The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c12.s1.4

v1.c12.s1.4

Through the courtesy and assistance of Mr. Allan I could examine all these coins in the coin cabinet of the British Museum. Specimens of the same type of coins belonging to numbers, 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8, are preserved in the Indian Museum and the Asiatic Society of Bengal and have been noticed in the *Catalogue of the Coins in the Indian Museum, Calcutta*, by Vincent A. Smith, pp. 246-49. Smith notices the variant readings of the legend of some of these coins. Thus the name which Mr. Allan reads as *Veṅka* has been also read as *Vakka*, *Varka*, *Verka*, and *Vaṅka*, *Khamarayaka* as *Khadavayaka*. *Khuda-vayaka* and *Khudūvayaka* and *Aṣaṭapāla* as *Aśatapāla*. I could not find the single copper coin of the Lion-and-peacock type in the British Museum which according to Bayley had the legend *Śrī-Kamara* or *Kamra*. But probably this is the same as No. 1.