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Numismatic Supplement, 
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Numismatic Supplement. (With Plate III). 
Note— The numeration of the articles helow is continued from 
p. 74 of the Journal. 
I. Ancient India. 
8. The Ksahardta Dynasty, circa A.D. 100 ( Gf. 11 Indian Goins ” §§ 77-79) 
Of this dynasty which preceded that of the Western Ksatrapas as 
governors ( probably originally under the S'aka princes of Northern In¬ 
dia—the line of Maues, Azes, Azilises, &c.) of Surastra and Malwa, 
only one member, Nahapana, has hitherto been certainly known from 
coins. 
I have recently discovered another, who, I think, may have been 
the predecessor of Nahapana. 
Pandit Bhagvanlal Indraji in his account of “ The Western Ksa~ 
rapas,” edited by me in J.R.A.S., 1890, p. 643, attributes certain copper 
coins to Nahapana. He notes that they bear on the reverse the sym¬ 
bols which appear on Nahapana’s silver coins—an arrow and a thunder¬ 
bolt. They are found “ in the coasting regions of Gujarat and Katliia- 
wad, and also sometimes in Malwa.” They bear on the obverse “ the 
Buddhist symbols, a standing deer and a dharmacahra, and also show 
traces of inscriptions which have not hitherto been deciphered.” ( A 
specimen is given in his Plate, la.) 
Now, the copper coinage which has been assigned with certainty to 
Nahapana is rather different. An undoubted specimen, actually bearing 
the name of Nahapana, is given in Cunningham’s Goins of Mediaeval In¬ 
dia, p. 6, PI. I, 5. No. 4 in the same plate belongs to the class de¬ 
scribed by Pandit Bhagvanlal. On studying the six specimens of this 
latter class in the British Museum, I was fortunate enough to succeed 
in reading one of the inscriptions—the Brahmi inscription—with cer¬ 
tainty. The inscription which is found on the opposite side is certain¬ 
ly in Kharosthi characters, but these are so fragmentary and so care¬ 
lessly executed that without the help of this Brahmi reading I should 
not have been able to suggest any restoration of the Kharosthi inscrip¬ 
tion. We may, however, assume that, as on the coins of Nahapana, 
practically the same inscription occurs in the two characters; and the 
fragments of the Kharosthi inscription which remain, certainly justify 
us in taking this view. 
