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² Bühler long ago recognized the true relation between Chashtaṇa and the Indo-Scythian kings. See transl. in *Ind. Ant.*, 1913, p. 189, of his old essay on Indian Inscriptions, &c. The Girnār inscription records the bursting of the dam of the lake in A. D. 150, but the record itself must have been incised some years later (ibid., p. 190). Benoytosh Bhattacharya in *J. B. O. Res. Soc.*, vi (1920), pp. 51–3, declares that the name on one of the two statues discovered with the statue of Kanishka at Mat, 9 miles north of Mathurā, is 'Chastana'. K. P. Jayaswal (ibid., v (1919), p. 511) accepts Bhattacharya's reading, and points out that the fact that this statue was found in the same *Devakula* as the statue of Kanishka justifies the view that Chastana was a relative of Kanishka and belonged to the same family.