1835.] on Indo-Scythic and Hindu Coins. 641 



well with the effigy of OKFO and APAOKPO on the Indo-Scythic coins*. 

 Again, the peacock of many of the Kanouj reverses is found on one 

 of the principal series of Saurdshtra coins, as will hereafter be shewn ; 

 and Colonel Tod states that this sacred bird of the Hindu Mars 

 (Kumara) was the favorite armorial emblem of the Rajput warrior. 

 Lastly, many of the names on these coins may be traced in the 

 catalogues of the Mdlwd and Guzerdt princes ; Vikrama, Chandra, 

 Samudra, Kumdra, Ajita, &c. the last four are coupled it is true with 

 the family affix pdla instead of gupta ; but both of these have the 

 same signification. 



In the Rujdvali of Raja Raghuna'th, quoted by Wilford as the 

 chief authority in Central and Western India, we find a sovereign 

 named Vikrama reigning in the year 191 A. D. and succeeded, or 

 rather supplanted 90 years later, by a Samudra-pala. The deeds 

 attributed to these two are supposed to be merely an interpolation of 

 the fabulous history of Vikramaditya and SALivAHANAf : but the 

 occurrence of these two names is very curious, allied to the circum- 

 stance and appearance of the two coins, figs. 25 and 26, of Plate 

 XXXIX. 



The only other instance of the occurrence of the name Samudra- 

 gupta, that I am aware of, is on the Allahabad pillar, where he appears 

 as the son of a Chandra-gupta ; and from the close similarity of the 

 alphabets of the coins and of the laths, no reasonable doubt can be 

 entertained that they relate to the same individual — a fact predicted 

 by Dr. Mill in his valuable observations on this new race of kings 

 (vol. iii. p. 267), to which the reader is referred for all the light that 

 collateral history affords on the subject. 



The name of Vikrama is referred by Marsden to Bikram-tschand 

 (Vikrama- chandra) of the fourth century, in Anquetil's list of the 

 kings of Central India J. Kumara- pala is also one of the many names 

 of Salivahana. 



There is no reason however why Kanouj should not at some periods 

 have been united under one sovereignty with the western provinces. 

 The great Vikramaditya (whose appellation in full is found on one 

 of Marsden's coins) conquered Indrapreshtha, and extended his sway 

 over the whole of India. 



The Rahtore sovereigns of Kanouj, after its conquest by Nay ana- 

 pala, Col. Tod says, assumed the title of Kam dhuj (Kdma dhvajaj. 



* BhatarJca (sun-cherished) is a title of the earliest Balabhi Raja's in Mr. 

 Wathen's inscriptions, p. 480. 



t As. Res. IX. 135. J Num. Orient. II. 727. 



