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the same cycle, when Sdi-fe-ting is mentioned as the reigning monarch. 

 This would be 1398 A. D., or 801-2 H., Avhen, according to the testimony 

 of a coin in the Society's cabinet, Salf-udiUn Hamzah Shah, was king of 

 Beno^al. 



It is to be hoped that further researches in Chinese history will add 

 to our knowledge of Bengal history. 



Regarding Raja Kans Narayan of Tahirpiir, after whom the district 

 of Raj shall! is named, additional information has been obtained. Dr. Ra- 

 jendralala Mitra succeeded in obtaining a copy of the genealogical tree of 

 the Rajas of Tahirpiir, which shews that Raja Kans was the grandson of Raja 

 Bijaya Lashkar. Just as some of the Maharajas of Jaipur received the 

 title of ' Sawai', or one and one-fourth, to indicate that each was more 

 than one man, so does the title of ' Lashkar' signify that the holder was 

 considered in value equal to an army. It is also worth noticing that a large 

 parganah in Rajshahi has the name of Lashkar. Raja Kans's grandfather, 

 therefore, must have been a commander of distinction. 



The above mentioned Chinese annals do not give Raja Kans's name ; 

 the embassies were only renewed twenty-three 'years later, during the reign 

 of Muhammad Shah, Raja Kans's son. 



4. On the Bharrs of Bundelkhand, with mi account of an Inscription in 

 Bali characters. — By Vincent A. Smith, B.A., C.S. 



The President said that as the evening was far advanced, he would 

 not ask the Secretary to read the paper. The essay, with a few omissions, 

 would be published in the Journal (No. Ill, for 1877). He would, however, 

 exhibit the Pali copper-plate, which accompanied the paper, and ask Dr. Ra- 

 jendralala Mitra to offer some remarks on the plate, which was a clear forgery. 



Dr. Mitra observed that the inscription was remarkable in many re- 

 spects. It was the only document in the ancient Lat character, which bore 

 so recent a date as Samvat 1404. It was, likewise, the only record of a 

 purely historical character which had been found engraved on a metal plate. 

 It afforded, moreover, the only instance in which the Lat character had been 

 used to record a document in the Sanskrit language. The purport of it 

 was a long protracted war which had been carried on on the banks of the Yira- 

 bhadra river between the Bharrs and the Lodhis, the former headed by one 

 Kanja, and the latter by Sankara, The war terminated in the overthrow 

 of the Bharrs, when the images of the Bharrs were carved in stone, and those 

 of the Lodhis made in alto-relievo, and left on the battle field. The docu- 

 ment was inscribed, says the writer, on a bell-metal plate in Pali character 

 by the priest of the Bharrs in compliance with the order of the Lodhi king. 

 Now, the facts which make the record most important are just such as are 

 calculated to excite doubts about its authenticity. Both the Bharrs 



