656 New varieties of the [Oct. 



on the banks of the Indus and in the Panjdb," — and, as we have 

 stated above, near Seharanpur in India proper. This series has, un- 

 doubtedly, a better claim to be considered the genuine descendant of 

 the Ardokro coin in situ than any of the three preceding series. 



To sum up my review of these coins, I cannot help remarking how 

 great an analogy exists between the circumstance of these several 

 adoptions by subordinate imitators, of a predominant form of coinage 

 that had perhaps prevailed for centuries under a paramount rule ; 

 and the nearly parallel case of the Sha'h A'lam coinage of the last 

 century, the very words and form of which were copied by the numer- 

 ous rajas and nawabs, who assumed the privilege of coinage upon 

 the dismemberment of the Delhi monarchy. In many places, a few 

 years only, have sufficed so to disfigure the Persian letters, as to render 

 them quite illegible and barbarous. 



Pala or Deva dynasty of Canouj. 

 By way of filling the plate, I have engraved at foot, two new spe- 

 cimens of this dynasty, brought to light since the publication of Plate 

 L. Vol. IV. 



Fig. 19 is taken from a cast of a gold coin, in Col. T. P. Smith's 

 possession. Some of the letters are new in form, but they may pos- 

 sibly be read ^w^f^^F? TTfr^'q' Sri mad Vigrahapdla deva. 



Fig. 20 is an unique copper coin of Capt. Cunningham's. On the 

 obverse, the four-handed god is crushing a demon — instead of being 

 seated in the usual serene attitude. The legend on the other side 

 may be read, ^Tnsjm^'^" Sri mat Prithi deva, a name occurring in the 

 Delhi list as having reigned at Lahore A. D. 1176 — 1192: but not 

 to be found among the many names which inscriptions have given 

 us of the Bhupdla family of Canouj and Benares. 



Mr. Maspon has figured a third new name of the same group, 

 which I have inadvertently neglected to introduce in this plate as 

 I had intended. The letters that are visible are ^\fj. . . . JTfaiT'cg 

 . . ^^ Sri ma. . . . miramas. . deva. The first and last letters are half 

 cut off, and the vowel may be an a, so that the reading may 

 possibly be Sri m(at Ku)mdra mah(d Raja) deva. Mr. Masson says 

 that " at Kdbul coins of this peculiar type are met with occasionally 

 in the bazar, generally of gold. A large parcel was dug up out of 

 the soil, three or four years ago, near Korinder a village of Koh- 

 daman." He places them as the last of the Indo-Scythic series, not 

 hav ing, at the time of writing, seen what had been made of them here. 

 If indeed the sitting female be a far descendant from the Mithraic 

 goddess, the long interval of six or eight centuries will fully account 

 for the magnitude of her transformation. 



