682 Coins of foidian Buddhist Satraps. [No. 7. 



We have thus the additional evidence of time and place in favour of 

 the identification of these Hindu satraps with their namesakes of 

 the last lunar dynasty of Delhi. 



This dynasty is of some importance in Indian history, as the last 

 prince, Rajapala, was vanquished by Sakaditya, or Sakwanti, the 

 chief of the Sakas, or Indo- Scythians, who was himself overcome 

 by the celebrated Vikramaditya, in the year 56f B. C. On this 

 victory, the conqueror assumed the title of Sdkdri or " foe of the 

 Sakas," and from it, the Hindus have dated one of their principal 

 eras, the Vikramaditya Sambat, which is still in use. 



The names of the princes of the Mayura dynasty of Delhi are 

 given by Tod* from the Bajavali, by James Prinsepf from Tod, 

 and by WardJ from the brahmans of Bengal. As these lists differ 

 from each other, and from a third in my own possession, which was 

 obtained from a learned purohit in the Punjab, I think it is highly 

 probable that all three are more or less faulty in the spelling of the 

 names, of which the true orthography may have been preserved by 

 the coins. In Prinsep's list, which is copied from Tod, the name of 

 the founder of the dynasty has been omitted by mistake 5 and the 

 two names immediately preceding his last are formed by the division 

 of the penultimate name of our lists, and our fourth name is omitted 

 altogether, probably owing to its similarity with the preceding one. 

 But there is still so close an agreement in the names of the three 

 lists, as to warrant our confidence in their general accuracy. I now 

 give the different lists with the probable date of the accession of 

 each prince. 



Mayura Dynasty of Delhi. 

 Ward. Tod, Prinsep. Cunningham. 



B. C. 230 Dhurandhara Dhudsen Yonadliara. 



210 Senodhata Senadhwaja Senadhwaja. 



190 Mahakataka Mahaganga Mahiganga, 



170 Mahayodha (Caret) Mahajodh. 



150 Natha Nada Sarma. 



130 Jivana-raja Jewana Jivan-siraj. 



* Tod's Rajasthan, vol. I. Table II. and page 51. 



t Useful Tables, p. 98. 



% Ward's Hindus, 8vo. f vol. I. p. 24. 



