44 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (February, 1911. 
Industrial Section of the Indian Museum is of brass, the rest 
of the guns dealt with in this paper being made of iron. I 
have heard that there are several inscribed guns in the civil 
headquarters at SibSagar, and at Gauripur I learnt that the 
Zemindars of Bijni possess several inscribed guns. In a future 
paper I hope to deal with the guns at Bijni and Sibsagar. 
(1) Gun of Sher Shah.—lI have already mentioned that 
one of the guns in the Gauripur collection bears a striking re- 
semblance to the gun of Sher Shah recently discovered in the 
village of Dewanbhog, subdivision Narayanganj, of Dacca, and 
described by Mr. Stapleton in a previous issue of this Journal. 
The inscription on this gun is very faint and can be made out 
with great difficulty. Some portions of it have entirely peeled 
off, it not been for Mr. Stapleton’s gun, I would never 
have succeeded in deciphering the whole of the inscription. 
The Gauripur gun differs from that of Narayanganj in one 
respect only. The long projection behind the breach notice- 
able in Mr. Stapleton’s photograph is absent in the Gauripur 
gun, but I believe this portion was broken off by some acci- 
dent. This projection demonstrates that both were naval 
guns (Nawwara top). Small guns of various sizes were em- 
ployed by the subahdars or naibs stationed in Dacca in the 
flotilla of boats. 
The inscription runs as follows :— 
vag) 5 ye ible y Mle al) ola plas ya Jole glagb ge yd 
# (55) dom! oy Ube [ i Uge | 
wloiie Sle chi Be yhe soil Sole slo pd 
The gun measures 4’-92” in length and the diameter of the 
muzzle is 4”, 
