156 R. C. Temple— Distribution of Afghan Tribes about Kandahar. [Mat, 
adkikaro pana tividko, slhagatika-mandukagatika-yathdnupub- 
bika-vasena ; ayam pana sfhagatiko pubbaparavilokanato, yatha- 
nupubbiko y-eva va. Sakkatavisadisam katva jinavacananuni- 
§. 2. pavasena pakati thapanatthana paribhasam ahalingan ca nippac- 
cate. 
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“ Tbe author of the Rupasiddhi was Dipankaro, otherwise called Bud- 
dbapiyo ; be was a disciple of Ananda, who was a disciple of the grammarian 
Moggallana, otherwise called Sangbarakkbita Thera. Moggallana lived in 
Ceylon during the reign of Parakrama bahu I., 1153-1186 A. D. Tbe 
Rupasiddhi therefore could hardly have been written earlier than the thir¬ 
teenth century A. D.” 
The following papers were read :— 
1. Bough Notes on the Distribution of the Afghan Tribes about Kanda¬ 
har.—By Lieut. R. C. Temple, 1st Ooorkhas. 
(Abstract.) 
This is a very interesting paper on a subject on which every additional 
information must be welcome, especially at the present time. Another 
paper on the subject is promised by the author. The information contain¬ 
ed in the present paper was collected by him, while he was employed in 
foraging in advance of General Stewart’s Division during the march back 
from Kelat i Ghilzai to Kandahar and afterwards in taking a convoy of 
camels to Col. Patterson’s reconnoitering expedition down the Arghisan 
Valley (1st to 23rd Feb.) The author found that nearly all the Afghans 
living in the Kandahar district are Duranis of the Popalzais and Barakzai 
sections, divided into numerous septs. Of these a correct list is given sup¬ 
plementing the imperfections of the official one. He accounts for the fre¬ 
quent discrepancy in the names of the Afghan villages by the circumstance 
constantly met with by him, that they may be called by six different names 
which may be either (l),its own name, or may be ( 2 ), taken from the district 
or tract of land in which the village lies, or (3), from the section, or (4), 
subsection of the tribe which inhabits it, or (5), from the late owner, if 
recently dead, or ( 6 ), from the present owner. 
This paper will be published in the Journal, Part I. 
2. Bulandshahar Antiquities.—By F. S. Growse, Esq., c. s., m. a., c. i. e. 
(Abstract.) 
The town of Bulandshahar is so called after the high artificial hill on 
which stood the old Fort. Its original name was Baran, apparently an 
