2 President — Translation of a Sanad hij AJchar. [Jan, 



The President announced that Lieut. Petley had kindly presented 

 to the Society the old gun containing an inscription recently dug up at 

 False Point, a description of which was published in the Proceedings 

 for May 1890, together with the carriage on which it has been recently 

 mounted. The gun has been placed in the Society's grounds on the west 

 side of the building. 



The Secretart read a letter from the Government of Bengal con- 

 veying approval to the manner in which the Government grants-in-aid of 

 the Oriental Publication Fund, and the Sanskrit Manuscript Fund were 

 applied during the year 1889. 



The President read a translation of a Sanad said to have been 

 granted by Akbar to Heer Bijoy Suri, an Acharj of the Jains, for Girnar, 

 Mount Abu, Parisnath, &c. It was dated ^th Ardi Bihisht or Rabi-al- 

 awal of the 37th year of the reign (1593). The President said that he 

 offered no opinion about the genuineness of the document, but it cer- 

 tainly was in Akbar's sfc}'le, as recorded by Abul Fazl. The Sanad has 

 been produced in the case about Parisnath which is now pending on 

 appeal before the High Court. It is said to have been first produced 

 about 1867. The President had thought it right to notice the document 

 because, if genuine, it was a very interesting one, and it might be 

 lost sight of if not now referred t(^. Professor Biihler's paper in the 

 Epigraphia Indica, Part VI, p. 321, shows Akbar's inclination towards 

 Jainism. He is there said to have granted a firman to Jinachandra 

 Suri. 



The President exhibited rubbings of an inscription of Ghiyasu-d- 

 dinBalban(A. H. 6Q4:—686, A. D., 1265— 1237). The inscription,* 

 which consists of four lines in relief, originally stood over the gateway 

 of a dismantled fort at Manglaur in the Saharanpur district, N.-W. P., 

 and is now placed in the Khangah of Makhduni Shah Wilayat at the " 

 same place. Manglaur is the chief town of the pargana of the same 

 name, distant 6 miles due south from Rurki, and 16 miles south-east from 

 Saharanpur. It is chiefly inhabited by Muhammadan j'z^Za/ias (weavers), 

 and is a poor place, having suffered much from fever since the water- 

 level of the country was raised by the Ganges Canal. An imperfect 

 copy of the inscription was sent by Mr. W. Irvine, C. S., Magistrate of 

 the District, in February 1887, and the rubbings now produced were 

 subsequently obtained by Dr. Hoernle. 



The inscription is imperfect, and therefore difficult to read and 



* This accouut lias been kiudly clraAvn up by Mr. C. J. Lyal], CLE. 



