1851.] Coins of Indian Buddhist Satraps. G83 



110 Udaya-Sena Udiya Umed-seu. 



90 Vindhachala f JSuiSa } Ananda J ala * 



70 Eajapala Eajapala Eajapala. 



60 Delhi taken by Sakaditya or Sakwanti. 



57 Ditto retaken by Vikramaditya Sakari. 

 Several of the facts regarding this dynasty, which are recorded 

 in the Eajavali, are also mentioned by Ferishta, but the names are 

 much changed and misplaced. The general agreement of the inci- 

 dents however, is curious, as Ferishta wrote his history in the south 

 of India just one hundred years before the compilation of the Eaja- 

 vali by the order of Siwai Jay Singh of Amber. But the Mahomedan 

 historian has a still more striking coincidence with a statement of 

 Polybius, which has been already noticed by James Prinsep,* who 

 supposed that Eerishta' s information was derived "not from the 

 Greeks, but from native authorities now no longer extant." These 

 two statements, which refer to the same period of history, are so 

 exactly alike, and so precise in their language, as to leave no doubt 

 in my mind that they refer to the same person, although the names 

 are different. I will now place the two passages side by side in 

 translations given by authors who were not aware of the coincidence. 

 Polybius. Ferishta. 



" Passing Mount Caucasus he " He ( Jona) was contemporary 

 (Antiochus) came into India and with Ardshir Babegan, who in- 

 renewed his alliance with Sopha- vaded India ; but being met by 

 gasenus, the Indian prince. In Jona with valuable presents of 

 this place he obtained more ele- gold and elephants on the fron- 

 phants so that his whole number tier, Ardshir was induced to with- 

 was now a hundred and fifty." — draw his army." — Briggs.% 

 Hampton.^ 

 In both of these passages, we have the same story of the invasion 



* See Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1838, p. 163. 



f Hampton's Polybius, 510. — See 1, XI. page 8. — 'YirepfiaKdbv Se tov KavKaaov, 

 nai Kardpas els tt]V IvSiktjv, tt\v tov (piKiav av?vewaaTo tk\v irpos ^(payaarjpov tov 

 QaaiXea twv lv5u>v, kcu Xa@wv i\4<pavras, #ctt€ yeveo-dcu tovs anavTus eis euarov 

 hat irevT7]Kovra. 



% Brigg's Ferishta, vol. I. p. lxxiv. 



