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Numismatic Gleanings. [no. 7, new series. 



derable height from the ground, are two smoothed tablets, filled 

 with inscriptions in the characters of the Allahbad and other simi- 

 lar columns.* They will proably be found to contain another and 

 hitherto unnoticed copy of Asokas edicts,f corresponding appa- 

 rently with those at Girnar in Kat'hiyawar, at Dhauli in Cuttack 

 and at Kapardagiri beyond the Indus. J The place is now known 

 by the name of Jogad'h, signifying in the Uyra dialect " Lac- 

 fort," a circumstance which has given rise to a local tradition, 

 that the lofty walls formed of that material were impregnable, 

 until the secret of their construction was betrayed by a milk-maid 

 which enabled the besiegers, by the application of fire, to effect an 

 entrance. 



In the neighbourhood of this place numbers of copper coins are 

 found, of a type different from any other hitherto met with in 

 Southern India, but presenting a striking resemblance to those of 

 the Indo-Scythian group, more especially to the coins of Kanerki.§ 

 All are much worn, but the following wood cut represents one of 

 the most perfect. 



The figure on the obverse and reverse is the same, but in the 

 cut, the position of the arms has been reversed, the right hand 

 being represented down, and the left up, whereas it is the right 

 which should be raised, and the left down. 



No traces of Scythian domination have hitherto been met 

 with so far to the south, but it is hardly possible to look at the 

 design in the above figure and not to identify it with those im- 



* Jour. As. Soc. Beng. III. pp. 114-483. 



t Of these the most celehrated is that of the Allahbad column, first decipher- 

 ed by James Prinsep, who found it to be identical with those on the pillar called 

 Firoz Shah's lat'h at Delhi and on the columns at Bettiah, Rad'hia, &c, in 

 North Behar. The rock inscriptions at Girnar, &c, subsequently deciphered, 

 also proved to be repetitions of another set of edicts by the same monarch. 



T J. A. S. B, VII. 156, 219, 434. 



$ Wilson Ariana Antiqua, pp. 365, 368. Fls. XI, XII. 



