Essays on Indian Antiquities, Historic, Numismatic, and Palæographic, of the Late James Prinsep: To which are Added His Useful Tables, Illustrative of Indian History, Chronology, Modern Coinages, Weights, Measures, Etc, Volume 1J. Murray, 1858 - India |
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Agathocles Allahábád alphabet ancient antiquity Apollodotus appear Arabic Ariana Antiqua Asiatic Researches Asiatic Society Bactrian bearing Beghrám Behat Beng Buddha Buddhist bull cabinet Chaitya Chandra Chandra-gupta character coinage collection copper coins curious Deva device Dihlí discovered discovery dynasty elephant engraved epoch Eucratides Euthydemus figure fire-altar gold coin Greek Gujarát Gupta Hindú India Indo-Sassanian Indo-Scythian Indo-Scythic inscription James Prinsep Jour Journal Kábul Kadphises Kanauj Kanerkos Karámat king KOPANO legend legible letters Lieut Mahárája Major Cunningham Manikyála Masson medals Menander Mithra monarch monogram monument Nágarí numismatic obverse original Parthian Pehlví Persian plate present prince rája reign relics remarked resembles reverse Royal Asiatic Society Sanskrit Sassanian Saurashtra Sena silver coin similar Skanda Gupta Society of Bengal sovereign specimens Stacy's supposed symbol tion tope Ventura Vikramaditya Vishnu Wilson word Zend ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ देव श्री
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Page 325 - 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 eye-brows, who were married to thy enemies ! There is no doubt of thy being the highest of embodied souls.
Page 124 - 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 325 - Visala-Deva, supreme ruler of Sakambhari and sovereign of the earth, is victorious in the world. This conqueror, the fortunate Vigraha Raja, King of Sakambhari, most eminent of the tribe which sprang from the arms (of Brahma), now addresses his own descendants : By us the region of the earth between Himavat and Vindhya has been made tributary ; let not your minds be void of exertion to subdue the remainder. Tears are evident in the eyes of thy enemy's consort ; blades of grass are perceived between...
Page 218 - Those names of copper, silver, and gold (weights) which are commonly used among men for the purpose of worldly business, I will now comprehensively explain. 132. — The very small mote which may be discerned in a sunbeam passing through a lattice is the first of quantities, and men call it a trasarenu.
Page 40 - ... Macedonian spear ; and in its place a sage appears, holding a flower, and invariably having a glory round his head, proving him to be a sacred personage.* Secondly, although upon the first coins of the dynasty, we find the inscription in Greek characters (a custom which prevailed under the...
Page 80 - MEMOIR ON THE ANCIENT COINS FOUND AT BEGHRAM, IN THE KOHISTAN OF KABUL.
Page 41 - Wilson's opinion, drawn from other grounds, that the tope of Manikyala, in the neighbourhood of which these coins are found, is a Buddhist monument, but it receives much confirmation from the discovery of this coin of the Sakyan hero, Kanishka. Having thus far endeavoured to reconcile the coin before us, and others of the same class, to the Sakyan dynasty, to which the term Indo-Scythic very aptly applies ; we may reasonably follow up the same train by ascribing the next series, which exhibit, on...
Page 328 - 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 367 - Puranas seem to have accompanied or followed their • innovations, being obviously intended to advocate the doctrines they taught. This is to assign to some of them a very modern date, it is true ; but I cannot think that a higher can with justice be ascribed to them.
Page 5 - A mere man of letters, retired from the world, and allotting his whole time to philosophical or literary pursuits, is a character unknown among Europeans in India, where every individual is a man of business in the civil or military state, and constantly occupied either in the affairs of government, in the administration of justice, in some department of revenue or commerce, or in one of the liberal professions...