G80 Coins of Indian Buddhist Satraps. [No. 7. 



lunar nice of Hindu princes, and strengthens to a certainty the 

 belief that has generally prevailed amongst Sanskrit scholars, that 

 Porus was not the individual name of the king, but that of his race, 

 as a Paurava or descendant of Picric. In the spoken language the 

 patronymic is pronounced Paurav and Pauru, which with the Greeks, 

 became IIwpos. 



The great Porus himself was treacherously murdered by the Greek 

 governor of the Punjab after the death of Alexander, but nothing 

 is recorded of his descendants or of those of his cousin, the second 

 Porus. We know only that as the whole of the Punjab was sub- 

 jected by Chandra Gupta Maurya, the royal Pauravas must of course 

 have become his tributaries. Some orientalists still affect to doubt 

 the identity of Chandra Gupta and Sandrakoptos, which, though 

 at first only a happy guess of Sir William Jones, was afterwards all 

 but actually proved by the researches of Professor Wilson, who 

 showed that the same private scandal was related of Sandrakoptos 

 by the Greeks, as of Chandra Gupta by the Hindus, I will now 

 add my mite towards settling this important point which is the 

 very corner stone of ancient Indian chronology. Euphorion,* who 

 became the librarian of Antiochus the Great in 221 B. C. states 

 that the 



Miopia?, e'0j/os IvSikov, iv £v\lvois oikovvtcs oikois 

 * 'the Indian Morias live in wooden houses;" to which Hesychius 

 adds 



Moo/nits, 01 rail/ tvoW /JacrtXets. 



These royal Morias, who dwelt in wooden houses, must therefore 

 be the same regal Mawyas, who lived in the wooden palaces of 

 Pataliputra or Palibothra.f 



During the reigns of Chandra Gupta and of his successors Bim- 

 bisara and the great Asoka the province of Taxila was only a depend- 

 ency of the vast Indian empire of the Mauryas, the governorship 

 being generally held by one of the king's sons. But after the 



* Stephanus Byzantinus, in v. Mwp/ets. 



f Nearchus, in Arrian's Indica c. x. says that the Indian cities that were situ- 

 ated on rivers, were built of wood. The bas-reliefs of the Sanchi tope, which 

 were sculptured in the reign of Satakarni, about A. D. 20, represent palaces of 

 wood with the rafters in perspective. 



