— 1863.] On Ancient Sanskrit Numerals. 165 
“F CA. =s80, & fi UL _310, nm |. —349, 
J Eval] ss 5 6 tee G@a9) 
Bhilsa inscription, No. 7.* 
i) = BI 
Inscription 2nd. 
j Ca) 
f Sus Rg 
A very old inscription in the cave character at the top of the Na- 
nah ghat near Junnara contains a great number of numerals, but 
their value is not given in words. It records gifts of cows (or per- 
haps their value in coins) horses, elephants, carts, sapakas (a parti- 
cular coin) and perhaps clothes. There is one numerical symbol in 
it which I cannot at present exactly make out. The gifts were made 
at a great variety of Yadngas or Vedic sacrifices and a study of these 
will, I trust, enable me to discover their true value. 
A correct decipherment of the inscriptions having enabled me to 
ascertain the true value of the various numerical symbols, it struck 
me that there would now be no difficulty in reading the exact dates 
on the Sah coins of Surdshtra; on looking at these, it appeared that 
both Mr. Prinsep and Mr. Thomas had read the first numerical sym- 
bol in the place of hundreds as if it did not vary in any of the coins; 
but it was clear to me that in some, the symbol was the plain one 
for 100, and in others for 200, accordingly a correct reading of those 
dates would, I thought, enable a Numismatist to arrange the Sah 
dynasty in chronological order; I therefore repaired to our learned 
Vice-President, the Honorable Mr. Newton, whose acquaintance with 
the Sah coins is minute and accurate, and would not be surpassed. 
In going over the large and beautiful collection of coins in his cabi- 
net, the arrangement according to the dates as I now read them, 
agreed in a most remarkable manner with that which Mr. Newton 
had already drawn up from a most careful study of the coins for 
several years. I therefore left the subject of the Sah coins, their 
* Journal, Asiatic Society, Bengal, Vol. VI. p. 454. 
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