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The evidence of the coins themselves points indeed to a 

 still earlier date, as the latest coin belongs to Muhammad Shah 

 Suri (960 — 964 A.H.), but as Eastern Bengal was for the next 40 

 years any one's land in which it is doubtful whether Akbar's 

 coinage was current, the Jasodal find might have been buried 

 at a much later date without it containing a single coin of 

 Akbar. On the whole, the evidence can onlv be said to indicate 

 some date between 965 and 990 A.H. (A.D.* 1557— 1582) as the 

 time at which the treasure was buried and Raja Ganik Chan- 

 dra killed. 



From the name of one of the parganahs, as well as the in- 

 terval of time between 1520, the date of Husain Shah's 

 death, and 1582, it would appear that the grant of land was 

 made by Husain Shah's son, Nasrat Shah, to the Raja's 

 father, Govinda Hazra, after whom the Mymensingh parganah 

 Hazradl seems to be named, and not to the Raja himself. 



Babu Girish Chandra Ray also possesses a gold coin of 

 Bijay Manikya, the Raja of Tippera, mentioned in the 4 Ain 

 (Jarrett's trans., II, p. 117), who, according to the Rajmala, 

 reigned from 1535 to 1583; but up to the time of writing, 

 I have only seen a bad rubbing of the coin on which the date is 

 illegible. It is said to be an heirloom and not to have been 

 one of the coins found in 1897. 



D. — The Origin of the Full Koch Coins and their 



Relation to those of the Jaintia Kings. 



So far as I am aware no representative collection of Koch 

 coins has yet been catalogued, and only scattered notices have 

 appeared of the full-coins that were issued prior to the intro- 

 duction of the system of half-coins described by Mr. Gait in his 

 Note on the Coinage of the Koch Kings (J.A.S.B., 1895, pp. 237 

 — 241). The following list epitomises our knowledge on the 

 subject : 



I. Bisva Simha — Founder of the Koch dynasty — Circa 



A.D. 1515-1540. No coins known. 

 II. Xara Narayan— Circa 1540-1584. 



(i) Coin described and figured by R. L. Mitra 



(Proc. A.S.B., 1856, p. 457). Date 1477 &aka 

 ( = A.D. 1555). 

 No measurements given, 

 (ii) Coin of the same date described by Blochmann 



(J.A.S.B., 1874, p. 306). This slightly dif- 

 fers from No. (i) in reading "Nara Naraya- 

 nashya " on the obverse instead of <c Xara 

 Xar/iyana Bhilpalashya," the inscription 

 therefore being of four lines instead of five. 

 Weight 157*5 grains ; exact size not given. 



