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museums were sent off to museums not possessing them another impor¬ 
tant step would be gained. With duplicates from England and duplicates 
^ from sister institutions each Indian museum should during the next ten 
years be on the way to getting a fairly good representative cabinet of 
coins of the whole of the Empire. Meanwhile electro-types of the rarest 
coins ought to be supplied by the British Museum to all Indian museums 
So that after all if a student of Indian History wish to consult one of 
the sources whence the story of his country has been taken he should be 
able to study either the originals themselves or exact replicas of the 
originals. Of course in order that this may be brought to pass some one 
should be put in charge of the necessary arangements. An imperial 
officer should be appointed with power enabling him to exchange coins 
from one provincial museum to another. His chief aim, however, should 
be to look well to it that the Imperial Museum in Calcutta obtain a 
cabinet of coins which shall represent every dynasty that has at any 
time sat upon any throne in any and every province in India. Then 
he should see that every provincial museum possesses a cabineb represen¬ 
ting the dynasties who have ruled in that province, and in adjoining 
provinces. In each museum lectures should be started on the coins it 
possesses already. 
Buddhist and other legends about Khoten.—By Babu Saeat Chandra 
Das, C. I. E. 
Buddhist (Indian) legends connected with Li-yul,* 
Buddha (Sakya Muni) after attaining to Nirvana for the cause 
of all living beings resided in twenty-one mansions.f Li-yul is the 
last of those, though in merit it is superior to all the others. In an¬ 
cient times when Buddha Kashyapa appeared in this world, Li-yul 
was called the country of ChandanaJ where the sacred creed (Budh- 
* Li-ynl. Li is a Tibetan word meaning kansa or bell-metab Yul means a 
country. The Sanskrit for Li-yu.1 is “ Kahsa Desa.” This is probably the IlaVarta 
of Indian cosmogony. 
f The places or superb mansions which according to the Mahayana school 
were visited by Buddha Sakya Sinha. 
J The earliest intercourse of the Indians with China was through Khoten 
which they called Chandana and it is very probable that they subsequently extended 
that designation to China. 
“Two letters of Pishabarma, king of Aratan to this emperor (Sung wenti) are 
preserved in the history of this dynasty. He describes his kingdom as lying in the 
shadow of the Himalayas whose snows fed the streams that watered it. He 
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