1898.] W.Irvine — Patiyalah coins. 133 



in the Konkan and Western Dekkan in his time. I have been on the 

 look out for years for any silver piece which might be attributed to 

 pivaji without any success. All larins I have seen bear some Persian 

 legend, fivaji would not have tolerated that I think. 



No. 13 in the same plate is a coin of the Porbandar State, known 

 in the bazars as rana shai. In my paper on the Coinages of Cutch and 

 Kathiawar, published in the Numismatic Chronicle for 1895, Vol. XV, 

 I described tlie coins of the Muzaffar Shah of Gujarat pattern issued in 

 those Sates of which this is one. 



5. New species of Entada from Singapore and Borneo. — By H. N. 

 Ridley, M.A., F.Z.S., Director of the Botanic Gardens^ Singapore. Com- 

 viunicaied hy Surgeon-Major D. Prain. 



The paper will be published in the Journal^ Part II, 



6. Patiyalah coins., origin of the legend thereon. — By W. Irvine, 

 .C.S., (retired.) 



On referring to Mr. C. J. Rodgers' *' Catalogue of the Coins in tlie 

 Indian Museum," Part II (1894), pp. 200, 201, it will be seen that the 

 coins of the Patiyalah State bear the following curious inscription : 



xLi^b i^^sJ^ cJx^ ji>^ Jl '^ (^ 



It is the same as tliat borne by the coins of Ahmad Shah Durrani, see 

 the same work, Part IV (1896), p. 165. I do not know that anyone 

 has ever called attention to the curious fact that a Sikh should adopt 

 and retain a motto from the coins of one of the hated Mahomedans. 

 The point is not referred to either in J. D. Cunningham's " History of 

 the Siklis" or in Sir Lepel Griffin's " Panjab Rajas." The following 

 account is to be found on folio 51j a, 6, of the work Husain Shdhi (British 

 Museum, Ms. Oriental, No. 1662), composed in the year 1213 H. (1798) 

 by Mu'inu-d-din, Cishti. The occasion referred to must have been after 

 1176 H. (1761-2) and before 1770, the year of Najib Khan's death ; 

 Cunningham and Griffin attribute this last invasion to the year 1767. 

 If this chronicler is to be relied on, then Mr. Rodgers will have to assign 

 the coin No. 11,119 (p. 200) to Amr Singh instead of to Alah Singh, his 

 grandfather. According to Mu'inu-d-din Lahori's Tarlkh-i-Panjah^ 

 Rajah Amr Singh succeeded his grandfather in 1764 and died in 1780. 



These men were not particularly well pleased at the Durrani King's 

 reappearance to disturb them in their ease. Most of them sent presents 

 and humble petitions full of frivolous excuses for non-attendance. 

 Najibu-d-daulah was the only one that put in an appearance, and he 

 reported that in Hindustan all was peace and His Majesty might return 



