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VI. White Hun (Ephthalite) Coins from the Panjab

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Vincent A. Smith
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Mr. J. P. Rawlins, late of the Panjāb Police, who is well known to Indian numismatists as a successful collector of rare coins, some time ago sent me for publication a batch of curious copper coins which he obtained while serving in the Hoshyārpur District. These coins all come from a very remarkable locality, which has been explored by Mr. Rawlins, but seems to be unknown to other archæologists. It is described as the Plateau of Manaswāl, situated on the outer range of the Siwālik Hills, at an elevation of about two thousand feet, in the Hoshyārpur District. This plateau is extensive, being about ten miles in length and six in breadth. The principal village is Manaswāl, distant about thirty miles in a south-easterly direction from Hoshyārpur, between that town and Rūpar in the Ambāla (Umballa) District. Other villages, or hamlets, enumerated by Mr. Rawlins are Biniwāl, Hanand, Daleywāl, Kharali, and Bhawānipur. The whole region is full of ancient sites, marked by mounds, and all the villages named are included in the area containing the remains of ancient settlements, which may have formed one great city.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , January 1907 , pp. 91 - 97
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1907

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page 91 note 1 Mr. Rawlins sent a copy of his notes to the Director General of Archæology for India.

page 92 note 1 Specimens of such, coins of Gondophares will be published in the Indian Museum Catalogue.

page 92 note 2 See MrTaylor's, article on the Hūṇa coinage in Num. Suppl. to J.A.S.B., part i, 1904.Google Scholar

page 94 note 1 Fleet, “Sagala, Sakala, the City of Milinda and Mihirakula,” in Actes du XIVe Congrès Intern, des Or., tome i.

page 94 note 2 For discussion of Odumbara coins see Rapson, , J.R.A.S., 1900, p. 112.Google Scholar