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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[APRIL, 1882.
بالله ينو
داود
of India, who established himself in Sind about | The marginal legend is arranged in the 600 A.H. (1203-4 A.D.) to fall at last before the form of a square, and consists of the words troops of the chivalric Jalal-ud-dîn Khârizmi, oto (] all! Jywane who, in his turn, had to swim the Indus for his No. 8. Silver. Size 2. Weight 8.4 grains. 18 life, before the hordes of Chingis Khân. flduz's In this example palm-branches, roses, stars, distinctive symbol was a six-pointed "star" | and all other mandane devices are rejected and beneath the conventional outline figure of the replaced by simplo Kufio legends of sacred Rajpat horseman, (Prinsep's Essays, Plate xxvi. import-80 insisted upon by the more rigorous 45). Kub&chah follows in the occasional use of Muhammadans-to the following effect : the star (No. 87, p. 101), and Sultan Altamsh's Obverse. W
y day allri aliy coinage, continues to recognise the local device Reverse. --AN 10
all! Jydes in the six-rayed star which occupies the centre No. 9. Copper, bearing similar legends. Other of the obverse device (Ib. Pl. xxvi. 48). The specimens vary in the division of the words, and coins of Uzbeg Pái, the Indian general of Jalál. omit the title of Al-Amir. ud-dîn, struck at Multân, reproduce the identical BAND-Dầud. (Daud-putra's ?)" cluster of the seven stars of the Sâh Kings, No. 10. Silver. Weight, P grains. My cabinet. and the Guptas" which discriminating mark survived, till very lately, on the native currencies of Udaipûr and Ujjain." MUÆAMMAD.
al No. 5. Copper. Size 3.
The archaic form of Kufic stamped on these A unique coin of apparently similar type,
coins would under ordinary circumstances have (though the obverse is, in this case, absolutely
placed them in a far earlier position, in point blank), replaces the name of 'Abd-ul-rahman
of time, than their apparent associates in size on the reverse by that of S. Muhammad.
and style, whose almost identical legends are The concluding tribal term seems to be identical
couched in less monumental letters; but I prewith the designation embodied in the Kufic
fer to attribute any divergence in this respect scroll at the foot of the reverse of No. 4.
to local rather than epochal influences, regard
ing which we have bad so many instructive 'ABDALLAH.
lessons in the parallel home alphabets of No. 6. Copper.
India. Obverse. -Device as in No. 4 ('Abd-ul-rah
BANU-'UMAR. man).
No. 11. Silver. Size 1}. Weight 9 grains. Legend : 16 [all Jy ]
Five Specimens. Mr. Bellasis. Reverse. --Blank.
Obverse.--Legends arranged in five lines. No. 7. Copper. Size 35. Weight 18 grains.
Obverse. --Central device the conventional Marginal lines, plain or dotted, complete the four-pointed star, as in No. 4, around which, in a piece, circular scroll, may be partially read the formula Reverse.-Kufic legends in three lines.
محمد رسول الله عمر
بالله
لا اله الا الله وحده لا شريك له
بالله بنو عمروبه منذر
:
Roverse.-Central device composed of the name of Ali Abd-allah; the two portions ay and all being crossed at right angles, so as to form a tughra or monogrammic imitation of the outline of the star with four points of the obverse device.
20 No. 24, ibid. revi. 47 and p. 81 of my Pathan Xings of Delhi.
1 Archeol. Surv. W. Ind. vol. II, plate vii, figa. 9-18. » Pathan Kings of Delhi, No. 85, p. 99; Prinsep's Essays, Useful Tables, No. 18. p. 67. .
13 Among the silver coins exhumed from the so-called Brahmanbad, some are so minate as to weigh only 1.2 gr.
I am inclined to identify this ruler with the Abul Mangar 'Umar bin Abdallah, indicated in the general noto p. 90 ante, as the reigning sovereign of Mansûrah, in A.H. 300- , at the period of the geographer M'asúdi's visit to the valley of the Indus, and of whom he speaks
Dadd-putras, Journ. R. As. Soc., vol. VII. p. 27. 15 The patronymie, in its local application, may have been derived from the Dagd bin 'Ali bin 'Abbás, No. 10 in the above list, p. 89--the adversary of Mansur-who was so prominently associated with the overthrow of the 'Umaih Khalifs. Tabari, vol. IV, PP. 289, 326, 342, &c.
