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King for about two years, during which time he struck coins 

 dated 1741 and 1742 Saka, but at last, c£ anxious about his own 

 safety, in April, 1821, he fled first to Gauhati and then to 

 British territory." Finding that they could not induce him to 

 come back, the Burmese placed another prince of unknown 

 descent called Jogesvara on the throne. 



The coins of Brajanatha show that Mr. Vincent Smith's 

 statement that he only ruled in February, 1818, is not correct, 

 for coins of both 1739 and 1740 exist. As the S'aka year 1740 

 did not begin until 7th April, 1818, ] it seems probable that he 

 was actually on the throne for about three months. The Daflating 

 find included a half-coin belonging to him with apparently the 

 mint mark <n on it. 2 This appears to indicate that Brajanatha 

 minted at Rangpur. In addition to Chandra Kanta's gold 

 muhur of 1741, given by Mr. Allan, rupees of 1742 are also in 

 the Cabinets of Col. Gurdon and Mr Botham, while Mr. Botham 

 also possesses a quarter- rupee of 1742. No rupees are known of 

 Jogelvara, the prince whom the Burmese placed on the throne 

 when Chandra Kanta took refuge with the British a t the beginning 

 of 1743 S'aka, and who, according to Prinsep, was ' ' raised by the 

 Assamese wife of an Ava monarch"; but Mr. Botham has a 

 quarter- rupee struck in that year. Undated half-coins also 

 occur, and one of those from the Daflating find is reproduced as 

 Fig. 13, Plate XXVI. During JogeSvara's nominal reign the 

 Burmese appear also to have experimented in coinage of their 

 own (vide the rupees with a pig on the reverse, which were 

 described in the previous paper of this series, Journ. Asiatic Soc, 

 Bengal, 1910, p. 164). 



Both Chandra Kanta and Purandar Simha continued in- 

 dependently their struggles with the Burmese until the British 

 intervened in 1824 A.D. (1746 S'aka). The British campaign 

 resulted in 1826 in the annexation of Lower Assam, and for eight 

 years Upper Assam was also administered by the British The 

 whole of Upper Assam, except Sadiya and Matak, was then 

 handed back to Purandar Simha. It continued in his possession , 

 with Jorhat as the capital, until October 1838, when " his admin- 

 istration having proved a failure in all respects, he was deposed 

 and pensioned." No coins of this ruler are known to exist, 

 either for his short reign before the Burmese invasion, or after 

 he was temporarily re-instated by the British. 



1 Cunningham, op. cit., p. 187. 



* Vide Plate XXVI, Fig. 11, postea. 



