66* Proposed Correction with regard to the Reading 



of an Inscription on some of the Suri 



Dynasty Coins. 



By CoLONKL C. E. Shkphakd. 



Since writing, on the above subject, the article published in- 

 the Journal of the Asiatic Society, Bengal (Kew Series), Vol. II,. 

 No. 9, 1906, a coin No. 8787 of the (old) Catalogue of the Indian 

 Museum, Calcuttaj of Islam Shah Suri from the Malot mint, has 

 been brought to notice by the kind courtesy of Air. H. Nelson 

 Wright. Casts of the coin are sent herewith. This coin puts tlie 



con-ectness of the reading as oUjJj beyond doubt. 



A point, however, that is open to controversy is whether the 



\Jij:i is to be interpreted as referring to these feuitans themselves, 

 and so to be translated as " a just ruler," or whether it should 

 be taken as part of the preceding phrase and the whole sentence 

 read as 



and trnnslated ''the protector of the religion of God" ; as men- 

 tioned in the former article. c^l^Js is used as an epithet of God, 



The phrase h^eems capable of either trnnslation, but in favour 

 of the latter interpretation ; notice may be drawn to some coins of 

 Sher Shah's No- 356 of Thomas* Chronicles, and No. 567 of the 

 British Museum Catalogue where coins h^ivir^g an inscription 



running ^'•^Jt^AxJ/i *>^ jV in the centre are read as having in the 

 margin the words JjsUit ,^lkUJ| ^^\oi\ (sic) i^^h in No. 567, and 

 Ifti^l J c/*^l "^.j^ J^^t c^lfcJ-^i in Thomas' No. 356 ; and this num- 

 ber is quoted under No. 567 of the British Museum Catalogue. 



