26. The Discovery of Seven New-dated Records of the 
Scythian Period. 
By R. D. BANDYoPADHYAYA. 
The existence of unpublished dated records of the Scythian 
period in the Provincial Museum at Lucknow was well known 
toscholars both in Europe and in India. In 1903 the publication 
of Mr. V. A. Smith’s essay on the Kusana period of Indian History 
set of inked impressions of the inscriptions on the Lucknow 
Museum through the Curator.!_ But unfortunately none of them 
have been published as yet. I came to know of the existence 
of two or three absolutely new records in the Lucknow Museum 
in October 1906 while I was hunting about for materials of my 
paper on the Scythian period of Indian History. I was informed 
by the Curator of the Museum that all inscriptions have been 
published. Unfortunately I had no spare time on that occasion 
‘and so was unable to examine them thoroughly. In 1908 
the executive committee of the Lucknow Provincial Museum 
resolved to entrust the cataloguing of the Archeological Section 
of the Museum to me on the recommendation of Dr. J. Ph. 
Vogel, Ph.D. A careful search revealed no less than seven 
dated records and seven fragmentary records of the Scythian 
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to the press till the end of 1910. Details of provenance have 
been recorded in those cases only in which they seem to be 
indisputable. 
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I. Inscrrpep Corina STONE FROM RAMNAGAR. 
Ramnagar, the ancient Ahichattra, in the Bareilly district. _ 
This seems to be the identical coping stone mention y Dr. 
Fihrer in his monthly report for April 1892.2 The language 
18 corrupt Sanskrit and the characters are slightly older than the 
Sarnath inscription of Kaniska :— 
1 J.R.A.S., 1905, p. 151. 
2? N.W.P. and Oudh Provincial Museum Minutes, vol. v, p. 5. 
