166 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [June, 



III.— The District of Ludhiydnah, by T. W. H. Tolbort, Esq., C. S.,— 

 * communicated oy Mr. Blociimann, (Abstract). 



This paper on the District of Ludhiyanah is divided into two parts — 

 1, on the Natural features ; and 2, on the History of the District. 

 The former part is chiefly botanical. The latter touches on the 

 history of Machiwarah, Tilmrah, and the town of Ludhiyanah which 

 before and during the times of the Moghuls, belonged to the SirTcdr of 

 Sarhind, or Sahrind. The sketch of the history of the district is con- 

 tinued to the present age. 



Mr. Tolbort's paper is full of original information regarding the 

 superstitions and the guru worship of the people ; their reverence for 

 the famous Shaikh 'Abdul Qadir of Gilan (a Persian province near 

 the Caspian Sea), and for Sakki Sarwar. The numerous biographies 

 of Indian saints which we possess, say nothing of the latter ; for the 

 history of the former, the Asiatic Society of Bengal possesses several 

 biographies in MS. 



The author also gives a list of words and phrases illustrative of the 

 Ludhiyanah dialect, and closes with a description of the ruins of 

 Sarhind and Payil. 



(The paper is in type, and will form the concluding portion of No. 

 2 of the Philological Part of the Journal, which will be issued next 

 week.) 



Mr. Tolbort has also presented to the Society three Bactrian copper 

 coins ; twenty-two copper coins, chiefly of the reign of 'Alauddin i 

 Khilji; a Chahargoshah Juldlah, or square rupee of Akbar, struck in 

 990 ; and a most excellent silver coin of 'Alauddin i Khilji, struck in 

 A. H. 710, or A. D. 1310. The latter has been described by Marsden 

 (p. 530) ; but his reading seems somewhat doubtful. The part of the 

 margin of Mr. Tolbort's specimen containing the name of the mint 

 is almost entirely cut away ; but it shews traces of the word iy^> 

 hazratj and was therefore struck at Dilili. For Marsden's &^aiU| ajjfc 

 hdzihil-qazziyyatu, I read &^aJ| X±& hazihil fizzatu, or <u*aiU| &*>a 

 hdzihil-fizziyyatu, which means this silver coin. The word g>azzi//ij«h 

 has no sense. My reading is confirmed by the fact that only silver 

 coins of 'Alauddin contain this phrase. Marsden's plates shew that | 

 'Alauddin's gold coins bear, with the exception of these two words, 

 the same inscription as the silver coins. 



