apeil — sept. 1858.] Numismatic Gleanings, 77 



pressed on the money of that race. James Prinsep has ingeni- 

 ously traced the gradual transitions of Indian money ^'from 

 Greek models, through the ruder mintage of the Indo-Scythian 

 dynasties, to the purely Hindu coinage of the Gupta kings. 

 Throughout this series, an Indian character is unmistakeably im- 

 pressed on the progressive adaptations of the mixed Indo-Scythic 

 designs to a pure Hindu type. But no such features can be 

 detected in the Jogad'h coins. On the contrary they have all 

 the appearance of being degraded repetitions of the original Tar- 

 tar figure, without symbol or legend or other adjunct. 



Occasional notices in the writings of Greek and Chinese authors, 

 supported by the numismatic researches of Prinsep, Lassen, Wil- 

 son, Cunningham and others, have made us acquainted with the 

 facts of two great invasions of the countries bordering the Indus, 

 by people of Scythian race, about the period of the Christian sera.* 



The first was that of the 'Sakas or Sacos, one branch of whom 

 under Kadaphes, overthrew the Grseco-Bactrian power in Afgha- 

 nistan and other parties extending their possessions towards the 

 south, occupied Scinde and the countries of the lower Indus, un- 

 der Mayes and his successors, Azes and Azilisus. Encouraged 

 by these successes, they appear to have meditated the conquest of 

 all India, but their progress was checked by Vikramaditya, the 

 Hindu King of Malwa, who gave them a signal overthrow B. C. 

 56, and assuming the title of 'Sakdri, established the sera which 

 still bears his name. About the same time, a second influx of a 

 horde called by the Chinese authorities (to whom we are indebted 

 for almost all that is known of their origin,) Yu-chi or Yu-ti, 

 driven from their original seats in Tartary, poured into the coun- 

 tries south of the Paropamisus, and took possession of the whole 

 country, from Herat to the Bay of Bengal. The coins of Kad- 

 phises called Kadphises Koranos, to distinguish him from Kada- 

 phes the first conqueror of Cabul and those of Kanerki his suc- 

 cessor, have been found throughout the whole of upper India. 

 Their occurrence is not unknown even in the south, two or three 



* Lassen in J. A. S. B. IX. pp. 667, 742, 755, 760, 765. WiUon Ar. Ant p. 

 302. Cunuingham, Biiilsa topes, ch. XI. 



