“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. W.M. Jones.

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CALCUTTA. :

PRINTED BY G. H. ROUSE, AT THE BAPTIST MISSION PRI'ss,
AND PUIRI,ISHED AT TIII,

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1878.

CONTENTs

OF

JOURNAL, ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, PART I,

FOR 1878.

NO. I.

The Mo'allaqah of Zuheyr, rendered into English, with an introduc-

tion and notes.—By C. J. LYALL, C. S. ...........................

Stray Arians in Tibet.—By R. B. SHAW, Political Agent, (with a

Plate), .....................................................................

On Representations of Foreigners in the Ajantá Frescoes.—By

RKJENDRALĀLA MITRA, Rai Bahádur, L.L. D., C. I. E. (with

four plates), ...............................................................

A Copper-plate Grant from Bandá.—By RKJENDRALĀLA MITRA,
Rai Bahádur, L.L. D., C. T. E., (with a plate), ................. e

Recent Trans-Frontier Explorations, communicated by Col. J. T.

WALKER, C. B., R. E., Surveyor-General of India, (with a

Map), .............................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * * * * * * * * * * g + c e &

Notes on two Copper-plate Inscriptions found in the Hamirptir

District, N. W. P., by W. A. SMITH, B. A., B. C. S. With a

note by PRANNATH PANDIT, M. A., B. L., ........................

The Antiquities of Bagurá, (Bogra),—By H. BEVERIDGE, C. S., ...,

NO. II.

Mathurá Notes.—By F. S. GROWSE, M. A., OxON. C. S., ...

NO. III.

The Song of Mánik Chandra.-By G. A. GRIERson, C. S., .........

The Lokamiti, translated from the Burmese Paraphrase.—By LIEUT.
R. C. TEMPLE, B. S. C., Offg. Wing Officer, 1st Goorkhas,......

NO. IV. *

The Bangash Nawābs of Farrukhābād-A Chronicle, (1713–1857).
By WILLIAM IRVINE, C. S., Fatehgurh, N. W. P., PART I,

The Pála and the Sena Rájás of Bengal.—By RAJENDRALĀLA MITRA,
Rai Bahádur, L.L. D., C. J. E., .......................................