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The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal September 1836

1836

Wi 4 the question of the authenticity of Buddhistical chronology Department in PALI annals subsequent to the advent of SAKYA is under the considtion of the Committee of Papers of the Asiatic Society I beg to aiter a few observations on the Chronological Table appended to Professor WILSON’S Essay on the Hindu History of called the Raja Tarangini published in the xvth volume of the AsiMc Researche [...] These extracts and abstracts whether viewed in connection with the events recorded in the Cashrnirian history which also bear testmony to the partial subsidence of the influence of Buddhism in Nothern India and of the congregation of the heads of that faith in the neighbourhood of the Himalayan mountains about the third century B. C. and the subsequent revival of that influence in the da [...] Two notices on the site of Beghram and of the nature of the coins found at it have already been made public in the pages of the Jounal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [...] While there is sufficient testimony that the Greek language was studied and well known by the fashionable and higher orders in India during the first and second histories of the Christian era the latter coins of the Indo-Scythic princes seem to testify by the very corrupted characters they bear that at the period of their coinage the knowledge of it was very trifling or limited to the power of [...] The regions spreading from the source of the Oxus have claims to be considered the birth-place of that peculiar form of the Mith Lac religion which was at one time adopted in all the countries between the Indus and the Bosphorus—and of which vestiges are still seen in the temples and sepultures of its votaries.
history
Pages
94
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
—Examination of Some Points of Buddhist Chronology. By the Hon. George Turnour Ceylon Civil Service
521-536 James Prinsep view
II—Third Memoir on the Ancient Coins Discovered at the Site Called Beghram in the Kohistán of Kábul. By Mr. Charles Masson. Dated Kábul May 1836
537-547 James Prinsep view
III—New Varieties of Bactrian Coins Engraved as Plate XXXV from Mr. Masson’s Drawings and other Sources. By James Prinsep Sec.
548-554 James Prinsep view
IV—Facsimiles of Ancient Inscriptions Lithographed by Jas. Prinsep Secy. &C. &C
554-561 James Prinsep view
V—Sketch of the State of Múar Malay Peninsula. By T.J. Newbold. Lieut. A.D.C. to Brigadier General Wilson C.B.
561-567 James Prinsep view
VI—Note on the Discovery of a Relic of Grecian Sculpture in Upper India. By Lieut.-Col. L.R. Stacy. Plate XXXI
567-570 James Prinsep view
VII—Description of Some Grasses Which form Part of the Vegetation in the Jheels of the District of Sylhet. By William Griffiths Esq. Assistant Surgeon. Madras Establishment
570-575 James Prinsep view
VIII—Notes on Delhi Point Pulo-Ghie &C. and on Some Pelagic Fossil Remains Found in the Rocks of Pulo-Ledah. By Wm. Bland Esq. Surgeon H.M.S. Wolf
575-578 James Prinsep view
IX—Fossil Remains of the Smaller Carnivora from the Sub-Himálayas by Lieut. W.E. Baker and Lieut. H.M. Durand Engineers
579-584 James Prinsep view
X—Continuation of a Paper (Journal May 1835). On the Heights of the Barometer as Affected by the Position of the Moon. By the Rev. R. Everest
585-587 James Prinsep view
XI—Proceedings of the Asiatic Society
587-599 James Prinsep view
XII—Meteorological Register
600-i James Prinsep view

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