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



Bayioravos was in Persia.* Manao is no doubt the moon, and is 

 the same word as the Doric Mava and Anglo-Saxon Mona. 

 One thin Sassanian silver coin. 

 Two Indo- Sassanian silver coins. 



One thick silver (or electrum) coin of rude execution, but of 

 strong relief.f I possess two duplicates of this coin in mixed metal 

 containing gold, silver, and copper. One was obtained within five 

 miles of Manikyala, and the other at Amritsar. The complete 

 inscription is Sri Yaso Varmma, which was the name of the cele- 

 brated Eaja of Kanouj, the rival contemporary of Lalitaditya of 

 Kashmir, who reigned from A. D. 693 to 729. I do not infer from 

 this that the great tope was not built until A. D. 700, but simply 

 that the uppermost chamber, with its enshrined relic, was accessible 

 until that date. In most topes the relic chambers were made acces- 

 sible with the view of extracting the relic boxes for annual exhibi- 

 tion to the people. Kings and conquerors could of course command 

 a sight of them at any time. I suppose therefore, that on his inva- 

 sion of the Punjab Tasovarma may have inspected the relics of the 

 great Manikyala tope, and that his coin may have been deposited in 

 the relic box by the grateful Buddhist fraternity as a remembrance 

 of his visit. 



The second deposit, at a depth of 45 feet, consisted of a copper 

 box enclosing a cylinder of pure gold. Nothing was found in this 

 casket, but it is probable that there was an enshrined relic which 

 was not observed on account of its minuteness. { 



The third deposit, at a depth of 64 feet, consisted of another 

 copper box, enclosing a brass cylindrical box " cast and turned on 



* Both Diodorus, 1. II. 13, and Steph. Byz. mention the "Opos Bayia-ravou. 

 The name of the god who was worshipped there must have been Bagis, for Diodorus 

 states To Se Baytcrravov "opos^eari fiev 'iepov Aios. Hence fiayiaravos is the 

 Sanskrit Vagisa-sthdna or Vagisthdna, the temple or place of Jupiter. As the 

 common language in the times of the Achemenidse appears to have been almost 

 pure Sanskrit Bagistdn is a preferable reading to Behistun, which Col. Rawlinson 

 has adopted. 



f Journ. As. Soc. of Bengal, Vol. III. p. 137. 



% In one of the Bhilsa topes, the precious relic, enshrined in a crystal casket, 

 was a piece of bone not larger than a common pea. 



