680 Continuation of notes on Hindu Coins. [Dec. 



tion only by want of room on the field. In all three, the hieroglyphic 

 which has hitherto passed for the helmeted head of the horseman, 

 has been either designedly or unintentionally removed, and the Arabic 

 word «5 y*s* Mahmtid substituted. On the other face, the full titles 

 of this sovereign, who was the son of Altamsh, may be recognized 

 without much trouble, thus : SI^UaLJ! jjl Sultdn ul A- 



iSij^ifJac dzem Ndsir ul du- 

 '(AJljtjo nya va ul din. 

 the inscription terminating in the " Mahmud" of the opposite face. 



Fig. 25, of the preceding plate, is another coin of the same name 

 and nature. 



Fig. 47. On this variety of the Hamira group, the Arabic titles 

 are apparently ^.^nUJiAJI lli^UaLJ! JJl Sultdn Futdh ul-dunya va 

 ul-din. I only perceive one specimen of this reading in Col. Stacy's 

 collection. 



Fig. 45. The next variety of the mixed impression retains the 

 horseman with the Hindu name, but the Arabic titles are now 

 Jo**! I ^IaJ! y>) (jUsLdf JJl Sultdn Abu ulfateh ul Moazzem 



Fig. *24, is the last on the list, exhibiting the semblance of a horse- 

 man. The small portion of the Arabic legend, included on the reverse, 

 is fortunately sufficient to point out the owner, and enable us to com- 

 plete it^^'j tjo cjJJ Jfe Jac 51 ^UaLJI Ul Sultdn ul dazem Ala ul 

 dunya va ul din, {Muhammed Shah ) 



Figs. 23 and 46. There still remains undescribed a curious variety 

 of the " bull and horseman" coin, in which the bull side is retained 

 with the Sri Samanta deva ; while, contrary to usage, the horse is 

 omitted, or replaced by an Arabic legend in the connected or flowing 

 character. The whole purport of it is not well ascertained, but the 

 legible portion of the two middle lines is thus read by some y/laki*o) 

 Jite JacXI^jUaAJI Ul Sultdn ul dazem, ul Sultdn Adil. . Others find in 

 it the name of Subactegin ; and I am inclined to adjudge it rather 

 to an earlier period than the Ghdri dynasty, both from the Arabic style, 

 and from the retention of the name of Sdmanta deva on the reverse. 



Figs. 26 and 50. We now pass to a new form of coin, allied to 

 the foregoing, indeed, by the retention of Hindi on one side, but differ- 

 ing from them in the total rejection of the pictorial emblems. That 

 the proper orthography of the word Sultdn was now attained is evi- 

 dent in the initial letters v\ ^UrTT. . Sri Sultd. . The lower line presents 

 three letters ff^ST mavvaj, which may be intended for moazz, thus 

 agreeing with the Arabic of the opposite face ^ <*ij tjUtMJj** Joe]} 

 ^UaLoJi Ul Sultdn ul dazem moaz ul dunya va ul din (either Bairam 



