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that followed Ragha's death, Lakshml Simha appears to have 

 attempted to conciliate them in the first year o£ his reign by 

 minting, in addition to the ordinary rupees with Hara Gauri on 

 the reverse, a rupee with Hart Hara (Vishnu and Siva), of which 

 a specimen is in the possession of Mr. Botham. 1 In 1692 he 

 also issued a square quarter-muhur in imitation of the quarter- 

 muhurs of his brother Rajesvara. 2 For the rest of bis reign, 

 the coinage is ordinary. The reverse of the rupees has a slightly 

 fuller inscription than those of his predecessors, and reads Sri 

 SH Hara Gauri charanaravinda makaranda madhukarasya (" A 

 bee on the nectar of the lotus feet of HaraGaurl ") ; and Narendra 

 (King) occurs as a synonym of Nripa on the obverse of his half- 

 muhurs and half-rupees. The last coins known of this King are 

 quarter-rupees minted in the year 1702. 



Lakshml Simha's Ahom name was Siine-upha (' the Colossal 

 Tiger of Heaven '), but he does not appear to have struck any 

 Ahom coins. 



GaurInatha Simha. 



* 



The son of Lakshml Simha ascended the throne after 

 assuming the Ahom name Siihitpanpha (' the Gladsome Tiger of 

 the Wide Heaven '), but no specimen of his Ahom coinage has 

 yet come to light. The first known Sanskrit coin dates from 

 the year 1703, but from the regnal years on his later coinage, it 

 is certain that he came to the throne in 1702. Mr. Gait also 

 mentions that Lakshml Simha died in December, 1702. The 

 following tables show how well the coinage of this period illus- 

 trates the history of Gaurinatha's troubled reign. The dates 

 "are those found on rupees, except where otherwise stated. 



1 Vide Plate XXVII, Fig. 

 ordinary rupee of that year. 



10; cf. Plate XXVI, Fig. 4, for the 



a Vide Allan, Plate XXI V, Fig 17. 



