676 Lasseii^s Bactrian and Indo-Scythian coins. [No. 103. 



It has not been noticed, what direction the conquests of De- 

 metrius followed ; those of Menandros, it is said, were directed 

 against India Proper. But who then conquered Ariana ? Who 

 Pattalene ? Who the country of the Serians ? 6trabo makes no 

 distinctions there, and the last country at least, could have been 

 hardly conquered by Demetrius or Menandros, though we must 

 probably ascribe the conquest of Pattalene to either of both 

 kings. But to which ? 



vav^pog, c't-yg Kai TOV^Yiracnv (edd. — viv) ^u^rj npog kw, Kai fjikyjpi 

 rov \op.avov (edd. *laafiov) TTjOorjAOc, tcl fxlv yap avrog, to. §£ 

 ^r)fX7]rpiOQ o EuOu^^ijUOu vloq rov ^aKTpiwv (^aariXewg, ov ^o- 

 vov Se TTJv UaTTaXrivrjv Karea^ov, aWa Kal rrjc aXXfiq TrapaXiag 

 Tr)v T£ 2a/oio<rrou (o^ ^apaoarov) KaXovfxkvnv, ^ai Tqv ^lykp- 

 Ti^og jSafftXe/av. Ka^' oXov ^e (jirjcTiv eKHVog rriQ (rvjutiratrtig 

 ^Apiavrig irpoa'^ixa cii^at r»)v BaACTjOiavrjr, Kat orj Kai fik'^pt 

 ^ripLjv Kai ^pvvMV e^ereivav Trjv ap^v. The alterations ' Yirafftv 

 and 'lojuavov, "are perhaps necessary." re 2a^io(Trou occurs together 

 with Tetra/otoffrov in the manuscripts. Mr. Prinsep (As. Trans. VI. p. 

 390) first noticed, that by this Sur§,shtra was to be understood. ApoUodoros 

 has perhaps mentioned a king, who was named after his country, as 

 Taxiles was already before named in the same manner. Ptolemy has 

 ^vpaarprivri ; according to him, it is the country between Cutchandthe 

 river Mahi, therefore Guzerate, Sigertis (in Sanscrit perhaps Srigarta) 

 must be the coast round Barygaza; Ptolemy has, on the south of the 

 Nerbudda, the town Siripala (Sripala) which perhaps denotes the same 

 name. In Sanscrit this coast has the name of Lata (pronounced Lara) 

 whence the Larice of the ancient 'authors. 



"It is also called Surashtra, and its inhabitants Surashtras, the royal 

 and excellent royal offspring. Another name for it is Gurjjara-rashtra, 

 or kingdom of the Gurjjaras or Gurjjas in conversation. Hence it is called 

 the country of Gourz or Giourx by one of Renaudot's Musalman travellers 

 in the ninth century. From Surashtra and Gujjara-rashtra they have made, 

 in the spoken dialects, Surat, and Gurjjarat, and even Gujjerat." Essay 

 on the ancient Geography of India, M.S.S. No. 277. Library As. 

 Soc. of Bengal. 



(To be continued,) 



