A, Another coin supplies the characters o AAO BOA CAMA . while the legend on our specimen, No. 11, is transcribed by him as OATO BOT CAKANA. Major Cunningham concludes, "By ΟΔΥΟ ΒΟΥ a comparison of the two legends, I am inclined to read them. either as Aum Adi Buddha Sramana, or simply as Adi Buddha Sramana.”—Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,' 1845, p. 439.] Under the risk of being tedious, I have now gone through the whole series of corrupted Greek coins connected with the Manikyála tope, and I trust that the result of my investigation will serve to throw some new light on the subject. I have ventured to give the appellation of 'Mithraic' to the very numerous coins which have been proved to bear the effigy of the sun, for they afford the strongest evidence of the extension of the religion of Zoroaster in some parts of Bactria and the Panjab at the time of its reassumption of consequence in Persia; while the appearance of Krishna on the field at the same time proves the effort that was then afloat, as testified by the works of the Christians, to blend the mysteries of Magíism with the current religions of the day. I cannot conclude this branch of the Manikyála investigation better than in the following extract from Moor's 'Hindú Pantheon :'-" So grand a symbol of the deity as the sun 'looking from his sole dominion like the God of this world,' which to ignorant people must be his most glorious and natural type, will of course have attracted the earliest adoration, and where revelation was withheld, will almost necessarily have been the primary fount of idolatry and superstition. The investigators of ancient mythology accordingly trace to its prolific source, wherein they are melted and lost, almost every other mythological personage, who like his own light, diverge and radiate from his most glorious centre." POSTSCRIPT ON THE IMAGE OF BUDDHA FROM KÁBUL. The Buddha image represented in figure 1 of plate viii. is described in the proceedings of the Asiatic Society of the 6th of August, 1834, vol. iii., page 363. It was discovered by Dr. Gerard in the course of some excavations made by him in the ruins of an ancient town about two miles south-east of Kábul, and near a modern village called Béni-hissár. According to the description given by Mohan Lál, the image was not found in an insulated tope, but in a mass of bricks and rubbish, which more resembled the ordinary ruins of a desolated town. After penetrating through a mound of such débris, a chamber of masonry was by accident found in entire preservation, the walls of which were ornamented with coloured stones and gilding; and here the statue was discovered. It was evidently the ruin of some Buddha temple, or oratory in a private dwelling, that had been deserted on the demolition of the town. The sculpture itself has been partially mutilated, as if in a hurried manner, by striking off the heads of the figures with a hammer; one only has escaped: the principal figure has lost the upper part of the head. This mode of desecration points to an irruption of Muhammadans in their first zeal for the destruction of graven idols. The faces at Bamián The Bu'dbaring represented in care I of plate vir e de crid prie ding, che Asiatic Society of the 52-5° August, 1834, yo! m., 3 gt st3 It was di of sona excorations made mered by 1. Card in tre cour » a.s of an ancient town about two mis-east of Kobud, and T. Le Beni-?su. us of Resolate : * .. a chamber of vasonry W ly to be description gav by Mohan Li, the mag was not fan, di insulated tope, JE as of bri as numbbish, wireh n ore resenta nay Astor peritial ng through and of euch get in ntive pervation, the war ite orament dw. ured to, e and gleing a. b re the statue % 4scovered It was evideny the x an ofson, Ledůda ten jav, or orat.y velling, they had teen deserted on he depondon of the town. 11. -culoter* 1* nitially m tad, as if in a humor, by striking off the 1632 3 uros with a hammer, one only nas campai the principal figmire has let the art of the 43. This role of desceration points so diruption of 'smrey fest zo' for the destruction of gran ido s. La fars at Bar, 1 |