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[No. 2, 
A. Fiihrer— Three new copper-plate grants of 
next, and of whose magnanimity there are left, on the face of the earth, 
many great and eminent footprints in the path of benevolence. She 
was Gohar-Shadagha, the exalted cradle, the greatest concealed, the 
Bilqis (the wife of Solomon, the prophet) of her age, the possessor of 
kingdoms in the countries of religion, the chastity of both the worlds, 
may God enlighten her judgment. The great calamity (of her death) 
occurred in the middle of Ramazan, in the year eight hundred and sixty- 
one. 0 God forgive her ! 
No. 27. 
Shaikh Zainu-d-din, the leader and the chief of the faithful, the 
Qutb (saint) having the heaven for his threshold, the Ghaus (saint) 
possessing the knowledge of the mysterious truths, went out from the 
low spot of the earth to the height of heaven, with his skirts free from 
the dust referred to in (the following verse of the Quran) “ I wish I 
were dust .” 1 His age was eighty-one, and this same number, if increased 
by one year, will represent the year of his death. 
[Maulawi Abdul Hak Abid has kindly worked out the various dates, 
mentioned on p. 99. The date 202 is obtained by adding 81 to the value 
of the letters of the two words JL* (91 -f 30 = 121) ; 741 is got 
by adding 1 to the value of (30 -f 710) ; and 832 is got by 
adding 1 to the value of lSj (91 4 . 30 -f 710). By similar pro¬ 
cesses the following additional dates may be obtained ; viz., 831 by add¬ 
ing 740, the value of (30 -f 710), to 91, the value of one ; 
again 861 by adding the same 740 to 121, the value of cJb (91 -H 30). 
Besides several other combinations might be made. But perhaps the 
date really meant is simply 811, i. e., 1 added on to 81. Ed.] 
Tierce new coppcr-plate grants of Oovindachandra Deva of Kanauj , dated 
8a?nvat 1180, 1181 and 1185. ( With three plates.)—lhj A. FuiiRER, 
Ph. D. 
No. I. 
llaiwdn Plate, Saw vat 1180. 
The original plate, containing the inscription now published, is in the 
Provincial Museum at Lucknow. It was found in April 1885 at 
Raiwan, a place eiglit miles north-west Irom Biswan in the Sitiipur dis¬ 
trict, in a small kherd, or mound, into which a Brahman was digging for 
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J’lio infidels will utter them* words mi the day «>f resurrection. 
