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an honourable position and had not declined in social esteem to the position which they now hold. In another record of the same reign some of these women are stated to have been forcibly removed from the temple to the king's household, but, on a representation being made to the king, he ordered their return to the shelter of the temple.
A sidelight on criminal justice is furnished by an inscription of Vikrama-Choladeva, which records that a man charged with accidental homicide was sentenced to keep a lamp burning at his own expense in a temple of Siva for the benefit of the spirit of the deceased. Several inscriptions of the Vijayanagar kings mention various dues and taxes realised from the villages, including dues paid to the village watchman, taxes on garden lands, oil-mills, and tanks, and pay for the military commander and for the royal messenger. Another interesting document of the reign of the Karnata king Sriranga II contains an agreement by the people of a nadu (district) to allow certain privileges to three classes of artisans, blacksmiths, goldsmiths and carpenters.
The Report onds with an interesting discussion of the position of the ancient South Indian temple in the corporate life of the community, as depicted in the inscriptions, and with notes on village irrigation, the gang of the village, and the brahmasthana or Brahman Assembly-hall at Uttamasole-solaChaturvedi-mangalam. Many other details of in. terest are included in the Report.
S. M. EDWARDES. SUPPLEMENTARY CATALOGUE OF THX COINS IN THE
INDIAN MUSEUM CON CABINET. Non-Muham. madan Series, Vol.. I.. by B. B. BIDYABINOD, Assistant Curator, Government of India, Calcutta, 1923.
I have been through this valuable publication and the first point that strikes me on perusing it is the enormous advance in the knowledge of Indian Numismatics and history in recent years that has made such a work possible. The writer has had at Kis hand an important set of numismatic
exhibits at Caloutta of which the Indian Museum may well be proud, and he has made such use of the research at his disposal as to bring before antiquarian readers the contents of hitherto uncatalogued exhibits in & manner which cannot but content them. I have noticed slips in printing here and there, but nothing that would mislead the enquirer. The author is to be congratulated.
The collection catalogued covers wide rango of subjects. , Punch-marked, Bactrian and IndoGreek, Indo-Parthian, Kushan, Gupta, Mahâkshatrapa, Traikutake, Maukhari and Vardhan kings and emperors are all represented. The Catalogue then turns to Tribal Coins : MAlava, Nâga of Narwar, Yaudheya, Kuninda, R&jás and Satrapas of Mathura, and of Virasena, a king in the Gangetic Doab. Next there are coins of Northern India : Andhra, Audambara, Ayodhya, Kosam, Taxila, Mitra of Panchala and Kosala, Achyuts of Ahichchhatra. And after them Indo-Sassanian, including Mihirakula, Bhojadeva of Kanauj and other types, Hindu Kings of Ohind (Kabul), Kalachuri of Dahala, Chandella of Jejakabhukti, Temars of Ajmir and Delhi, Rathor of Kanauj, Narvar and Kota. There is a fine list from Kashmir, commencing with Toramana, and of Kangra, Nepal, Assam and Mithila, South Indian coins follow with several from the now-forgotten Nayaka Kingdom of Ikkeri, which loomed so large in the eyes of the 17th century European travellers. These are fol. lowed by coins from Arakan, of which the Burmese legend is apparently not read, and this is a pity. Finally, a few coins from Native States and Portuguese India wind up the catalogue.
The more enumeration of dynasties and localities thus given shows the width of reading and research necessary to make up anything like an acceptable catalogue, and I am impressed by the care bestowed on this one. The not infrequent remark opposite the name of a monarch, "New King" shows how valuable the collection is to the historian.
R. C. TEMPLE.
NOTES AND QUERIES. A FOLK STORY.
or Lal kitêb mey nikala yun Mr. M. Govindarajulu of Hyderabad recently
"Téli bail pålå kyun ? sent to this Journal the following example of a
Khilayê khal, banaya sard folk-story current in that State.
Bait ka bail ! pandra rupaye dapd!” "A certain oilmonger (Teli) owned a bullock. which strayed one day into the compound of the
It is written in the Red Book :- Why, O Teli, Kazi. The latter, who was very angry, pronounced did you foster the bullock? You fed it well with a judgment on the oilman, which is embodied in the oil-cake and fattened it. Bullock of a bullock, I fine following verse :
you Rs. 15.'
"The oilman was thus fined Re. 15 and his bullock was confiscated by the Kazi, who, however, subsequently lost it. Being alarmed at the loss, and fearing that he might have to pay the value of the
لال کتاب مین نیلا بون تیلی بیل پالا کیون کہلایا کول بنایا ممانة بیل کا بیل پندرہ روپیہ ڈنة
