850 Examination of the Inscriptions [April, 



the last letter may possibly be a numeral also. In Mr. Ommanney's 

 Multay inscription, two numerals of the same class were observed 

 (VI. 868.) 



It may also be remembered that in my notice of the Surdshtra coins, 

 vol. VI. p. 389, I remarked behind the head on the obverse, besides a 

 legend in corrupted Greek characters, a few strange marks not at all 

 like either Greek or Sanskrit alphabetical characters ; to these I now 

 redirected my attention and was happy to perceive that they too were in 

 fact numerals of the same forms and of equal variety with those on 

 the copper-plate grants. 



I have arranged at the foot of Place XII. those specimens in my own 

 cabinet on which the figures are best developed. 



Upon bringing the subject to the notice of Dr. Burnt at Kaira, he 

 wrote me that he had already remarked these symbols on another very 

 numerous class of old coins found in the ruins of the Gujerdt towns. 

 They are made of lead or tin ; and have on one side, in general, a bull, 

 and on the other the triple pyramid which forms the central symbol of 

 the silver hemidrachmas of the Surdshtra satraps. I have not found 

 space to introduce them into the present plate, but fig. 22, will serve 

 as a representative of the whole class. It is a finely preserved copper 

 coin most opportunely discovered and presented to me by Lieut. E. 

 Conolly, from Ujein. It bears the numerical symbols cr Vf^ verv 

 distinctly marked under the symbol £>. Among the facsimiles of the 

 leaden coins, I find ^TQQ. an< i ^SB* w * tn Dare ty room for a third 

 figure, but in one the reading is ^HTOCl^ so that we may venture to 

 place them all in the fourth century of some yet unknown era. 



Aniong the silver coins the variety is greater : fig. 23, which I find 

 by the reverses is a coin of Rudra Sah, has the year ^Q^D. 



Another fig. 26, also of Rudra Sah, has the third figure well de- 

 veloped ^QD*). 



Fig. 24, of the son of Rudra Dama (the repairer of the Girndr 

 bridge), has apparently the numbers, °Tg3* or -390. 



Fig. 12, from Ujein, Rudra Sah II. has ^^Q the first 3 rather 

 faint. In a coin of Viswa Sah, given to me by Mr. Wathen, similar 

 to fig. 9, of the plate, the date is ^QT^. 



Fig. 25, is a well brought out date^OCt on a coin of Atri Dama, 

 son of Rudra Sah, in my cabinet : the coins of the same prince 

 in Mr. Steuart's plate, and one also of Aga Dama' shew traces of the 

 same second figure. 



