288 E. A. Gait— 'Notes on some Ahom Coins. [No. 4, 
Denary Series. Duodenary Series. 
Serial 
No. 
Ahom. 
Chinese. 
Japanese. 
'■ Serial 
No. 
Ahom. 
Chinese. 
Japanese. 
1 
kap. 
kea. 
kino-je. 
1 
T* 
toze. 
ne. 
2 
dap. 
yih. 
kino-to. 
2 
mao. 
cha5. 
us. 
3 
rai. 
ping. 
fino-je. 
3 
ci. 
yin. 
t5rru. 
4 ? 
mug. 
ting. 
fino-to. ’ 
4 
cen. 
mao. 
OV. • 
5 
plek. 
wu. 
tsutsno-je. 
5 
cina. 
shin. 
tfits* '\ 
6 
kat. 
ke. 
tsutsno-to. 
6 
nmt. 
sze. 
mi 
7 
khut. 
kang. 
kauno-je. 
7 
can. 
wu. 
uma. 
8 
rug. 
tao. 
sin. 
kauno-to. 
8 
rao. 
we. 
tsitsuse. 
9 
gin. 
midsno-je. 
9 
mit. 
shin. 
sar. 
10 
ka. 
kwei. 
midsno-to. 
10 
11 
12 
keo. 
tye5. 
plafi. 
yeo. 
seo. 
ha. 
torri. 
in. 
7* 
I have been unable up to tbe present to obtain any explanation of 
the origin of the Ahom words used in these series. 
The Chinese call the words in the first series tien han or 
terrestrial signs, while those in the second series are the horary 
characters, and are known as te che or celestial signs. The first series 
in the Japanese system is made up of the elements, of which they reckon 
five, doubled by the addition of the masculine and feminine signs je and 
to; the second series is made up of the signs of the Zodiac. 
The Ah6ms commence their method of reckoning time from 568 
A.D., 1 so that, in order to ascertain the corresponding year anno domini , 
the number of tdocirjas should be multiplied by 60, the number of the 
year in the tdocirja added and also 568. 
Turning now to the coins, the year of the tdocirja on the coin of 
^uklegmug is plekyi, i.e., the 15th year; the number of the cycle is not 
mentioned, but as Qukleqmug reigned from 1539 to 1552 A. D., we may 
assume that it was the 17th tdocirja. Consequently the English date 
will be 16 x 60 +15-|-568 = 1543 A.D. or the 4th year of Quklegmug’s 
reign. The coins of ^upatplia were minted in Idkni raigdn , or the 33rd 
year of the tdocirja , and as (^upatpha’s dates are 1681-1695 A.D. the 
cycle in question must be the 19th tdocirja. The equivalent date in our 
Era will therefore be 18 x 60 + 33 + 568 or 1681 A.D., that is to say the 
first year of f^upatpha’s reign. 
Proceeding in the same way, the Idkni kdtkeo on the coin of 
Pramata Siqha corresponds to 1744 A.D., which is the first year of that 
monarch’s reign. 
1 This is the year in which Khunlung and Khunlai, the reputed progenitors of 
the Ah5m royal family, descended from heaven by a golden chain. Cukapha is said 
to have entered Assam in the first year of the twelfth tdocirja or 1228 A.D. 
