92 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, {March, 1908. 
of the usual palatal ga (Pl. V.5). ‘he three specimens in the 
Joint Cabinet are respectively :— 
Coins of the chiefs of the Little Yue-chi, No. (6).—Below the 
left arm, Kida and portions of Kasa for Kidara-Kusana and plas W 
pas The right vertical line of Pa is absent and the letter can- 
not be anything but Ksa. The —— —— of the vertical line 
of Ka shows that the extra length denotes “u.” Then the na is 
ie he oe the lingual nor an dental na can ever be 
written n transliteration. The word is simply Ksuna 
and aut be cigtlkine else. It is reproduced here at least three 
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reverse shows Sala on the margin with a /a of the Kastern 
Gupta variety. 
(8) On this coin —_ is Kirada and Ksuna on the obverse 
and Sala on the re 
(10) Kida (ak 'K (1) § sa (na) and Ksuna on the obverse and 
Sala on the reverse 7}. 
These three coins are exact duplicates of the coin published 
by Cunningham.! Coins of two other Kidara Kusana princes have 
been published by Cunningham # but the Joint Cabinet does not 
contain specimens of these :— 
v. K ngala:” 
Coin No. 13 of the Joint Cabinet is an unique specimen 
The name of the prince on the margin of the reverse looks like 
Dadara (see Pl. II, No. 6). The marginal legend below the 
right arm of the standing figure on the obverse of coin No. 15 of 
the Joint Cabinet is S77 sahi as Cunningham read it and not S77 vahi 
as Mr. Smith says (Pl. V.9). The form of the sa is like that of 
the Eastern Gupta variety. The dacannot be indicated in these 
coin looks like a raigeige a (Pl. V. 8). Coin No. 16 possesses 
Kirada (not Kidara as Mr. Smith rare See Pl. V, No. 10), 
K(u) ohne and rattan on the obve 
Coins of the chiefs of the eis or Gadakhara tribe must 
be diet Ke those of the Little Yue-chi chiefs. There are two 
reasons for t 
(1) The pie in Gadahara or Gadakhara resembles the Ga of 
the seh century A. aA (cf. Biihler Indischen Paleographie Tafel 
IV, Col. VIII, No. 
(2) The ee Ksuna so common on Little Yue-chi coins 
occurs on all but one of these coins. 

| Numismatic Chronicle 1893, p. 202, Pl. XV, No. 
2 Numismatic Chronicle 1893, p. 202, PLY, Nos. 13 and 15. 
