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gether by upwards of 7 millions of people. It is extremely free from admix¬ 
ture of foreign words, being composed mainly of words of Sanskrit origin. 
It differs from both Hindi and Bengali, its neighbours on the west and east 
respectively, both in Vocabulary and Grammar, and is as much a distinct 
language from either as Marathi or Oriya. It is emphatically, a spoken 
language, possessing no literary work, beyond a history of Krishna and the- 
songs of Vidyapati Thakur. The materials for the Grammar were obtain¬ 
ed by the author partly from lists of grammatical forms supplied by pandits, 
village gurus, &c., partly they were collected by himself in his intercourse with 
the natives in cutcherry, &c. The Grammar is divided into 4 Parts, with an 
Introduction and two Appendices. Part I treats of the Alphabet, Part II r 
of Nouns, Adjectives and Pronouns, Part III, of the Verb, Part IV, of 
Indeclinables and Numerals. Appendix I gives a comparative table of 
Alphabets, and Appendix II, a brief Chrestomathy. 
5. Coins of Khusrau Shah and Kharran Malih, the Ghaznavi Kings of 
Lahore.—By C. J. Rogers, Esq., Principal, Normal College, C. V. 
K. S., Amritsar. 
(With Plate IV.) 
The first Musalman king who took up his residence in India was Khus¬ 
rau Shah. The coins of this king are very rare indeed. No. 8 is one of 
his. It contains his name and titles “Us Sultan ul A’zim Muizz-ud-Daulat 
Khusrau.’’ The mark on the jhul of the bull is found also on the coins of 
his son Khusrau Malik. No. 2 exemplifies this. 
The coins of Khusrau Malik resolve themselves into four classes. Two- 
are of the bull type. One of these bulls has another sign, peculiar to these 
coins, on the jhul of the bull, with a cross for a rump mark. The other has- 
the sign already mentioned which is probably some word in tughra. The 
rump mark is the same as that of the previous coin, while the coin of Khus¬ 
rau Shah has a trident or lotus. 
A third class has on the obverse a dotted margin and on the reverse two- 
stars, one above the other, below the inscription, as in No. 3. 
The inscription on all these coins is the same “ Us Sultan ul A zim 
l’dj ud Daulat Khusrau Malik.” 
The fourth class is by far the most numerous. The obverse is- 
in every case the same :—a dotted margin with inscription “ Us Sultan 
ul A'zim Surdj ud Daulat.” The reverse is of four different kinds, 
though each contains the name “ Khusrau Malik” in a circle. Above 
the name, in some kinds, is an empty space as in No. 4, in some a 
