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Fig. 17. — Copper coin weighing 92 grains. 



Obv. — A short trident or trisul, on a stand surrounded by a circle of 

 small dots. — Legend in two lines, Pasupati. 



Rev. — A globe surrounded by rays, enclosed in a dotted circle. 

 Legend disposed circularly, Pasupati. 



Fiy. 18. — Copper coin weighing 43 grains. 



Obv. — Humped Bull to right with a crescent above, and surrounded 

 by a dotted circle. 



Rev. — -Type and legend the same as No. 17. 



Fiy. 19. — Copper coin weighing 112 grains. 



Obv.— Figure of the king seated in the Indian fashion on a high 

 backed throne, and surrounded by a circular line and an outer circle of 

 dots : — Legend over the head in Grupta characters which are not easily 

 legible. I read doubtfully Sri Guhila-pati. 



Rev. — An elephant to right surrounded by a circular line and an 

 outer circle of dots. 



11. I have added the last coin to this series because it corresponds 

 both in weight and in fabric with the specimens of Pasupati's mintage. 

 The type of the obverse also agrees so closely with that of the first 

 example just described that I have little doubt that this coin belongs 

 to some member of the same family. The specimen is unique. I 

 have added two small coins of Chandra Gupta, Figs. 20 and 21, for 

 the purpose of shewing that similar vases of flowers were used as types 

 by the Gupta dynasty which immediately preceded the family of Tora- 

 mana. Fig. 22 is another small coin with the flower- vase type, but 

 bearing a different name, Swarga, regarding which I am unable to 

 offer any remarks save that its type and fabric range it with the con- 

 temporary coins of the Guptas. 



12. The third series of coins belongs to a much later period of 

 Indian history, shortly after the capture of Delhi by the Muhammad- 

 ans. The coins themselves are utterly rude and barbarous imitations 

 of the horseman mintage of the Brahman kings of Kabul ; — but they 

 are otherwise interesting and important, as they bear legible dates, 

 from which I have been able to verify two of the names as those of 

 actual Rajas of Narwar. Of the earliest of these coins belonging to 

 Malaya Varmma Deva, I have seen only 5 specimens. On one of 

 them, Fig. 26, the date is S. 1280, or it may be S. 1285 as the unit 



