Vol. VI, No. 4.] History and Ethnology of N.-E. India — I. 151 

 [N.S.] 



No. 5.— Silver. Size -83* and -85". 



Obverse : — (In square area) 



Reverse : — (In square area) 



CD 



*JJ| Iff df 51 



( 2 ) *lir J fmj ±+^* 



(1) 

 (2) 



% 



i 



(3) 



J^U)| ^jlkLJf 



( 3 ) *K ^OiJUii 



(4) lpq a£JU> aJLIi 



(5) ^t$T*Tft 



Margins missing save for traces Margins missing, but there 



of oUxc at bottom of best coin 

 (in the second specimen there 

 is also trace of ^^ in the 



n 



left margin). 



is a slight indication on 

 the right of the o of 



The Devanagarl characters are very crudely represented, 

 and the date (probably 946) is written backwards. The weight 

 of the coin figured (Plate XXII, fig. 5) is 1648 grains, while 

 the second specimen (which, however, is much mutilated by 

 shroff-marks, especially one deep cut across the Kalimah) only 

 weighs 154-4 grains. As the coins upon which these Bengal 

 coins are modelled (Nos. 659 and 660, I.M.C. — Sultans of 

 Dihli— Sher Shah,— 946) weigh 171 grains, and similar coins 

 minted in Fathabad (Farldpur) 3 years later weigh 173 grains, 

 it would seem that the coins now described were issued at Gaur 

 by Khizr Khan, the Governor who was appointed 

 Sher 



addition 

 reasons stated ' for his replacement in 948 by Q 



lat, peculation in the coinage may also have been included. 



The following notes may be added regarding the Jasodal 

 find-spot. The coins were discovered by Babu Girish Chandra 

 (Aich) Ray in a decorated porcelain pot about 5 feet under the 

 ground, while levelling a mound in the precincts of the ruined 



home of his 



Chandra (*fR^F F*s 



The 



\ichs (^rt^r>) state that they are Kayasths, who came from 

 Had, and are descended from one Bhuban Aich, who settled in 

 the Madhyadesa — perhaps Gaur — nine generations before the 

 time of Raja Ganik Chandra. The first of the family to move 

 to M ymensingh w r as Devlbar Aich, 6th in descent from Bhuban 

 and 14 generations from Girish Babu (the finder of the coins) 

 and the village of Jasodal owes its name to Devlbar's son, 

 Jasomanta Khan, one of 3 brothers who all had the title Khan 



J 'Abdu-s-SalSm's trans, of the Riyaz, p. 1 15. 



