3i Dr. Hoernle — New or rare Muliammadan and Hindu Coins. [No. 1, 



Proceedings for December 1888). On Plate IV, I give the reverses of 

 four specimens (Nos. 7 — 10). No. 7 shows the usual form ^K^f kurala, 

 but No. 8 has distinctly jjT^i huralaka (the ^1 I is slightly injured); 

 No. 9 reads ft S'ri Easana Ku, and No. 10 has ft ^rw SH 



Easana Kurala. 



I also take this opportunity to publish two gold coins (Plate IV, 

 fig. 11, 12) which I found among a lot of 506 coins collected by Babu 

 P. C. Mukkerji, on special duty with Archaeological Survey, and for- 

 warded to the Indian Museum in Calcutta. They belong to the class 

 commonly known as ' Kanauj coins.' Coins of this description were 

 issued by the Kulachuri kings of Chedi, the Gaharwar (Rathor) kings 

 of Kanauj and the Chandel kings of Khajuraha. As the two coins, 

 here published, are said to have been found iu Khajuraha, I think it 

 most probable that they are Chandel coins, though I feel uncertain as 

 to their exact attribution. 



No. 11 — I propose to read. 



ft W*I S'ri Mat Pa- 



XHf^ ramarddi 

 ^ Deva 



No. 12 — may be read. 



ft flft S'ri Mat YU or ft V^i S'ri Mat Bd- 

 ra Varmma* * la Varmma* 



* ^ft * Devi * ^ft * Devi 



The final long * of devi seems clear ; but it is puzzling. 



The king to whom No. 12 belongs, I take to be the 20th of General 

 Sir A. Cunningham's list of Chandel kings (Archaeological Survey Re- 

 ports, Vol. XXI, p. 80), viz. Vira Varmma, who reigned from about 

 1240—1280 A. D. Or it might be Bala Varmma, mentioned by Mr. 

 V. A. Smith in his paper on the " History of Bnndelkhand" (Journal, 

 B. A. S., Vol. L, p. 19) ; but he appears to have been only one of the 

 younger scions of the regal house, and would not have been entitled 

 to issue coins in his name. 



No. Ill take to belong to the well-known Paraniarddi Deva (the 

 18th of Gen. Sir A. Cunningham's list), who reigned from about 

 1165—1203 A. D., and fought with the famous Prithvi Raj and Qutbu-d- 

 din Aibak. 



If my attributions are correct, both the coins now published would 

 appear to be unique. For the only Chandel coins hitherto known and 

 published, so far as I am aware, are those noticed by Gen. Sir A. Cun- 

 ningham in his Archaeological Survey Reports, Vol. X, pp. 25 — 27 (see his 

 Plate X). They belong to the following five Chandel princes : Kirti 

 Varma (12th of the list), Hallakshana Varma (13th), Jaya Vai-ma 



