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the inevitable casualties of time, notwithstanding the defect of histori- 

 cal records, notwithstanding the merciless and destructive ravages of 

 Muhammedan conquerors, I think, I trust, we have sufficient evidences 

 and indications still remaining, to enable us to decide with certainty, or 

 to arrive at plausible conjectures on, most of the interesting points con- 

 nected with tbese countries, from the period of the Macedonian con- 

 quests to the introduction of the Islam faith. 



P. S. Remark on the Etymology of Manikyala. 



General Ventura proposed asthe etymology of Manikyala, " the City 

 of tbe White Horse." Mr. Wilson, very properly dissatisfied with this 

 explanation, substituted that of " the City of Rubies." I beg to propose 

 another which appears to me to be the ccrrect one, and peculiarly appro- 

 priate to the building being a Buddhist monument. We find the term 

 Manya or Lord and King, applied to Sakya and other Buddhist princes ; 

 thus Sakya Manya, " our Lord Sakya ;" Abhi-Manya, our Lord Abhi. 

 Kyala, signifying " a place," that is of any kind, why should we not 

 read Manikyala, " the place or grave of our Lord or King," that is 

 "the King's Grave;" a simple etymology, coinciding with the purpose of 

 the monument, truly Buddhist*, and which will pi*event us from bestow- 

 ing on a city, a name, I suspect, it never had. It is singular and 

 deserving of notice, that of all the topes so numerously found in various 

 parts of these countries, that of Manikyala alone should have preserved 

 its original Buddhist name. 



Enumeration of Coins collected from Beghram, by C. M. 

 Class Grecian — Series 1. Recorded Kings of Bactria : 



Menander, 39 



Apollodotus, 19 



Eucratides, 70 



128 



Series 2. Antilakides, 8 



Ausius, 6 



14 



Series 3. Agathocles, ( . . 10 



Pantaleon, 2 



Coins without legends, 20 



32 



Series 4. Hermseus, 1 34 



Hermseus, II 136 



Hermseus, III 10 



Sotereagas, 171 



Unadpherros, 19 



Coins with horseman on the obverse, 8 



Coins as Fig. 41, 6 



384 



* On Mr. Burnes and myself visiting Manikyala, his Munshi or surveyor in- 

 stantly remarked the similarity of the structure to that of Buddha monuments in 

 Bombay. — J. G. Gerard. 



