08 Mr. Ravenshaufs BeJiar Inscription. [No. 97. 



In the month of February last, Captain Burt of the Engineers, 

 obligingly supplied the officiating Secretary with the fac-simile 

 of an inscription taken by him at Pinjore; it was discovered 

 there on the side of a well. The character is, as Captain 

 Burt observes, different in many letters from all the alphabets 

 given by Mr. James Prinsep; Kamala Kanta has therefore 

 prepared an alphabet from it (No 4) and enabled me to give 

 the accompanying translation. 



" The monarch of Shonder Desh, who resembles Kamdeo in 

 beauty and renown, having again in this manner fully enjoy- 

 ed, will become ruler of other countries." 



The meaning of the rest is not clear. I have endeavoured 

 to trace the Shonder Desh herein mentioned, but ineffectu- 

 ally. The inscription therefore is, like the one above noted, 

 valuable only philologically speaking. The neighbourhood of 

 Pinjore to Phanesur might induce the belief that the region 

 in which it was anciently included w r ould not escape unnoticed 

 in the Maha Bharat. pq 



Account of Coins found at Bameean. — By Captain Hay, 1st 



European Regiment, Commanding 5th. Regt. H. M. S. S. M. 



Infantry. 



Bameean, April 7th, 1840. 

 Sir, 



A doubt having been expressed whether " Demetrius" ever 

 reigned in Bactria, the fact of one of his coins having been dis- 

 covered in digging some trenches at Bameean, may be consi- 

 dered as likely to strengthen the opinion that he did : and as 

 this coin I believe differs from the only one of his reign that is 

 said to have been hitherto discovered, I take the liberty to for- 

 ward you a sketch of it, in case you may consider it worthy of 

 notice. The first " Demetrius" discovered was I think of gold, 

 having upon the reverse the two horsemen so common and 

 beautifully executed on the coins of Eukratides. I take these 

 figures to represent Castor and Pollux, who were entitled, as 

 Hercules is, to divine honours. My coin, which is of copper, 



