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the Gaur or Bengali alphabet. The same remark applies to the letter 

 j {fig. 8), which assimilates to the Bengali and Tibetan forms, and serves 

 admirably to shew the transition of this letter from its original shape 

 in the most ancient alphabet where it closely resembles the Roman E, 

 to its present modified form 5f. 



The figures in my plate are not placed with any regard to chrono- 

 logical order, but rather according to their comparative frequency of 

 occurrence : figs. 1 and 2, being by far the most numerous of the set. 



On figure 1, we make out the words ^ ^T ^^f^T 1 1 Sri mad Jddje- 

 ya deva. This variety is comparatively common in gold. Lieut. Cun- 

 ningham has one of silver. 



On figure 2, the most common of the class, are the very distinct 

 words ^ W'fjlf^;^^^' ; below the letters fV and ^ are dots, which 

 supply the place of the n or anusvara, so that the full reading should 

 doubtless be ^ *T^ JTTf^T 3 ^ ■^"^f^^r, Sri mad Govinda Chandra deva ; the 

 gold of some specimens of this variety is of inferior quality. 



Figure 3 is the one I have noted as being difficult so decypher. I 

 have as yet only found one of the sort; it is of Col. Stacy's cabinet. 

 The letters visible are 3?1 *T3?T *fT3% ^W, Sri mad Rama havi che nam. 

 The 3T may possibly be an ^, making the reading Rama Hari ; but we 

 must wait the discovery of duplicates before we can complete or rectify 

 this uncertain name. 



Fig. 4, (Keramat Ali') is more easily legible, ^t W^H^ra ^T Sri 

 mat Kumar a Pdla deva. 



Fig. 6, from the same collection, is a small coin of the same prince. 



Fig. 5, is equally distinct, *%\ H^^TT^r ^T Sri man Mahi Pdla deva. 

 It is from a single coin in Col. Stacy's collection. 



Figs. 7 and 8, (Stacy,) one of copper, the other of silver, help to 

 decypher one another. The complete legend is ^t "^CSfq ^yr Sri 

 Ajaya deva. 



Lieut. Cunningham has sent me an impression of a copper coin of 

 the same class, on which the name appears to be ^rt n^*! ?ft ^^ pro- 

 bably Sri mad Laxmi (Pdla or Chandra ? ) deva. 



It was, as I have said above, the occurrence of the name of Govinda 

 Chandra deVa, which led Mr. Wilson to ascribe this group to the 

 Rdhtore princes of Canouj, who held the sceptre of that ancient city 

 for a century prior to the overthrow of their last and best known 

 Raja, Jychand (Jaya Chandra), by Shahab-ud-din. One of our 

 coins undoubtedly belongs to the former prince, and it may perhaps 

 be allowable to give the last two, figs. 7 and 8, to Jychand himself, 

 whose proper name may have been Ajaya Chandra diva; the family 

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