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E. A. Gait —Notes on some Ahom Goins. 
[No. 4, 
Notes on some Ahom Goins—By E. A. Gait. 
(With Plate XXVII.) 
(Read July, 1895.) 
I return herewith six coins in the old Aliom character belonging to 
the Society, which were sent to me some time ago for decipherment. 
They have been read by a young Assamese named Golap Candra Barua, 
who has been appointed under the orders of the Assam Administration 
to learn Ahom, and transcribe and translate the puthis in the possession 
of the tribal priests or Deodhais, which are all written in that language. 
Number 1 is a coin of Qukleijmui) ; the reading is as follows :— 
obverse cab pha 
^ Quhlerj mu 
^ ^T^ft y pin cad 
lakni 
plekyi. 
t.e., the great ( cao) king (pha) (Jukleijmuq reign (pin cab) year 
(lakni) plekyi (15tli year of cycle). 
reverse ^fl^TT kao 
t&T bay pha 
?TITT tara 
^ heu cu. 
V* 
i.e., I (kao) the king (pha) offer (heu cu) prayer (bay) to the 
Almighty (tard). 
A gold coin with a precisely similar inscription was sent to the 
Society for exhibition some months ago. 1 
Numbers 2 to 5 are coins of Qupatpha alias Gadadhar Sigha. The 
reading is:— 
obverse cao gu 
fh pdtpha pi 
•T n khun Idk 
N » N 
fif TT^VT«T ni raigdn. 
1 See Proceedings, 1893, p. 146. 
