636 Additions to Bactrian Numismatics [July, 



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Translation. 



" Adoration ! (May he) who, when on all sides all earthly things were 

 destroyed (by the deluge) floated under the semblance of a sleeping 

 yogi to the insulated fig-tree which alone remained for the redress 

 of the calamity; — who with ever increasing strength subdueth the 

 sun-scorched earth at the end of every kalpa ; — may he, girding up his 

 loins, remove from you the fear of the world, — Hari the god of gods ! 



There was a raja named Dharana Varaha illuminating the hori- 

 zon with the fame of his appropriating the prosperity of his enemies ; — 

 satisfactory in qualities ; without blemish ; and renowned for subduing 

 other kings. 



By his army whose elephants, well trained and of moistened temples, 

 darkened the horizon, as they rushed to the battle-field miry with the 

 blood, marrow and serum of mangled limbs, — whence the sparks of the 

 concussing battle-axes (peti) flashed like lightning on all sides — by 

 this army has he brought back the royal Lakshmi with the respect due 

 to the wives of his enemies !" 



(The rest mutilated and unintelligible). 



VI. — Additions to Bactrian Numismatics, and discovery of the Bac- 

 trian Alphabet. By James Phinsep, Sec. As. Soc. fyc. 



It is not an easy matter to gratify my numismatological readers with a 

 plate of entirely new Bactrian coins so frequently as they would wish ; 

 for, independently of the time and labour requisite for engraving them, 

 the subject, as to new names at least, may be looked upon now as near- 

 ly exhausted. Opportunities however still occur of verifying doubtful 

 readings, of supplying names where they were erased or wanting in 

 former specimens, and of presenting slight varieties in costume, atti- 

 tude, and other particulars, which tend to complete the pictorial history 

 of the Bactrian coinage. 



For these several objects I enjoyed a most favorable opportunity 

 during the visit of General Ventura to Calcutta last winter; his second 



