lO^! Gen^l Cimningliam on the gold coin from Mahanada. [JuLT, 



11. From the Panjab Government, — (1) Appendix to '' Cbangars" 

 and Linguistic Fragments. Words and Phrases illustrating the Dialects 

 of the Sam^ and Me, as also of Dancers, Mirasis and Doms, by Dr. G. W. 

 Leitner ; (2) Section I of Linguistic Fragments discovered in 1870, 1872 

 and 1879 by G. W. Leitner, LL. D , relating to the Dialect of the Magadds 

 and other wandering Tribes, tlie argots of Thieves, the Secret Trade-Dia- 

 lects and Systems of Native Cryptograpliy in Kabul, Kashmir and the 

 Panjab, followed by an account of Shawl- weaving &c., by Dr. G. W. 

 Leitner, 



The following gentlemen are candidates for ballot at the next meet- 

 ing : — 



1. The Hon'ble Moulvie Mohammad Yusuf, proposed by Moulvie 

 Kabiruddin Ahmad, seconded by the Hon'ble Syad Amir Hussain. 



2 Moulvie Serajul Islam, B. A., B. L., proposed by Moulvie Kabir- 

 uddin Ahmad, seconded by Moulvie Golam Sarwar. 



3. Eajah Uam Narain Singh of Khyrah in Monghvr, proposed by 

 Nawab Abdul Latif Khan, Bahadur, seconded by Pandit Prannath Saras- 

 wati. 



Dk. HoEEis'LE again exhibited the gold coin from Mahanada mentioned 

 in the May Proceedings, together with a sealing wax impression of a dupli- 

 cate belonging to Rev. J. Long, and read the following extracts from letters 

 from General A. Cunningham, regarding them. 



" I cannot make anything out of the gold coin with the Raja riding 

 an Elephant. I have already got an impression of a similar coin, which 

 belonged to Mr. J. Long, who took it to England. This coin also has all 

 the letters clipped so that not one of them is readable with certainty. I 

 will send you my impression." (2Gth May, 1882.) 



** I now enclose the sealing wax impressions of Mr. Long's gold coin 

 with the Raja riding an Elephant. I do not suppose that it is later than 

 A. D. 400 or 500. It may therefore belong to one of the Gupta dynasty." 

 (3rd June, 1882.) 



" As well as I can remember the two seem to be the same. On the 

 female side I think it is nearly certain that the inscription ends in gaja. 

 Perhaps Sri Sdmanta Gaja — the last three letters being nearly certainly 

 nl Jrm- The Raja is driving his owii Elephant — and he may have taken a 

 title referring to his skill, in the same way that Samudra Gupta calls him- 

 self Aprati-ratha:' (5th June, 1882 ) 



" I think that the legend on the female side begins with S'ri — 

 '^ * * * 'rl Ji^. On the Elephant side this same title has perhaps been 

 repeated, as I see the «?l letter. The letters in front of the Elephant seem 



