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would not wish to press. The substitution of o for au being one of the 

 very commonest features of Prakrit etymology. 



" I am still of opinion that the only serious objection to the deriva- 

 tion from eka-koti is the conversion of the cerebral t in Tcoti into a 

 dental. And this Professor Max Miiller at the very outset clearly recog- 

 nised as an irregularity. 



" To conclude with an incidental criticism. I cannot think that 

 siikara is rightly explained as ' the bristled one.' Rather I should say 

 the name means ' the grunter' ; in the same way as maynra is the bird 

 that ' miows ', the peacock's cry being often with difficulty distinguish- 

 able from that of a cat." 



The Philological Secretary read the following notes. — 

 Find of Coins of Gang gey a Deva of Chedi. — By V. A. Smith Es^. 



Sixty-five silver coins of Ganggeya Deva, king of Chedi (A. D. 

 1020 — 1040) were lately found by two labourers digging a field in 

 Pargana Salimpur-Majhauli of the Gorakhpur District, and have 

 been sent to me by the Collector, Mr. D. T. Roberts, for identification. 

 The name of the village iu which they were found is not stated. The 

 coins all agree with the specimen figured and described by Sir A. Cun- 

 ningham in Archaeological Reports, Vol. X, page 25, Plate X, 3. 

 They are all in excellent condition. I had not the means of weighing 

 them accurately, but they doubtless agree in weight with Sir A. Cim • 

 ningham's eight specimens, which weighed 60 or 61 grains each. 



Steps have been taken to acquire the coins under the Treasure 

 Trove Act. 



I take this opportunity of informing the Society that Sir Alfred 

 Lyall, Lieutenant-Governor of the N. W. P., has lately issued an 

 excellent set of rules under the Treasure Trove Act, framed with the 

 object of mitigating, so far as possible, the severity of the law, and 

 of encouraging finders to bring coins to the Collector. But the people 

 in this part of the country are so ignorant and suspicious that no rules 

 are of much use to encourage them to come forward. These eastern 

 districts of the N. W. P. are full of ancient mounds, many of which 

 are of very early date, and great numbers of coins must be annually 

 found, but it is very difficult to get hold of any. The various finds 

 which I have acquired for Government were all obtained through the 

 intervention of the police. 



Large Find of Coins of Oovinda Chandra Deva of Kanauj — By 

 V. A. Smith Esq. (1125—1150 A. D.) 



The workmen of the Bengal and North- Western Railway recently 



