1895.] 
E. A. Gait —Notes on some Alwm Coins. 
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i.e., the great ( cao ) pupatpha reign (pinkhun) year ( Idkni) rdigdn 
(33rd year of cycle). 
reverse kdd bay 
TJfl plid ley 
dan lieu 
^ cu. 
i.e., I (kdo) the king (phd) offer (lieu cu) prayer (bay) to Indra 
(ley dan). 
Number 6 is a coin of punenpha alias Pramata Siqlia. The reading 
is: 
obverse ’SJ cad gu 
nen phd pin 
khun Idkni 
j ' - 
katked. 
i.e., the great (cao) Qnnenpha reign ( pinkhun) year (Idkni) kdtkdo 
(36th year of cycle). 
reverse 35T^T kdo bay 
'S’ phd ley da 
«T xf n lieu cu. 
or I (kdo) the king (phd) offer (heu cu) prayer (bay) to Indra (ley 
dan). 
Efforts are being made to obtain a complete collection of Ahom 
coins, so any lengthy discussion of the few already in the possession of 
the Society would be premature. 1 A short explanation of the dates on 
them may however be given. The Ahom method of computing time is 
the same as that of the Chinese and Japanese, viz., by the larger Jovian 
cycle of 60 years, which the Ahoms call tdochiya. The true Jovian cycle 
of 12 years is said to be still in use in China for reckoning domestic 
occurrences. 
Like the other nations mentioned, each year in the cycle bears a 
name and not a number, the name being formed by compounding words 
of two series, the former containing 10 and the latter 12 words. Thus 
the first year of the tdochiya is denoted by the combination of the first 
word of each series and the tenth by that of the tenth word in each 
series; in the 11th year the first series is exhausted and so that year is 
denoted by the combination of the first word of the first series and the 
11 tli word of the second, the 12th by that of the second word of the first 
series and the 12th word of the second, the 13th by the third word 
of the first series and the first word of the second and so on. 
The two series of words are given below, the corresponding words 
in Chinese and Japanese being added for comparison. 
1 [A.coiu of this scries is illustrated by Marsden, No. MCCXXI. Ed.] 
