Vol. IT, No. 1.] Romaka, or the City of Rome. 1 
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1, Romaka, or the City of Rome, as mentioned in the Ancient Pali 
anskrit works—By ManA&MAnopapuydya Satis CHANDRA 
Vipydsuosana, M.A 
years r. Ro ewell,! on an examination of a large number 
of “Roman coins found in India,” has concluded that the trade 
between Rome and India began in the reign of Augustus about 
Then it slightly declined, but revived under the Byzantine em- 
several thousands of silver coins, have been found out. Even in 
Bengal, at a place called Bamanaghati in the district of Singbhum, 
there have been found coins of the times of Gordian and Con- 
stantine. Near Jelalabad there have been found Roman coins of 
as late a period as the time of ‘I'heodosius about A.D. 450. It was 
about this time that the Goths and Vandals attacked Rome, whose 
trade with India consequently ceased altogether. 
From the numismatie evidences given above, as well as from 
| Robert Sewell’s article on “ Roman Coins found in India,” published 
inthe Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 
October 1904, 
