1879.) V. A. Smith—Odservations on some Ohandel Antiquities. 285 
No. 8. Fath Shih. Obverse. Name and titles with bar and knot. 
Reverse. Struck in Kashmir in year 897. There is some doubt as to the 
reading of the 7. 
No. 9. Lbraihim Shah. Obverse. Name and titles, with bar and 
knot. Reverse. All illegible, but date &e. 
No. 10. Ismail Shah. Obverse. Name and titles, with bar and 
knot all in good preservation. Reverse. A complete muddle of remains of 
date illegible: remnants of Kashmir legible. 
No. 11. Husain Shih. Obverse. Name and titles, with bar and 
knot and probably remains of date. Reverse. Zarb Nuhsad wa haft wa 
haftad = 977 A. H. This coin is in splendid preservation. 
No. 12. Muhammad Yisuf Shah. Obverse. Name, titles, bar and 
knot as usual, but titles illegible. Reverse. Muhsad wa shash wa hash- 
téd = 986. This coin is very little worn, but it was struck on an irregular 
and ill-prepared piece of copper. 
I regret very much that the years of the coins are so unsatisfactory 
in so many instances. The names, however, afford no ground for dispute. 
They are all easily read, though in some cases at first sight they are not 
decipherable. I found I had several of Isma’il’s coins when I could read 
one. One’s power of reading progresses as one’s acquaintance with the 
coins increases. I have still several which up to the present I have not 
made out satisfactorily. These together with the coins of Nadir Shah, a 
coin of Nazuk Shah (so I read it, I want others to help me read this one) 
and the coins of Akbar struck in Kashmir with the bar and the knot must 
stand over for another paper. 
Observations on some Ohandel Antiquities— By V. A. SMITH, B. A., C. 8. 
and F. C. Buack, ¢. E. 
(With six Plates.) 
The careful and accurate descriptions of the Chandel remains at Kha- 
jurabho and Mahoba, published by General Cunningham, might be supposed 
to have exhausted the subject of which he treats, and to leave no gleanings 
to be picked up by amateur hands. We have, however, in the course of 
several years’ residence in the Hamirpur District, in which Mahoba is situa- 
ted, and after careful inspection of the buildings at Khajuraho, collected a 
few notes, which may, we venture to think, form a useful supplement to the 
more systematic record of the Director of the Archeological Survey. 
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