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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I History Literature &c. 1881

1881

On some of these inscriptions were found the names of two ancient kings called Karibel one of whom it was tolerably evident must be identical with the monarch of that name who is mentioned in the twenty-third chapter of the Periplus of the Orman Sea as having been the paramount sovereign of the two contiguous tribes of the Hoineriter and the at the time that work was compiled The name of one [...] Al-Hamdimi the historiographer of Yemen calls Raidan the castle of the kingdom at Zhafar the seat of government and the resdence of the kings The original seat of the Sabrean monarchy was at Marib but after the expedition of Mills Gallus and the consequent ruin of that city it seems probable that the inferior tribe of klimyar which is always represented in Arabian legends as an offshoot [...] It will be sufficient to state that the numismatic system of the Hitnyarites may be classified into three divisions ; the first consisting of thick coins struck in imitation of the drachmas of Athens with the head of Athena generally countermarked with a Himyaritic character on the obverse and a rude imitation of the owl with the letters AGE on the reverse ; the second consisting of thin coins [...] The first may be gathered from the statement of Coryat the wandering Vicar of Odcombe who was a nian of a most inquiring disposition and who gives the detailed account that the revenue (in the early years of Jahangir) was forty millions of crownes of six shillings each." The second rests upon the testimony of the Bddshdh ndmah of a contemporary of Shihjähan's who says that on the demise of the [...] The War of Bases for instance took its rise in the trespass of a strange camel named Sarabi belonging to a guest of the lioas.! of Jessas son of Murrali of the family of fluid son of Sheyban into the himi of Kuleyb chief of the combined clans of Teghlib and Bekr.
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Pages
62
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
On the Coins of Charibael king of the Homerites and Sabacans.—By Major W. F. Prideaux F. R. G. S. Bombay Staff Corps
95-99 The Natural History Secretary view
On the Revenues of the Mughul Empire.—By H. G. Keene C. S.Akbar’s Revenue
99-103 The Natural History Secretary view
On the Identity of Upello with Upaplava.—By Rishi Kesh Bhattáchárya Shástrí
103-107 The Natural History Secretary view
Translations from the Hamásek.—By C. J. Lyall C. S.
107-147 The Natural History Secretary view
The Revenues of the Mughal Empire in India.—By Edward Thomas F. R. S. Late Bengal C. S.
147-150 The Natural History Secretary view
Backmatter
i-ii The Natural History Secretary view

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