1883] ExhiUtion of Coins. 143 



name of his daughter ITsha (the IJ'shd merh). Legends connected with the 

 Arrow are common all over the north of Balasore and west of Midnapore. 

 As to the philological arguments which shew that there was little or 

 no connexion between Orissa and Bengal in pre-Muhammedan times, I see 

 Dr. Mitra thinks them untenable. He is welcome to that opinion. 



That Dantun was accessible from Magadha does not prove that the 

 country south of the Subarnarekha was so accessible, nor can any historical 

 argument be based on vague Buddhist legends. 



But, as Dr. Mitra observes, all this was discussed ten or twelve years 

 ago and there is no use in going over it again. I did not then know any 

 thing about Midnapore. Now that I am acquainted with that district 

 I have found many new facts which strikingly conjBrm my old opinion 

 that Orissa was colonized from Behar and not from Bengal, and that Ooriya 

 is a more archaic form of Magadhi Prakrit than Bengali. 



Dr. HoEENLE exhibited impressions from a gold coin belonging to 

 Mr. Walter Campbell, and read some extracts from his letter accompanying 

 the impressions. The coin had been found in the ruins of Gaur, and 

 Mr. Campbell thought it might be one of the Empress Riziyah of the 

 year 638 A. H. Dr. Hoernle observed that he had not been able to 

 identify the coin, but it certainly was not a coin of Riziyah, as it did not 

 show the well-known and very distinct type of the early Delhi coins. The 

 type of Mr. Campbell's coin was a comparatively late one ; it very closely 

 resembled some types of Akbar's coinage, and was particularly like Akbar's 

 coin No. DCCCXllI, in Plate XXXIX of Marsden's Numismata Orientalia. 

 The impressions were too indistinct to make out the name which Mr. 

 Campbell had incorrectly read as Riziyah ; nor could he discover any 

 figured date 638. If there was a date on the margin, it might possibly be 

 938 ; but in any case, it must be some date in the 10th century A. H.* 



Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle exhibited 2 gold coins forwarded by Mr. 

 H. Rivett-Carnac. He remarked that one of them was a Kadphises coin 

 of a well-known kind of which the Society possessed several specimens. 

 The other gold coin which was one of Kumara Gupta he believed to be 

 unique. It showed on the obverse three standing figures, which appeared 

 to represent Buddha, worshipped by two women, one on either side of him. 

 The figure on the reverse apparently was the usual device of Lakshmi 

 sitting on the lotus throne. The combination of Buddhistic and Brahmanic 

 devices — if rightly identified — was a curious and unusual feature. 



* Subsequently to the meeting another communication was received from Mr. 

 Campbell in which he identified the coin as one of Shir Shah (A H 947-952 j. In- 

 dependently, the same identification was made by Major W. F. Prideaux, who had 

 an opportunity of examining the impression after the meeting. 



