64 N. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIX, 
it was perhaps by this name that these coins were known in 
contemporary times. 
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contemporary Tibetan account of the adventures of the — 
Tibetan scholar, who was sent by the king of Tibet to take 
Atisa Dipankara to Tibet, translated by the late Rai Sarat 
Chandra Das Bahadur, in his “ Indian Pandits in the Land 
of Snow,” records an interesting picture of monastic life 
during the rule of Nayapala in 1040 A.D. It shows that all 
monetary transactions were made in gold measured out in 
small quantities and in cowries. No minted money is referred 
to anywhere in the narrative. 
N. K. Buatrasatt. 
240. PeRsIAN CoupLuTs ON THE MUGHAL AND SUBSEQUENT 
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The couplets inscribed on the coins of the Mughal Emper- 
ors are often the merest trash when considered as poetry but 
they are not, for all that, altogether devoid of interest or 
utility. They illustrate the overweening conceit and self- 
esteem of these rulers and the servility and adulation of the 
court poets. At the same time, the metrical arrangement an 
rhythm often makes it easy for us to supply on worn, crudely 
executed or otherwise defective specimens, letters and even 
words which are but partially visible. But though the metric- 
correctly, they have not always been ordered in our catalogues 
as the rules of Persian prosody require. 
is now more than fifty years since Blochmann drew 
attention to this shortcoming in Marsden’s Numismata, and 
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take care of the Ars Poetica, when describing the coins of the 
Moghul dynasty of India and the Cafawis of Persia’ (Pro- 
ceedings A.S.B., 1869, p. 260). More recently, Mr. John Allan 
has laid stress on the same point in connection with the 
metrical inscriptions on the coins of the Guptas. He has not 
