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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(JULY, 1897.
4tt, and before, that date by a Circular Notice issued by Col. H. Man, Superintendent, on the 28th March, 1570. Major Nelson Davies, Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Britisha Barmah, during the brief period while the Settlement was placed under the orders of that Government, inspected it in 1867, and reported adversely on the token system as a disciplinary measure; because, while tokens were introduced, the silver coinage which they were to represent was also freely admitted (vide Inspection Report, Penal Settlement of Port Blair, 1867, Vol. I. pp. 18, 38,62; VOL. II. pp. 49, 153, 245). In this Report Major Davies, no doubt, bit upon a fatal error in the practical application of the token currency and hastened its extinction.
There were, therefore, in use in the Andaman Islands between 1861 and 1870 at different periods token currencies issued in the following years :
1. - 1860 : card token, panebed. II. - 1860-1861 : improved card token, punched. 111. - 1861 : copper token, punched. IV. - 1866 : copper token, punched.
V. - 1867 : card token. of these, the card tokens of 1860, and the copper tokens of 1861 and 1866, were forged to a. considerable extent.
All the tokens are now rare, and beyond some genuine specimens of the copper token of 1861 and forged specimens of the copper token of 1866, I have never been able to come across them at all.
A JAINA ACCOUNT OF THE END OF THE VAGHELAS OF GUJARAT.
BY G, BÜHLER, PA.D., LL.D, d. I. E. On going over the Tirthakalpa or Kalpapradips of Jinaprabha, one of Dr. Peterson's nequisitions for the Bombay Collections,' I find in the description of Satyapura, the modern saohor in south-western Marvad, "brief scoount of the conquest of Gujarat by the Mahommedans which, I think, deserves to be made known, though the text is rather corrupt.. For Jinaprabhs is a contemporary witness of the events, which he mentions. According to Dr. Peterson, Fourth Report, p. xxxvii,, his known dates range from (Vikrama) Survet 1349 to Sauvat 1369. Būt according to the last verses of the Satrunjayakalpa, this portion of the Tirtbakalpa was composed in V. S. 1384:
प्रारंभप्यस्य राजाधिराजसांघ [:] प्रसनवान्। अतो राजप्रसादाच्या कल्पी जयताधिर ।। १५१|| na[*]HIE [!] Ter ruat
sarai age: fas [!] arga: 11 313 11 His account is, therefore, worth taking into consideration, especially as the dates of the Makommedan historians do not agree, some placing the conquest of Gujarat in A. D. 1300 and others, like the Mirát-i-Ahmadi and Ferishta three years earlier. What Jipaprabha says, 5 is as follows:
भह तेरससबछप्पनविक्रमवरिसे लावदीपसरताबस्स कणिहो भया उखाननामधिनी दिल्लीपुराभो मंतिमहिवपरिओ गुज्जरधरं पडिओ चित्तकूडाहिवईसिमरसीह दंडं वार्ड मेवाद्धसो तया रक्खिी । तभी
The MS. used in No. 1956 of 1897-8, fols. 130. The MS. bas ME• Perbaps *19r .
See H. Elliot's History of India, Vol. III. p. 74 • Fol. 39, 1. 6 f. of th: MS.
