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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
Thanks to the investigations of Professor O. Franke and of Mr. A. Viktor Bergny the readings of practically all the known biliteral coin-legends in Brāhmī and Kharoṣṭhī characters may now be regarded as finally settled. In this field of Indian numismatics, as in so many others, General Sir A. Cunningham was a pioneer, and it is, therefore, in no way surprising that many of his readings of these inscriptions as given in his Coins of Ancient India require correction. It is only within the last few years that the progress of the study of Indian epigraphy has made a scholarly treatment of this subject possible.
page 423 note 1 ZDMG., Bd. 50.
page 426 note 1 WZKM., viii.
page 428 note 1 B.M. Cat., p. 9.
page 429 note 1 Professor O. Franke, in a letter to me dated March 12, 1900, makes the same correction.
page 429 note 2 On ancient coins guṇa often occurs where we should expect vṛddhi in these forms; e.g. Oduṃbari (for Auduṃbari) = “the king of the Udumbaras.” Vemaki (for Vaimaki), Mr. Bergny's reading on the coin of Rudravarma (p. 412), is probably another such form = “the king of the Vimakas”; but a people of this name seems not to be known from any other source. For these forms generally, see J.R.A.S., 1900, p. 99. Mr. Bergny rightly reads Yodheya on the coins to which he refers (p. 421, note 2). The form Yaudheya, however, also occurs on coins, e.g. C. CAI., vi, 6–8, and in the Allahabad inscription (cf. Fleet, CII, iii, pi. i, line 22).