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animal was sacrificed at tlie burning* ground, and its fat, flesh, 

 and organs were placed on the corpse, which was subsequently 

 enveloped in the raw hide of the animal. The wife of the dead 

 was made to lie by the corpse, and was thence removed by a younger 

 brother, a fellow disciple, or a servant of the dead, who offered to 

 marry her. The ceremony of burying the bones was performed on 

 the 3rd, 5th, or 7th day; and on the 10th day the mourners as- 

 sembled together, and after certain oblations, offerings, and prayers, 

 raised a circle of stones, and then retired to the house of the chief 

 mourner to feast on kid's flesh and barley. 



The concluding portion of the paper is devoted to a consideration 

 of the object and meaning of the mantra which was first quoted by 

 Colebrooke as the Yedic authority for the performance of Suttee, and 

 has since been frequently noticed. According to the Aranyaka, it 

 should be recited when the women put on collyrium on the tenth day 

 of the mourning, immediately before putting up the stone circle. 



A conversation ensued in which most members took a part. 



II. — Coins of the Sharqi Kings of Jaunpur. — By Rev. M. A. 

 Sherring, Benares. 



Mr. Blochmann said — 



The paper will shortly appear in the Journal. Mr. Sherring 

 has not met with any silver or gold coins of the Sharqis, nor with 

 copper coins prior to the reign of Ibrahim Shah. The first Jaun- 

 pur king, Malik Sarwar, Sultan ushsharq, does not appear to have 

 struck coins ; nor does he seem to have assumed the title of Shah. 

 The beginning of his reign is variously given in the Histories. 

 Firishtah, who copied his extracts from the Tdri/ch i Mubarak Shdhi, 

 gives 796 A. H., and makes him reign six years. The Am has 16 

 years, which would remove his juliis ten years earlier. The Luck- 

 now Edition of Firishtah has 776, A. H. There are also slight 

 discrepancies between Firishtah and the Ain in the length of the 

 reigns of the other kings. 



Mr. Sherring confirms Marsden's remark that the Jaunpur coins 

 exhibit the name of the Egyptian Khalifah Abulfath, who appears 

 1<> have conferred the taqlid, or right of sovereignty, on the Shar- 

 qis, long after the Khallfah's demise. 



