Essays on Indian Antiquities: Historic, Numismatic, and Palæographic, Volume 1J. Murray, 1858 - India |
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Agathocles Allahábád alphabet ancient antiquity Apollodotus appears Ariana Antiqua Asiatic Researches Bactrian bear Beghrám Behat Beng Buddha Buddhist bull Chaitya Chandra character coinage collection Colonel copper coins curious cylinder deposit Deva 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 Kanishka Karámat king legend legible letters Lieut Major Cunningham Manikyála Masson medals Menander Mithra monarch monogram monument Nágarí numismatic obverse original Pehlví Persian plate present prince probably rája reference reign relics remarked resembles reverse Royal Asiatic Society Sakya Samvat Sanskrit Sassanian Satrap Sena silver coin similar Siva Skanda Gupta Society of Bengal sovereign specimens Stacy's stone supposed symbol tion tope Ventura Vikramaditya Vishnu Wilson word Zend ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ श्री
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Page 104 - 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 82 - MEMOIR ON THE ANCIENT COINS FOUND AT BEGHRAM, IN THE KOHISTAN OF KABUL.
Page 313 - The following is Colebrooke's rendering ('As. Res.' viii., 130) of the Sanskrit text, which has been verified by Prof. Wilson from an independent copy of the original made by myself : — ' In the year 1220 [AD 1164], on the fifteenth day of the bright half of the month of Vaisakh (this monument) of the fortunate Visala...
Page 144 - 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 309 - By him, who obtained with his own arm an undivided sovereignty on the earth for a long period...
Page 360 - Vallabha in the sixteenth ; and the 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 313 - 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.
Page 1 - Bannatine, daughter of the Rev. James Bannatine, one of the ministers of Edinburgh. By her he had a son, who died in infancy, and a daughter, who lived to her twenty-first year, the pride of her parents, and adorned with all the accomplishments that became her -age and sex.
Page 58 - likely that the currency of the country consisted chiefly, if not exclusively, of lumps of gold and silver, not bearing any impression, until the Hindus had learned the usefulness |of money from their Bactrian neighbours, and from their commerce, especially with Rome."18 He then adds, " at the same time it seems likely that they had a sort of a stamped coin even before the Greek invasion.
Page 360 - A very great portion of the contents of many, some portion of the contents of all, is genuine and old. The sectarial interpolation, or embellishment, is always sufficiently palpable to be set aside without injury to the more authentic and primitive material...