1838.] printed in Rupogr a phy. 419 



in Ker Porter's travels in Persia, vol. I. 548, we have in the Greek 

 character : 



TOTTO TO nPOCnnON MACAACNOT ©EOT APTAHAPOT BACIAEHC BACI- 

 AEftN APIANHN EKrENOTC ©EHN TIOT ©EOT nAnAKOT BACIAEQC 



which is repeated below in two forms of Pehlevi, that for want of type 

 I am obliged to omit. 



The same title in Sanskrit, devaputra shahdn shdhi, it may be 

 remembered is applied to the king of Persia in the Allahabad pillar 

 inscription, as revised in last November's Journal. 



Again on the Sassanian coins, read by the Baron de Sacy as far as 

 they are published by Ker Porter (for I have not yet been able to ob- 

 tain a copy of the Baron's work on the subject,) the Pehlevi legend runs : 



Mazdezn beh Shahpura malakdn malakd* minochatri men yezdan. 

 4 Adorer of Ormuzd, excellent Shahpur, king of kings, offspring of the divine race 

 of the gods.' 



The natural deduction hence was that the rest of the Sanskrit legend 

 would also turn out to be a translation, or an imitation of the Sassanian 

 formula : and thus in fact it has proved to be. I here insert the facsi- 

 mile of Captain Burnes' best coin, slightly retouched in the letters that 

 were least in relief; 



Indo-sassanian dirhem. 

 Silver, Weight 53 grains. 



Legend. 

 Obverse. Head of Mithra (Ormuzd), Pehlevi very distinct but unread, see PI. XXT. 

 Reverse. On the field, three letters of an unknown alphabet (like the Arme- 

 nian ?) or perhaps numerals ? 

 Margin, ^f^ftrf^ ^rr^T^ T^^STC °ft *fi7 fefrWr ^^farT. 

 Sri hitivira Air&na cha parameswara Sri Va'hitiga'n devajanita. 

 In this legend the only actual letters at all doubtful are the p and me 

 of parameswara, and the first and last letters of the name. Indeed the 

 first letter is different in every example, as will be seen in the litho- 



* In the examples given I should read this passage — Malakdn malak Airctnan, &c. 

 but the Sassanian coins require study ere they can be properly made out. 

 3 Q 



