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1893.] Hara Prasad Shastri— Old Nepalese Manuscripts. 
3. See Plate IX, fig. 26. This is a new variety of the well-known 
type of Shah Jahan’s rupees with two straight-lined square areas. The 
novelty is that the square is made with double lines, resembling in this 
respect a certain variety of Sher Shah’s rupees, which is less rare, and 
a specimen of which is figured in the British Museum Catalogue, No. 
544. Shah Jahan’s rupee of this variety is extremely rare. I have 
only heard of one other specimen, through Mr. Rodgers who informs 
me that he has seen it in the collection of Mr. Dnrkee, an American 
who visited India in the course of last year. The legends are the 
usual ones ; there is, however, one peculiarity, that the Hijra date is 
given twice, while the Jalus year is omitted. The date is 1056, and is 
given in the top segment of the obverse, together with the mark of a 
“sword;” and it is given_ again in the bottom segment of the reverse 
with the mint Katfcak (>-£&’). 
Postscript : The above was in print before I discovered that 
Jalal Shah’s coin (p. 243) had been already published in the Appendix 
to the British Museum Catalogue of “ The Muhammadan States,” No. 
500, p. 168, among the “unidentified” coins. In a footnote, it is 
suggested by the author of the Catalogue that it belongs to the Gujarat 
group of coins, on the ground that it is “ precisely similar ” to the 
coins of Ahmad I of Gujarat. It seems to me that the similiarity 
is much more striking to some of the Delhi emperial issues, and that, 
therefore, the prince who issued these coins was more likely to have 
been one who “ made himself temporarily independent ” from a Delhi 
emperor than from a Gujarat king. The facsimile of the Brit. Mus. 
specimen confirms Mr. Rodger’s reading of the obverse legend. 
On a new find of old Nepalese Manuscripts. — By Pandit Hara Prasad 
Shastri. 
I have been fortunate enough to obtain through the good offices of 
my friend Babu Eshirod Chandra Ray Chaudhuri, Headmaster, Chapra 
Zilla School, a collection of ancient Sanskrit MSS. from Nepal. They 
are twelve in number, eleven of which have been acquired for Govern- 
ment. Five of them are Buddhist works, four of which are absolutely 
unknown to the learned world. Six of them are Hindu works, five of 
which are well-known ; one only being new to the world. The twelfth 
work was marked unknown and appeared to be in utter confusion. 
The great merit of the five Hindu MSS. which are already well-known, 
and indeed that of the whole collection, is their ancient date. The 
MSS. were written between 1026 and 1481 A.D. 
