648 New varieties of the [Oct. 



one of my, collection, already published ; (fig. 24. of Plate XXXIX. 

 Vol. IV.) Fig. 17 is from Gaya, and fig. 18 was dug up near a village 

 four kos from Ghazipur. 



On the obverse, the general attitude of the Raja is the same as 

 usual — the waist a little more fashionable, the gaiters absolutely those 

 of the last century ! and the hair or wig commencing to be curled 

 in parallel rolls, as will be more fully developed hereafter. The 

 name perpendicularly disposed under the arm of both figures is quite 

 clear, or ^^ Skanda ; while on the reverse of Fig. 18, it is as decided- 

 ly (in the old character) 4^$AjVT Sri Skanda gupta, the very name of 

 the Bhitari-ldth successor to Kumara. 



On comparing the plates in the Researches and Journal of the coin 

 given to me by Mr. Bacon, many years ago, and then thought rather 

 suspicious, Lieut. Cunningham soon found its legend to be identical 

 with his own, — a fact fully confirmed by re-examination of the coin it- 

 self. These three, however, are the only coins yet known of this name. 

 One of them No. 17, exhibits a new name on the reverse, for, 

 unlike 18, it is certainly not Skanda-gupta, but SRW^: Kramamanda, 

 which may be looked upon as a rhyming epithet — " equal to (or sur- 

 passing) Manda" (Saturn or Yama). Mr. TREGEARhas lately got a 

 duplicate of this coin — in which the reading is rather ■^TRTF^; — one 

 and both may possibly be intended for 3 5fa%'3': Sri Mahendra. 



Figs. 19, 20. We now pass to another new acquaintance made 

 out jointly by Lieut. Cunningham and myself on a general inspec- 

 tion of the Gupta coins. Fig. 19, is in the Society's collection, and 

 is engraved as No. 14 of the Plates in the 17th Vol. As. Res. unread 

 by professor Wilson. Upon recognizing the final letter *% ndra, 

 we soon perceived the preceding letter which I had before mistaken 

 for a ph, or n, to be the old ^, h, and thus with the vowel above it, the 

 name was immediately cleared up as ^t*T%^?»* Sri Mahendra. Ano- 

 ther coin from Gaya, belonging to Lieut. Cunningham, turned out 

 to be of the same individual as to the reverse, with some varia- 

 tion in the legend of the obverse. Under the arm of the latter, 

 the letter ^i ku seems to denote a Kumara ; but on the margin 

 are evidently the words sjw *?T^ Jayate Mahendra. On the 

 Society's coin, fig. 9, the marginal inscription is more complex — 

 TTC-H'OrdT, as yet unintelligible ; then between the feet ^t Sri, and 

 near the hand the letter ni gu (of Gupta) the intervening name being 

 cut off. 



Pursuing the examination, we found the coins 29 and 30, of Plate 

 XXXIX. Vol. IV. with the Raja on horseback, and the seated female 



