JOURNAL or THE BIHAR AND ORISSA RESEARCH SOCIETY VOt„ XXVI 19*0 VOL. XXVII PART II THE JOURNAL otthe P 2o BIHAR AND ORISSA RESEARCH SOCIETY 1941 PATNA Published by the Biha?, akd Orissa RsBiAncu Society Prhf Ri. j He. THE JOURNAL OF THE BIHAR AND ORISSA RESEARCH SOCIETY PATNA PUBLISHED BY THE BIHAR AND ORISSA RESEARCH SOCIKTY Prut Pi. 20. ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO ARTI :LF.S. Page Account of Ibrahim Adil Shah of Bijapor (1534*57) By Profeuar A* K. Bout, Af. A ., T. rk*r. if. A., D. Phil. (Oxen.), Psm CeUrgf. .. .. jj* Two Hero Stones of Bar.k.ira, B/ Adrii Bvurji, M. A.. Krtprr, Sxrnatk Mastum, Eciiart.s. .. 170 ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF NAMES OF CONTRIBU TORS WITH THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS. Page. Altai, S. H., M. A . B. L , Paine College— (i) Maharaja Kalyan Sir^fc, Ashiq "The last native Governor at Bil.ar . . j (») S. H. Hodivala-'s Studies in Icdo Muslim History .. .. .. .. eji Ranerjii Adris. M. A., Keeper, Samsth Museum Benares — Two Hero Slones ol Bankura .. .. i?o Banerji-Saslri, Dr. A., M. B. F_. M. A.. D. Phil. (Oxon.)— (x) Kurkihar Bronze Inscription.’ ( with Plate ) . . . . . . sgg (*) Mauryan Sculptures from Lohanipur Patu’ (with Plates) .. .. ,6 j (j) Ninety-three Inscriptions on the Kurkihar Bronzes, Patna Museum .. .. aj6 (t) A Stone Inscription from M aksruipur (with plates) .. .. .. ,6» (j) Terra Cotta Plaque of Vigrahspaladevi (with plate) .. .. .. .. 3, Barret ji, Man Gobinda, M.A.. B. Ed., Ranchi— The Name "Chota Nagpur”. .. .. ,f 9 Basu, Dr. K. K., M. A., Ph.D.— (i) The Gokonda Court Letters .. .. 371 (s) An account of Ibrahim Adil Shah of fiijapur 60 Chattorji, Nandlal. M.A.- Ph. D„ D. L-.lt. University of Lucknow— The administration of Justice in Bihar and Bengal dun n» Verelst's Governorship .. 40 Datta, Kalikinkara. M.A., Ph.D.. P. R. S.— A letter of Shah Alam U to George III in 177a" .. .. .. yog PAGE D’ Auvergne, Captain, V, M.C. . D.C. M. — My experience* in Tibet .. Fax! Ali, Tbe Hon'b’.e Justice Sir Saiyid— Revieir of the weak of tho Bihar anc Orlsla Research Society 1939*40 Sahkrtyiyana, Rev. RShula Pramaoavanika Vrcii Sarkar, JagadUh Naraio, M. A.— Mir Jumla and the English in Madras (16*8-1658) Sarfcar, S. C., K.A., D. Phil. (Oxon)— ( 1 ) Tibetan Account of Bengal . . (») Tibetan Titbits Singh, Raaiit Satyasraya — Abgir»* Walsh, E, H., C.S. I., I.C.S., (Retd.)— Supplementary Note 00 “Two Hoardi of Silver Punch marked Cuius, one found a: Ramos, and one at Mnchhuatoll. ( with Plate ) .. ,, xer 1 •»8i-sir 1-31 m •t4 s **4 «'S 1G8 ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO MAPS AND PLATES, ETC. PAGE. Macbhuatoli Coins, the earlier thin and the later thick coins . , .. .. 167 Maksudpur Stone Inscription (Obverse) Plate I .. 16a Maksudpur Stone InicriptiOD (Reverse) Plate II .. 166 Malayan Head and Fragment iron Lohanipur. Patna (plate I) .. .. .. .. 130 Mauryan Head from Lohsnipur, Patna. Left and Hack (Plate IV) .. .. .. sa 3 Mauryan Head from Lohanipur, Patna. Left Side (Plate II).. .. .. .. m Manryan Head from Lohanipur, Patna. Right Side. (Plate III) .. .. .. Hi On Image by Amrtavaraaa (XI Century) •• 300 Terra Coita Plaque of VigiahapUideva .. 36 ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO BOOKS REVIEWED. Pack Alivardi and His Times. By Kali-Kinkar Dattn, M. A.. Ph. D. (Cal.) Published by the Uni- versity of Calcutta, pp. 308, i maps. By Dr. N. K. Sinba (Calcutte University) .. 175 A History ol Tmipati. Vol. I.— By Rajawvasakta, Detran Bahadur Dr. S. Krishoa Swamy Aiyan- gar. Published on behalf of Tinunulai-Tinjpati DevBBthanara Committee, Madias. 194°. 84" X 5^" pp, I-Vir, 1-487, with 17 illustrations. By Dr. A. BaDerji-Sastri. M. A.. D, Phil. (Oxon) .. .. .. .. 36s MahlbbSrata for the firs: time critically edited by Vishnu S. Sukhthankar and illustrated from Ancient Models by Shrlmsnt Balasaheb Pant Pxatinidhi, Raja of Aundh. Fascicule 10 Udyogu Parvan ( t ) Poona. Bhandarkar Orieotnl Research Institute 1940. PP* I-LIV, t‘739- By Dr. A. Banerji- Sastri, M. A., D. Phil. (Oxon) .. .. .. a6j Handpur, Parti. By B. Sing!) Deo. B. A., B. L. with an Introduce on by Dr. ba Scsbagiri Kao, U. A.. Ph. D. 6 X gj, pp. i-is 6 Jeypore, 1938. By Dr. A. Banerjl-sastri, M. B. E , M. A..D. Phil. (Oxon) .. .. 83 Philosophy of Aesthetic Pleasure by P. Pafichipagela, Sastrl, Vyakaraoa-S'ihilya-Vedanta-Siromavi, M. 0. L.. of the department of Sanskrit. Annamalsi University with a foreword by Mahamahopadbyaya S. Kuppuswaini Sastrl, M. A.. Si X si PP. XXin-334, published by Annemalai University. Annamalalnagar, Madras, May, 1940. By Dr. D. M. Datta, M. A. P. R. S.,Ph. D. .. .. jji JljvedAvyiikfaytt M&dhavakrtH. Edited by Prof. C. Kunhan Rajs, M. A., D. Phlt. (Oxon) Adyar Library 1939. $x 8 pp. 1-47 a. By Dr. A. Banerji-Sastri, M. B. E. M. A.. D. Phil, (Oxon). .. Sources of KarviUka History, vol. I, byS. 9 V 1 - kaoth* Sistrl (Mysore University >940) 8JXs| pp. i-xl vii. 1-138. By Dr. S. C. Sarkar M. A., D. Phil. (Oxon). TMvancora Tribes and Castes. By L. A. Krishna Ayer, M. A. srith a foreword by J. H. Hutton, C. I. E., D. Sc. and an introduction by Baron Egon voo Kick.itcdt j X 84 . PP- t-riii, *- 344 . Printed by the Supesintendeot Government P-es*. Trivandrum, 1939. By Dr. A. Banerji- Sastri, M. B. K.. M. D PhlL (Oxon). Vcrelst’s Rule in India. By Dr. Naad La! Chatterji. M. A., Ph. D., published by the Indian Press, Allahabad, 1939. By Prof. S. H. Askari. M. A. Vibara-DarpaoH. By Shri Gadadhar Prasad Ambastha Vidyslabklra. Published by the Grantham*!* Kiryalaya. Bankipar, 1940. «o"Xs". 9*>o pages, with a number of plates reproducing sites Of historical or topographical interest Vihhra ke Darsanlya SthSna. By Shri Gadadhar Prasad Ambastha VldyilabkSra. By Dhatmendra Brahmacbari M. A. Zila Darpan. Published by the Bal-shiksha Satniti of fcankipore “ 1 ^"X|"PP- ‘' 4 s P« volume, San. 1939* By Dr. A. Banerji-Sastri. M. B. E.. M. A., D. Phil, (Oxon) ix PACE *3 8 a 178 *77 84 JOURNAL OF THE BIHAR AND ORISSA RESEARCH SOCIETY VOL. XXVI J I940 [ PART I Leading A/ticles REVIEW OF THE WORK OF TI 1 E BIHAR AND ORISSA RESEARCH SOCIETY, 1939-40 By The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Saitid Fazl Ali It is my privilege to welcome your Excellency lonight on behalf of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society as its President. As the Governor of this Province and as Chancellor of die Patna University you have under your protection and care many insti- tutions founded for the purpose of disseminating knowledge and promoting research. Of these the Bihar and Orissa Research Society is by no means the least. The Society was founded just a quarter of a century ago and today by common consent it occupies an honoured position in the domain of Tndologv here and abroad. In his exhaustive survey of Historical Research in Bihar and Orissa at the annual meeting of the Society at Government House, Patna, on the 15th March, 1923, Sir Ashutosh Mookerji who was then Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University summed up the Society's contribution to the preser- vation and study of Hindu and Moslem learning and culture in these words: — “In a critical study of suc- cessive volumes of your Journal I come across contributions of the highest value to the advance of our knowledge in almost every department of Ancient Indian History, in chronology, epigraphy, numisma- tics, architecture, sculpture, philology, sociology and jurisprudence The same appreciation w-as expressed by Professor Sylvain L£vi of Paris and was repeated last year by the Director-General of Archaeology in India. An actual demonstration of the service rendered by the Society is available in the pages of some of the most authoricativc Journals and standard Text-books of the day utilising the materials dis- cussed in the Society’s Journal. The materials collected by the Society, from time to time, have stimulated interest in the original objects — terra- cottas, statues in stone and metal, coins, paintings, and MSS. — and incidentally expedited the building of the Museum where the Society and its library arc also housed. Mr. Manuk, the President of the Manag- ing Committee of the Patna Museum, whose initiative and sustained efforts are, to a large extent, responsible for securing for the Province a fine Museum building and an excellent collection of old relies referred to the intimate connection between the two insti- tutions and their mutual debt at die formal opening of the building by His Excellency the Governor. The Society has also published a number of VOI- xxvi. rr. i] review or work or n. o. n. s. important texts. Under old Sanskrit texts, Pdri- jatabaranaTtainka, hbagavadajjuhim and Bhafla-svamin's Commentary were edited by Sir George Grierson and Drs. Jayaswal and Banerji-Sastri. An English version of the Kiiulasat-ul-Tawarikh of Maharaja Kalya n Singh who negotiated the grant of the Dewani as agent of the East India Company was prepared and published by Nawab Sarfaraz Hussain Khan. Last year the Society completed a task which it had begun in 1917. Dr. Buchanan at the instance of the Board of Directors of die East India Company had carried on an extensive survey of the Bengal Presidency from 1809 to 1813. His MSS. were lying at the India Office. Montgomery Martin published an abridgement of them in his Eastern India but it was only an abridge- ment of this valuable work and in some other ways also not quite satisfactory. With the permission of the Secretary of State for India in Council, the Society undertook to edit and publish the original MSS. The work has been completed in eight volumes, the differ- ent volumes having been edited by Messrs. Jackson, Oldham, James and Banerji-Sastri. The Society has been publishing a Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in Mithiia under the editorship of Drs. Jayaswal and Banerji-Sastri. After the death of the former, Volumes III and IV have been edited by Dr. Banerji-Sastri. This series is published from the funds generously placed at the disposal of the Society for the purpose by the late Maharajadhiraja of Darbhanga. The Society has already taken steps to publish some of the important Sanskrit MSS. brought from ■1 BBVIBV OP VOU K OP n. O. *. S. |j. D. O. B. S. Tibet. Some rests have been published in the Journal. Dr. Johnston, the Boden Professor of Sanskrit in the University of Oxford is engaged in preparing the text of Uttaratanlra to be published in the Journal in due course. In the systematic search for Sanskrit MSS. in Bihar and Orissa and in Tibet, as also in the publi- cation of results, the Society is gratctu! fox aid from the Local Government, from the Maharaja Bahadur of Ilathwa and from Rai Bahadur Radii a Krishna Jalan who printed one of Buchanan’s Reports at bis Press free of cost. The late Maharaja of Mayurbhanj made a giant of Rs. 10,000 j- towards improving the Library in 1926. Such help is more than ever needed if the Society’s literary and Library activities ate to be maintained on a scale befitting Bihar. These activities arc expanding from year to year as will appear from the Journal which is the record of the work of the Society. Much useful work was done during 1939. The Journal appeared regularly. All the numbers were published in time and the quality of the papers accepted for publica- tion has been favourably noticed here and in Europe. Among the contributors of the year, special mention may be made of Mr. Walsh, an cx-Vicc-President and at present an Honorary Member and Dr. Johnston, Beden Professor at Oxford. Mr. Walsh lus been studying the Ihinch-markcd coins of Bihar while Dr. Johnston is interesting himself in the Sanskrit MSS. recovered from Tibet. Dr. Johnston has also undertaken to prepare for the Journal the text of VOL- XXVI. FT. l] XftVtftW OF WORK OF B. O. ft. S. 5 TJttaratanlra. It is encouraging to note the interest taken by the younger generation of Civilians in the history of the country and specially of the Province. Mr. Krishmn has described the remains at Asurgardh in Darbhanga in the March Issue while Mr. Sohoni has secured an interesting inscribed terra cotta plaque of the Pala period (nth century A.D.) which is being edited for the next issue of the Journal by Dr. Bancrji- Sastri. This is in keeping with His Honour Sir Edward Gait’s closing advice in his annual Presi- dential address in i 916 where he said:— “I would specially urge junior officers of my own service to take an active part in ethnographic research. No civilian can be a really successful officer unless he understands the habits and mentality of the people of his district, and no thin g will tend to such an understanding more than sustained enquiries regarding their language, manners, customs, rites and superstitions.” A passing reference is due to the Rev. Rahula SankritySyana who did fruitful work in searching for Sanskrit MSS. in Tibet. One of these MSS. appears in the Journal for 1959. He has, to our regret, since deserted litera- ture for politics. The stimulus and training imparted through the Society’s Journal ore bearing fruit in the researches of the younger generation of scholars studying the ancient, mediaeval and modern periods of Indian History, on which important contributions h2ve been made by Messrs. Askaii, Datta, Banerji and Sarkar. The success of the Journal is associated with the name of the late Dr. Jayaswal who occupied a unique po- HKVHWOFWOHKOrB.O. 1-5. |j. B. O. R. S. 6 sidon iQ the Society. His untimely death in 1957 was a loss which is still fresh in our minds. The Society has suffered another irreparable loss in the retirement of Sir Francis James. Sir Francis is an eminent scholar. As Vice-President for over ten years he did a great deal of useful work for the Society. He has left a gap which it will be extremely hard to fill, and I think it would he well if we took this opportunity to elect him an Honorary Member in recognition of all that he has done to pro- mote the welfare of the Society. I think that this brief review of the year’s work will net be complete without my acknowledging the valuable sendee rendered by Dr. A. Banerji-Saseri both as an editor of the Society's Journal and a member of the Council. Dr. Banerji-Sastri is a scholar of high xeputadon and the Society is greatly benefited by his expert advice which it often needs and by the admirable manner in which he is editing its Journal. I must also take this opportunity of thanking Mr. Shvam Bahadur for taking up the combined duties of Secretary and Treasurer and discharging them so efficiently during the greater part of the year.