1873.] Hon’ble E. C. Bayley— Further note on Kausambhi coins. 191 
as they go, and the copious quotations will illustrate many more points than 
those which they are specially intended for. To those who approach Chand 
fortified by previous reading of the mediaeval Hindi poets, the majority of 
the forms given above will be already to a great extent familiar, but to 
those who approach him from the direction of Sanskrit and Prakrit studies, 
his style will be absolutely unintelligible without some such clue as that, 
the outlines of which I have sketched in these notes. 
Further note on coins from Kausambhi.—By The Honorable 
E. C. Bayley, C. S. I., C. S. 
Since writing on the two coins sent by Babu Sivaprasad from Kau¬ 
sambhi,* I have had the advantage of showing the coins themselves to Gen¬ 
eral Cunningham. He at once expressed his preference for reading the third 
letter of No. 2, as sa, instead of ja. He said that he thought he had 
coins in his cabinet which would throw light on the matter. 
He has since found two of which he kindly allows me to make use. 
One of these is the exact duplicate of coin No. 2, but has only the latter 
half of the inscription perfect. The other coin is in better preservation; its 
material is brass, and while it differs slightly in type, has the same legend 
as No. 2, but the third letter is unmistakably ^r. The whole of the letters 
on this coin are of a squarer type than those of my coin, so much so that 
the first letter might almost be read as “ ba if it were not for the clear 
shape of the letter on my coin. 
The total legend must, however, now be read as— 
^ 33 f%<T, “ thaha sat a mita ” 
“ The friend of the virtuous iconoclast”— 
A reading which is a clear improvement on those previously suggested. 
Both of General Cunningham’s coins have the same reverse, a bull with 
the svastika over its hindquarters and standing in front of a Buddhist 
chaitya with Buddhist railing very clear, so that now there can hardly be 
any doubt of the Buddhist character of the legend. General Cunningham’s 
best coin has the symbol on the left of the obverse somewhat different from 
my coin, but it is not quite distinct enough for satisfactory recognition. 
General Cunningham says that one of the coins at least was procured at 
Batesar, which is on the Jamuna, though at some distance above Kausam- 
bhi, from which place it may have possibly come. 
* Vide above, page 109. 
