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Journal & Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal November 1912

1913

In a footnote to this extract it is recorded that the manfacture of salt from the leaves of the plantain is mentioned by Mohammed Kazim and it is pointed out by the editor that the pungency is probably due to the presence of potash salts. [...] The sheetarichor of the history of the Bissen family is however a tradition long current in the family and admitted to be reliable by such competent authorities as Sir Henry Elliott; and that tradition is that the present head of the family is 115th in descent from the founder. [...] Now the Mallas of Ko: :ala were a powerful ruling tribe in the neighbourhood of the scenes of the greatest activity of Buddha SAkya Singha and an attempt has been made to trace the origin of the Bissens from the Malla king of Pava in Koala in whose territory. [...] So the family must have been continued for several generations on the throne of till the great struggle for supremacy which overthrew all the monarchies of Koala and led to the establishment of the Magadh Empire in the early 4th century B. C. There is more than one strong point in the Malta theory which may commend it to the favourable consideration of scholars namely the vicinity of their posse [...] The notions possessed at that time in Europe of this iportant language date back to the beginning of the eighteenth century when a Tibeto-Mongol library was discovered in the ruins of the Buddhist convent of Ablaiinkit on the left bank of the Irtish It is well known that in 1722 Peter the Great sent a volume from this library to the Acadëmie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettree' at Paris.
history
Pages
69
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-ii unknown view
The Ash of the Plantain (Musa Sapientum Linn)
363-366 David Hooper view
A Compound of Sodium Cuprous Thiosulphzte and Acetylide Cuprous Acetylide. (Preliminary notice)
367-368 Kshitibhushan Bhaduri view
Note on the Interaction of. Hydrazines with Ferri-Cyanides
369-370 Priyadaranjan Ray, Hemendra Sen view
On Isomeric Allylamines. (Second Communication)
371-372 Prafulla Ray, Rasik Dutta view
Theories to Explain the Origin of the Visen Family of Majhawali
373-378 M. M. Shāstri view
Remarks on the Tibetan Manuscript Vocabularies in Bishop’s College Calcutta
379-398 Father Felix view
On a New Series of the Double Sulphates of Barium with the Sulphates of the Substituted Ammonium Bases. Part I
399-400 Rasik Datta, Haridas Sen view
On a Crystallized Slag from Kulti
401-402 Hem Das-Gupta view
Preliminary Account of a Revised Classification of Indo-Australian Passalidae
403-408 F. H. Gravely view
Numismatic Supplement No XIX
409-424 C. J. Brown view
Nov-12
cxxxv-i unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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