INDO-CHINESE

167

Metal
No»

Obverse

Reverse

JE

134
135

INDO-CHINESE RULERS:

Chinese characters Luh tchu
tsien, i. e. ' six tchu (of) money \

W. 50.
S. -75.

Horse or wild ass to r.

Kb. legend-----tira - - -

G. B. PI. XVI.

M

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ODUMBARA EAJAHS
DHARAGHOSA

Figure standing to front. Kh. legend ------- devasa Dharaghosasa ------- Across field Vi$pamitra.
W. 37.
S. -7.
rajna,

Tree in railing, and trident-
battieaxe.

Brahini legend as on obverse
-------sa rajna Dharaghosasa-----

PL XVI.

RUDRAVARMA

137

Bull to r.; in field, flower.
Kh. legend

Rajna vamakisa

Rudravarmasa vijayata*

S. -7,

Elephant to r.

Brahmi legend as on obverse.

To r. trisul.

Above, Kb. "ka.

PL XVI.

that is to say, a similar inscription to that on No. ISO. I find that the coins of this type in
the British Museum have already been included by Prof. E. J. Bapson in the currency c^
Kajula, but the present is the first publication of their attribution to this ruler. Also see
Lead Coins, No. IX of Fart II of Mr. Vincent Smith's 'Numismatic Notes and Novelties',
J.A.S.B., 1897. Coin No. 115 of Part I of the White King Sale Catalogue is a lead coin of this
type; and was wrongly attributed to Strato II.

1 All the Indo-Chinese coins come from Khotan and its neighbourhood, and must be
referred to the first and second centuries A.D. A full and interesting description of this
currency is contained in Dr. Hoernle's paper * Indo-Chinese Coins in the British Collection of
Central Asian Antiquities ', Indian Antiquary, 1899. Two aims are known in copper only, the
large and the small, and the specimens in this Collection belong to the latter category.
The Chines© legend merely gives the monetary denomination of the coins. The large variety
is equivalent to one litmg and four tchu, of copper money, while the small variety weighs

.

The name of the ruler is given on the Kharosthl side. Cunningham read the name on the
large coin known to him as Meramayasa (Hermaios)— see his Coins of Alexander's Successors in the
Mast— but this is incorrect. The name is given by Dr. Hoerale as Gugramaya, and he remarks
that there are altogether five varieties of royal names, all commencing with (htgra*