48 N. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIX, 

Kalyana, 1548 8S. 
Fig. 3. 

1. An alleged Coin of Gauda Govinda of Sylhet. 
[have to thank Mr. H. E. Stapleton, 1.E.S., for drawing my 
attention to an article which deals with a coin of unknown 
plement No. XXXII (J.A.S.B., No. 3, 1920, pp. 86 and 87). 
Dr. Smith, in his Indian Museum Catalogue, Voi. I, p 314, 
read the obverse legend on this coin thus :— 
- 1. Saséka Gu 
HEE ys ORI 
3 tta Devah. 
The coin is illustrated as No. 6 of Plate XXX of the 
atalogue. Mr. Banerji first read the legend as ‘‘Guna- 
govinda Devah” ; but Pandit B. B. Vidyavinoda, Asst. Curator, 
— 
writing 5, and thus ),S came to be transliterated in Bengali 
as Gaura. He apparently overlooks the fact that the name was 
always written in Bengali as Gauda and not Gaura. 
1 would first draw attention to the fact that the date . 
the first conquest of Sylhet ceased to bean object of speculation, 
when Mr. Stapleton published an inscription from Sylhet in one 
August number of the Dacca Review for 1913, p. 154. 
The inscription clearly states that the first conquest of 
Sylbet was accomplished by Sikandar Khan Ghazi in the time = 
Shamsu-d-din Firoz Shah in 703 H= 1303 A.D 
