1894.] V. A. Smith— History and Coinage of the Gupta Period. 209 
my text the necessary references to that reprint for the Indian coinages 
of Toramana and Mihirakula. The obscure cognate issues are described 
and figured by Cunningham. 
Addendum to Part V. 
When looking through a mass of pamphlets, I have come across a 
short paper by M. B. Drouin entitled Quelques Noms de Princes Tou- 
raniens qui ont regne dans le Nord de V Inde aux VI e et VIP Siecles , which 
I had forgotten and overlooked, 1 
M. Drouin prefers the term Turanian to any other as a general 
term to include the Central Asian invaders of India, and gives the 
reason for his preference as follows : “ A defaut de terme precis pour 
designer 1’ ensemble des divers peuples tartares venus de 1’ Haute-Asie 
qui ont regne en Sogdiane, a Kaboul, et dans le Pendjab, je me sers de 
T expression de Touranien , qui est celle meme employee par les Perses, 
dans leurs epopees comme dans leur histoire, pour designer les peuples 
anariens, leur ennemi hereditaire. Ce mot est preferable a ceux de 
Scythe ou Tartare , qui sont, 1’ uu trop ancien et V autre trop moderne.” 
Some of the coins referred to by M. Drouin are those in the British 
Museum, described by Cunningham, and some are in Berlin. 
The king’s name on the Udayaditya coins, which was read by 
Thomas as Lamata , and by Cunningham as Lakhana , is read by 
M. Drouin as Latona or Lanona. 
Concerning the Tora coins he is cautious, and says, “ Tora est peut- 
etre une abreviation de Toramana (cf. Hoernle, Proceedings J. Asiatic Soc., 
Bengal, janv. 1885.) Tora est un vieux mot tartare qui signifie 4 prince ’ 
et qui est reste dans l’ouigour et le turc oriental ( ). Les monnaies 
qui ont les noms de Tora et Mihirakula ont sur leur revers, en place du 
pyree, ou le nandi ou la roue solaire.” 
As to the era of the Huns, M. Drouin suggests that it dates from 
about the year A.D., 448, and refers to a paper of his on the subject in 
the Journal Asiatique for 1890. 
He mentions a paper on the Gadhid coins of Gujarat and Mdlvd by 
the late Bhagwan Lai Indraji, which appeared in the Journal of the 
Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for 1876. 
M. Drouin finally observes that the ‘ Turanian ’ princes sometimes 
made use of a peculiar alphabet composed both of Greek and Pahlavi 
letters, read from right to left. To this alphabet he gives the name 
Irano-Scythic. 
1 The extract which I possess is paged 546-550, and is, I believe taken from 
the Journal Asiatique, Mai-Jain, 1893, 
