1879.] C. J. Rodgers—The Copper Coins of Kashmir. 279 
the mimic for the time. On looking at his finger Bopya discovered that he 
had lost his ring. Nothing disconcerted he took his stick and threw it on 
the running stream and ordered the boatmen to row home. Arrived there he 
ordered his servants to go and bring his ring telling them that he had put his 
stick on the water where it fell. One is reminded on reading this of the Irish- 
man who dropped the ship’s tea-kettle overboard in Dublin harbour. He 
cut a mark in the side of the ship where it fell. When the ship arrived 
off Cork, he asked the Captain whether if anything were lost he knew 
where it was? We may imagine the answer. Pat said, “ Well, you know 
the tay kettle is at the bottom of Dublin harbour, and the ship’s side has a 
mark on it to enable us to judge where it fell.” 
I regret that up to the present I have seen no coin of Ratangiri who 
is said to have been the first Sultan of Kashmir. He was a second Solomon, 
One day two mares foaled. The foal of one died. The foal of the other 
took to both mares with equal affection. The owners could not tell whose 
foal had died and whose was the living foal. They came to Ratangiri. 
He ordered them to throw the living foal from a bridge into the water, the 
mare that followed it was to be adjudged the mother. 
fe Of Yaskara it is written that in his days thieves and highwaymen were 
_ nowhere to be seen. Shops and houses were left open at night. It seems 
a pity that this king, whose rule was as effective as that of our own Alfred 
who preceded him by only half a century, should have seen fit to leave the 
scene he had graced so long, to hide himself like a second Charles V. in a 
monastery, or rather I expect in some jungle as an ascetic. 
Now for a few words about the coins themselves. Both obverse and 
reverse have crowned figures on them. The figure on the obverse is proba- 
bly that of the king. But the face is in nearly every case more like that 
of an ass or bullock. There are large earrings in every instance. Round 
the waist are apparently two bands. The waist compared with the shoul- 
ders and chest is very thin. Mountaineers to the present day wear a rope 
round the waist. This figure is always seated, the legs being disposed of 
in a peculiar fashion. Sometimes they are hidden in the skirts, sometimes 
bare, and in one case the ancles have anklets on them (see figs. 22 and 24). 
_ The name comes on the obverse, and is generally divided into two parts by 
the figure. Sometimes S77 is present on the left of the figure and the name 
commences on the right. Sometimes S77 and part of the name are to the 
left and the remainder of the name to the right. Sometimes Sy7 is omitted 
and the name occupies both sides of the figure. The figure has a canopy 
_ over the crown. ‘This is shown very well in some specimens of Jaga Deva, 
lately obtained from a heap of about two hundred. (See figs. 23, 24.) 
The reverse has a figure crowned, But the earrings give way to four 
dots which may represent jewels in the ear as worn by women. This figure 
