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 Octobxr, 1S7S.1 PROGRESS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH. 18? 307 hwn£*4oatinod irithtnindophnres. They diiAgreed. however, as to the date, the latter rending it as 14 the SiJili yuur of the king, no tho 7th day of tha mouth VniAakha,'' wbiUi W& it m year Sainvut 1M i,i.». WK the -Itli of Yai- e&kha, the Htfth yiior of the kin;: Pro- fessor Dowsun ha» now taken the inscription up ouoo mom, and adopt i General Cuuuuighnm'fi in* terpretatiou of the word ttifcsaCsd r*J as moaning the Soiiivntlnr Viknunaattyal era. Hi* raised roll- ing of the date is M thu 2fith year of the kimr. yCW NX" Ol thu Ss.irhv.it, the 3rd day of Yaiaakha." Another eoiniui,.. f considerable anttqe hiloiwfc In an aocout ! T. 11. Bloketloy of Ceylon on the ruin* of SigirL The rook of r I, in the north <cx<- "be central pro- vince of C h rises aume 60W fee tab* Lading plain, appears m mriy times to haTs constituted the citadel uf a fortified pa surrounded hy eartiinerkai mid moots, tho aides of which ure in »amo part* revetted with stone. Mr. Makftalar haa traced out two quadrangular areas*, comprising, together with tbv nick, a apace of soma tWuacwjf, nadr&fewlfl I aooonly by these walla urn! mnatii, but, on thu enatern aide, hirge artificial take, whtoh ha think* must havo been lifted also for the pui | jtgricuttural ir- rigation. Extensive earth works or bind* for fcha diversion of running water into particular channel* ham also been traced in diiTerent directions for some miles* Mr. Binktndey ascribes these earth- works to King K a s y ft pa the Parricide, who lived in the fifth century of WW era, and the completion of thu irrigation arrant ParAkrama B&huin the middle of the t century. Earlier than either of thurn— itwleed, an oarly aa the first century ii.c— are, in hi* Opi the wulia of oyolopeaa mnsonry fitill to bo seen at IVtnpngala, ■ rocka about half u mile bom th of the rock of S i g i r i. in the numbers of the Journal <>/ the 4*t<iiiV fai of 1874 which hare been hitherto rooeived, tbo most important 001 him translation from th v May,ir E. C, Ross, at Mas hut, of the Juuhj~al*G*u"nNtak, which, in .tor a opinion, la to bo considered as the most authentic and coherent aecoun! tory of 'OmAn that has emanated from native source*. The work appear* to bo extremely rare. Major Rosa had only hoard of two ooptea existing in "Omfin, from one of which his tramdaticii has boon prapared. Tho name of thoauthor nf tho work was not gtfW in the manuscript, but Major Rom waa informed by some learned men that the author ivaa S irhan-bin-^ald, a native ^flski, Bfihn Rijendralak lEtfi diaeasse* at long: question aa to the auppuacd identity of ihu ' with tho Varanan. Tho conclmrinaa at which he arrive* arc chicliy these : Tltftt barm Yavanawaa the name of aoDttiUry M ittj people to I3w wottof Kandahnr, whWi may luiro been Arabia, or |.ir«Lt, or MjxIU, or Aaayria— probably thu hut ; that Kubsoqitcutly it l" nam i» of all theee i-.mn b ■<■.-, and that there u iilaiee to shew that it was at any ana time the exclusive name ol the Greeks. Th» dwoovcry by Mr. Woatmoool I -tetm Arabic inacriptions, ranging from a.il 859 to 938, ax MfttiUln lnw enabled Dr. II mochmann to a veiuablu ouutribnUonl to tho geo- graphy and history or Bengal during tho Muhnm- madan |Wrkxl. [a tbo r bag Utaafh of th* .tiialk Society Mr. I It hav puhli5h- ilos and to "1 rwelra fitmyaritic inscriptions^ — nine of which are inavrib- ij Utree i plate* — r. the Socioty procured a few yean ago from Arabia, together with eight Arable taliH manic me<l! cup*, fucsimdcB and d« script tons of which aru rise pnbHshed by Mr. Hehatsclc. Of the Ilimyaritle Inscriptiona two are written in the 3mwT7w07BoV style. Auothur I n of eon* mdarahle importance is a series of Sanskrit and Old Cnnartnio In wri pi ioun rotntui Chioftaina of Sanndutti and Bvigauru. i i Oannfoso obftinoter, with translfainn and tiote«, by Mr. J, k Fleet. Theao docoiTritriit furnish n VI MitiAt'octory Tiew of the two powerful families which play Mich mi important part in the history of the (JhAlukyaa during a period of about throe ceutui ieu and a half, from tho time tlvey wore first raised from the rank of spiritual preceptor* to the position of chieftain*. Tho value of Mr. Float** commit niontion would have been considerably en- hanced by facsimile copies, Tho some Qtttnber containa a legendary account of King Saliva- hana or dituvihaiio, drawn ft xtyU treatise cftl iMr^aariirff, by Boo SAheb V. N. Mandiik. Mr, K JT. Tolong has given two [«tnm : In one of them he eaduOTOOri to tit the date of Madhu- HQdane SareBvatt, who commuuted Ofl ntuljitd, at about the end of the 15 th or the beginning of the 16th century; whilst in tho other ho gives a C'halnkya copperplate grant, and diamines tho chronology of tho Western line of that dynasty down to Vijayiditya (x.u. 005 to 733). Artkaiobw— Indwu— Tho Council are happy to be able to hU) 1. rt anniversary iig considerable progress ha* been made in Lbif Archwological Survey of India, inclndlng aomo discoveries which hara the mo en our knowledge of the ancient art and rehgi