CONTENTS 
OF THE 
JOURNAL, ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENG/l, 
Vol. LXVI, Part I. for 1897. 
No. 1, (issued 1st May, 1897). 
Page. 
Numismatic Notes and Novelties ( Ancient and Mediaeval India).—By 
Vincent A. Smith, I.C.S. (With Plate I.) ... ... 1 
Meghegvara Inscription of Svapnegvara JDeva of Orissa. —By 
Nagendra Natha Vasu, Editor of Vigvakoca ... ... 11 
Nadir Shah and Muhammad Shah, a Hindi poem by Tilok Has ,— 
contributed by William Irvine, late of the Bengal Civil Service 24 
The Antiquity of the poet Ndgari Das and his concubine Basik 
Bihdri alias Bani Thani.—By Pandit Mohanlal Vishnulal 
Pandia, M.A.S.B., M.R.A.S., M.G.V.S., etc., late Prime 
Minister of the Partabgarh State in Bdjputdnd ... ... 63 
Upagupta, the Fourth Buddhist Patriarch, and High Priest of Agbka. 
—By L. A. Waddell, LL.D. ... ... ... 76 
No. 2, (issued 16th July, 1897). 
Ancient Countries in Eastern India.—By F. E. Pargiter, Esq., B.A., 
C.S. (With Plate II.) ... ... ... ... 85 
The Gauliati Copper-plate Grant of Indrapala of Prdgjyotisa in 
Asdm.—By Dr. A. F. Rudolf Hoernle. (With Plates III-V.) 113 
No. 3, (issued 30th September, 1897). 
On some New or Bare Hindu and Muhammadan Coins, No. IV.—By 
Dr. A. F. Rudolf Hoernle. (With Plate VI.) ... 133 
Pronominal Adjuncts in the Language spoken in the Western and 
Southern Parts of the Panjab.—By the Rev. Trevor Bomford, 
M.A., C.M.S., Multan ... ... ... ... 146 
Separation of Banswara from Hungarpur State in Rajputana.—By 
Pandit Mohanlal Vishnulal Pandia, M.R.A.S., M.A.S.B., 
M.G.V.S., and late Prime Minister of Pratabgarh ... 164 
