ILO LOGICAL ^SECRETARY. 
“ It will flourish, if naturalists, chemists, antiquaries, philologers, and men of science 
in different parts of Asia, will commit their observations to writing, and send them to 
the Asiatic Society at Calcutta. It will languish, if such communications shall be long 
intermitted ; and it will die away, if they shall entirely cease.” Sir Wm. Jones. 
CALCUTTA: 
PRINTED AT THE BAPTIST MISSION PRESS, 
AND PUBLISHED BY THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY, 57, PARK STREET. 
1897 . 
