# Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society/Volume 1

TRANSACTIONS
OF THE
ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY
OF
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
TRANSACTIONS
OF THE
ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY
OF
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
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FOR
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Booksellers to the Society on the Continent.
1827.
ADVERTISEMENT.
The Council of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland takes this opportunity of informing the Members of the Society and the Public, that in selecting, from the communications read at the General Meetings, papers for publication in the Society's Transactions, it is guided by the importance or singularity of the subjects treated on, or by the advantageous manner of treating them; but that it does not guarantee the certainty of the facts or the propriety of the reasonings contained in the papers so published, which must still rest on the credit or judgment of their respective authors.
CONTENTS.
LIST OF THE PLATES IN THIS VOLUME.
Plates 1, 2, 3. Fac-similies of Grants of Land inscribed on copper found at Ujjayan. A Translation of these Grants is give, p. 230-239, and a Transcript in the modern Sanscrit Character, p. 463-466.
I. Chinese Characters, referred to in Dr. Milne’s Account of a Secret Association in China, p. 240-244.
II. Fac-simile of the Seal of the Secret Association.—Explained p. 245-250.
III. Chinese Characters and Coins referred to in Mr. Davis’s Extracts from Peking Gazettes. p. 254-258. On the reverse of Nos. 9 and 12, Paou tseuen is expressed in Mandchu letters to denote that these Coins were issued from the Imperial Mint at Peking. Paou-tseuen is the Mandchu pronunciation of the Chinese characters marked 16. No. 11 has Kwang in Mandchu and Chinese on the reverse, to denote its having been coined at the provincial Mint of Kwang tung.—No. 13 has Paou-u in Mandchu on the reverse, to denote its having been coined at Woo-chang foo in Hoo-pih.—No. 14 has Paou-yun in Mandchu on the reverse, to denote its having been coined at Yun-nan-foo.—No. 15 has Paou-kwang in Mandchu on the reverse, to denote its having been coined at Canton.
IV. to XI. Examples of Chinese Writing, illustrative of the ninety-two rules in Mr. Davis’s Eugraphia Sinensis, p. 304-312.
XII. Coins and Medals to illustrate Major Tod’s Account of Greek, Parthian, and Hindu Medals found in India, p. 313-342.
XIII. Nos. 1 to 6. Chinese Characters referred to in Mr. Davis’s Extracts from the Peking Gazette, p. 383-412.—No. 7 to 9. Chinese Characters referred to in Mr. Davis’s Translation of two Edicts, p. 541-544.—No. 10 to 12. Chinese Characters referred to in the Appendix, p. 606.
Copy of an Inscription on a Stone near Trincomalee. An Account of this Inscription is given, p. 587*-540*.
Copy of an Inscription round the Feet of Gautama Swami at Nakhaur. A Transcript of this Inscription and a Translation are given, p. 522-523. The title of this plate is written at the bottom instead of the top. The inscription commences where the asterisk is placed.
Copy of an Inscription in the Cufic Character found in Ceylon. A Transcript of this Inscription in modern Arabic, and a Translation by the Rey. Professor Lee, are given, p. 545-548.