1882.] Exliihition of a BamtinJci hy Mi\ Gihhs. 4i7 



liad from time to time acquired large numbers : it was only some few that 

 were difficult to procure, but Dr. Mitra had given them an interesting 

 paper on very poor materials. 



Mr, Gibbs then exhibited a gold Ramtinki which was handed round. 

 It was cup-shaped, 1^ in. in diameter, and had in the interior Ram and Sita 

 seated on a musnud, with three attendants on the left of the spectator, and 

 four on the right ; on the back was Hanuman the monkey god, and round 

 him an inscription which had not been read ; weight 1 tola 2 annas. 

 Mr. Gibbs explained that he had been led to bring this coin as he had 

 noticed in a recent volume of the Proceedings that his friend General 

 Pearce at Madras had sent one which had been figured ; but this was an 

 imitation, and one of those flat ones now made for pilgrims at one of 

 the shrines near Bellary. During the famine of 1876-77, Mr. Gibbs had 

 obtained 7 or 8 of these curious pieces, two of 4 tolas each, the rest of 1 

 tola ; 3 of them had been known to have been part of the treasure of 

 a temple in the S. M. country for 600 years, and were sold during the time 

 of distress ; there is a 2 tola one in the Museum of the Bombay Branch 

 of the R. A. Society, which formed part of the late Mr. W. E. Trevor's 

 collection. Mr. Gibbs had not had time to prepare a paper on these 

 curious objects of worship rather than coins. They were used in washing 

 the idol with gold which was done by pouring gold coins over it. But he 

 had seen sufficient to know that the older ones were of . the poorer gold, 

 being much alloyed with silver, whereas the modern ones are nearly all of 

 very good if not pure gold. He hoped before long to be able to bring out 

 a paper on this subject, and in the mean time should be glad of any infor- 

 mation he could get regarding these pieces. 



Dr. MiTEA exhibited four silver coins lately received from Mr* 

 Cockburn, who obtained them from E. Rose, Esq., C. S., Joint-Magistrate 

 of Kirwee, in the vicinity of which town they were discovered. The 

 coins were in a very bad state of preservation, and originally had been 

 very badly prepared, the disks being about half the size of the dies 

 with which they had been struck. From slight remains of the 

 legend one of the coins appeared to belong to the class of the Varaha 

 coins, and the others to the Kanauj group of the llth century with two 

 balusters on the reverse, as figured in Prinsep's Indian Antiquities, Vol. I, 

 plate XXIV, fig. 17. 



Mr. J. CocKBiTRTT exhibited a Panchamukha Lingam, and said :■— 

 The object exhibited this evening is a multiple Phallus of an uncom- 

 mon shape known as a Panchanan or Panchmukhi ling. It was found 

 by me along with a heap of fragments of sculpture, celts &c. on a 



