584 DESCRIPTION OF SELECT COINS, 



These Coins are not uncommon : one has already occurred, No. 22, in 

 gold. Of the Copper, one, No. 46, belongs to the Society: Nos. 44, 45, 

 and 47 to Mr. Prinsep : they were dug up at Kylie, in the Saugur dis- 

 trict. No. 43 is an impression of one found in the Tope Mdnikydla, by 

 General Ventura. 



The circumstances under which these Coins have been found, are 

 favourable to their early origin, whilst the characters upon them indicate 

 their being Hindu. On figure 43, the first element is a common form of 

 the prefix Sri, and is followed by the old Nagari type of s? : the next may 

 be 3f, forming the usual proem to the title of a king, Srimad, auspicious. 

 In figure 44, we have what may be conjectured to be m\ci ; and in 45, what 

 looks like m%. It is not very safe to attempt to make a word or words 

 out of such meagre and uncertain data ; but in the absence of any other 

 conjecture, I may hazard a supposition that the legend may have been 

 Srimad Deva Pratapa, a legitimate appellation of a Hindu prince. No. 44 

 may also be read ^m ^ — and the obverse of 43 ^t s?HT, in which case we 

 might have Srimahd (Raja) Chakra — also part of a Hindu name or title — 

 Chakraverma is a designation of frequent occurrence. The rudeness of 

 their execution renders it probable that these Coins date posterior to the 

 last traces of Greek workmanship, and they are probably the indigenous 

 currency of the Indian princes of the Punjab, after the downfall of the 

 Indo-Scythian power in that direction. 



Plate III. 



This and the two following plates contain series of Coins of a charac- 

 ter differing evidently from these which have preceded : some of them 

 admit of verification, and belong to Hindu dynasties of a comparatively 

 recent date. It is not unlikely that those, the appropriation of which 

 must be left undetermined at present, are also the Coins of Hindu princes 

 who have reigned in similarly modern times. 



