1875.] E. Thomas — On a Coin of Kunanda. 163 



" The worms, that form in leprous eruption, destroy the flesh, skin, 

 veins, muscles and bones. When affected by them, the patient suffers from 

 spontaneous discharges of blood, insensibility, loss of sensibility of tbe skin, 

 mortification, thirst, fever, dysentery, burning, weakness, disrelish and in- 

 digestion. Then Jcushtha becomes incurable. The man who neglects the 

 disease at its commencement is sure to die. He who at the first breaking 

 out of the disease tries to get rid of it may be sure of its being cured." 



3. From Babu Rajendralala Mitra, regarding a mistake in his paper 

 on the Skanda Gupta inscription from Anupshahar. The following is an 

 extract from it : 



" Owing to the fact of my having been in the mufassal, away from my 

 books, when I wrote my paper on the Skanda Gupta inscription from 

 Anupshahar, I had to depend a good deal on my memory, and it has, I am 

 sorry to find, betrayed me in one instance. I have been made to say in a part 

 of that paper (Journal XLIII, part I, p. 371) that Mr. Fergusson accepts 

 the title Maharaja to be synonymous with Emperor, when in reality it is 

 the Adhiraja or Maharaja Adhiraja to which he refers. (Journal Roy. As. 

 Soc. IV, p. 84.) This, however, does not in the least affect the line of my 

 argument, for I hold that when two sovereigns are not mentioned in the 

 same document, the titles of a sovereign afford no indication of his real posi- 

 tion. In the hyperbolical language of Indian panegyrists every sovereign is a 

 second Indra, and there is no title, however lofty, which is not deemed fit for 

 him. Still, as Mr. Fergusson has thought fit to make it a matter of serious 

 complaint, and for the sake of accuracy, it is desirable that the correction 

 should be prominently made, I request the favour of this letter being in- 

 serted in the Proceedings for August next." 



5. From Babu Rajendralala Mitra, forwarding the following extract 

 from a letter from Mr. E. Thomas. 



" I have received your interesting paper on the transcription of the 

 name, and the interpretation of the title, of Kunanda. In regard to the 

 former point I am now inclined to go with you, and even beyond you. 



" There can be no doubt that + is lew in Indian Pali and f£ is bint, in 

 the same alphabet — equally, in Baetrian Pali, is ~|2 kr and ~f> bhr. But the 

 larger question now arises as to- which of the two was the dominating and 

 leading alphabet in the coins under notice. I am quite prepared to admit, 

 both in virtue of the locality of issue and the ordinarily greater perfection of 

 the Indian Pali letters, that the alphabet in question must take precedence ; 

 this is further supported by the singular use of the trido-Pali Y jh in the 

 Baetrian legend of the B. M. coin to supply the place, we must conclude, 

 of the hitherto undeveloped Baetrian jh, which appears as >| on the coins 

 of Zoilus for the first time, and is conspicuously absent from the Kapurdi- 

 giri and other inscriptions. 



