1838.] from Girndr in Gujerdt. 847 



Further, as to their age, we find one of the name contemporary with 

 Rudradama who followed Asoka (we cannot say at what precise 

 distance.) Wilford, brings them much lower down, from the third to 

 the sixth century after Christ, in order to square the last of their name, 

 Pulomarchi or Pullman, with the Pulomien* of the Chinese. 



He is forced to confess however that there were Andhras at the 

 beginning of the Christian era, when, says Pliny, 'the Andarce kings 

 were very powerful in India having no less than 30 fortified cities, an 

 army of 100,000 men and 1000 elephantsf .' 



We must therefore consent to throw back the Andhras ; and, instead 

 of requiring them to fall into a general and single line of paramount 

 Indian kings as Wilford would insist, let them run in a parallel line, 

 along with the lines of Surdshtra, Ujjain, Magadha and others, — indi- 

 viduals of each line in turn obtaining by their talent, prowess or good 

 fortune a temporary ascendancy over his neighbours : thus at length we 

 may hope to fulfil Captain Tod's prophecy,—" let us master the charac- 

 ters on the columns of Indrapreshta, Poorag, and Mewar, on the rocks 

 ofJunagarh, at Bijollie on the Aravulli, and in the Jain temples scatter- 

 ed over India, and then we shall be able to arrive at just and satisfactory 

 conclusions (in regard to Indian history )J." 



As an atonement for leading my readers into this long digression, 

 I now present them with an engraved plate of all the varieties of the 

 Surdshtra group of coins yet found. There is one new name added 

 through the diligence of Lieut. E. Conolly. The rest are already 

 known, but I subjoin their corrected readings for the satisfaction of my 

 numismatical friends. The fact of their having a Grecian legend and 

 head on the obverse is now explained ; and the date of their fabrication 

 is determined so far that we may certainly place some of the early 

 reigns in the second and third centuries before Christ : to what later 

 period they descend we may also hope to ascertain through the means 

 of other coins which will come to be described along with the third in- 



* Quere. Is not Brahman written -with this orthography in Chinese ? 



f The name Sdragan given in the Periplus as of a sovereign that had formerly 

 reigned at Kalliena (near Bombay) has some resemblance to Satakarni, but I will 

 not build upon such uncertain ground, 



X Tod's Rajasthan, I. 45, he gives a curious derivation, by the way, of the name 

 of Junagarh : 



11 The ' ancient city' par Eminence, is the only name this old capital, at the foot of 

 and guarding the sacred mount Girndr, is known by. Abul Fazl says, it had loug 

 remained desolate and unknown and was discovered by mere accident, Tradition 

 even being silent, they give it the emphatic name of Juna (old) gurh (fortress). I 

 have little doubt that it is the Asildurga or Asilgurh of the Grahilote annals; where 

 it is said that prince Asil raised a fortress, called after him near to Qirnar by the 

 consent of the Dabi prince, his uncle." (See note to page 345.) 



