134 H. Bevei'idge — The Khilrshkl Ja/uni-mima. [Dec. 



Mr. T. H. Holland exhibited and explained : — (1) Specimens of 

 new varieties of peridotite, from the Bengal coal fields. (2) Specimens 

 showing the contact Metamorphism produced in coal and sandstone 

 Dy the intinsion of the above peridotites. (3) A new Meteorite. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Further observations on the History and Coinage of the Guj^ta 

 Period. — By V. A. Smith, Esq., I. C. S. 



2. On the hypothesis of the Bahylonian Origin of the so-called lunar 

 zodiac. — By Dr. G. Thibaut. 



The papers will be published in the Journal, Part I. 



3. The KhurshJd Jahdn-numd, of Sayyid Ilahl BaTchsh al Husainl 

 Angreza-bddl. — By H. Beyeridge, Esq., late C. S. 



(Abstract.) 



Mr. Beveridge's paper consists of an analysis and partial translation 

 of the Bengal chapters of Ilahi Bakhsh of Maklah's M. S. work called 

 the lOmrshid Jahau Nnma. Ilahi Bakhsh gives a detailed account of 

 the antiquities of Gaur and Pandua and copies of the inscrijjtions to 

 be found there. He began his book so long ago as 1853, but it has 

 never been published, and so most of his inscriptions have appeared 

 already in the Society's Journal, and in Raveushaw's Gaur. Five inscrip- 

 tions however, appear to be new, viz., those of 711, 913, 943, 1000, and 

 1059 A. H. He has also given chi'onogranis of the deaths, &c., of the 

 Saints of Pandua viz., Jalalu-d-din Tabrlzl, 'AlIu-1-Haqq, and Nur 

 Qutb and much curious and novel information about their shrines, &c. 

 He has also described a coin of Mahniud Shah of 94-i A. H. 



Mr. Beveridge recommends that the Society should jiublish Persian 

 extracts from Ilahi Bakhsh 's work, viz., pp. 4 and 5, so far as they 

 describe the composition and contents of the Khur.shid Jalian NumJi, 

 and pp. 145 (beginning with the account of Pandua) — 224, omitting 

 the plans and certain portions. It does not appear necessary to print the 

 rest of the volume except portions of pp. 246 and 28G, and the author's 

 account of himself from p. 497 to the end. Mr. Beveridge has given 

 translations of the important parts of the book. By referring to them 

 the council will be able to judge what portions of the text should be 

 printed. 



The date, 738 A. H. or 1337, given by Hah! Bakhsh for Jalfilu-d-dln's 

 departure from Pandua is very interesting as it agrees with Ibu 

 Batata's account. That traveller saw Jalalu-d-d!n in Sylhet or Assam 

 about 740 AH., and before Jalalu-d-din had gone to the Maldives, Mr. 



