1872.] E. Thomas — Headings of Mare Coins. 199 



The Babu remarked— 



" This record is barely two hundred and eighty-nine years old. It was 

 put up by a Brahman pervert to Moslemism, whose Muhammadan name is 

 Rahagal Khan. He had performed a pilgrimage to Mecca, whence his title 

 Haji. What his other title Marri means, I cannot make out. I have failed 

 also to make out what relation he bore to Prince Danial whose name he in- 

 vokes : probably he was a petty commander in the division under that prince. 

 The name of the prince is written Danala, and the title which follows, pro- 

 bably a corrupt Persian or Arabic word, runs thus talahctU-gahat. The 

 epithet which occurs next is JDina-s'renidanya, literally a poor man or beg- 

 gar {damjd) in the line s'reni of poor men, (dina) ; but I fancy the dina here 

 is the Arabic din or faith, and danya, its derivative, a follower of the faith. 

 Akbar, the father of Danial, is described as a deva or god, which is by no 

 means so extravagant as the popular epithet Dillis'varom jagadis'varovd, 

 " Lord of Belli, or the Supreme Deity ;" ascribed to him and his descendants.. 

 The other titles applied to him are in perfect keeping with this epithet. 



" The character of the record is an old form of Bengali, and the language 

 is Sanskrit ; but its orthography is throughout corrupt. At the bottom of 

 the record occurs the figure of a donkey, the object of which is not manifest 

 to me. 



" The character of the second inscription is very like that of the pre- 

 ceding, but the facsimile is so smudgy that it cannot be read. The figure 

 at the bottom of the record is an elephant instead of a donkey." 



7. From the Hon'ble E. C. Bayley, C. S. I., on the part of Mr. E. 

 Thomas, the following readings of rare Bengal coins, now in possession of 

 Col. Guthrie. 



Coins of Altamsh. 

 No. 1. Silver. Size, 7i. Weight, 168 grs. Very rare. a.h. 614. 



Obveese. 



Reveese. 



Horseman at the charge. 

 Margin — 



djULo, ^Jkc ^j\ x'x^ >j^Uj <xJj| j^^j [ o-^s^ 1 ^ ^ ^ ^ s.]\ SJ 



No. 2. G-old. Weight, 70-6 grs. (Jmque. Gaur, a. h. 616. New reading. 

 For the figure, vide ' Chronicles of the Pathan kings,' p. 78. 



Obveese. 



* Qilij Arslan, the Seljuq of Anatolia (a.h. 656), uses this title of^^l ij'-^ 

 ^^/0j-*.j| (Fraehn, p. 156). The three sons of Kai Khusrau (a.h, 647) employ the 

 term in the plural (^-it^J^-f • 



