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representation of the chaitya of ancient Budhist coins with central 
relic chambers. The obverse may possibly represent a lotus bud. 
Of the numerous small coins in the collection only six can be in 
any way deciphered. These are figured in the plate and marked 
Nos. 7 to 12 inclusive. The obverse in these coins appears generally 
to contain a figure meant to represent a lion. In one instance, No. 8, 
the figure is evidently a humped cow. At first sight the reverse of 
these coins appears to bear traces of Burmese letters. Indeed some 
of the marks do make veritable letters of the Burmese alphabet. 
But no meaning can be extracted from them, and I incline to look 
on these six small coins, as copies of ancient Buddhist coins made 
by ignorant workmen, who, in copying the common chaitya symbols, 
have made random marks like Burmese characters. But the symbols 
in the coins marked 8 and 11, evidently differ from the rest. Iam 
unable to offer any probable explanation of them. 
Two Ancient Sanskrita Inscriptions from Central India ; teats, trans- 
lations and comments.—By BABu RAJENDRALALA Mirra. 
In my papers on Toramana and the kings of Gwalior I have noticed 
nearly all of Major General Cunningham’s collection of Inscriptions 
from Central India of which any sense could be made out. Of the 
few which remained to be decyphered, most were full of lacune and 
otherwise imperfect, and I have therefore returned them to their 
owner, for such use as he may deem fit to make of them in his forth- 
coming essay on the history of the celebrated stronghold of the | 
Kachvahas. There were two, however, which were sufficiently legible 
to admit of trustworthy interpretations ; and transcripts and trans- 
lations of these I now offer to the readers of the Journal. 
The first is from a small Jain temple at Kajraha, nine coss from 
Chhatterpur, which is on the high road from Saugor to Hamirpur, 
It is incised on a small slab nine inches square, the lines, eleven in 
number, being, with one exception, just eight inches long. 
Its language is pure Sanskrita, but the metre of its poetical 
portion is defective, and the spelling throughout incorrect, the dental 
sibilant being every where used instead of the palatal and the cere- 
bral, and the cerebral being in one place used in the place of a kh as 
in the modern Hindvi. 
