G74 Continuation of notes on Hindu Coins. [Dec. 



A romantic account of the chivalrous adventures of his youth is 

 given by Colonel Tod*. He succeeded to the throne of Mewdr, in S. 

 1565, (A. D. 1508.) and is accounted by the Rajput bards the 

 " kalsu," or pinnacle of its glorv. His encounter with Baber at 

 Kanua occurred on the 5th Kartik, S. 1584, ( = 15th October, 1527.) 

 four years subsequent to the striking of these coins, which, by the 

 way, are no very convincing evidence of the flourishing state of the 

 arts in Chitor at the summit of its splendour and glory. 



Fig. 26, is a small square copper coin in Colonel Stacy's cabinet, 

 also of modern fabrication ; on one side inclosed in a marginal frame, 

 which proves that the whole inscription is before us, are the Nagari 

 letters xj^f f%*J ek lis. It may be that lis is the name of a coin of 

 which the specimen represents the unit ; or possibly it should be read 

 ^rf^r ekdlis, the fortieth or rather forty-first of the current silver 

 coin of the place ? The division of the field on the reverse into upper 

 and lower compartments, so far resembles a gold coin from Canouj, 

 described by Mr. Wilson, as fig. 52, Plate III. The letters are 

 3K"H «lNft an unintelligible compound. 



Fig. 28, is another rude Hindu paisa of a late period. A human 

 figure on the obverse, holds a staff in his right hand ; on the reverse 

 are the letters ^ ^ i!J^ ?: W\ basan sarji, an unknown and doubtful 

 name. 



Plates XXXVI., XXXVII. Rajput Coins. 



In the two following plates, I am again indebted to Colonel Stacy's 

 numismatic zeal for the greater part of a verv curious series of Hindu 

 coins, on the one hand linked by the subject of their impression with 

 the Indo-Scythic series, and on the other gradually mixed with and 

 transfused into the Arabic currency of the first Mohammedan con- 

 querors of Central India. 



Now that I am myself in possession of nearly 100 of these coins 

 in silver, it appears strange that they should hitherto have escaped 

 so completely the notice of our Indian numismatalogists ; neither 

 Marsden, Wilson, nor Tod, having published a single engraving 

 of them. When therefore I first received a sealing-wax impression 

 of one from Dr. Swiney, in August, 1833f, it is not surprising that 

 I should have announced it as an unique. Colonel Stacy's letters 

 soon taught me to consider it in a very contrary light, and now on 

 reference to Colonel Tod's personal narrative, I find that they had 



* Rajasthan, i. 295. 



t See Journal, Vol. II. page 416, and fig. 11, Plate XIV. of the same volume : 

 I then supposed the coin to be of gold ; it was of silver. 



