of Rigaz, Future
ASIATICK RESEARCHES:

OR,

TRANSACTIONS

OF THE

SOCIETY INSTITUTED IN BENGAL,

FOR INQUIRING INTO THE

HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES,

THE

ARTS, SCIENCES, AND LITERATURE,

OF

AS I A.

VOLUME THE SECOND.

Printed verbatim from the Calcutta Edition.

LONDON:

Printed by G. Auld, Greville-ftreet,

FOR J. SEWELL; VERNOR AND HOOD; J. CUTHELL; J. WALKER;
R. LEA; LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO.; OTRIDGE AND SON;
LONGMAN AND REES; R. FAULDER;

AND J. SCATCHERD.

ADVERTISEMENT.

It may greatly conduce to the advancement of useful knowledge, if the learned Societies established in Europe will tranfmit to the Secretary of the Society in Bengal a Collection of short and precife Queries on every Branch of Afiatic Hiftory, Natural and Civil, on the Philofophy, Mathematics, Antiquities, and Polite Literature of Afia, and on Eastern Arts, both Liberal and Mechanic; fince it is hoped that accurate Answers may in due time be procured to any Questions that can be proposed on those fubjects; which must in all events be curious and interesting, and may prove in the highest degree beneficial to mankind.

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