228 Note on the Coins found by Capt. Cautley [Mat, 



Reverse. The opposite side of this curious coin presents an assem- 

 blage of symbols, the purport of which it is difficult to divine. The 

 principal figure in the centre seems to represent a temple, a pyramidal 

 building, with three tiers of rounded suras, spires or domes, surmounted 

 by a kulsa or pinnacle in the form of the letter T : the contour of 

 this device resembles also the Hindu drawings of rocks and mountains, 

 and it may be intended to pourtray some holy hill, connected with the 

 mythology or with the locality of its place of coinage : beneath the 

 pyramid is a waved line, which may also possibly depict the sea, and 

 point to some fabulous mountain in the ocean, as Lanka or Meru. To 

 the right is another curious emblem, which for want of more correct 

 information, we may call a tree of triple branch, standing in a frame or 

 on a kind of chabutra. To the left is the swastika emblem "f», of four 

 legs conjoined : and below it a figure very similar in form to ££ or 25 

 or some other compounded Greek characters on the Bactrian coins. 

 There is a legend around the margin consisting of the letters hitherto 

 called Pehlevi, but which I think we shall soon find reason to denomi- 

 nate otherwise. 



Fig. 2. A copper coin similar in every respect to fig. 1, but of inferior 

 execution ; in this the circles of the chaitya or temple are made 

 square, and resemble common masonry. 

 Figs. 3, 4, 5 ; are smaller copper (or rather white bronze) coins, 

 stamped only on one side, except No. 5, which has a faint impress 

 of a tirsul on the reverse. The form of the tree is altered, and the 

 frame below has, in some specimens, four compartments instead of 

 two : the swastika is also exchanged for four circular rings. 

 Fig. 6. A copper coin weighing 163^ grains, in imperfect preserva- 

 tion. The only variation in this coin from the type-coin fig. 1, is 

 that the pyramid contains two tiers instead of three. This circum- 

 stance, however, constitutes the link of connection with the other 

 series of coins to which I have alluded. 

 All of them having the symbol «g, in common. 

 Fig. 7. Is a small square copper piece, with an elephant on one side, 



the other effaced. 

 Fig. 8. Is a small copper coin procured by Lieut. A. Conolly, at 

 Kanouj, upon which this mark & forms the distinguishing emblem. A 

 similar coin is in Major Stacy's possession, obtained in Central India. I 

 shall have to recur to the subject in describing figs. 19 and 22. 

 Figs. 9 and 10. I have introduced these two coins to shew, that what 

 has been called the Indo-Scythic series occurs plentifully among the 

 'exhumated relics of Behat. 

 The first of these, the raja and bull coin, must henceforward be 



