1881.] 
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the years 1884 and 1885 has been explained to me thus. There is a class 
of faqirs who say that, inasmuch as the number of breaths a man will 
take is numbered when he is born, the more slowly people breathe the 
longer will they live. I suppose the idea may have got into Ranjit Singh’s 
mind (he was the slave of all kinds of superstitions as well as lusts), that 
if he could manage to drag out one year to the extent of ten, his life would 
he all the longer, the number of years being originally fixed. This rupee, 
the only one I have seen of this kind, is the property of the Rev. J. Doxie 
who kindly made me an electrotype copy of it. 
Fig. 24, PI. VI is a Peshawar Sikh Rupee. Obverse as in fig. 1, PL Y 
with year 1894. It was struck by Hari Singh and the date is that of 
the battle in which he lost his life 1894 — 1887 A. D. = date of battle 
of Jumriid. The reverse has on it Zarb-i-Ieshdwar Sanat-i-Jalus 1894. 
The date is on each side and it is the same year. It is a light rupee, 
weighing only 135 grs. 
The remaining figures on pi. VI are those of rupees struck after the 
death of Ranjit Singh. He died in 1839 A. D., as we have seen 1896 
Sambat. Fig. 26 is a rupee of 97 S. It has on it Om in Panjabi letters. # 
Mr. Lepel Griffin says that there is a rare rupee with “ Ung” on it, which 
he says means God. Now I have never seen this word. I think it must 
be a mistake for Om, the invocation in common use in Thibet. Ting does 
not mean God, it only means body .f Thus Devanga means God incarnate 
or embodied God. 
Fig. 27 is a rupee of the year 99 with a trisiil on it. 
Fig. 28 is a rupee of the year 1900 S. with an umbrella on it. 
Fig. 29 is of 1902 with an umbrella to the staff of which is attached a flag 
Fig. 30 is of 1904. It has on it a canopy under which is the word 
Sat in Gurmukhi or Panjabi letters. Sat = the True, i. e., God. Below to 
the left is a very peculiar knot. 
Fig. 31 is of 1905. It has on it again the canopy and Sat. To the left 
is a thorny club. 
All these coins from figs. 25 to 31 inclusive are of Amritsar. They 
have the inscriptions on the obverse varying from fig. 4 in several points 
and also from those in fi°r. 2. 
O 
Obverse— 
The cross bars are eliminated. I can 
assign no meaning to them, although 
CyUjt 
I have no doubt they are an important 
part of the inscription. 
* Panjab Bajahs. 
t [Om is a Brahmanic symbol of the Deity, well-known throughout India. JJng 
is merely an anglicised spelling of it, and does not mean body, which is ang, Sanskrit 
anga. Ed.] 
