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Vol. IV, No. 3.] Notes on Indo-Scythian Coinage. 89 
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Arsacid monarchs recovered so far as to separate themselves 
completely from Sassanian domination and to form alliances wi 
ome. A new power must have risen in Bactria and it is possible 
that the Kushans of Gandhara and Seistan gradually recovered 
cular is known about the successor of Vasu. From the history 
of Persia we learn that their kingdom was wrested from them by 
Varahran II of Persia in or about the year 283 A.D. In India 
proper various local chiefs seemed to have assumed independence. 
We have to rely on paleography only for this — but in 
some cases these assertions are found to be borne y epigra- 
phical records. The several varieties of local ak described 
in the second part of Mr. V. A. Smith’s catalogue, such as the 
coins of Taxila and those of the Kunindas and the Yaudheyas, show 
that these, for the most part, occupied the place of the currency 
formally supplied by Kushan coins. Kuninda, Yaudheya, Malava 
and Taxila coins show a large number of varieties. Paleogra- 
phical details, too numerous to mention, show that certain of 
these varieties are contemporaneous with Gupta coins. Particular 
mention shoul be made of Acyuta, the =a Ahichatra, to whom 
Samudra Gupt should be Siege in this connection that, 
even after six or seven centuries of fo domination, native 
Indian iaagis still had enough itadaky left to stifle out even 
for a short period coins of foreign types and standards. It 
egan 
coinage that loca] coinages of ancient Indian types began gradu- 
ally to die awa y. 
Minor ScyrHian DyNaAstIEgs. 
The coins of the minor Scythian dynasties, which succeeded 
the Great Kushans in Northern or more properly North-Western 
India, are not very numerous. They fall into two great classes 
according to the tribal names mentioned on them :— 
(1) The Sakas and 
(2) The Siladas. 
No record has been kept of the findspots of these coins, but 
the recent discovery of a hoard of Saka coins near Peshawar 
and the Kushans occupy the whole tract from the Oxus to the 
Arabian Sea, and later on we find the Sassanians and the ay aE 
filling up the same region (ap to 283 A.D.). Th 
was read by E. Thomas as Sandi.* General oe 

| Fleet Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarnm, Vol. I{T, p. Pl.1. I. 
2 Indian Antiqnary, Vol. XII, p. 8. 
