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vi he year Maha Vaisakha, while the year 209 is named Maha Aswayuja. Now the difference lx?tween these two dates is 53 years, or 5 years over 4 cycles o f 12 years; and as Aswayuja is the fifth name in order after Vaisakha, we thus learn that between the years 156 and 209 o f the Gupta era there was no name omitted in the regular succession o f the twelve years. But according to the old Astronomer Garga, the names of Aswayuja and Cliaitra were omitted after the lapse of average periods o f 85 years, so as to make the name of the year agree with that of the Nakshatrn group, in which Jupiter actually rose lieliaeally. I have not yet been able to ascertain to my satisfaction what arrangement was actu­ ally followed in making these omissions, and I will not hazard any speculations as to the name of the year, which probably corresponds with A.D. 350, which, according to my proposed chronology o f the Guptas, was the year Malift Yais&kha. I hope, however, to obtain hereafter some positive information regarding the exact recurrence of these omitted names, which may then be brought to bear upon the initial point of the Gupta era. In the meantime, I wish to draw attention to the data furnished by the inscriptions of Budha Gupta and Dhruvabhata, from which I have deduced the probable commencement o f the Gupta era in 194 A.D.

I have also given a short account o f the silver coins of the Guptas and their successors, amongst which will be found the coins of two new kings— named Bhima Sena1 and S&nti Varma. 8ince the plate was prepared, I have received the coin o f a later Gupta King, with face to the right, as on all the Gupta coins. The coin is o f rude and coarse execution, and must therefore be considerably later than the coins of Skanda and Budha Gupta. The name consists of four syllables, which I read, with some hesitation as to the first, as Dftraodara Gu(pta). The coin was obtained

1 The name on U»u coin ia read a* Tonuulua b j Bobu Kajrmirm Lain Milra; but with tbit reading I cannot agree.