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[NJ8.] 



Reverse : 



cr. 



•M 





lj W 



&V l«M** -«£> 



o (m. 91. I.M. Cat., vol. 3, p. 359) to the left of r. 



in the ^ of <j*^l* 



Provenance : Amroha, District Muradfibad. 



No. 2441 in the Indian Museum Catalogue, vol. 3, is a 

 Muradabad rupee of the same king. Rupees of this mint are 

 also known of Aurangzeb, Shah 'Alam Bahadur, Ahmad Shah 

 Bahadur, and c Alamgir II, but a copper coin seems to be a 



novelty. 



Panna Lall, I.C.S. 



134. A New Type of Audambara Coinage. 



[Plate XXI.] 



Thirty copper coins were made over to me for examination 

 by Dr. A. Venis, CLE., of the Queen's College, Benares, 

 which he had received from Mr. Nelson Wright, I.C.S. Subse- 

 quently Mr, Nelson Wright sent a batch of 333 coins to me from 

 the same find. They were found in the village of Irippal in 

 the Dehra Tahsil, Kangra District, Punjab. They belong to a 

 very little known variety of the tribal coin of the Audumbaras, 

 which has never been described before. 



The earliest notice of a type of Audambara coinage 

 approaching this type was made by Cunningham. 1 He estab- 

 lishes definitely that the Odumbaras or Audambaras were a 

 North- Western tribe because they have been twice coupled by 

 Varahamihira with the Kapistholas, who were the Kambisthioli 

 of Arrian's Indica, and with the Traigarttas and Kulindas in 

 Markandeya Purana. He then proceeds to describe this particu- 

 lar type of coinage : 



coins 



are thin pieces of copper, either square or 



oblong, with a temple on one face and an elephant on the 

 other. Beside the temple are the Buddhist symbols of the 

 Swastika and Dharmachakra, and beneath it, a snake. Before 

 the elephant there is a tree surrounded by a Buddhist railing , 

 with an Arian legend on two sides, of which one-half reads 

 distinctly Odumbara. I conclude therefore that the tree 

 represented is an Udumbara"* 1 



I Arch. Survey. Sep., Vol. XIV, p. 116. * Ibid., p. 117. 



