JOURNAL 
OP THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 
VOL. LVI. 
PART I. (History, Antiquities, &c.) 
(Nos. I to III.—1887 : with 10 plates.) 
EDITED BY 
Jhe J^hilo 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 Wll. JONES. 
CALCUTTA: 
PRINTED BY J. W. THOMAS, AT THE BAPTIST MISSION PRESS, 
AND PUBLISHED BY THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY, 57, PARK STREET. 
1887 . 
