854 Examination of the Inscriptions [April, 



The numbers then which form comparison with foreign and modern 

 native series as well as the other considerations above given, I have 

 finally adopted are as follows :— 



1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ? 



9 ? ? 1 



% 



5 oc ? 



*J 



m 88 



1 



varieties ? 3 ^ 



i; 



* 





J 



a 



Before concluding this division of my theme, I may be expected to 

 explain in what era the dates of the Surdshtra coins can be expressed, 

 so as to place Swami Rudra Dama', whom we perceive in the inscrip- 

 tion to have followed at some reasonable distance Asoka himself, at the 

 end of a fourth century or about the year 390. If the Vikramdditya 

 or Samvat be here intended, he will fall after the close even of the 

 Arsakian dynasty of Persia, when the Greek was disused, and the arts 

 had greatly deteriorated ; when moreover the form of the Sanskrit cha- 

 racter had undergone considerable change. If we take the Seleucidan 

 epoch, which might have been introduced in the provinces tributary 

 to Syria, Rudra will have reigned in A, D. 89. If lastly out of 

 deference to Asoka' s temporary supremacy in the Gujerdt peninsula, 

 we take the Buddhist era, then 543 — 390 will leave 153 B. C. about a 

 century after Asoka, and in every respect the period I should like to adopt 

 were it possible to establish any more certain grounds for its preference. 

 The most perplexing circumstance is that the grants of Balabhi dynasty 

 are also dated in the third (or fourth) century — and that it is hardly 

 possible to consider their dominion as contemporary with those of the 

 satraps. For them indeed we must adopt the Vikramaditya era, what- 

 ever may be determined in regard to the one before us. 

 Explanation of Plate XII. 

 Fig. 1, (from Steuart's plates,) a silver hemidrachma. 

 Fig. 11, a coin belonging to Mulla Fkroz of Bombay. 

 Fig. 13, a coin found by Capt. Prescott at Palhanpur'm Gwfer&t, 

 presented to me by Mr. Wathen. 



These three coins have all the same legend, but No. 11 exhibits the 

 application of the vowel i in two places, which the others want : the 

 legend thus completed is, 



Rajna Kshatrapasa Rudra S&hasa, Swdmi Jina Dimapufrasa : 



* Of the Royal Satrap, Rudra S4h, the son of the lord Jina dama/ 



The title of Jina Dama ' votary of Buddha', is a better reading than 

 Jina dama, subduer of that sect, formerly adopted. 



Fig. 2, (from Steuart's plates,) a coin of Aga Dama, son of Ru- 

 dra Sah. 



