1834.] Notice of an ancient coin from Chittore. 431 



author quoted by Mr. Remusat was one of these idealists, is by no 

 means certain. His more immediate object, in the passage quoted, 

 evidently was, to exhibit the procession of the five material elements, 

 one from another. To that I at present confine myself, merely observ- 

 ing of the other notion, that what has been stated of the homogene- 

 ousness and unreality of all phenomena, is not tantamount to an ad- 

 mission of it. The doctrine of Avidya, the mundane affection of the 

 universal principle, is not necessarily the same with the doctrine which 

 makes the sentient principle in man the measure of all things*. Both 

 may seem, in effect, to converge towards what we very vaguely call 

 idealism ; but there are many separate paths of inquiry by which that 

 conclusion may be reached. 

 Nepal, Aug. 1834. 



II. — Note on tivo Coins of the same species as those found at Behat, 

 having Greek inscriptions. By Major D. L. Stacy, (Plate XXV.) 



[la a letter to the Sec. As. Soc. read at the Meeting of the 2nd July.] 



I have the honor to enclose a facsimile of a copper coin purchased 

 bv me at Chittore Gurh. 



It was my intention to reserve any notice of this coin, till I ascer- 

 tained if my good fortune would send me others, more distinct, and con- 

 sequently more satisfactory ; but on reading the description of the 

 famous stone pillar at Allahabad, given in your number for March, 

 1834, (No. 27,) I am induced to submit a few remarks with the copy 

 of the coinf. 



The style of the Greek character would, alone, be sufficient to stamp 

 this coin as provincial, were the chungahs or symbols on the obverse, 

 and monogram on the reverse, less distinct, or even obliterated. The 

 suggestions of Lieutenant Burt, and Mr. Stirling, viz. that the charac- 

 ters on the Allahabad Pillar No. 1 , resembled the Greek, drew my at- 

 tention to the plate, when it immediately occurred to me, vice versa, 

 that these provincial Greek characters, on my coin, might have taken 

 their style or fashion from the writing of the dynasty, or descendants 

 of the dynasty, which owned this pillar. 



* Manas, the sixth element, is the sentient principle in man. The Chinese 

 author mentions it not, unless the passage beginning " la m6me force," and im- 

 mediately following that I have quoted, was designed to announce its evolution. 

 That passage as it stands, however, does not assert more than the homogeneous- 

 ness of this sixth element with the other five. 



f The original coins were subsequently sent, and are depicted as figs. 2 and 

 3, of plate xxv. — Ed. 



