JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 
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VOL. LXXI. 
PART I. (History, Antiquities, &c.) 
(Nos. I and II, and Extra Nos. I and II,—1902.) 
EDITED BY THE 
jdONORARY j^HILOLOGICAL jS ECRETARY, 
“ 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 of Calcutta. It will languish, if such communications shall be long 
intermitted; and it will die away, if Jhsy %hal] erjtirjely t ease.” SiR Wm, Jones. 
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CALCUTTA: 
PRINTED AT THE BAPTIST MISSION PRESS, 
AND PUBLISHED BY THE ' 
ASIATIC SOCIETY, 57, PARK STREET. 
1902 . 
