Indian Antiquary Vol 47

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[ SEPTEMBER, 1918
rimat, and a date below. Of the coins of Cháhada three different types have been traced :
No. 1. This typelo is exactly similar to that of the coins of Åsala and Ganapati mentioned above.
No. 2. This typell bears on the obverse a figure of a horseman and the legend Sri C'hahada Deva, and on the reverse, a bull and the legend Asavari Sri Samanta Deva.
No. 3. This typell is similar to type No. 2 with one difference, namely, that the legend on the reverse is replaced by Asavari Sri Somasoraladera.
The definite find places of these three different types of Chahaca's coins have not been recorded. It is likely that coins found elsewhere have been confounded with those found at Narwar. To me it appears that the coins of type No. 1 alone belong to the Chahada of Narwar as they resemble the known coins of his descendants Asala and Gapapati. While types Nos. 2 and 3 are to be referred to the Chihamina Chihâl'a of Ranthambhor as they are copied from the Chahamana type. This view is supported also by Cunningham's remark 13 that the title Achari (or Asávari) does not appear on the Narwar coins. The title A8árari is absent only in type No. 1 of Chiha la's coins which alone, to judge from Cunningham's remark, must have been found at Narwar.
If this view is correct the title Achâri (Asâvari) rightly belongs only to the Chihamíre Chahada of Ranthambhor. And the assignment of that title to the Chahaça of Naiwar by Muhammadan historians is probably due to confusion arising from the fact that the two Châhadas were nearly contemporary.
Having thus explained away the arguments adduced by previous writers in favour of the identification of the two Chahadas we may safely conclude on the authority of the Bhimpur and Narwar kacheri inscriptions that the Chahada of Narwar and the Chahada of the Rataul plate or of Ranthambhor were two different persons. The former was a Yajvapala or Jajapella and the latter was a Châhamâna.
NOTES AND QUERIES. SPREAD OF HOBSON-JOBSON IN crew. They have been compared to the Nile MESOPOTAMIA.
dahabiyah, but I am told that they are more after Wira reference to the words quoted by Sir
the pattern of the nugger' of the Soudan ... Richard Temple (ante, p. 196) from Mr. Edmund
The mahaita carrriee anything from fifteen to Candler's article in the (London) Observer of 12th
seventy tona. She can make ten miles a day, towed
against the current, and four to six miles (sic) May 1918, I may give here some further examples of Hobson-Jobson from an article in the Daily
knots an hour with a following wind." Telegraph of 14th March 1916 by the same writer, 3. Belfum. Ar. belam (see ante, p. 196). "The 1. Kellek. Ar, kelek, a large skin raft
Arab name for the long, narrow, canoe-shaped boats 2. Mahaila. Ar. mahayalah, a large river sailing
of the country, the gondola of Basra ... It is boat. “These loon river craft make a pioturesque punted or paddled, according to the depth of the
water." floet, with their high-forward-sloping maste, huge rudders, lateen sails, and cut-away prowe, pointed 4. Gufar. Ar. quffah, a river tub. "Another boatand barbed. They are painted like the Chineco indigenous to the Tigris is the cauldron-like gufar junk, but with Arab designs and characters, the of Baghdad ... It is made of reed backed star and crescent and figures like the signs of the with wooden uprights plastered over with pitch Zodiac, generally white on a point of green, or red, from the bitumen wells of Hitt." or yellow. Each boat carries a large olay oven like an antheap, and the poop is boarded over for the
A. G. ELLIS,
Cunningham, C. M.I., p. 73, Nos, 5 and 6. See also Thomas, Pathan Kings of Delhi, p. 75 No. 48. This tyre is ignored by Rai Bahadur Daya Ram Ep. Ind., Vol. XII, p. 224)
11 Cunningham, O.M.I., p. 92, No. nil. Thomas, Pathan Kings of Delhi, p. 70, No. 39 and V. A. Smith, Catalogue of Coin on the Ind. Mus., pp. 262-63.
za Thoma, Pathan Kings of Delhi, p. 70, No. 40; Cunningham, C. M. l., p. 92, No. 4. 13 Cunningham, C.M.I., pp. 97-98.