1888.] Dr. Hoernle — On some Ancient Nepalese Coins, 116 



(1883). It does not appear, however, so far as I can make out, that 

 coins of this description have ever before been figured, and the plate 

 accompanying my notice of last year will therefore still be v^^elcome to 

 numismatists. Moreover, among the coins noticed by Mr. Bendall, 

 there do not appear to have been any like Mr. Smith's No. I. On the 

 other hand, in Mr. Smith's collection there was none like Mr. Bendall's 

 No. I. Mr. Smith's Nos. II appear to be identical with Mr. Bendall's 

 Nos. 6 and 10, his Nos. Ill with Mr Bendall's Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, and his 

 Nos. IV with Mr. Bendall's Nos. 7, 8, 9, 10, 12. 



" The reverse legend of Nos. II, Mr. Bendall reads as ^m ^f^ 

 Jcdmam dehi (on his No. 1), but, as will be seen from the facsimiles, 

 the correct reading is undoubtedly iRT^l^fl' hdmadelii. The animal on 

 the obverse Mr. C. Bendall, I observe, also takes to be a winged lion. 

 The legend on the obverse Mr. Bendall reads ^'llj^^ amsuvarma* I 

 read it =51^5^^ srisudharma or ^^^^ srtsuvarma. I think Mr. Bendall's 

 reading is substantially correct, only it should be 15f13^H sryatnsuvarma ; 

 the first 'akshara ' is not ^ a but W si-ya, at least it is distinctly so on 

 the coins figured in my plate. The presence of the ' anusvara ' is 

 doubtful. The legend, in fact, is exactly the same as that occurring 

 in some of king Amsuvarman's inscriptions, published by Pandit 

 Bhagvanlal Indraji in the Indian A^itiquary, Vol. IX, for 1880 (see, 

 e. g.^ Inscription, No. 8, p. 171). 



" The reverse legend of Nos. Ill Mr. Bendall reads ^vf^r^ sri 

 JBliagini, and suggests that it refers to the sister of king Amsuvarman, 

 who is recorded (in Inscription, No. 7, in Ind. Ant., Vol. IX, p. 171) to 

 have dedicated a ' linga ' to a temple of Pasupati. The figure which 

 accompanies the legend, he describes as a ' squatting figure of Buddha.' 

 This is certainly incorrect ; at least, on the specimens figured on my 

 plate, the figure is clearly that of a female, squatting on a lotus, the 

 petals and stalk of which are distinctly seen ; and the legend is 

 '^tVT^^ sri hliogini, ' the enjoyable one.' There is a similar connection 

 between the legend and the image, as that pointed out by Mr. Bendall 

 in the case of the legend kdmadeM (on his No. 1). 



" The legend on the obverse of Nos. Ill is read iiT^T^ mdno?ika 

 by Mr. Bendall. I read the name dQuhtiuWj m'^l^ pchidnka or m^}^ 

 mdndnha. I now agree with Mr. Bendall that, for the reasons suggest- 

 ed by him, the name must be read mdndnha. The legend, however, is 

 not simply ??T*iT|f mdndiika, but (at least on the specimens I have seen) 

 ^'IRTlf srimdndnha. 



"Prom Mr. Bendall's remarks on these coins (his Nos. 1-12) it 

 would seem that he ascribed them all to king Amsuvarman. The coins, 

 Nos. II and IV, certainly belong to that king ; for they bear his name. 

 But I doubt the ascriptions of the sri-mdndnka coins to him. The 



