1836.] Early Hindu Series of Coins. 645 



then alluded to as having the letters a little different from mine, and 

 was read Kragipta Paragu fpta). Upon full consideration of each 

 individual letter as compared with those of other coins, I do not 

 think the second letter a g ; it is rather a bh, and the reading altoge- 

 ther ^vrT^tnCTST , Kubhdvu paraguja (adding the ja from the obverse 

 of my own coin, where it is quite distinct). Now we have gained ex- 

 perience enough from our reading of this class of coins to expect that 

 the legend, where it does not merely embrace the titles of sovereign- 

 ty, will express some extravagant epithet. The final ja also (imply- 

 ing born of,) shews that the said epithet belongs to his father ; and 

 this will account for the omission of ja on one side of the coin, which 

 would have the effect of making the epithet apply to the son also. The 

 present compound may thus be made up of "§> ku, a diminutive par- 

 ticle ; *rrw bhdva, the mind ; ^xr upa, a particle implying similitude ; *7T 

 Ragu (for Raghu) the grandfather of Rama, and ^ja, born of * or, uni- 

 ted by Kubhdv-uparagu-ja ' of the humble-minded, resembling-Raghu- 

 born.' The name is unfortunately cut off from the margin. Two let- 

 ters of it are visible under the Raja's arm on the obverse, and look like 

 'SS^T Asa : but on reference to my own coin, I have there no hesitation in 

 reading it ^*f?f Samudra. The coin is in this case wrongfully placed 

 at the head of the group in the plate, but as there are two coins to one 

 in favor of the reading Asa I still hesitate to remove it, for Assa- 

 gupta is a known name in the Cashmir list ; and it is, moreover, so 

 like our Azos, that one feels inclined to discover in it a coin of Yavan- 

 aso himself, the supposed founder of this Canouj dynasty. 



Fig. 12. This beautiful coin is an unique in Mr. Tregear's pos- 

 session. It is valuable on every account: as giving an additional 

 link with the Mithraic coins (fig. 9), in the standing cornucopia- 

 female ; as adding a new and much desired name to the coin list ; 

 and as teaching a good lesson, in the most unequivocal and well form- 

 ed Nagari, of the style of legend adopted by these sovereigns ; to whom, 

 whether from their extra-Indian, or their low origin, or their limited 

 sway, the panegyrist seems to have avoided applying the usual epithets 

 of royalty, mahdrdja dhirdja. 



On the reverse the reading seems to commence, ^^T^T 55 ^ Sarva- 

 rdjochhatra, ' the chatta or overshadower of all the Rajas' — then, on 

 the right of the obverse, ^mT^Tjirsf ^. . . . Kdma-naruttama-ja Gha- 

 (t6t ?) and under the left arm, written perpendicularly in the Chinese 



fashion ^ Kacha. ' Son-of-an-excellent-man-resembling-KAMA, 



* I have worked out this solution, dictionary in hand j for the Pandits could 

 not aid me in the least : it is therefore quite open to criticism. 



