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



Another Greek prince whose coinage was re-issued and perhaps 

 imitated by the native chiefs in their own names was Zoilus. Fig. 

 11, is a rude silver hemidrachma of this king, which was obtained 

 in the Punjab. It is of the same type and of the same barbarous 

 style as the coins of Strato and Eajabala, and it bears the same 

 Ariano Pali mint-mark of two letters forming Sasti, which we find 

 on the commonest coins of Eajabala. 



Besides the coins which I have already described I possess five 

 copper specimens bearing the name of Eajabala. They are of the 

 same size, type, and style as the billon coins, and appear to me to 

 have the traces of silver plating upon them. I do not therefore, 

 consider them as a true copper coinage but as the base silver cur- 

 rency of the Punjab portion of EajabaTs dominions, in which they 

 are now found. They bear different mint-marks from the billon 

 coins but the legends are the same, with exception of the title 

 which exalts the chief to a Mahdchatrapa or "great satrap." 



I have already identified the satrap Eajabala with Eajapala the 

 last of the Mayura kings of Delhi, who was conquered by Sakaditya, 

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

 by Vikramaditya in 57 B. 0. That this is the true date of these 

 coins is rendered almost certain by the discovery of similar coins 

 of a still ruder style, and therefore of a later period, which bear 

 the name of G-ondophares. Two of these coins are engraved as 

 Figs. 12 and 13. The Greek legend is corrupt, and I cannot de- 

 cipher more than the word BACIAClC but the Ariano Pali legend, 

 which is not perfect on any one specimen, may easily be completed 

 by a comparison of them all. It is the same as the simple legend 

 which is found on the larger coins of this prince, M&hardjasa trdda- 

 tasa Qondopharasa. I have found most of these coins in the Punjab 

 as far south as Multan, but a few specimens were procured to the 

 eastward of the Sutlej. 



The Satraps whose coins have already been described have been 

 identified with the Hindu Princes of Delhi on the joint evidence of 

 their similarity of names, of their contemporaneous sovereignty, 



for nearly thirty years ; and this coinage is still generally current after a lapse of 

 forty -eight years. 



