192 R. Mitra —Inscription from Gaya. [July, 
rendered somewhat in detail. The grouping, the proportions and the 
execution of these figures is, I think the Society will agree, very superior 
to the Hindu art of the present day. But for the presence of the child 
the group might be taken to represent Adam and Eve in the garden. 
I believe that if fragments such as these now sent, were to be careful¬ 
ly collected in all Districts, some information might be obtained of the 
customs and the circumstances of former dynasties. The different styles 
of arranging the hair to which Dr. Rajendralala Mitra, c. i. E., first 
drew attention in his valuable work on Orissa, is in itself alone a study 
among the fragments I have seen in Fatehgarh. 
2. Note on an Inscription from the Gate of the Krishna DivaraTca Temple 
at Gaya.—By De. Eajendhalala Mitea, Eai Bahadue, c. i. e. 
(Abstract.) 
This inscription was first seen by Dr. Mitra in 1864. General 
Cunningham also noticed it in 1872 and published a facsimile of it in the 
Archseological Survey Eeports (Yol. Ill, plate XXXVII.) It consists of 
18 long lines in the Kutila characters ; and measures 30 x 13 inches. 
It is in no way connected with Buddhism, nor with the temple to which 
it is now attached. It distinctly names Vishnu as the divinity for whom 
the temple which bore it was built. The dedicator of the temple is said 
to be Soma, a petty Zamindar, a descendant of one Visvaditya. The 
latter is said to have encouraged the study of Sahadeva’s treatise on the 
veterinary art. Sahadeva was a twin brother of Xakula, who is known 
to have written a work on the diseases of horses; and it is very likely 
that this work also passed in the name of his twin brother. The inscrip¬ 
tion bears date, the 15th year of Baja Naya Pala Deva. His reign 
began about the year 1040 (see Dr. Mitra’s paper on the Pala Rajas in 
the J. A. S. B., 1878). His fifteenth year, accordingly, would fall about 
the middle of the sixth decade of the 11th century. 
This paper will be published in Journal, Part I. 
3. The Sect of the Pran-nathis.—By F. S. Geowse, Esq., b. c. s. r 
H. A. OxON., C. I. E. 
(Abstract.) 
The small and obscure sect of the Prannathis is one of the few of 
whose literature Prof. Wilson, in his Essays on the Religions of the Hin¬ 
dus, was unable to furnish a specimen. This want is now supplied by 
Mr. Growse’s publication of the text and English translation of one of 
the poems of Prannath himself. It is entitled Kiydmat-ndma, and is 
