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  | notes = This circular trilingual seal serves as the official administrative emblem of the Maharani of Cossimbazar, designed to validate state documents across colonial, regional, and traditional frameworks. The fixed outer rim is engraved in English with "SHEEMUTTEE MAHARANEE SURNOMOYEE • 19th SEPTEMBER 1872," a static date commemorating her formal Investiture and the issuance of her royal decree (Sanad). In contrast, the internal Bengali field was a dynamic, changeable component used for dating specific documents at the time of their official registration in the palace chancery. The top segment of this interior field reads সন ১২৮৬ সাল তারিখ ৪ আশ্বিন ("Year 1286, Date 4th of Ashwin"), which corresponds to September 19, 1879. The fact that this registration date falls exactly seven years to the day after the investiture date on the rim proves that the letter was deliberately processed and sealed on the anniversary of her elevation to status, sixteen days after it was initially drafted on September 3. The interior of the seal further includes the religious invocation শ্রীশ্রীলক্ষ্মীনারায়ণজি সহায় ("With the aid of Sri Sri Lakshmi-Narayanji") in the middle segment and her formal title শ্রীমতী মহারানী স্বর্ণময়ী ("Sheemuttee Maharanee Surnomoyee") at the bottom, while the central Nastaliq script maintains Persian calligraphic traditions to assert her ancestral authority and legal legitimacy within the Indian administrative system.