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56. Proposed correction with regard to the fperety of an inscription 
on some of the Suri dynasty coins.—By . C. E. Sueruerp, 
Indian Army. 
In the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. LIX, 
Part I of 1890, page 154, Dr. Heernle has a paper—“ On the Copper 
Coins of the Suri Dynasty.’ In this paper Dr. Heernle refers to 
an rau tat on these ples: x says, p. 155: “Thus on the 
‘ crt » Gioll a9, or ae 2 EA} 049 
‘commonly exhibits the following form— 
~ O'S 20} 04,3 
“The gy (nin) of the ud dinan is generally placed across the 
Ags (alif) of & (na).” 
In the British ee Catalogue “* Coms of tee Sultans of 
Delhi,” and in Thomas’ “Chronicles,” there are many instances 
given under Shir Shih, Islam Shah, and Madewitand ‘Adil Shah,. 
where the obverse inscription i is quoted as 
woah Lwot als} aW¥) ose 2 
Referring to the expression 
wha} epod} 
Mr. Stanley Lane Poole in the B. M. Cat. speaks of it, p. XXVIIT 
very peculiar formula,” and Dr. He rnle says, and says 
saci that it is “ absolutely unmeaning.” 
s therefore onriamely engage ‘The word wbs agi is: 
given in Richardson’s dictionary as ing “ winejar’ and 
Kazimir ski, in his Arabic-French hay. gives the ie gS as: 
“Jarre surtout celle dout le bas est arrondi et que l’on enterre 
pour qu'elle puisse rester debout.” 
The contention in Dr. Hornle’s paper leads one to the con- 
clusion that he favours the idea that the final word of the phrase 
should be Lis and not wls; that the error has arisen by a 
blunder of the die-sinker. This idea is pre a Adtiettio of the 
question than an unravelling of the difficu i 
Against accepting the view of a Binder in the word Wis, 
there is the presence of a final » The die- 
sinker could hardly have i, a to the 
extent of putting a clear w. Dr. Hernle 
himself says: “The w (nin) of ud- dinan is 
“ generally placed across the top of the | (alif) 
“of G (na). It ened be seen in the a 1S, 
“in the usual seit." 
