150 Remarks on the Bactro-Pali Taxila Inscription. (No. 2, 
Additional Note, 23rd April. 
In the remarks on my Eusufzai inscription from Panjtar I have 
read the date as the year 122; the only doubtful figure being that 
for hundreds, which I have taken as 100 on the ground that the 
power of the Yuchi kings did not, aceording to the Chinese, last be- 
yond the beginning of the 3rd century. Since writing these remarks 
I have referred to Gesenius, Monuwmenta Phenic., pp. 88, 89, where 
I find the fullest confirmation of the value which I have assigned to 
the centenary figure. The contracted word San, or “ year,” is 
followed by an upright stroke which in Pheenician as well as in 
Bactro Pali represents the unit 1. This is followed by a symbol, 
which in Pheenician, Aramzo-Mgyptian, and Palmyrenian is the in- 
dex for hundreds, the two symbols together signifying simply one 
hundred, as 1 £ signifies 1 pound. 
In the Pheenician scheme the units up to nine are represented by 
an equivalent number of upright strokes. That this was also the 
ease in the original Bactro Pali scheme is rendered highly probable 
by the fact that the numbers 4 and 5 in the Kapurdigiri inscription 
are represented exactly in the same manner. But in the inscriptions 
under review an independent symbol has been adopted for the figure 
4, and I would refer to India as the source from whence this figure 
was obtained, because in the Khalsi inscription the number 4, as I 
have already noticed, is represented by a St. George’s eross, +, where 
the Kapurdigiri inscription has four upright strokes. 
The Bactro Pali cypher for 10 is also derived from the Pheenician, 
and the cypher for 20 is merely a duplication of that for 10, one 
eypher being placed over the other, as in the Aramzo-Mgyptian and 
Palmyrenian numbers. A reference to Gesenius, pp. 88 and 89, will 
prove at once that the Bactro Pali scheme of numbers was originally 
the very same as that of the Pheenicians, and that it was afterwards 
slightly modified by the adoption of an independent symbol for the 
number 4, which was introduced from India. 
Whether the Indians had a separate and original scheme of their 
own I am not prepared to say ; but the symbols of the dates in the 
Mathura inscriptions, and on the Gujrat and Gupta coins, are quite 
distinct from those of the Bactro Pali inscriptions, even although 
most of them are simple Bactro Pali letters; as for instance the & 
which is the initial letter of the word hat, or “ hundred,” 
