1885.] F. S. Growse — IBUndti coin found at Kutiya. 155 



No. of Specimens. 



2, VIII. Bahadur Shah, A. H. 1118—1124 = 



A. D. 1707—1712 ; mint illegible, date 1122. 1 



3, X. Farrohh Sir, A. H. 1124—1131 = A. D. 

 1712 — 1719, mint Dar ns Saltanat Labor; 



date [1130], reign 7 1 



4, XIII. Muhammad Shah A. H. 1131—1161 

 = 1719—1748; mint Dar ul Kbilafat Sbab 

 Jabanabad ; dates various ; two varieties of 

 tbe " Sabib Qiran" type of coins : viz. 



a, with date in top line 104 



&, witb date in middle line 16 



5, XIV. Ahmad Shah, A. H. 1161—1167 = 

 A. D. 1748—1754; mint Dar nl Kbilafat 



Sbab Jabanabad ; dates various 37 



6, XV. Alayngtr Zcini Aziz ud din, A. H. 1167 

 —1175 = A. D. 1754—1761, two different 



types of coin : viz., 



a, " Aziz ud din " type, mint Sbab Jabana- 

 bad, dates 1169, 1170, 1173 8 



h, Alamgir type, mints Sbab Jebanabad, j> 14 



Labor and Akbarabad, date 1171 6 



1 



Total, ... 176 



3. Tbe intrinsic value of tbe coins is about one Rupee eacb ; tbe 

 numismatic, from Rs. 1-4 to Rs. 2, according to tbe age. 



Tbe Philological Secretaet read a letter from Mr. Growse on a 

 Hindu coin found at Kutiya. 



" I am sending you a silver coin from Kutiya, on tbe Ganges, 

 iu tbe Fatebpore district, wbere I was encamped yesterday. Gen. Cun- 

 ningbam (Survey XI, 56) bas conjectured on topographical grounds and 

 from a calculation of distances tbat tbis migbt be tbe Buddbist site men- 

 tioned by Huwen Tbsang in bis Itinerary under tbe name of Ozuts. Tbe 

 cbief object of my visit was to ascertain wbetber there were any remains 

 on tbe spot that would help to confirm this theory. 



" Tbe present village is a most miserable place, but was evidently of 

 much more importance at some earlier period, since it gives its name to 

 a perganna and, is therefore for the sake of distinction officially styled 

 Kutiya Khas. It lies in a ravine, with a high cliff on either side, one 

 called Kot, the other Bara-ganw. The latter was tbe original site of the 



