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1885.] C. J. Rodgers— On some more Copper Coins of AJcbar. 
19. King Gopi Chand consi¬ 
dered in his heart, the words of 
my mother have come true. He 
draweth from his waistband knives 
and daggers, and pntteth them to 
his throat. But God above seized 
and stopped him, saying, ‘ Why, 0 
my ascetic, dost thou kill thyself. 
There is ambrosia in thy finger.’ 
So he split his finger and gave his 
sister (ambrosia) to drink (and 
she came to life again). Then the 
ascetic went off on his wanderings. 
19. (Saitli Gopi Chand to him¬ 
self), ‘ Let me strike myself with 
knife and dagger, and let the bro¬ 
ther die in the place of his sister. ’ 
Then up came Narayana in the 
form of a Brahman, and caught 
hold of him, crying, ‘ Ho, sinful 
one, in thy little finger is ambrosia. 
Give it to thy sister to drink ; and 
thy dead sister will come to life ; 
and do thou take the form of a 
bee, and go away and be an ascetic.’ 
(Here the sister is supposed to come 
to life , and Gopi Chand to go away.) 
20. His sister arose and sat up. Through every lane she wept. 
She caught the sandal tree and wept; and the sandal tree replied, 
4 Why dost tlion weep ? Thy brother hath become an ascetic.’ Then 
cried the sister, ‘ woe is me ’, and the earth opened and she entered 
into it (and was swallowed up by it). And thus was broken the 
relationship of brother and sister between these two. 
On some more Copper Coins of AJcbar.—By Chas. J. Rodgers, Principal , 
Normal College , Amritsar. 
(With a Plate.) 
When in 1881 I wrote a paper on the Copper Coins of Akbar, it. 
was with much diffidence that I put forward any views of my own. 
Those views were in fact only deductions from the coins I had before 
me. Mr. Thomas in a short but friendly paper opposed my deductions. 
He corrected the reading of one coin from dam to damrct. I need not 
say that I knew the inscription would bear this interpretation. I had, 
however, never seen this word in any books on Indian coins, not even 
in Mr. Thomas’s most exhaustive treatises. I quite agree with him that 
a clamrd may be two damris. I was attacked somewhat personally by 
an anonymous writer in the Pioneer who evidently had not been guilty 
of such patient research as myself. He said Akbar never struck coins 
bearing the word tdnlce. A look at my plates must have upset his un¬ 
founded assertion. 
I have, however, to plead guilty of making another mistake. I read 
a word on several coins as sikJca. This word, General Cunningham has 
