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was quite a common occurrence for the Gupta engravers to 

 have exhausted the space at their disposal before they had 

 completed the legend. It is to be hoped however that a 

 specimen may be found with dh like the coin seen by Thomas. 

 The Ballia coin is not unique in containing the latter part of 

 the legend, for there is a duplicate of it in the collection of Dr. 

 William Hoey, I.C.tf. (retired), of Oxford. The ending of the first 

 line presents some difficulty. The last word on the coin in the 

 Bodleian library and on one in Dr. Hoey's collection is vijitya : 

 one form of the legend therefore is 



Rajadhirdjah prthivim vijitya 

 Divam jayalyahrtavajimedhah . 



The king of kings having conquered the earth 



Wins heaven, hfiin.or f.hfi rpstoror nf t.hft ASvfl.mprlhR. 



On the majority of coins however the last aksara is clearly 

 tva; vijitva is of course an impossible form, and as on some 

 specimens like B.M. PI. V. 14 the aksara before tva is certainly 

 not j but seems to be v, I have suggested prthivimavitvd as one 

 form of the legend. It is poss ble that other coins have jitva 

 preceded by some synonym of prthivim. There can be no 

 doubt however that Dr. Venis has established one form of the 



legend with certainty. 



J. Allan. 



PS. — Dr. Venis asks me to add that his pupil Pandit 

 Hariramachandra Divekar, M.A., drew his attention to the use 

 of the root a hr in connection with Asvamedha in the Allahabad 

 pra&asti, and that he owes the reference to Thomas to Mr. 

 W. E. M. Campbell. j A 



