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Art. XIII.—The Western Kshatrapas
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
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[“This is my last contribution to Indian archæology. It contains views which I have arrived at after a careful and continuous study, extending over twenty-six years, of the Kshatrap coins and inscriptions.” These were among the last words of Paṇḍit Bhagvānlāl Indraji, who almost up to the day of his death was engaged in completing the article now published. Hisv death in March, 1888, was a real loss to Indian archaeology. The tributes paid to his memory by Prof. Peterson in the Academy, by Dr. Bühler in the Indian Antiquary, by Mr. Javerilal Umiashankar Yajnik and Dr. Codrington in the Journal Bombay Asiatic Society, testify to the esteem in which he was held, both as a man and as a scholar, by those who knew him.
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page 639 note 1 Quoted from the “Memoir of the late Paṇḍit Bhagvānlāl Indrajī,” by Yajnik, Javerilal Umiashankar, in the Journal Bombay Branch R.A.S. for 1889Google Scholar.
page 640 note 1 Vol. vii. p. 1051.
page 641 note 1 [This point will be discussed more fully in the Paṇḍit's paper on the Northern Kshatrapas.—E.J.R.]
page 642 note 1 For a full account of these inscriptions see vol. xvi. of the Bombay Gazetteer, and the Archæological Survey of India, “Kathiāwād and Kacch.”
page 645 note 1 [Svāmi is probably the correct reading of two characters which were apparently overlooked by the Paṇḍit. They appear more distinctly on the specimen published by Newton.—E. J. R.]
page 646 note 1 See “Sopārā and Padana.”
page 648 note 1 [The Paṇḍit sees in these mutilated Greek inscriptions traces of the name Liaka Kusula, a name which is known as that of a member of the Çaka family, which seems to have exercised originally a sort of supremacy over the Satraps. The evidence for this is, however, extremely slight. It is scarcely too much to say that no identical or even very similar combinations of these Greek letters are found on different specimens. The arrangement of these Greek characters seems to me quite fantastic; they seem to be merely a reminiscence of the Greek legends on the Bactrian coins from which the Satrap coins were originally copied. The letters AACO seen on some specimens cannot represent the name Liaka unless we suppose these legends to consist partly of Greek and partly of Eoman characters.—E. J. R.]
page 649 note 1 Journal of the Bombay Branch of the R.A.S. vol. ix. p. 5.
page 650 note 1 Indian Antiquary, vol. x. p. 157.
page 651 note 1 Arch. Surv. West. India, “Kathiāwād and Kacch,” p. 140, pi. xx. fig. 1.
page 652 note 1 Vol. viii. p. 234. [A revision of this has since been made by Dr. Hoernle.—Ind. Ant. vol. XII. p. 32.]
page 653 note 1 Journal of the B.B.R.A.S., vol. ix. p. 5.