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following the text there is a Burmese paraphrase of the Sandhi chapter, 

 which occupies 45 leaves. I am told there is no other paraphrase but 

 the one for this chapter. I am not satisfied with my authority for this 

 statenient : but it may be so, since it ends in a very definite way thus : — 

 Aggadltammdlanhdra tlierena viracitajn sandhilddpanissdyam nitthitarn 

 and gives a date : — saJckardjassa pana sahassa atthasattati phussamdsasynim 

 ayam sandhilddpanissdyam nitthitarn, which in the absence of anything 

 to the contrary, I take to be, in Dec— Jan. 1078 B. E., circa A. D. 1716." 



3. A Note by Mr. J. G. Delmerick on the 100 gold mohur piece, 

 exhibited by Mr. Gibbs at the March meeting, 



" The coin which the Hon'ble J. Gibbs, 0. S. I. exhibited on the 4th 

 March last and which is noticed in the Proceedings of the Asiatic 

 Society for that month, was offered for sale to me in 1874 by the owner 

 a native banker of Benares. He asked Rs. 2200 for it, but 1 declined to 

 give more than 1600 Rs. or somewhat more than its intrinsic value, but 

 he refused to accept my offer. I then wrote to Mr. R. S. Poole of the 

 British Museum and asked him if he would bay it for the Museum. In 

 reply under date the 11th June 1875 he wrote to me as follows : — 



" ' I am much obliged by your letter in reference to the gold medal 

 of Aurangzib and I regret that 1 cannnot avail myself of your kind 

 aid in the matter as the Trustees never make any outlay for an object 

 which is not submitted to them. I see that a similar medal in silver is 

 in the Cabinet of Gotha ; probably it is an impression from the same 

 die. I should say that its value ought not to exceed about £150. I 

 refer to the gold one.' " 



When the Imperial Assemblage took place at Delhi tho owner came 

 there and presented the coin as a peshkash or nazar to the Maharaja 

 of Gwalior, believing no doubt that he would receive some thing more 

 valuable in return, but I was informed that he was cruelly disappointed 

 for he only obtained a kJnllat of trifling value." 



4. A Note by Mr. Chas. J. Rodgers on Major Raverty's objections 

 to his paper on " Some Coins from Candahar." 



" I am much obliged to Col. Prideaux for his kind remark on my 

 paper, entitled " Some coins from Kandahar." I have no doubt that 

 the correct reading of the coin is Taj ud Din Muhammad bin Harab. 

 Col. Prideaux kindly pointed this out in a letter to me, as did also my 

 friend L. White King, Esq., C. S. of Peshawur (now of Ajmeer). But 

 Major Raverty in his pajjer raises no point at all. He rather confirms 

 all I say. The coins of Harab, and Taj ud Din his son, and Nasar bin 

 Bahram Shah are according to his showing of Sistan or Mrnroz. Now-a- 

 days we say Nimroz or Sistan is in the south west of the country 

 marked on our maps as Afghanistan. The coins of Mangu Qaan were 



