228 Numismatic Supplement, [No. 2, 
The following is a description of the coins. The fragments of the 
inscriptions are given as they appear on the different specimens. 
Obv. Arrow and Thunderbolt: Brahmi inscription (restored) 
Ksaharatasa Ksatrapasa Bhumakasa. 
Rev. A Deer and a Dharmacakra , together forming what may be 
intended for the capital of a pillar. Kharosthi inscription (restored) 
Ghatrapa-Chaharata-Bhumakasa or Ghaharadasa chatrapasa Bhumakasa. 
Brfihmi Inscription (Reverse). 
The clue to the inscription is given by a coin in the Bhagvanlal 
collection, No. 70. The Brahmi inscription on its reverse is quite 
clearly 
(1) Ksahar\_cL] .... pasa Bhumakasa . 
The name Bhumaka is fairly clear on another specimen from the 
same collection ( No. 4 = PI. J a. of the Pandit’s article in the J.R.A.S.). 
The other specimens do little to confirm this reading, and I cannot 
explain, either as Brahmi or as Kharosthi, the curious inscription on 
the reverse of the coin published by Cunningham, C.M.I., PI. I. 4. 
Kharosthi Inscription ( Obverse). 
Cunningham, C.M.I., PI. I. 4. 
(2) Ch . ... rata Bhumaka [sa]. 
E. Conolly ( Oct. 1837). 
(3) Ghaharadasa cha .[sa]. 
On No. 70 of the Bhagvanlal collection, there is a full obverse 
inscription in, apparently, Kharosthi characters, but I am unable to 
read it. It must, no doubt, have been the same as the reverse Brahmi 
inscription. 
There can be no doubt that the name is Bhumaka, and that, like 
Nahapana, he takes the titles “ Ksaharata” and “ Ksatrapa.” The 
readings (1) and (3) show the family title Ksaharata in the first place, 
the military title Ksatrapa in the second place, the two titles as well as 
the name being in the genitive case. The reading (2) seems to change 
this order, and also to denote that only the name was in the genitive 
case. 
I may add that these copper coins, by reason of their fabric and 
their types, seem to take us one step farther back in the direction of 
the S'aka princes of Northern India, whose governors the Ksaharatas 
have been supposed, on other evidence, to have been. They somewhat 
resemble the copper coins of Spalirises with Azes, which have for their 
