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1878.] H. Beveridge —The Antiquities of Bagura. 
could not tell what god one of them represented. However, he said, as it 
was in the temple he accepted it and worshipped the unknown god. To 
the west of Jogir Bhaban, there are said to be the remains of the house of 
the Baja Salbon (Salivahan ?) and to the north of it, the remains of the 
house of the Baja Sri Nath. Perhaps they were ancestors of Parasuram. 
Beturning to Mahasthan, I have to say that Parasuram was evident¬ 
ly a devoted worshipper of Siva. Indeed, he seems to have meditated 
setting up a rival to Banaras. In and about Mahasthan, there are places 
called Kashi, Brindaban, and Mathura. 
In 1862, or thereabouts, a number of gold coins were found at Baman- 
para, near Mahasthan. The most of them have disappeared, but I have 
seen two, and have sent them to the Asiatic Society for identification. The 
records of the case which is said to have taken place about them have been 
destroyed. In 1874, a pot of old rupees was found in the village of Maha- 
sthan by a labourer who was digging a ditch in a pan garden. The 
owners of the pan garden wrested the coins from him, and were convicted, 
rather harshly I think, of robbery and sentenced to six months’ imprison¬ 
ment. On appeal, their sentence was reduced to three months. Some of 
the coins were bought from the owners by Major Hume and were after¬ 
wards sent to the Asiatic Society. One coin was lying in the Magistrate’s 
Malkhanah, and has been sent by me to Professor H. Blochmann. # I have 
also sent down two other silver coins which are said to have been found 
at Mahasthan. 
* The silver coins were described in Journal, Asiatic Society, Bengal, Part I, for 
1875, p. 288. The coins now sent are five in number, viz., 2 gold coins, regarding 
which Dr. Eajendralala Mitra says:— u One of them, with the Hon on the reverse, 
“ belongs to Mahendra Gupta, or as given on the margin of the obverse, Sri Mahendra 
“ Sinha ; and the other to Chandra Gupta. Both have been figured in Thomas’s Prin- 
“ sep. The princes belong to the 2nd and 3rd centuries of the Christian era.” 
The three silver coins are—(1) a silver tankah of Shams-uddm Ilyas Shah of Ben¬ 
gal, as published by Thomas in his ‘ Initial Coinage of Bengal.’ 
(2.) A silver tankah , struck in 862 H., by Mahmud Shah I, of Bengal as figured 
in this Journal, for 1875, PI. XI, No. 7. The reverse is the same as in Nos. 5 and 8, 
hut the reading is still doubtful. 
(3.) A silver tantcah by the same king, of coarse manufacture, similar to Nos. 2 
and 3, of PI. XI, loc. cit . 
