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feeding the peacock, to belong also to Mahendra-gtjpta. AjitaMa- 

 hendra on the reverse and Mahendra-gupta on the obverse of 30, are 

 quite clear. I was before only misled by the letter h, which I read 

 as the nasal n of the lath alphabet. 



I shall have occasion to recur to this name in the next plate, 

 which contains those new forms of the Canouj coin that are without 

 the cornucopia female, and have not such direct analogy to their 

 Mithraic prototype as is palpable in the whole of the reverses included 

 in the lower half of the present plate. 



Plate XXXVIII. 

 Figs. 1, 2. These two coins, from Mr. Tregear's cabinet, are 

 variations only of the original coin given to me by Lieut. Conolly, 

 now became celebrated as having opened the door to the understand- 

 ing of the whole group. In that coin, however, the archer holds his 

 bow in the wrong hand, whereas in the two present coins, and the one 

 following, the position is rectified and the lion is better developed, 

 particularly in Fig. 2. Besides adding these fine specimens to our 

 series, Mr. Tregear has made out the true reading of the legend on 

 the reverse. Instead of Saccha or Pradya the word is f^^fVsfffl: 

 Sinha Vikrama, ' the lion hero,' which is consistent with the device, 

 for it may be also understood as ' conqueror of the lion*.' To whom, 

 however, this title is to be applied, would still have remained 

 doubtful, but for the fortunate discovery of another coin by the same 

 indefatigable collector in the prolific neighbourhood of Jonpur, while 

 even I was engraving the present plate. 



Fig. 8, the coin here alluded to, bears precisely the same device, 

 with variation only of the attitude of the warrior. The legend is 

 different, the pai't visible being on the obverse, ^\. . K ?T%^?f «f?j Sri. . ta 

 Mahendra jaya, and on the reverse, ^T^^iif^ Sri Mahendra Sinha. 

 Whether the Mahendra here designed be distinct from the Mahendra 

 gupta of the cornucopia reverse, remains to be ascertained. 



Figs. 3, 4,5. From Mr. Tregear's collection. These three coins 

 Rearing the Raja on horseback on the obverse, and a female seated 

 sideways on a morha or wicker stool on the reverse, are essentially 

 the same as were published in November last, (figs. 29, 30, Plate 

 XXXIX. from Lieut. Burt's and my own coins) which I was then, 

 however, unable to read satisfactorily, from misapprehension of the 



* It is remarkable that iu most cases the word Sinha (or more properly Simha) 

 is written with an unknown letter superposed to the ^. This must be the nasal 

 m, for which the anuswara is now substituted. In fig. 2 the letter is palpably 

 an 2S, m, to which is subjoined the h V) ; but in figs. 1 and 8, and in my coin, the 

 letter has the form of C . 

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