JOURNAL 



ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



Part ] -HISTORY, LITERATURE, &c. 

 No. III.— 1865. 



Coins of the Nine Ndgas, and of two other Dynasties of Narwar and 

 Givalior. — By Major-General A. Cunningham. 



[Keceived 13th July, 1865. Read 2nd August, 1865.] 



The old Hindu coins which are engraved in the accompanying plate, 

 were nearly all obtained in the Gwalior territory, and chiefly in the 

 cities of Gwalior, Narwar, and Grobad. Most of them are now pub- 

 lished for the first time, as only five specimens out of the whole num- 

 ber will be found in James Prinsep's plates. These are Nos. 7, 11, 

 and 12 of the first series, No. 15 of the second, and No. 25 of the third 

 series. Most of the coins now published are very rare, and several ' of 

 them are unique ; but Nos. 27 and 29 are common, and No. 7 is so 

 exceedingly numerous that upwards of 3,000 specimens have passed 

 through my hands, and there are as many more in the Stacy cabinet 

 of the Asiatic Society's collection. Stacy's specimens were obtained 

 at Gobad, and more than half of mine were found at the same place,. 

 but the remainder were procured at Mathura and Delhi, as well as at. 

 Gwal ior and Narwar. 



2. It is always difficult to feel any interest about ancient kings 

 whose names arc known to us only from their coins, and whose king- 

 doms can only be guessed at by the find-spots of their money. But 

 in the present case I am fortunate in bgiiig able to illustrate each of 

 the three different series by references to inscriptions. The last series 



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