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been misled by tlie authority of Thomas, and it is worth while to make 

 the correction. 



At page 62 (Nos. 33 and 34) of the Ghronicles Thomas describes 

 Bull and Horseman coins of Sallakshana Pala Deva, with revei*se legend 

 S'rl Samanta Deva, and coins of Madana Pala Deva, with reverse legend 

 Madhava S'ri Samanta Deva. 



At page 65 he assigns these coins in the following words : " It will 

 be seen that I propose to assign the next coin, in the order of date, to 

 Sallakshaxia Pala I, the Chandel monarch of Mahoba, who, we learn 

 from inscriptions, extended his conquests into the Gangetic Doab ; and 

 to his grandson Madana Varmma Deva I assign the coins bearing his 

 leading name, in preference to the nearly contemporary Madana Pala of 

 Kanauj, whose territory was supplied with a different description of 

 coinao-e, as well as on account of the serial consistency, if the earlier 

 pieces are rightly attributed to his grandsire, whose power he seems to 

 have inherited in added stability." 



The last sentence is one of Mr. Thomas' numerous hard sayings, 

 but it means that if the coins of Sallakshana Pala are rightly attributed 

 to Sallakshana Varmma Chandel, then the nearly similar coins of 

 Madana Pala should be ascribed to Madana Varmma Chandel. 



At page 55 Mr. Thomas observes that he " was originally under the 

 impression that the coins of Anangpal and Sallakshanpal (Nos. 32 and 

 33 infra) belonged to the sixth and seventh kings of Albiriini's con- 

 secutive series \_scil. of kings of Kabul], supposing that, the one name 

 being identical, the other might represent the designation of his suc- 

 cessor, so strangely perverted by the Muslim writers into the many 

 varying forms of M. Reinaud's ' Nardajanpal.' " 



Dr. Hoernle has recently described a large hoard of Bull and Horse- 

 man coins, amounting to 538 in number, found in the Shahpur district 

 of the Panjab in 1886. (Proc. As. Sac. Bengal for l^S, p. I'i.Q). This 

 hoard mainly consisted of the well-known coins of Muhammad bin Sam 

 alias Shahab-uddin, but included 22 specimens of the coinage of Madana 

 Pala Deva, and three of that of Sallakshana Pala Deva. Dr. Hoernle 

 refers to the Chronicles, and, without comment, accepts Mr. Thomas' 

 attribution of these coins to the Chandel (Chandella) kings of Mahoba 

 in Bundelkhand. 



But there can be no possible doubt that the attribution is wrong. 

 It was simple perversity on Mr. Thomas' part to make it, for, in a foot- 

 note to page 66 of the Chronicles, he quotes General Cunningham's 

 description of the Chandel coins, as follows : — 



" The gold and silver coins are all of the well-known types of the 

 Ratnors of Kanauj, which bear a seated figure of the four-armed goddess 



