436 Continuation of Remarks on [Sept. 



shaken by the discovery of the two larger coins (figs. 4 and 5) : on 

 the obverse of these we have the warrior figure of Siva or his son 

 Scanda Kumara, with the huge Sivian spear alluded to in Moor's 

 Hindu Pantheon. On comparing this figure with the obverse of Nos. 37 

 and 38 of Wilson's plates, it will be difficult to admit one and not the 

 other among Jain coins. If rejected as a Jain coin, it may be worth 

 while to read Wilford's story of Siva's rusticating himself on the 

 banks of the Bagmati : hence called, as writes the same authority, in 

 some vol. of the Asiatic Researches, Mrigasringo : the tradition is 

 that once upon a time Siva appeared in the shape of an antelope, whence 

 he took the name of Hariniswara, or in other words Harinisd, or lord 

 of the antelope. 



Perhaps as we progress to perfection in the newly discovered San- 

 scrit letters, the inscription upon at least three of the coins now sent 

 will throw some light upon the subject." 



Figures 12,13,14 and 15, of plate xxvi. are four coins dug up in 

 the Doab near Allahabad, and presented to the Society, by Mr. Spiers 

 on the 3rd September. They appear to belong to the same class as the 

 preceding, having a rudely executed bull on one side, and the jhdr or 

 branch on the other, with some ill-defined letters in strong relief and 

 a straight chequered border below. The jhdr, in the present day it 

 should be remembered, is the symbol distinctive of the Jaipur and 

 Chitore coins. The trisul, of those of Srinagar and Sagar. In due 

 course of time we may be able by means of these marks to trace each 

 species to its original locality. 



Fig. 9. is a small copper coin among Dr. Gerard's series, bear- 

 ing a bull on one side and the well defined Kanouj Nagari letters Tj«nft 

 raja sri on the reverse. There are two or three others of the same 

 kind, in his collection. J. P. 



III. — Continuation of Observations on the Coins and Relics, discovered by 

 General Ventura, in the Tope of Mdnikydla. By J. Prinsep, Sec. fyc. 

 It is with some diffidence that I now proceed to offer a few remarks 

 in illustration of the Mdnikydla treasures, knowing the great disadvan- 

 tages under which any attempt to investigate even what may be thought 

 so simple a matter as the antiquity of the monument must labour, when 

 unassisted by previous knowledge of the history, mythology, or current 

 languages of the period and of the locality to which it belongs. My 

 object, however, is to place all the circumstances which the collateral 

 discoveries of Messrs. Masson, Martin, Burnes, Gerard, and 



