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the ancient capital of North Panch &la; and
Kings.
No. of coins found at whatever may be the value of this identification,
Ramanagar. many coins have been found on the old site, and 1. Bhadraghosa .......... also at Bhuila, the supposed site of Kapila
2. Suryamitra ...................... vasta, in the Basti district. Mr. Carlleyle assumes 3. Anumitra .......... that "from the numerical proportion in which 4. Bhânumitra ................ the coins of various kings are found in a hoard, we 5. Agnimitra...................... can generally make a pretty good guess as to who
6 Phâgunimitra ................... were the earliest, and who the latest of the series.
7. Bhumimitra ..................... Thus the king of whom the greatest number of 8. Indramitra ..................... 1 +1? coins are found in a hoard, may be accepted as
9. Vijayamitra ................ either the latest, or the contemporary king of the
10. Satyamitra ...................... dynasty at the time when the hoard was buried 11. Sayamitra........................ or lost; while the king of whom the fewest and 12. Ayumitra ................ most worn coins are found may be accepted as Gen. Cunningham has also a coin of Dhruvathe earliest, in point of time of the series." This mitra, which belongs to the same dynasty. Of the rough rule may be of some help in arranging a later kings in this list, Ayumitra's name is found
oard buried all at once; but is utterly valueless on a single coin of Mr. Rivett-Carnac's, and this for collections of coins buried at various timesking must have been one of the latest of the accidentally and otherwise, in which numerical dynasty, as the letters of the legend belong to the superiority could only indicate the largeness of later Gupta period." The coins of Vijayamitra, the mintage of any particular king, and hence, Satyamitra, and Sayamitra are from other localities probably, of his greater length of reign. All and "Are of quite a different type." The author these coins bear over the legend three symbols, places Push pamitra at the head of his lists, which Mr. Carlleyle describes as the Bodhi tree on though no coins have been found of his, nor do the left, two snakes intertwined to the right, and any of the names derived from his coins, except in the middle a punch-marked depression contain that of Agnimitra, coincide with those of the ing a symbol, which in one case he calls 'a Linga,' Pauranik lists of the Sunga dynasty founded by and in others, 'a linga guarded by two Nagas Push ya mitra. which rise on each side of it. Might not these | The last paper is by O. R. Stülpnagel on coins be the symbols of the Buddha creed-of Buddha, of Ghiâs-ud-din and Mu'az-ud-din bin Sâm, Dharma, and Sangha ? The symbols on the ob. describing eight dirhems of the two brothers whose verses are generally but poorly preserved in the names are joined on them, and dated in 596, 597, examples represented, but we can hardly accept and 598 A. H. The paper is illustrated by a plate them as "Buddha standing, with right hand raised of three specimens. and radiating from his head," and "on a Buddhist The Society has also published as an extra part railing between two trees."
to vol. XLVII., "A Sketch of the Turki Language The series of names represented by these coins as spoken in Eastern Turkistan," by R. B. Shaw,are arranged by Mr. Carlleyle as follows:
a vocabulary of 226 pages.
BOOK NOTICES. ARCHÆOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA, Vol. IX. : Report of of the Gupta ere, on the 5th Phálgun sudi, at the a Tour in the Central Provinces in 1873-74 and 1874-75. By Alexander Cunningham, C.S.D., C.I.E., &c. Cal.
| time of a solar eclipse," and (4) "the name of the cutta : 1879.
12-year cycle of Jupiter in five different inscripIn this ninth volume of his Reports, General tions added to the date of the Gupta era." These Cunningham takes occasion to discuss the start- five are-Mah.Vaisakha in Hastin's inscription of ing point of the Gupta era. For fixing the 156; Mah&-Aswayuja in another of 173, and epoch of this era he adduces the following Mah&-Chaitra in a third of the same king dated data :-(1) the "date of Budha Gupta's pillar 191; the fourth Maha-Magha is on an inscription inscription at Eran in the year 165, Thursday 12th of Hastin and Sarvanatha, and the fifth is Mab&Ash&dha sudi"; (2) the “date of Dhruva- Aswayuja on one of king Sankshoba dated in the bhata in Samvat 447, he being presumably the year 209. king of that name who was reigning at the time General Cunningham points out, as had been of Hwen Thsang's visit in A. D. 640;" (3) the done before him by Dr. Bühler (Ind. Ant. vol. VI, "date of the Morvi copperplate in the year 5851 p. 80), that if the sixth Siladitya of Valabhi, who
