640 Continuation of Observations [Nov. 



Azos, before we are brought to the absolute link coins of the Indo- 

 Scythic and Hindu dynasties. 



The name of Ndyana-pdla bears so near a resemblance to Nardyana- 

 gupta, that a strong temptation arises to regenerate Colonel Tod's 

 prince in him, on the same grounds on which his predecessor has 

 been brought to life in Azos. 



Indeed it would hardly be exceeding the bounds of legitimate 

 conjecture, (where all is mere conjecture,) to adopt a historical re- 

 presentative of our Kanerki himself in the Kenek-sen of Colonel 

 Tod, Sen being according to him merely a martial affix, equivalent 

 to General or Senapati. 



Kenek-Sen, the founder of the Balhara dynasty according to the 

 concurrent testimony of all the chronicles consulted by Tod, emigrated 

 to Saurdshtra about the year 144 A. D*. " from the most northern 

 province of India, Lohcote or Lahore." In date and locality this 

 origin would agree well with Kanerki : nor would it even set aside 

 the former supposition of the same prince being the Tartar Kaniska 

 of the Cashmir history ; since that prince is made the sixth in suc- 

 cession after Asoka, the great patron of the Buddhists, who is placed 

 by their chronology in 250 B. C, but who, when the correction 

 for Chandra- gupta is applied, will fall full 50 years later. 



In reasoning upon the probable seat of these obscure dynasties, it 

 is by no means necessary to confine ourselves to one spot. The 

 annals of Mewdr, Delhi, Mdlwd, Saurdshtra, shew a continual inter- 

 mixture, as different princes acquired the ascendancy. 



Kanouj has been fixed upon as the locale of the present class of gold 

 corns, for the obvious reason that they are most frequently found in 

 its ruins, not that any history ascribes them to this town ; for the 

 history of Kanouj is a perfect blank anterior to the fifth, we may 

 even say the tenth century : and if the town had been suddenly involv- 

 ed in destruction, it is only certain that the coins found afterwards 

 in its ruins would be those of the particular epoch, whether coined 

 there or elsewhere. 



There are arguments in favor of placing the seat of government 

 further to the west, for instance at Ujjain (Ujjayini.) In the first 

 place, the perfect identity of the coin-alphabet with that of the 

 Guzerdt inscriptions lately decyphered by Mr. WATHENt : — then, the 

 prevalent worship of the sun in Saurdshtra, and at Ujjain, where this 

 object still forms the distinguishing symbol on the coinagej, agrees 



* Tod's Rdjasthan, I. 215. 



f See preceding page 480. 



X The greater banner of Mewar also exhibits a golden sun on a crimson field, 

 Tod I. 137. 



