PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



Foi^ November 1872. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Societj was held on Wednesday, 

 the 6th mstant, at 9 p. M. 



T. Oldham, Esq., LL. D., President, in the chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following presentations were laid on the tahle — 



1. From Babii Hajendralala Mitra, three copper seals with inscriptions, 

 received from Colonel Pearse, P. A. 



Mr. Blochmann said — 



The inscription on the middle-sized seal is clearly 



Muliamm ad Ilurtazd. 

 , The diacritical marks are wanting. 



That on the smallest looks like ^ Uhd, but I am not quite sure. The 

 largest has not been deciphered. 



2. From A. C. Cadell, Esq., C. S., copies of two inscriptions from 

 Sambhalhera, Muz affarn agar, N. W. Provinces. 



Mr. Blochmann made the following remarks : — 



The inscriptions forwarded by Mr. Cadell are from a tomb and a mosque 

 in Sambhalhera, one of the principal seats of the Barha Sa3^yids.* This clan 

 played a most important part under the Mughul Emperors ; but before the 

 reign of Akbar, little is known regarding them. They trace their descent 

 from one Abul Farah, who is said to have come to India under Iltitmish 

 (Altamsh). Mr. Cadell some time ago collected numerous genealogical tables 

 of the several branches of the Sayyids, and he has now succeeded in discover- 

 ing a valuable inscription, " which takes back the ascertained date of the 



* Vide Kin translation, p. 390, and Journal, A. S. Bengal, 1871, p. 260. 



