1835.] Continuation of notes on Hindu Coins. 671 



"who swayed all India," after Jayananda : and the Musalrcuin 

 writers affirm that " after Gebdl (or Chait Piila), the Balhdra kings 

 of Guzerdt became paramount emperors of India*." It is not, how- 

 ever, absolutely necessary to travel so far to the west for a Kumdra 

 Pdla, since in Abul Fazl's list we find a prince of this name imme- 

 diately following Anangapala in Mdlwd ; andFERisHTA also makes a 

 Kunwer ray (raja Kumdra pdla J reigning- at Canouj on the invasion 

 of Mahmud, There is evidently some connection between all these 

 different dynasties, and although the subject is now involved in almost 

 inextricable confusion, from the discrepancy of the several lists in the 

 Ayin Akberi, in Raghunath's Rdjcvali, and in the Agnl Purdna, we 

 may hope, through the fortunate discovery of the present coins, and 

 others that we may now confidently hope will succeed them, to arrange 

 the names in a satisfactory and coherent manner. It is evident that 

 the Canouj mint produced this series continuously, as the alphabetic 

 type is preserved through the whole unaltered. It will be seen pre- 

 sently that the same distinctive characters appear at a particular 

 point, both in the coinage of Guzerdt, and in that of Chitor or Mexvdr ; 

 and in both cases sufficient of the name remains visible to shew that 

 it terminates in Pdla deva, and therefore, that it marks the spread and 

 paramount sovereignty of the Gaur family across the whole continent 

 of India. 



Figs. 13, 14, 15, 16, are silver coins found in abundance in 

 many parts of India, but chiefly towards the desert to the west of 

 Delhi. Colonel Stacy's cabinet is rich in them. Mr. Wilson's 

 plates exhibit others from Colonel Mackenzie's and my own collec- 

 tion. They weigh on an average 50 grains, or three massas. 



On the obverse is a figure of the boar, or the Vardha avatar of Vish- 

 nu, and the chakra or discus of this god is visible on many of the spe- 

 cimens. The character on the reverse is again of quite a new form. 

 Instead of the square-built Gaur alphabet, or the Gvjerdti letters, we 

 have here the nail-headed letter common to the inscriptions of the 

 Takshac, Jit, and Mori princes, of Haravati and Mslvd, described in 

 Tod's Rajasthan, App. vol. I. which belong chiefly to the 7th, 8th and 

 9th centuries. This vague coincidence'may help in assigning the place 

 and period of their coinage, which otherwise there are no data to trace. 

 The full legend of the coins, made out from collation of the engraved 

 figures and from many others in Colonel Stacy's cabinet, is 5 ?); fr^Tf^" 3 *- 

 xy^\ Sri mad ddi Vdraha, which is nothing more than the title of the 

 incarnation, and affords no clue to its appropriation. Below the 



* Wilford, As. Res. ix. 164 

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