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coin supplied certain evidence on the subject, I was extremely 
doubtful as to the accuracy of Thomas’ reading 730 for the 
date. The margin after the mint name on Col. Guthrie’s speci- 
men was mutilated, but, even if one conceded that the following 
word was ai, I could not agree with Thomas’ reading of ...%) 
for the Arabic numeral 30, which, so far as I know, is invari- 
ably written was on Bengal coins. From the Shillong coin 
which is apparently an exact duplicate of Col. Guthrie’s coin, 
it is evident that the date of both coins is 722, and, indeed the 
unit (,i3! aiw, in the year two, is clearly legible at the bottom 
of Thomas’ reproduction. The reading of the marginal in- 
scription of S.C. 2; in the Shillong Supplementary Catalogue, 
besides being probably at fault in reading ce=! (one) for 4s", 
is also wrong in regard to the words that follow the mint name, 
as there is only one month of Safar in the Arabic calendar. 
cannot however at present offer any certain suggestion for a 
correct reading, though it seems possible that the word imme- 
diately preceding @iw is -Q« (Safar). 
Enayetpur lies on raised land about 15 miles south-west of 
the present town of Mymensingh, on the upper reaches of the 
Banar River that drains the centre of the Madhupur Jungle 
into the Lakhya, and as a mauza on the river bank near Enayet- 
pur is still known as Ghiyaspar, it seems probable that this was 
the site of the mint that Ghiyaguddin named after himself. It is 
not far from the Baratirtha, a tank said to have been seat ci 
by a Hindu King called Bhagadatta Raja. After the tank ha 
been dug, samples of water from 12 Hindu places of pilgrimage 
Were poured into the tank and thus the Raja's mother nd 
enabled to acquire virtue by bathing therein, without veh “af 
visiting the tirthasthanas herself. A large an eae wy yne 
Baratirtha still takes place annually in March. but if 
Thomas suggests that Ghiyaspur is near Maldah, se ‘i 
the identification of the position of this mint on the _ 
ates that Bhagadatta’ 
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Eastern Bengal; and his battle with the Bo 
name is not known, is said to have eg place near Bogra. | Bikrar- 
but on reaching home he found no 
prevent herself from falling into the hands of the M 
set fire to the palace, and thrown herself, with her ar 
the flames. The Raja, being disgusted with the wor 
sanyasi, and was heard of no more. 
tire family, into 
, turned into a 
