PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OP BENGAL 



for June, 1870. 



The monthly meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday, the 

 1st instant, at 9 o'clock p. m. 



The Hon'ble J. B. Plie ar, President, in the chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Presentations were announced — 



1. From Babu h a n d r a s i k h a r a B a n e r j i, Deputy 

 Magistrate, Jajpur, — a rectangular piece of garnetiferous gneiss 

 with the Buddhist formula " Ye Dhamma hetu &c, &c, &c," 

 found in the Alti Hills. 



2. From M. L. F e r r a r, Esq., 0. S. — a packet of copper coins 

 which, Mr. F e r r ar writes, had been dug up near Partabgarh on 

 the ancient site of a fort, said to have belonged to the Bhurs who 

 held the country before the Eajpiits took it. 



Mr. Block m an n said — 



The coins which Mr. Ferrar has presented to the Society, are all 

 Muhammadan copper coins. One belongs to Jalaluddm Firuz 

 i Khilji, one to Muhammad Shah Tughluq, two to Ibrahim Shah 

 Sultan of Jaunpur, and three to Sikandar Shah ibn i Buhlul Lodhi. 

 The others I cannot make out. Copper coins of Ibrahim Shah of 

 Jaunpur and of Sikandar Shah occur in prodigious quantities in 

 Audh. The Sikandar Shah of 917 A. H. sent by Mr. F err ar, is 

 of some interest, because the beginning of the legend is very dis- 

 tinct, and corrects the reading proposed by Marsden (II, p. 546). 



He reads ulkLJf djh* ^ J$U j«yvC*« u+*jf\ J^U ~ but 



Mr. Ferrar' s coin clearly gives ^•^.Jb JSjxJ\, for the almost 

 meaningless jj^J\. 



But I have not seen a single specimen of Sikandar Shah's coins, 

 which contains the name of the Egyptian Khalifah. 



