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therefore suppose, that the penultimate letter is in fact another d, and that the 

 spelling is minado. This d recurs in the title for just ; which may be damikd, 

 or *rrfa%T v. -Sff^T in Prakrit. 



" The uncurtailed form of k is, if I may be allowed to go on with my conjec- 

 tures, >), and not the figure, you have adopted from the coins of Eucratides. I 

 appeal to those of Antialkides and to the titles, in which *"h is immediately be- 

 fore the final 6. The term for saviour, I am not so certain of ; it may be tatar6, 

 that is the Prakrit ffTcTKl or perhaps ^t^t^T f or tne Sanskrit "^7<n, tne 

 rescuer. The native word for brother of the king puzzles me very much, and 

 I am as yet quite at a loss. The curious coin of Agathocleia presents another 

 difficulty. &<-6rpoTTos is really a Greek word found in late writers, as Hkliouorus, 

 as for instance as epithet to ^r\Kos ' a zeal which emulates the gods.' It is 

 generis communis and the genitive of the feminine like the masculine : there- 

 fore I propose reading ©EOTPOnOT, if I am not mistaken, the omicron is still 

 visible. Do not, I pray, take this correction unkindly, we have at Bonn no 

 Bactrian coins, but plenty of Greek dictionaries. The reverse cannot have 

 the name of the queen, on account of the termination in p, 6 and I believe 

 you are quite right, when you suppose the epithets to be (great) king and 

 saviour. The name might by my alphabet be read Mikonido, in fact Mvfxwvidris 

 may be a Greek word, though I cannot prove its real existence as a name. 



" It will please you to hear, that your conjecture on Tca<rapio<TTov has also been 

 proposed by a German translator of Strabo, Mr. Groskurd, who, however, has 

 not had the happy thought of comparing the name with Surashtra. Some 

 manuscripts leave out the recr entirely, and this I should prefer reading ttjvtc 

 ~2,api6sov Ka\ovfi4vt]V na\ r\]v ^lytpT&os {SaciXeiav. My conjecture Trigerte is 

 hardly tenable ; it must be some country on the coast. Ptolemy's Syrastrene is 

 the peninsula of Guzerate, and the kingdom of Sigertis (^Jpf * n Sanskrit ?) 

 must be placed near Baroda. Ptolemy has a town, Siripala on the Nerbudda, 

 where it is joined by the Mophis or Myhes, at least according to his information. 

 Here at all events we' must seek for Sigertis." 



A letter from Professor Schlegel of the same place, acknowledged the 

 receipt of the 2nd and 3rd vols, of the Mahabharata, and of the Journal. 

 He hopes shortly to present a return in kind. The following extract 

 alludes to a discussion which occupies the learned of Europe at present : 



" J'ignore si le Journal Parisien, la Revue des deux Mondes, vous parvient 

 a Calcutta. Dans cette supposition les deux autres pieces n' auraient besoin 

 d'aucune explication ulte>ieure. Dans le second cahier du mois d'Aoiit '67 se 

 trouve un m^moire de M. Letronne, inscrit : Sur V origine Grecque des 

 Zodiaqnes pretendus Egyptiens, M. Letronne occupe le premier rang parmi les 

 Hellenistes et les antiquaires de la France actuelle ; j'entretiens avec lui des 

 relations fort amicales. 11 a cru par erreur que j'adheVais a son hypothese ; ce qui 

 m'a force" dYntamer cette discussion. Les assertions de M. Letronne vont 

 plus loin que le titre de son M6moire n'indique : il veut que les douze constel- 

 lations du zodiaque, partout oil elles se trouvent, auraient 6t6 emprunt^s aux 

 Grecs, J 'abandonne les Egyptiens a leur sort : je pense qu 'ils se tireront 

 d'affaire. Mais quant aux Indiens, je proteste. Dans les quatre distiques 

 Sanskrits de ma fac^n* vous trouverez une indication l^gere de mes principaux 

 argumens, dont j'ai d^veloppe une partie seulement dans le journal orientaliste 

 de M. Ewald. I' examinerai ensuite la nomenclature Indienne et vraiment 

 ancienne dans son rapport avec les zodiaques sculpts. Je n'en connais que 

 deux qui ayent 6t£ graves : 1' un dans les Transactions Philosophiques, de la 

 Soc. Royale des Sciences pour Pan 1772 (repe'te' par Bailly), 1' autre dans les 

 m^moires de la Soc. Asiat. de Londres, vol. III. pi. 1. M. Letronne les 

 rejette comme modernes. Cela n'est peut-6tre pas bien sur, au moins a l'egard 

 de celui du Cap Comorin : mais soit ! je le veux bien. C'£st un argument en 

 ma faveur. 



* We have not space to insert the Sanskrit verses. — Ed. 



