86 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVI, 
the Muslim call to prayer so long forbidden in the city was 
chanted from the lofty roof of the palace, and a mosque built 
by demolishing the principal temple.” 
*Alamgirnagar was in occupation of the Mughals from 1661 
to February 1663, and therefore the coin must have been 
minted in A.H. 1072-73. T egend of the obverse and 
reverse is very peculiar. It is the only Mughal coin in which 
the legend is written in Bengali characters, although the 
language is Persian or rather Arabic. ’Alamgirnagar appears 
for the first time as a Mughal Mint, no other issue of this min 
or rather type have vet been brought to light. The coin des- 
such as an d Ghazni and Sultan Muhammad bin 
m, who in some cases used Sanskrit legends on their coins. 
Obverse. Reverse. 
a Aora- cs 1. Jarava 
2. ~ngajeva_va 2. Alamagi- 
3. dasaha Ala- 3. -ranagara 
4. -magira 4. Sam [vat] 
which is the exact translation of “ Aurangzeb Badshah Alamgir. 
Zarb Alamgirnagar.”’ *In the last line we have the translation’ 
of the word “ sanh.”” (Pl. XITI, No. 8). R. D. BANERII. 
206. Guru-Govinpa or SYLHET. 
_ According to tradition Gaur Govinda is the last Hindu 
king of Sylhet in Eastern Bengal, a province which at the 
present time forms a part of Assam. No coin or inscrip- 
tion of this prince has been discovered as yet. The date of 
this king has been fixed according to the tradition of the 
Muhammadan conquest of Sylhet as recorded in the Suhail-i- 
yaman. In this work it is stated that Sylhet or Sri-hatta was 
conquered by Pir Shah Jalal during the reign of one Sultan 
Shamsu-d-din in 786 A.H. (1384 A.D.).! But there was no Sultan 
Shamsu-d-din in 1384 A.D. Therefore it has been surmised that 
Sylhet was conquered during the reign of Sultan Sikandar-bin- 
Ilivas who was reigning in 1384 A.D. 
1! Prof. J. N. Sarkar’s History of Aurangzib, Vol. III, p. 180. 
