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 August, 1875.] CORRESPONDENCE AND MISCELLANEA. 251 inhabitants of the West," the more ao as Chrygos- tomos himself shortly after, in repeating his state- ment, tells ns distinctly what he means by West, viz all the countries from Thracia to Gadea in Spain, kcz2 iivta&cv toIp airo Spajojr p*XP l raSeijiii/ oikoWi Kard3i]Xi)S JCtil firiaijfios yiyavf. The sub- stance of this passage I have given in Piper's words : " the Festival then came from the West to the East ;" to enter more into the above details was not to the purpose of my essay.* Finally I cannot find words strong enough to express my in- ition at the tone in which Mr. Growse speaks of my remarks about the question of a connection between the Madonna-cult and the worship of Isia, saying " that they can scarcely have been introduced except from a wanton desire to g fence;" he seems not to be aware of the full im- port of these insulting words, which heap on the scientific as well as moral character of an earnest scholar the highest possible abuse and dishonour. The very fact that I am striving through " several long columns" to get at the truth ought to have prevented Mr. Growse from throwing such foul dirt on my name. And this much the more as it is not at all, what he completely omits to mention, twu men theory or hypothesis which he combate, for I am only quoting, and Grtiictsing aM the while, the opinions of others, viz. M. Raoul Roe and Mrs. Jameson ; and he ought therefore to have directed his wrath not against me, but against these distinguished writers, both of whom, on the other hand, ought certainly to be sec graves from such an affront, even if Mr. Growse should bo too much exasperated by that horrid idea to spare the living. Allow me now to return also in a few words to my questions concerning C ha tu rail gain vol. I. p. 290. That Radhak&nta the friend of Sir W. Jones and disciple of Jagannatha, mentioned by the US standing at the head of lii.s school, in the introduction to the Vlvddabh w» v. 4 (see Colebrook' . 1796; Madras, 1864, I. 1), is different from the celebrated author of the rWmo,U self-evident from what I have paid air <>ro, but I had not suc- ceeded in getting any further particulars about him till lately I met in my own Catalogue of the Santkr it MSS. of tin-. Berlin Library^. .'J5i>, with the following note by Sir R. Chambers, dated Sept. 16th, 1785: " R&dbAkAnta TarkavigLsA in- forms mo that this book is Eh/iletirahidvalL" We have hero before us not only the swim id name of ihis Ri'ulliukaniii. but moreover a statement dated five years earlier than the paper of Sir V7. Jones, and but two years later than the birth of Rudhu- • Allow no to correct hero a slight mistake in the trans- lation of my note as given on page 51, 1. "" long kauta Deva. The questions regarding the Qhaturak • gakridd itself are now keenly debated with us, as the beautiful and excellent work of Dr. Autonius vanderLinde, GescJuchie und Literatur dee Schach- apieU (two large vols., Berlin, 1874), has drawn to it anew the attention of the learned, as well as the public at lai-ge. It would be very welcome if any new information on this noble play, the invention of which does so much credit to the imaginative- aesa and speculative power of the Hindu mind, could be got from Sanskrit sources. Dr. Biihlor informs me that the manuscript of the M ' in his possession (see vol. IV, p. 83), which contains a chapter on it, is too defective to admit of a restoration of the text. I am, dear Sir, truly yours, A. Wr.BER. Berlin, l&w April 1875. COLSS. Sir D. Forsyth lately obtained some gold Byzautlno coins (from a. d. 408 — 669) from the ruined cities round Kashgarb, and a few large and old Chinese coins, with very elaborate inacrip not yet deciphered. The most interesting is, how- ever, a coin with, on one side, a loose horse within a circle, and, on the margin outside the circle, a Bactrian-Pali inscription, which M r. K.Bayley, from a rubbing sent to Calcutta by General Cunning- ham, reads as Mahdrdjam rdjadehr>j '•'$* ■>< M'OvSJtOr The Sp is doubtful, but as tho preceding word commonly occurs us a title of Spali rises in tho coins hitherto known (Prinaep, ii, SO H, there cau, he thinks, be little doubt as to the correctness of tho reading. But the curious point about - that the other side is entirely filled with an inscription in old Chinese not yet deciphered. Among some silver Gupta coins obtained by Miss Baring at F.uzabad, and presented by her tO the British Museum, there is one very perfect Toramana, with a com- inscription and a date. This coin will be of interest, since Mr. K. Thomas's reading of the name Toramana on one of tho coins of the later Gopta dynasty (Prinsop, i. p. 83d) has recently been doubted by Prof. Kern. In Col. Gardner*! collection of coins, which Mr. Bayley has examined, there aro several interesting Knshiniriau coius which supply four new kings : viz P arva G u p - ta, Tribhuvana Guptu.Rama Deva, and Raja Deva, besides one or two names not yet deciphered. General Cunningham has been working at the Barahat Tope, and haa now re- covered all that has been preferred, including aftvrwardV' is a good deal morel lean " but it second Land", " erst secondar," as the original has.