In a chronicle kept at the monastery of Hôriuji it is stated that these palm leaves and other valuables were brought by Ono Imoko, a retainer of the Mikado (the Empress Suiko), from China (during the Sui dynasty, 589-618) to Japan, in the thirty-seventh year of the age of Prince Umayado—_i. e._, A. D. 609. The other valuable articles were: 1. Niô, _i. e._, a cymbal used in Buddhist temples; 2. Midzu-game, a water vessel; 3. Shaku-jio, a staff, the top of which is armed with metal rings, as carried by Buddhist priests; 4. Kesa (Kashâya), a scarf, worn by Buddhist priests across the shoulder, which belonged to the famous Bodhidharma; 5. Ha_k_i, a bowl, given by the same Bodhidharma. These things and the Sanskrit MSS. are said to have belonged to some Chinese priests, named Hwui-sz’ (Yeshi) and Nien-shan (Nenzen), and to four others successively, who lived in a monastery on the mountain called Nan-yo (Nangak), in the province of Hăng (Kô) in China. These palm-leaf MSS. may, therefore, be supposed to date from at least the sixth century A. D., and be, in fact, _the oldest Sanskrit MSS. now in existence_.(161) May we not hope that His Excellency Mori Arinori, who expressed so warm an interest in this matter when he was present at the meeting of the Royal Asiatic Society, will now lend us his powerful aid, and request the Minister of the Department of the Imperial Household to allow these MSS. to be carefully copied or photographed? INDEX. Academic freedom not without dangers, 39. _Adams_, H. C., quoted, 25. Alphabet, phonetic, table of, 150; reading according to, 151 sq. _Amyot_, quoted, 131. Analogies, false, in comparative theology, 98 sq. _Anaxagoras_, quoted, 56. Anglo-Saxon names for the days of the week, 118. Apostles, The, read the Veda, 127. Archbishops have no official position in English universities, 8. _Aristotle_, disrespectful remarks about, 38; quoted, 56. Babylonian system of dividing gold and silver still found in the English sovereign, 19; of reckoning time found on the dial-plates of our clocks, 19. _Beveridge_, Bishop, quoted, 30. _Bochart_, quoted, 98. _Brackett_, A. C., quoted, 88. Budha, day of, 121. -- and Buddha, distinction between, 115, 119. Buddha, a personal and historical character, 122; repetition of his name meritorious, 235. Buddhism, when recognized in China, 191 sq.; Japan converted to, 213; and Scandinavian mythology, connection between, 113 sq., 122. _Buhler_, Dr., quoted, 208. _Burnouf_, quoted, 112. _Cassius, Dio_, quoted, 118. Chinese translators of Sanskrit texts, 189. Christian religion, historical and individual, 62. _Cicero_, quoted, 72. _Clement of Alexandria_, quoted, 58, 61. _Clodd_, E., quoted, 84. Coincidences between Jewish and Pagan religious, 98 sq. _Colbourne_, Wm., quoted, 153. Counting possible without language, 67. Daphne, meaning of, 82. _Davids Rhys_, quoted, 16. Dictionaries, value of, 17.