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The site of the ancient city of Nagar lies within the 
territories of the Raja of Uniara, a feudatory of Jaipiir. 
Uniara is situated just south of Tonk. 
Vincent Smith writes ‘n this connection: ‘‘ Here Carlleyle 
found the remains of a city of high antiquity with a multitude 
of old temples and great embankments..... The Malava coins 
occurred in large numbers in many spots, and he ‘found the 
small green old coins in some places lying as thick as shells on 
the seashore.’ Altogether he and the people employed by him 
gathered more than six thousand; out of which not more than 
about 35 coins were of outside origin or derived from a foreign 
source. With the exception of these few, the whole of the 
coins found at Nagar were exclusively of Nagar mintage and 
belonged to Nagar alone.” 
The coins described by Vincent Smith in his Indian Museum 
Catalogue are a part of that find. A large proportion of this 
find has been lost. 
The date of these coins is disputed. Carlleyle and Cun- 
ningham put the date at 250 B.C. to 250 A.D. Vincent Smith 
and Prof. Rapson are agreed that the initial date for the 
coins is about 1£0 B.C. But they are not agreed as to the 
respective dates of the various types or the date of the 
cessation of these local issues. Vincent Smith is probably 
right in attributing the cessation of this local coinage to 
Samudra Gupta’s conquest of North India. According to his 
latest history this will fix the date of the latest issue at abou 
350 A.D. But I think that Vincent Smith is wrong when he 
Says that the larger coins, specimens 1-11 in his Catalogue, 
are among the earliest. I am inclined to think that Prof. 
apson is nearer the mark when he puts them among the 
later Malava issues, owing to their similarity to the coins of 
the Nagas of Padmavati. My reasons for agreeing with Prof. 
Rapson are— 
(1) In the 2nd century B.C. (the date assigned for these 
types by Vincent Smith) Prakrit inscriptions were the order 
of the day. None of the inscriptions known to date from 
that period are in pure Sanskrit. The legend read on these 
coins is Malaranam Jayak. This is pure Sanskrit. The term- 
ination commonly used for the genitive plural in Prakrit is 
“Ana. sometimes -Anam, never -anam. 
(2) I am of the opinion that Malaya is the older form 
of the tribal name. This is a form found on some of the coins. 
Now, there is a people mentioned in Sanskrit literature as 
living in the east of the Panjab, called variously the Malaya, 
the Malaya. or the Malava tribe. They were the people who 
put up the stoutest resistance to Alexander during his campaign 
in the Panjab. The Greeks called them the Malloi. Had the 
Name Malava been in common use at that time, I feel sure 
that the Greeks would have transliterated the word as the 
