56 Dr. W. Hoey — The Snvarna. [April, 



the dhvan of the province, informing him that Muhammad Roshan 

 Akhtar having succeeded to the throne had adopted the title of Muham- 

 mad. Shah ; that all appointments in force were confirmed, and all 

 allowances, namely, assignments (jagrrs), daily allowances (yaumltjah), 

 and grants for support {mad'Hl-i-via^ash) were continued. Thereupon, 

 Mihr 'All Khan, the deputy govei'nor, Ruhullah Khan, the deputy 

 dJwati, and all the other officials having assembled, the accession was 

 proclaimed by beat of drum, the i-oyal .prayer (Khiitbah) was recited, 

 and coin was issued with the inscription [coi'responding to the couplet 

 already given abov^e from Mr. Rodgers' article]. But after this the 

 inscription on the coin was altered to sikkah-i-mubarak-i-Muhammnd 

 Shah Badshah-i-ghazl [that is, to the prevalent form for the coin of hia 

 reign], 



3. Jangnamah of Farrukhsiyar and Jahnnddr Shah, a Hindi poem 

 hy Cndhar {Marlidhar) , a Brahman of Pray. — Bi/ W. Ikvine, I.C.S., 

 (I'etired). 



4. G'ojniiathnpura Inscription of the time of Kapilendra Deva. — By 

 M. M. Chakravartti. 



5. Gayd Inscription of the time of Nayaptda Deva. — By M. M. 

 Chakravartti. 



These papers will be published in the Journal, Pai't I. 



6. The Sii'Varna, or original gold coin of Ancient India (ivith exhi- 

 bition of specimens), — By "W. HoEY, D. Litt. 



Some years ago I received from two old sites in the Gorakhpnr 

 District at different times what at first sight appeared to me to be gold 

 earrings of a type similar to the rhinoceros-horn rings worn by 

 Kanpliata Jogis, but on second consideration 1 saw that they could not 

 have been worn as earrings because they could not be closed. I kept 

 them and waited for an explanation of their use. 



While reading the late General Cunningham's lucubrations on tiie 

 system of weights, measui'es, coins and values of money, in which he seeks 

 to establish a connection between the Indian and the Persian nnd other 

 systems further west, I noticed that the niska, which would seem to 

 be the same as the suvarna, wa,s also an ornament, and the thought 

 occurred to me that in an age when g old and silver are not coined and pasa 

 merely at bullion value, it is highly probable that the pledging and sale 

 of ornaments may have suggested the convenience of making up gold 

 in pieces easily handled and of approximately equal size: but still 

 knowing that my specimens, whatever they might be, were not of 

 exactly equal weight, and did not correspond to any one weight noted 



