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The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I April 1840

1840

The a is here again unwritten and the consonant is not reduplicated according to the already stated peculiarity of the language of the coin ; the union in one character of r m accords quite with the rule of Pracrit while the retention of the r in HirrnufjO is certainly to be accounted for (as before noted) by the authority of the king Hermaios who would not allow his name to be corrupted. [...] If the name Archelios were precisely represented in the native writing it would supply us another opportunity for testing the rule for r. The name of this king is certainly written thus and not Archelaos if the Greek be properly represented and the native legend according to the only copy As. [...] Leaving the name for the present we may assert on the authority of the other examples that the initial of the second word is incorrectly given it must be L. The legend will cosequently be Mandriig6 dharnikd gajavató the supreme King the just the victorious. [...] for a long a which was not confined to denoting the never shorteed vowel of the Sanscrit but which also expressed the lighter one of the Preterit and which as the analogous 85 P probably had its constant place in the same line with the consonants. [...] If we now look upon the reverse for an interpretation of the unusual and obscure epithet of the queen we find the representation of a sitting Hercules who appears with the left hand to hold the lion's skin and with the right perhaps leans on a rock as upon the coins of Euthydemos where however lie holds with the left the club.
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Pages
111
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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Points in the History of the Greek and Indo-Scythian Kings in Bactria Cabul and India as Illustrated by Decyphering the Ancient Legends on their Coins. By Christian Lassen Bonn 1838
339-378 The Secretary view
Note on the Lepchas of Sikkim. By A. Campbell Esq. Superintendent of Darjeling
379-388 The Secretary view
Vocabulary of the Lepcha Language
388-393 The Secretary view
Notice of Some Counterfeit Bactriun Coins
393-396 The Secretary view
A Second Memoir on Indian Tempests with Reference to the Theory of the Law of Storms.—By Henry Piddington
397-439 The Secretary view
Note on the Wild Sheep of the Hindoo Koosh and a Species of Cicada. By Capt. Hay
440-443 The Secretary view
Proceeings of the Asiatic Society
444-446 The Secretary view
Erratum in the Article on “Lightning Conductors ” Published in the Last Journal
447-447 The Secretary view

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