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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
In the course of miscellaneous reading lately I came across a passage in the Introduction to Firishta's History of the Rise of the Muhammadan Power in India which I had marked long ago and then completely forgotten. If the main, statement in that passage (as italicized), to the effect that Ardashīr Pāpakān (Bābagān), the founder of the Sasanian dynasty of Persia (A.D. 226–41), invaded the Panjāb and retired on receiving homage and tribute, be accepted as true, the information thus acquired not only explains an extremely puzzling unique coin which I published in 1897, but also throws welcome light upon one of the darkest periods of Indian history, the third century after Christ.
page 224 note 1 The marks which look like “streamers” may be and probably are part of the original device.
page 225 note 1 Sir Lyall, C. J. writes: “I find on looking at Taharī (Arabic text, ser. I, vol. ii, pp. 819, 820)Google Scholar that it is there stated that, after Ardashīr's conquest of the countries bordering on Khurāsān, Marv, Balkh, and Khwārizm, he returned to Fārs and halted at Gōr (
), where he was visited by messengers from the king of Kūshān (
), the king of Tūrān (
) and the king of Mukrān (
), who expressed their allegiance (
). If Kūshān represents the dynasty then ruling in India, this agrees with your view.”