PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For M.ay, 1873. 



A meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was held on Wednesday, 

 the 7th instant, at 9 p. m. 



Col. Hyde, R. E., President, in the Chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following presentations, received since the last meeting, were laid on 

 the tahle — 



1. From the Government of India, Home Department, a copy of a 

 photograph, taken hy J. H. Eavenshaw, Esq., C. S., of a pillar dug up at 

 Bannagar in Dmajpur. 



2. From Sirdar Attar Singh Bahadur, Chief of Bhadaur, one silver 

 and several copper coins. 



Mr. Blochmann said that the copper coins were all known and publish- 

 ed, and belonged to the reigns of Mu'izz, Balban, and Muhammad Tughluq. 

 One was a brass token of the forced currency of the last king. The silver 

 coin was modern, but too much was cut away to allow of a reading. 



From the Government of India, Home Department, a set of 11 photo- 

 graphs of views of Sunnargaon, taken by Mr. Brennand, Principal of the 

 Dacca College. 



Mr. Blochmann said that the members would be disappointed if they ex- 

 pected to find among the remains of Sunnargaon large and old buildings. The 

 ruins are few, and belong to the 14th and 15th centuries, just as the inscrip- 

 tions found there belonged to the same time. Dr. Wise, in a letter to him, 

 remarked that the people there knew nothing of the importance of this old 

 town ; not a single legend was known now-a-days. The splendour of the 

 Nawabi period ; the encroachment of the river ; and the fact that towns in 

 southern Bengal are collections of mud houses rather than what we under- 

 stand by towns, go far to explain this fact. Though, like Satgaon, the seat 

 of Muhammad governors and usurping kings, it is probable that neither 

 town ever covered an extensive site. 



