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1923.} Numismatic Supplement No XXXVII. N. 49 
qytelee dec oS csi ae ydives wham dd aS pad Koyo ~ piles! e J,! 
# Milas y ob die csplas SLs jy 
“The first conquest by Islam of the town Arsat Srihat was 
by the hand of Sikandar Khan Ghiett in the time of Sultan Firoz 
Shah Dehlavi in the vear 703 
regards the coin itself, ee enough, Mr. Banerji 
himself described some time ago in the Annual Report of the 
Archeological Survey of India for 1913-14, pp. 249-53, no less 
than nine coins of Tippera of this type, two of them with pre- 
cisely similar phraseology of legend. The photograph of the 
alleged coin of Gurugovinda published with Mr. Banerji’s note 
in the J A.S.B. is much less distinct than the one published in 
the I.M.C, 
The follow: ing appears to be the correct reading of the coin: 
Obverse.—S risrivu 
ta Govi 
nda Devah. 
Reverse.—Lion running to proper right; a ” mark on his 
back. Between the two fore-legs #@ ; between the two hind legs 
2@; oka the hindmost leg and the upturned tail + >. 
V.B. A small cross or four-pointed star stands for +. 
This vee of eight may be seen on the first page of leaf 
3 of the manuscript of Sri Krishfia Kirtana in the Vangiya 
nasal Parisat edition of the book. The unit I believe is 1. 
But it may be a cra amped 2 with the lower limb very short. 
It is difficult to understand how Messrs. Banerji and Vidya- 
vinoda read the ta at the beginning of the obverse second line 
as Na or ru, as exactly similar ta’s appear on two of the coins 
described by Mr. Banerjee in the report of the Archeological. 
Sur vey, referred to above. 
dere is a dagger-like perpendicular stroke between the 
second 472 and yu, which is very probably the trident of 
Siva. Govinda Manikya was a renowned Saiva. (Rajamala, 
by Kailasa Gate Simha, p. 93.) The trident, it may 
oted, is very clear in the same position in the coin of 
Ritiscteie deseribed below 
The coin is, therefore, one of Govinda manikva of Tippera, 
dated in the Saka year 
e omission of the term Manikya, the title of the 
Tippera Rajas, in the obverse legend, i s rather merprs Bat 
we must remember that it is a y qunetes = Si an € gra 
sad 


The i scription is now ve the Dacca Museum. ie ir. Sta tapleton 
hes Foooutly fopublidied the complete Siaetibn. J.A.S8.B., 1922, No. 7, 
