Hi Exhibition of Satrap coins. [Aug., 



Dr. Hoernle remarked, that what General Cunningham read [gu]pta 

 Ihvpati, he had read as kshairapati or Jcshitipati ; but he admitted that 

 the letters were sufficiently worn to admit of various interpretations. Im- 

 mediately preceding the word which he read as Jcshitipati, there were 

 three letters the last of which was distinctly J<?, and the whole of which he 

 was inclined to read as S'ri raja, so that the whole legend would run : S'ri 

 raja ksliitipati rdjati Vijaya Kumdra. After Kumdra there might have 

 been the word Gupta, as the rim of the coin at that place was very much 

 worn ; but no trace of its letters remained. 



With regard to the figures Dr. Hoernle read the following note by 

 Dr. R. Mitra: 



" As regards the terracotta figures the only one of interest is the 

 female head with a profusion of ornaments. The ornaments are the 

 counterparts of what we see on the Sanchi, Bharat and Buddha Gay a 

 gateways, but quite unlike more recent sculptures. I am disposed there- 

 fore to assign a Buddhist origin and very early date (about the first three 

 or four centuries of the Christian era) to the relics." 



Dr. Hoernle exhibited 10 silver coins, presented to the Society by J. 

 W. Tawney, Esq., Deputy Commissioner of Chhindwara. He remarked 

 that the coins were of a well-known kind, and were variously called " Saha" 

 or " Surashtra" or " Satrap" coins. Similar coins (sent by Mr. Rivett- 

 Carnac for inspection) have been before the Society not long ago, when 

 they were described by Dr. R. Mitra. It would suffice therefore, this time, 

 merely to state the names of the rulers to whom the present coins must be 

 ascribed, and to refer to Prinsep's Indian Antiquities and E. Thomas's Dis- 

 sertation in the Archaeological Survey of Western India (pp. Mff,) where 

 they will be found fully described and figured. 



No. I are three coins of Budra Sena the son of Viradama ; see Indian 

 Antiquities, Vol. II, p. 85, fig. 5. Two of them show faint numerals which 

 General Cunningham reads as 137. 



No. II are thiee coins of Atriddma^ the son of Eudra Sena ; see ibid., 



fig. 8. 



No. Ill is a coin of Ddma Jdta S'rz^ the son of Rudra Sena. So 

 the name is read by General Cunningham who says that these coins are 

 rare. They are not noticed in the Indian Antiquities. 



No. IV is a coin of Visva Sdh, the son of Atriddma ; see ibid., fig. 9. 



No. V is a coin of Vijaya Sdh, the son of Ddma Sdh. See ibid., fig. 3. 



No. VI is a coin the names on which are illegible. 



Dr. Hoernle exhibited three clay-seals, which had been found at Sunat 

 and sent by Carr Stephen, Esq., and read the following note on them by 

 Dr. R. Mitra : 



