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bearing an expanded lotus, whereon stands an elephant with its trunk 

 extended over the head of the central figure. Legend in Aryan 

 character, much cut up. As far as legible it may be read Maharajasa 

 rajati rajasa m — . 



There are two marks like monograms by the stalks, the right 

 one being like /\ ; and the left 1. 



The reverse of this coin is evidently founded on the type of the 

 Azas' square coin with the trident obverse, (Ariana Antiqua, plate vii. 

 fig. 5, p. 327), which has a female figure standing amidst twining 

 creepers ; but the elephants are new, and shew the thorough Buddhist 

 character of the coin. 



The Secretary then laid on the table a MS. of the poems of Chand, 

 the Rajput bard of Prithviraja of Delhi, which had been lent to him 

 from the Library of His Highness the Maharaja of Benares. He said 

 that about eighteen months ago, the Rev. J. Long brought to the 

 notice of the Society that a complete MS. of Chand's works had 

 been presented to the Library of the Agra College, by His Highness 

 the Maharaja of Jeypur, and an application was thereupon made to 

 the Principal of the College by the Society for the loan of it, in order 

 to have it carefully examined by a competent scholar. The loan, how- 

 ever, was declined, and on a subsequent application to His Honor, the 

 Lieut.-Governor of the North "Western Provinces, the MS. was referred 

 to J. Growse, Esq., a member of the Society, for examination and 

 report. In the mean time intelligence was received of the existence 

 of two MSS. of the work, one in the Library of His Highness the 

 Rao of Baedlah, and the other in that of the Maharaja of Benares. The 

 last is a royal quarto of 697 pages, having 24 lines to the page. This 

 would give a little more than 16,000 verses for the whole work. 

 But the MS. did not appear to be complete, as it had no invocation 

 at the beginning, nor the usual introduction, and commenced very 

 abruptly with the entry of Anangapala into Delhi. In the MS. noticed 

 by Col. Tod, in his History of Rajasthan (I. p. 255) there were 69 

 cantos and nearly a hundred thousand verses, of which 30,000 had 

 been translated by the Colonel into English. 



The subject of the MS. was the life of Prithviraja, the last 

 Hindu Prince of Delhi, and his history therefore was the last chapter of 

 the history of Hindu sovereignty in Delhi. The author of the poem 



