44 N. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIX» 
Malluoi. This seems to me to show that the commoner form 
of the tribal name at the time of the Greek invasions was 
Malaya. 
There seems to me to be little doubt that these mysterious 
Malavas of the coins were the descendants of the people who 
faced Alexander 150-200 years before, driven away by con: 
tinual pressure from the North-West from their prosperous settle: 
ments along the valleys of the Ravi and the Beas to.the more 
rugged and barren, but less accessible country to the south 
of Tonk, This view is supported by the fact that some of 
the coins have inscriptions reading from right to left. This 
would seem to betoken an origin from further North-West, 
where, under the influence of the Kharosthi script, Brahmi 
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tions reading from right to left. This would put Nos. 1, 2. 3 
lere seems to be reat variety cf types among these 
Malava coins. Both Carlleyle and Vincent Smit recognize 
a good many different types. Among the collection describe 
among them of obviously foreign origin. Thanks to the un- 
pleasant climate and the inaccessibility of their home, the 
Malavas were left undisturbed by fresh invasions from the 
North-West or by the formation of fresh empires in India. The 
fact that very few coins of outside origin are found at Nagar 
shows that the Malavas were more or less out of touch with 
the rest of the world. It is obvious too that these coins would 
have been of little use in dealings with merchants living at 
minor transactions in the local markets, and it must have 
been a poor community that could find a use, even in local 
dealings, for such low-valued coins. 
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Th 
ona these specimens is Mahaganasa jaya. There are distinct 
Male cio san Mg design between them and the coins of 
Maharaja Ganapati of Naga. : 
It is possible that No. 29 is an Avanti coin, but T can 
find no parallel coin to it in Vincent Smith’s Catalogue. 
se pe other coins given in the attached list are, I think, 
ocal, 
