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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
Students of early history are greatly indebted to Mr. Philipps for the clear and compendious form in which, in his article entitled “The Connection of St. Thomas the Apostle with India,” published in the Indian Antiquary, vol. 32, 1903, pp. 1 ff., 145 ff., he has brought together from so many works, some of them not easily accessible, even if they were known, to general readers, so much matter of importance about the Christian tradition which connects St. Thomas the Apostle with India.
page 227 note 1 Gardner's Catalogue of Coins of the Greek and Scythic Kings of India, p. 174.
page 228 note 1 For instance, op. cit., p. 103, Nos. 1, 4 ; p. 104, No. 8 ; p. 105, Nos. 13, 21.
page 228 note 2 For instance, op. cit., p. 104, No. 10.
page 228 note 3 For instance, op. cit., p. 105, No. 22.
page 228 note 4 For instance, op. cit., p. 103, Nos. 1, 4 ; p. 104, Nos. 8, 10 ; p. 105, No. 22.
page 228 note 5 Op. cit., p. 105, Nos. 13, 21 ; and for another very clear specimen, in connection with which the second component, pharna, with rn (not simply r) in the last syllable, has been read rightly, see Cunningham's Coins of the Sakas, plate 10,. No. 4, and p. 58.
page 229 note 1 It was pointed out in that year, apparently for the first time, by M. Reinaud, in his Mémoire Gégraphique, Historique, et Scientifique sur I'Inde, p. 94 f.
page 229 note 2 See, for instance, Gardner's Catalogue, Introd., p. 44 f., and Rapson's Indian Coins, p. 15, § 62.
page 229 note 3 Gardner's Catalogue, plate 22, No. 12.
page 230 note 1 The meaning of this part of the record has perhaps been now elucidated by M. Boyer, in an examination of it (JA, 1904, i, 457 ff.) which came to my notice after the above remarks were written.
page 231 note 1 See IA, 26, 148, and El, 5, Appendix, 50, No. 351, referred doubtfully to a.d. 804–805, but more probably two centuries later. The next known Śaka date, the earliest certain one, in Northern India, is No. 352, of A.D. 862.
page 233 note 1 Annual Report of the Archæological Survey, Panjab and United Provinces, for the year 1903–1904, p. 55.