Major Tod's Account of Greek, Parthian, and Hindu Medals. 341 



On two, the obverse represents a naked figure, with a bow, in the act 

 of shooting at some beast of prey, or fabulous monster. On the reverse 

 is a goddess seated on a Hon, holding a diadem, or crown, to reward 

 him. 



On the remaining two, Nos. and , we have the same figures, but 

 with this diflference, that the monster has disappeared ; the bow is 

 unstrung, in the man's hand ; he is clothed in the spoils of the foe, and 

 near him stands a trophy, the ancient Grecian or Roman standard, the 

 eagle with expanded wings on a staff. To what can this allude ? Is it 

 a record of Chandragupta's success over Alexander, or does the Grecian 

 standard denote the alliance he formed with Seleucus in after-times ? 

 They are fine medals, bold in design, of high relief, and I hope the inscrip- 

 tion may yet be decyphered. 



The fifth series is, like the others, entirely novel and unexplored. All 

 that I can say of them is, that they belong to a dynasty which ruled from 

 Avanti, or Ujjayan, to the Indus, for in that whole tract I have found 

 them. The first I obtained, was from the ruins of ancient Ujjayan, twelve 

 years ago. It was presented to me by a valued friend,* who first 

 awakened my attention to their importance. He found them in Cutch, 

 and in his company I discovered others, amongst the ruins in the Gulph.t 

 The character of the epigraphe I have met with on rocks in Saurdshlra, 

 in the haunts of the Siiroi, the bounds of the conquests of Menander and 

 ApoUodotus. 



* Mr. Williams, resident at the Gykwar court, to whose kind aid I am indebted for being 

 enabled to perform the most interesting of all my joumies, and with his society. 



t I have, however, little hesitation in assigning them to the Ballmra sovereigns of Renandot's 

 Arabian travellers, the Bhalla Raes of Anhuhvarra Puttan, who were supreme in these 

 countries. " This Dalhara is the most illustrious prince of the Indies, and all the other 

 kings acknowledge his pre-eminence. He has, of these, pieces of silver called Tartarian 



drams. They are coined with the die of the prince, and have the year of his reign." 



lienandul, page 15. 



The Arabian travellers have by no means attached too much importance to the Ballxara 

 sovereignty. They had a distinct era, 375 years posterior to Vicramaditya, which I had the 

 happiness to reckon amongst my discoveries ; but on this dynasty I shall have much to say 

 elsewhere. 



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