6 Dr. Rudolf Hoernle — BemarTcs on Kashmiri Goins. [Jan., 



spear or staff ; somewhat resembling the figure on the later Indo- Scythian 

 coins. Bev., Wheel as in No. 5, with some large marks looking like 

 letters (perhaps 'tlfV hodhi). 



Besides there are seven coins in the collection, which are too badly 

 preserved to allow of being identij&ed, but they probably belong to 

 Nos. 6 and 7. 



One of the most curious circumstances about these coins is, that 

 as already noticed by Mr. Rivett-Carnac, some of them are double 

 struck. Nearly all these double struck specimens occur in Nos. 1 and 

 5. In the former there are 6 out of 15 ; in the latter 4 out of 6. One 

 only occurs in each of Nos. 6, 7 and 8. In the case of those occurring on 

 No. 1, the emblems of No. 5 appear to be superimposed on those of No. 1, 

 in the following way : in three specimens (PI. I, fig. 3) the rev. of No. 5 

 (with tora and wheel) is placed over the ohv. of No. 1 (head), while its 

 ohv. (head) is over the rev. of No. 1 (bull). In the other three specimens 

 (PI. I, fig. 4) the ohv. of No. 1 (head) is niore or less preserved to do duty 

 for the ohv. of No. 5 (head), while on the rev. the emblems of No. 5 {tora 

 and wheel) are superimposed on the emblem of No. 1 (bull). On one 

 specimen the emblems of No. 1 seem to be superimposed on those of 

 No. 5, but this, being an exceptional case, may be an illusion. In the case 

 of the double struck specimens occurring on No. 5, the emblems appear to 

 be the same (PL I, fig. 7) ; it seems as if two consecutive attempts were 

 made to strike the same emblems (ohv. head, rev. tora and wheel) on a 

 piece of copper, the first having been unsuccessful. In the double struck 

 specimen of No. 6 (PL I, fig. 9), the ohv. of No. 6 (head) is placed over the 

 rev. of No. 1 (bull and inscription) of which only a small portion of the 

 inscription (viz. V ya) is still visible ; while the rev. of No. 6 (running 

 bull) is placed on the ohv. of No. 1. In the double struck specimen of 

 No. 7 (PL I, fig. 11), the ohv. of No. 7 (head and monogram) is placed 

 over the rev. of No. 5 (tora and wheel), while the rev. of No. 7 (running 

 bull) is over the ohv. of No. 5 (head). In the double struck specimen of 

 No. 8, again, the ohv. of No. 8 (head with hara) is placed over the rev. of 

 No. 1 (bull) which has entirely disappeared ; while the rev. of No. 8 

 (running bull) is placed over the ohv. of No. 1 (head with inscription) of 

 which only a small portion of the inscription (viz., ^^ Sri M) is still dis- 

 tinctly visible. From these facts the historical sequence of the coins would 

 appear to be that No. 1 comes first, then Nos. 5, 6 and 7 as contempo- 

 raries. This agrees with the notices contained in the Bdjatarangini. 

 According to that work there was a Kashmirian King, called Mihirakula 

 (perhaps in the 7th century A. D.), and after a long interval (perhaps 

 of 200 years) a king Pravarasena I. The latter had two sons, Hiranya 

 and Toramana, of whom the latter rebelled against his brother and 



