1837.] of Coins deciphered. 338 



1 Of the great elected king Swa'mi Rudra Sah, son of the great 

 elected king Swami Rudra Dama.' 



These two names stand insulated from all the rest, and the only 

 test by which we can attempt to supply them with a fit position in the 

 list, is the form of the letter 'SJ which is decidedly of the earlier model. 

 These two kings may therefore come conveniently into the break 

 after Agapama, the second on our list. 



We may now proceed to sum them up in the order thus conjectu- 

 rally determined. 



Elected Sovereigns of Cutch, (Saurashtra ?) 



1. Rudra Sah, son of a private individual, Swami Janadama. 



2. Agadama, his son. 



(Here the connection is broken.) 



3. Swami Rudra Dama. 



4. Swami Rudra Sah, his son. 



(Here the connection is again broken.) 



5. Dama Sah, of whom no coins are extant. 



6. Vijaya Sah, his son. 



7. Vi'ra Dama, another son of Dama Sah. 



8. Rudra Sah, son of Vi'ra, 



9. Viswa Sah, son of Rudra, 



10. Atridama, also son of Rudra. 



11. Viswa Sah, son of Atridama. 



Thus we have eleven kings, with only two breaks in the succession, 

 developed by this very interesting series of minute silver coins. 

 Eleven kings, at the usual average of eighteen years per reign, will run 

 through a space of just two centuries. Yet where need we seek for a 

 single trace of such a dynasty in any of the works of the Hindus, 

 when of the Guptas reigning in the central provinces the memory is 

 but faintly shadowed in some of the spurious Puranas ? It would be 

 more unnatural to hope for any allusion to a remote kingdom of the 

 west like Cutch, in the books of the brahmans ; and unless we can find 

 something to the purpose in the numerous inscriptions from Girnar 

 and Junagarh, we may, as far as the Hindus are concerned, but have 

 added a barren list of names to the numerous pedigrees already col- 

 lected by Tod and others, with the advantage however, always consi- 

 derable, of their being entitled to perfect confidence. 



From the Persian historians here and there may be picked up an 



incidental notice, of great value, regarding the internal affairs of 



India, but the names are so changed and confounded with titles that 



it is sometimes hard to recognize them. One of these notices quoted 



3 d 2 



