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clear ; below tbem (reading from tbe outside of tlie coin) stand succes¬ 
sively 5a and pa, botli equally perfect and clear. Beyond pa, below the 
feet of the figure, comes a fragment of ga. The next two letters vada 
of the shorter section are quite gone ; but of the first letter a, a small 
fraction is still visible. Again, of the longer section, above malui, there 
come ra and ja, on the left and right side respectively of the bead of the 
figure. The aksara ja is quite clear; but the horizontal headline of ra 
is worn away; and, moreover, it seems to have been turned the wroug 
way ( r instead of 1 ), perhaps induced by the inversion of the direc¬ 
tion of the script. Then follow the letters sa and tra, both rather 
crowded and mutilated. Next comes da, nearly perfect, and finally 
come tasa, more or less mutilated. The legend, therefore stands thus:— 
Malia(ra)ja(sa tra)da( tasa), ( A) [vada] (ga)pasa. 
The angular brackets indicating lost, and the round brackets, muti¬ 
lated letters. 
In No. 8, only the left portion of the legend is preserved ; viz., maha 
of the longer, and gapasa of the shorter legend. On this specimen the 
letter ga is in nearly perfect preservation. 
It is a fortunate circumstance that the preserved portion happens 
to contain just some of the most distinct letters of the Kharosthi alpha¬ 
bet. Most of the letters of that alphabet are, as a rule, most difficult to 
identify. But this is never the case with the letters ma, sa, pa and ga, 
and in a lesser degree with ha and ja. These six letters are just those best 
preserved and quite distinct on both specimens. They together form 
(as will be readily understood from the arrangement of the legend, 
above explained) a continuous set of letters which make up, between 
them, the beginning of the longer and the end of the shorter sections of 
the legend. This set of letters is quite characteristic, and is sufficient 
to show how the whole legend must have run, even when it is not 
actually, or completely, extant. 
VII. Gujarat Coins. 
The coins of the Muhammadan “ Kings of Gujarat” are described in 
the British Museum Catalogue, Coins of the Muhammadan States, pp. 132 
ff., in this Journal, Yol. LVIII, for 1889, pp. 1 ff., and in Thomas’ Chroni¬ 
cles of the Pathan Kings of Delhi, pp. 350 ff. There still remain, however, 
many lacunae to fill up. Thus of Qutbu-d-din, the fourth Sultan, who 
reigned from 855-863 H. = 1451-1458 A.D., no coin appears to have been 
discovered hitherto ; none, certainly, has been either noticed or publish¬ 
ed. Not long ago, I had the good luck to discover two copper coins of 
this Sultan, m fairly good condition, in a small collection which I was 
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