[23] Compare Fleet’s Corpus Ins. Ind. III. 87, 152, 158 from the (supremacy of) the tribal constitution of the Málavas. Prof. Kielhorn has however shown that the words of the inscription do not necessarily mean this. Ind. Ant. XIX. 56. [↑]
[24] Inscription 10 lines 3–4. Bom. Gaz. XVI. 572. [↑]
[25] Details are given below under the Guptas. [↑]
[26] Burgess’ Archæological Report of Káthiáwár and Cutch, 55; Numismata Orientalia, I. Pl. II. Fig. 8. [↑]
[27] The meaning of this symbol has not yet been made out. It is very old. We first find it on the punched coins of Málwa and Gujarát (regarded as the oldest coinage in India) without the serpentine line below, which seems to show that this line does not form part of the original symbol and has a distinct meaning. [↑]
[28] Compare Wilson’s Ariana Antiqua, Plate XV. Fig. 26–27. [↑]
[29] Cave Temple Inscriptions, Bombay Archæological Survey, Extra Number (1881), 58. [↑]
[30] Ariana Antiqua, Plate XV. Fig. 29. Some imaginary animals are shown under the serpentine line. [↑]
[31] Jour. B. B. R. A. Soc. XIII. 303. [↑]
[32] The variations noted in the text seem examples of the law that the later religion reads its own new meaning into early luck signs. [↑]