COIN PATEN. A.D. COIN DATES. A.D.
Nallapana, . 79 ... Imam Datta, .
Ushavadata, . Vijaya Sall, . 170 249 Swanri Chastana,... Dammajata Sri, ...
Jaya Dams, . Rudra Sah, . 197 276 Jiva Dama, . Visva Sinha, Iludra Daman, 72 151 Atri Daman, .
Ruth& Sinba, . 102 181 VilIVA . . 200 279 Rudra Sah, . 104 1S3 Rocha Sinha, . 270 Sri Sah, . . . 144 223 Asa Daman, . 271 280 Yuen. Daman, . ... Swami Rudra Sah, 292 371 Dammajata sri, Do. do. 11. Vim Daman, .
Dr. Hunter gives the ollowing as the relations of these three Indian dynasties, tho Sah, Gupta, and Valabhi, to the successive hordes of Scythians. Ile says two Vikramadityri Sakari, or vanquishers of the Scythians, are required for the purposes of chronology, and the great battle of Kona. near Multan, in which the Scythian hosts perished, has been shifted backwards and forwards from A.D. 7,8 to 544. The truth seem.a to be that, during the first six, centuries of the Christian era, the fortunes of the Scythian or Tartar races rose and fell,from time to time in Northern India. They more than once sustained great defeats ; arid they more than onceoverthrewthenative dynasties. Theirpresence is abundantly attested during the century before Christ, represented by Vikramaditya (a.c. 57) ;
during the first century after Christ, represented by the Kanishka family (Lc. 2 to A.D. 87) ; and thence to the time of Cosinas Itslicopleustes, about A.D. 535. The latest writer oil the subject believes that it was the White Huns who overthrew the Guptas between A.D. 465 and 470. Ile places the great battles of Korur and Manahari, which 'freed India from the Salta and Iluna,' between A.D. 521 and 544. Comas Indicopleustes, who traded in the Red Sea about A.D. 535, speaks of the Huns as a powerful nation in Northern India in his days. The Nandas, whom Chandragupta succeeded ie Behar, were a Sudra or non-Arytui dynasty, and according to one account, Chandragupta and his grandson Attoka came of the MMO stock. In almost every district throughout Oudli azul the N. W. Provinces, ruined towns and forts aro ascribed to aboriginal races who ruled at different periods, according to the local legends, between the 5th and llth centuries.—Mr. Neu-ton in .1o. Bombay As. Soc., 1867-68, p. 18 ; Feryussou, p. 719 ; J. Bo. As. Soc. viii. pp. 27, 119, 238 ; Imp. Gaz.