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of Lieut. Conolly, which has acted as a key to all the rest. An 

 account of it is inserted in vol. iii. p. 227, where, however, on Dr. 

 Mux's authority, the name was read as Sri mad Ghavo Kacho, from 

 a misapprehension of the letter m. The reading commences on the 

 obverse with the full title X^f^dfc^ * Maharaja Adhi Raja Sri (the 

 name is cut off), and on the reverse ^V^^i-XS Sri Sachha Vikra- 

 ma. The second word is doubtful, and without sense : perhaps it may 

 be Sri Pradyu, ' the heavenly,' or simply Sri mad Vikrama. 



Fig. 26, is another most important acquisition, for which we are 

 beholden to Colonel Stacy. An imperfect drawing of a similar coin 

 appeared in Wilson's plates, which only misled as to the device, as 

 well as the legend : both are here equally distinct. The Raja sits on 

 a chair playing on a kind of harp, whence we learn his accomplish- 

 ments ; while the margin teaches us his titles and part of his name 

 X*?TFaT£^. • • 5AJ<T Mahd Rdjddhi Raja Sri . . . dra gupta. The first 

 tetter of the name is the only one at all doubtful, and it is possible that 

 the name may be simply a repetition of the one more unequivocally 

 legible on the reverse, viz. N^tyH Samudra gupta. 



I insert here the facsimile inscription of the duplicate coin of the 

 Researches, of which I have luckily preserved the lead-cut: 



Its identity with the above is manifest, Mahdrdjddhi raja Sri Sa- 

 mudra- gupta. 



Fig. 27, is a sorry duplicate of the Conolly coin, belonging to 

 Colonel Stacy, with a variation of the epigraphe ^J^'^HXAJH 

 Vikrama Narinamagupta. I incline to think that the ^ * s intended 

 for 5, and that the word should be Narendra-gupta, or it may be in- 

 tended for Nardyana-gupta. The name on the reverse corresponds 

 with fig. 25, Sri pradyu Vikrama. 



Fig. 28, is from a sketch of a coin in Lieut. A.Cunningham's cabinet 

 at Benares. He has since sent me faithful wax impressions, which 

 expose slight inaccuracies in my outline. From neither, however, 

 can the inscription encircling the hero triumphant over the lion be 

 satisfactorily deduced; it may possibly be ■<§'*TQI^fjrX: Sri bal pa- 

 rakrama ; the letter on the field is, in the facsimile, t ku. 



On the reverse we are more lucky ; for the legend, which I take to 

 be the prince's name, tXTAi"H Kumdra- gupta, " the protected of Mars,'' 



* In using the Tibetan character, sometimes, we are forced to omit the long a 

 vowel mark, which is merely a prolongation of the matra, or horizontal head- 

 stroke in the coin writing. 

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