1872.*] BuddMstic Hemains of Bihar. 119 



Obverse. 



Be verse. 



^tkUJf 





^7?^ Sultan, the mild, (the just, who is Icind towards the servants of the 

 'bountiful God), the Muhaimani^ 



Abul Muzaffar 'AUuddunya waddin Ahmad Shah, son of Ahmad Shdh, 

 the ruler, the Bahmani. 



' Muhaimani means ' belonging to Muhaiman,' which is one of the ninety- 

 nine beautiful names of Grod, who is called so, because he gives protection. 

 The adjective ' Muhaimani' would, therefore, mean ' protected by God ;' and 

 has been formed like ^J^)'^-^^, ij^^.j, and other adjectives derived from the ninety- 

 nine beautiful names. The form is rare and does not, perhaps, occur else- 

 where ; but it was chosen for the legend of the coin, as ' muhaimani' on the 

 obverse rhymes with ' bahmani' on the reverse. The coins of the 15th cen- 

 tury have almost invariable the saja,' or rhymed prose, which in the 16th 

 century gives way to metrical inscriptions. 



The following papers were read — 

 I. — The Buddhistic Bemains of Bihar in Batnd. — Bi/ A. M. Beoadley, Esqv, 



C. S., Dacca. 

 (Abstract.) 



The Bihar Sub-division presents perhaps the richest field for archeo- 

 logical research in Eastern India. Within its comparatively small limits are 

 situated Rajgir, ISTalanda, Bihar, and the Indra-Saila peak, besides a hundred 

 places of less importance, but abounding in the relics of the past. Over the 

 whole surface of the country, neglected, and in many cases mutilated, lie 

 the remains of the sculptures, which once adorned the temples of Buddhism, 

 still often bearing the inscriptions, which record the names of their donors and 

 the date of their dedication. Mr. Broadley has succeeded in making a complete 

 survey of the ruins of Rajgir, and in recovering from the dense jungle, which 

 now covers the ruins of the capital of Bimlisara, a large rumber of figures 

 and carvings connected with the faith received from the lips of Sakhya Muni 

 himself. The author made extensive excavations at this place, and had 

 almost reached the centre of a tope undoubtedly erected by A9oka, when he 

 left the Sub-division. 



* Almuliaimannju is nominative, in apposition to al-sidtdn ; alghaniyi is geni- 

 tive, in apposition to alldhi. Mr. Thomas's (j*j gives no sense, and in the wood cnt 

 the re should have a stroke to join it to preceding al. I find that the word * Muhai- 

 mani' occurs in Mr, Thomas's transcripts of other Bahmani coins (loc. cit. p. 345). 



