684 Continuation of notes on Hindu Coins. [Dec. 



It provokingly happens that the nine rajas immediately preceding 

 Bhimsi, in Tod's list, are omitted as an uninteresting string of names; 

 thus shutting out a chance of recognizing many of the petty names 

 of our coin list. We must in consequence pass over Ddnapdla (leva, 

 Kripd, Vaddsur, &c. and retrograde to Sdmanta deva. This name is 

 one of those on the inscriptions from mount Abu ( Arbuda)*, the 18th 

 of the Guhila family, to whom an actual date is also assigned, namely 

 A. D. 1209. The ohjection to this is, like that to Bhima, that the 

 date is too modern for the alphabetical type ; moreover, from Tod 

 we learn, that it was Rahup of Mewdr who was attacked by Shemsh 

 ul-din (Altamsh), in 1210-20, and this name we have recognized in 

 the more modern Nagari on several of the horseman coins. 



There are other Sdmanta (Sinha) devas in the Anhulwdra line of 

 Gujerdt of an earlier period, both in the Ayin Akberi, and in the native 

 chronicles ; indeed, Banaraja himself, the founder of the Chohdn race 

 at Anhulpur, was the son of a Sa'manta Sinha, fixed by Tod in A. D. 

 745 : and it is worthy of particular note, that the first prince restored 

 to the Gujerdt throne, near two centuries after the overthrow of the Bal- 

 haras by the Parthians, is called in the Ayin Akberi, " Saila deVa, who 

 was previously living in retirement at Ujjain in A. D. 696." Now the 

 name on the coin which I have assumed as the most ancient of the 

 series, and therefore placed at the top of Plate XVI., is Syalapati 

 deVa, a name apparently taken from the country where he ruledf; but 

 which might easily be converted, either with or without intention, into 

 S'aila deVa, a title denoting dominion or birth among the mountains. 

 In conclusion, it should be borne in mind, that both the Mewdr and 

 the Gujerat lines are of one family, that of the Gehlote or Sesodia 

 tribe, to which, though arrogating to itself a descent from the Sun, 

 the Persian historians uniformly ascribe a Parthian origin. May 

 not this be received as a good foundation for the Indo-Scythic device 

 on their coinage ; or on the other hand does not the latter fact, sup- 

 ported by historical tradition, go far towards the corroboration of the 

 extra Indian origin of the Mewdr dynasty ? 



Plate XLIX. Saurdshtra Coins. 

 In antiquity the present series doubtless should take precedence of 

 those depicted in the three last plates ; perhaps it should rank next 

 to the Behat or Buddhist group, for it has an important symbol 

 in common with them. My only reason for delaying to notice it 

 until the last, has been the hopes of receiving a further accession of 



* As. Res. vol.xvi. page 322. 



f Syalakoth, the fort of Syala near the Indus, was once attacked by the 

 armies of Mewdr. 



