Essays on Indian Antiquities: Historic, Numismatic, and Palæographic, Volume 1J. Murray, 1858 - India |
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Agathocles Allahábád alphabet ancient antiquity Apollodotus appear Arabic Ariana Antiqua Asiatic Researches Bactrian Bactrian coins bearing Beghrám Behat Beng Buddha Buddhist bull cabinet Chaitya character coinage collection Colonel conjecture copper coins curious cylinder deposit device Dihlí discovered discovery dynasty elephant engraved epoch Eucratides Euthydemus fac-simile figure fire-altar gold coin Greek Gupta India Indo-Sassanian Indo-Scythian Indo-Scythic inscription James Prinsep Jour Journal Kábul Kadphises Kanauj Kanerki king legend legible letters Lieut Major Cunningham Manikyála Masson medals Menander Mithra monarch monogram monument Nágarí nána Nanaia numismatic obverse original Parthian Pehlví Persian pieces plate present prince probably rája reign relics remarked resembles reverse Royal Asiatic Society Sáh Sakya Sanskrit Sassanian Sassanian coins Saurashtra silver coin similar Skanda Gupta Society of Bengal specimens Stacy's stone supposed symbol tion tope Ventura Wilson word Zend ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ श्री
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Page 106 - VVe must not be surprised at finding, on a close examination, that the characters of all the pagan deities, male and female, melt into each other, and at last into one or two ; for it seems a well-founded opinion that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses, in ancient Rome and modern Varanes, mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the sun, expressed in a variety of ways and by a multitude of fanciful names 8.
Page 106 - We must not be surprised,' he says, ' at finding, on a close examination, that the characters of all the Pagan deities, male and female, melt into each other and at last into one or two ; for it seems a well-founded opinion, that the whole crowd of gods and goddesses in ancient Rome, and modern Varanes [Benares] mean only the powers of nature, and principally those of the Sun, expressed in a variety of ways and by a multitude of fanciful names.
Page 297 - By him, who obtained with his own arm an undivided sovereignty on the earth for a long period...
Page 304 - IX. scale to which it has been necessary to reduce it prevents all its peculiarities from being seen. To understand it, it is necessary to bear in mind that all the pillars are of Hindu, and all the walls of Mahometan architecture. It is by no means easy to determine whether the pillars now stand as originally arranged by the Hindus, or whether they have been taken down and re-arranged by the conquerors.
Page 390 - Rama shows himself in the dark monsoon as the sun's representative. A huge painted* sun of gypsum in high relief, with gilded rays, adorns the hall of audience, and in front of it is the throne. As already mentioned, the sacred standard bears his image, as does that Scythic part of the regalia called the changi, a disc of black felt or ostrich feathers, with a plate of gold to represent the sun in its centre, borne upon a pole.
Page 157 - I soon verified the accuracy of his observation, found the same signs with slight variation constantly to recur, and extended the series of words thus authenticated to the names of twelve kings, and to six titles or epithets. It immediately struck me that if the genuine Greek names were faithfully expressed in the unknown character, a clue would through them be formed to unravel the value of a portion of the alphabet, which might in its turn be applied to the translated epithets and titles, and thus...
Page 315 - SECOND MEMOIR ON THE ANCIENT COINS FOUND AT BEGHRAM, IN THE KOHISTAN OF KABUL.
Page 385 - S&mani mint-masters; and we have numerous instances of a similar tendency among the Muhammadan races who succeeded to much of the civilization of the Bukhara empire, with the modified boundaries or altered seats of government, incident to their progress towards the richer provinces of the south. To confine myself to a single exemplification, however, I may cite the Ghaznavi (Lahor) currency, with the recumbent Bull in Tughra on the obverse, and with a Eufic legend on the reverse.
Page 136 - present in this cemetery, accept from us this eight-fold un" perishable oblation : may they convey the deceased to " pleasing and eternal abodes, and grant to us life, health, " and perfect ease. This eight-fold oblation is offered to " SIVA and other deities : salutation unto them.
Page 301 - VIGRAHA, sovereign of the earth, be fixed, as in reason it ought, in the bosoms (akin to the mansion of dalliance) of the women with beautiful eyebrows, who were married to thy enemies.