896 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [Oct. 



This grant, which is now heing transcribed gives an additional name to the 

 list of the Beldl Sena dynasty of Gaur. 



A letter was read from T. Church, Esq, dated Singapur, 15th August, 

 1837, presenting" to the Society specimens of some ancient tin coins dis- 

 covered up at that place. 



These coins hardly appear to be of great antiquity. They have a lion on one side 

 crest-fashion, typical doubtless of the name of the settlement Sinhapur, the city of 

 the lion ; and on the reverse what may be intended for a cornucopia or a sceptre. 

 They are of tin and in high relief, and rough on the edges. About 800 of them 

 were dug up by a party of convicts in making a road five miles from the town. 

 The earthen vessel containing them had apparently been glazed and was of a 

 very common shape, it was buried about two feet in marshy ground in a spot 

 until recently covered with dense jungle. 



Dr. T. Cantor presented some Scandinavian antiquities of copper and 

 brass,, — a knife, an arrow head, pincers and a key. 



" They are from different Danish provinces, and were extracted by myself 

 from sepulchral urns containing bones and ashes of the dead, which the heathen 

 Scandinavii used to deposit in huge tumuli. Antiquarians date them about 400 of 

 the Christian era. The key is similar to that used by the Chinese." 



The Rev. Dr. Mill presented two stone slabs for the museum, which 

 had been last year brought to him from the west of India and the Red Sea 

 by Captain Roche. 



" No. 1 is an armorial shield, taken from the principal altar in a ruined Portu- 

 guese church on the top of Trombay hill, Salsette island, one of the first Portu- 

 guese settlements. The date of the slab was broken off on removal down the hill. 

 The words were to the purport, " Glory to God, 1644." 



" The other stone was brought by an officer of the Indian Navy from the Red 

 Sea; it was found in one of the numerous ruined cities on the Eygptian shore ; it 

 was supposed to be a grave-stone upwards of 300 years old." — (See drawing and 

 note in the present number.) 



Mr. W. H. Wathbn forwarded on the part of Lieut. Postans, an account 

 of the Jain temple at Badrdsir, and the ruins of Badranugari in the pro- 

 vince of Cutch, with drawing of the image and plan of the temple. 



Mr. T. Wilkinson brought to the Society's notice a translation of the 

 elements of Euclid into Sanskrit in the time of raja Siwai Jaya Sinh of 

 Jaipur in 1699, called the liekha ganita. 



[Will be published in next month's Journal.] 



Colonel Stacy drew attention to a coin lately procured by him from the 

 Panjab, uniting the type of the Indo-Scythic series with that of the Indo- 

 Musalmani's of Kaihobdd. 



It was with much regret announced to the meeting that Colonel Stacy had 

 been robbed of a great part of his collection of coins including the unique 

 Amyntas, and all his Bactrians, and 60 gold Gupta coins of Canouj ! 



Mr. D. Liston transmitted two servitude bonds granted by cultivators 

 in the Gorakhpur district, shewing personal bondage to be there practised 

 openly at the present day. 



Read a letter from Lieutenant Kittoe, 6 th Regt, forwarding two manu- 

 script journals kept by himself on a march with his regiment to Cuttaelf, 

 and then to the Boad and Gumsur country. 



