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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[DECEMBER, 1880.
A.D. 634. Chitsungluntsan sent the first
mission to China. 650. Chilipapu, his grandson. 679. Ch'in ushsilung, his son, aged 8. 705. Ch'lisotsan, son, aged 7, killed on
an expedition against Nepal and
India. - Ch'ilisulungliehtsan, Khri
srang-lde-btsan. 755. Sohsilungliehtsan, son. - Chilitsan reigning in 780. 797. Tsuchih chien, eldest son. 798. -
second son of Ch'ilitsan, died 804. 816. K'oli k'o tsu, who reigned under the
title of Yit'ai. 838. Tamo (Dharma) brother of K'olik'.
otsu. 842. Chilihu, a nephew of the consort of
Tamo; civil war. 849. Shang k'angje, declared himself
tsanp'u; killed by the Uighur
Turks, 866. In an appendix, Dr. Bushell gives rubbings and & restoration of an inscription from a stono monu. ment in front of a large temple in Lhasa, dated in the 2nd year of the Ch'ang.k'ing period (822), and engraved both in Tibetan and Chinese.
Mr. G. Lo Strange contributes Notes' on some inedited coins from a collection he made in Persin in 1877-1879. Among them is a tribolos of Seleukos Nikator, on the reverse of which is a horse drinking or feeding in front of Zeus's feet. A drachm of Seleukos III (he thinks), bears on
the exergue of the reverse the letters E; and on the reverse of a drachm of Antiokhos III, Great, above the head of the seated Apollo, are the letters MEN.
In Khorasan he obtained three copper coins of Sana bares, on which he reads-BACIAEYC CANABAPHC, instead of Eavaßapos. Among about seventy Parthian drachms, is one, apparently of one of the satraps of Mithridates I: on the oby. is a head to the right (usually to the left), bearded and bound by a tiara; on the rev. is the usual king seated on a stool and round him is written BALIAEQ METAAOY APEAKOY. On a drachm of Artabanos II. (like pl. ii, No. 13 Numism. Orient. : Parthian Coins), the inscription reads--Baoiews μεγαλου Αρσακου θεοπατρον νικάτορος.
Among dinars and dirhems of the Khalifate he found a much-clipped dinar of Al-Mutawwakel, dated A. H. 237 and minted at Sana'a, also a rare dinar of Beni Aghlab of A. H. 296; and a unique dinar of A1Hasan ben al Kasem the Alide. At Tehran he bought a dinar which proves to be a well executed forgery, dated A.H. 314, coined at 'Ani, and bearing on the reverse
بن المقتدر بالله امیر المومنین
ابو العباس
Among others are three dinars of Nuh ibn Nasr, the Samanide Amir, of A. H. 331, 333 and 337, all differing; a beautiful dinar of Majd al Dan. leh Buyeh of 398, coined at Muhammadiyeh ; and a dirhem of A. II. 131 coined at Ash-Shamiyeh.
The third and last paper consists of three Pali sutlas on the Buddhist Nirudna and 'the Noble eightfold Path,' by Dr. O. Frankfurter.
BOOK NOTICES. DIE KIRCHE der THOMASCHRISTEN. Ein Beitrag zur and the visit of the Apostle Thomas is discussed Geschichte der Orientalischen Kirchen, von Dr. W. Ger. mann. (Gütersloch, 1877.)
afresh with all the evidences from Syriac and MEDIEVAL MISSIONS (Duff Missionary Lectures-First other sources, some of which will be new to the
Series) by Thomas Smith, D.D. (Edinburgh: T, and T. Clark, 1880.)
English reader. For example, from Dr. Land's The Syrian Church of Malabar has often at- Anecdota Syriaca (vol. I, p. 123) he derives this :tracted attention, and has been the subject of "In the year 52 of our Lord Jesus Christ the numerous papers and even of separate volumes. lord Thomas came into India and arrived at In the first of the works named above Dr. Ger- Mailapur. Here he preacherl the gospel to many mann has dono good service by going over the
whom he made disciples and baptized in the name whole ground again, and collecting into a volume of the Father and Son and Holy Spirit. Thence of 792 pages all the information available on so he set out and travelled in Malabar, where he interesting a subject, and presenting a detailed reached Moljokare. He preached also to the history of these Christians from the earliest times people of this district and there set up an altar to the till the present day.
Lord, to whom moreover he gave two presbyters The vexed question of the origin of the Church From that he went to Kutkayet, where he founded I E. g. Geddes'e History of the Church of Malabar, also Ind. Ant. vol. III, p. 309, vol. IV, pp. 153, 181, 311 ; 1694; La Croze, Hist. du Christianisme des Indes, 1723 Jour. R. As. Soc. vol. I, p. 175; Lassen, Ind, Ali. Bd. Hough, Hist. of Christianity in India, 1339, vols. I and 11. S. 1119. Il; Raalinus, Hist. Eccl. Malab. 1745 ; Lee's Brief His. Elsewhere spelt Maljom kare: this is Malankara, a tory; and Whitehouses Lingerings of Light, 1878; J. small island iu the lagoon S. E. from Kodungalur.-ED. W. Etheridge, The Syrian Churches, London : 1846, see Evidently Kottakayal.
