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over Kanyiikubja, and that his kingdom included Benares, Ayodhya and 

 ancient Delhi. 



The other two plates are now in the possession of Dr. G. C. Hall in 

 Allahabad, who obtained them from their owner, Sitaram Agarwalla in 

 Benares. There is no information forthcoming as to where they were 

 originally found. They were both granted by the king when he was at 

 Benares. Of these the second plate, Sam vat 1181, measures 1' 4" by V 1" . 

 The text is dated " Thursday, the 8th lunar day of the bright half of the 

 month Bhadrapada." The grant was that of a village, Tribhandi in the 

 Avajrala district, to a Brahman, Pandita Bhupatisarma of the Mauneya 

 Gotra. The third plate, Sam vat 1185, measures 1' 6" by 1' 4". The text 

 is dated " Friday, the 15th lunar day of the bright half of Chaitra." 

 The grant was that of a village Java in the Pur oh a district to the same 

 donee as above. The historical value of this grant lies in the fact that 

 •it proves Govinda Chandra Deva to have been still reigning at the date 

 mentioned, corresponding to 1128 A. D. The texts and translations of 

 the three grants are given in full. 



This paper will be published in the Journal, Part I. 



5. Some observations on Major Raverty's notes in his translation of 

 the Tabaqdt i Ndsiri on the coinage of the Kings of Ghazni. — By C. J* 

 Rodgers, Esq. 



(Abstract.) 



In this paper Mr. Rodgers calls in question the genuineness of the 

 source — an unnamed writer — from which Major Raverty derives certain 

 information regarding the dates of the last two kings of the house of 

 Sabuk-Tigin — Khusrau Shah and Khusrau Malik. Extracts given by 

 Major Raverty from this writer fix A. H. 552 and A. H. 555 as the first 

 years of the reigns of these two kings, respectively, these dates being 

 mentioned as such on the reverse of coins said to have been struck at 

 Lahore. In his notes, Major Raverty further states that Mr. Thomas, 

 in his Paper on the Ghazni coins, takes no notice of these two kings. 



In reply Mr. Rodgers points out, first, that in the paper referred 

 to, Mr. Thomas does give notices of two silver coins of Khusrau Shah, 

 and of five coins of Khusrau Malik ; secondly, that in the case of coins 

 struck by the Ghazni kings the year of the Hijra is always given on the 

 margin, and that the year of the reign is never given ; and thirdly, 

 that coins of the type mentioned by Major Raverty, — i. e., coins with 

 the Hijra year on the reverse, and with the year of the reign 

 specified — are of the time of Aurangzib or later. On these grounds, 

 ami from the fact that no cabinet possesses a single specimen of a Ghazni 



