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A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 
De. LEITNEß’S collectms 
KXHIBITED AT 
THE YIENNA ENIYERSAL EXHIBITION OE 18V3. 
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The collections consist of about— 
1,000 Bactrian and other coins. 
184 Graeco-Bnddhistic and other sculptures. 
.3,200 Hirnalayan hutterflies and heetles (Kulu, Dharmsala, &c., &c.). 
25 Rare manuscripts in Tibetan, Sanskrit, Turki, Arabic, Persian, Kashmiri, 
&c., &c. 
177 EttmogTaphical articles from Dardistan, Kafiristan, and various parts of 
Central Asia, 
197 Industrial and other articles from Central Asia and Northern India. 
A collection of Hirnalayan plants and minerals bctween Kulu and Ghilghit. 
An educational collection. 
A. —DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH OF De. LEITNER’S COLLECTION OF GR7ECO- 
BUDDHISTIC, INDO-SCYTIIIAN, ANCIENT HINDU, AND OTHER SCITLP- 
TURES. 
(a.) Tliis collection consists of about 1,000 coins 
(Bactrian, Parthian, Arsacian, Kashmiri, Indo-Mu- 
hammadan, Kufic, and other coins) in gold, silver, 
and copper, of which about 100 are described, and 
(6.) Of 184 sculptures representing religious, 
social,‘and historical scenes, architectural forms, 
statues of Buddha and his disciples, and of the 
protectors of bis religion, etc. etc., and fall under 
the following heads: 
1. Grseco-Buddhistic,'which show the influeneeof, 
presumeably, Greek art on the representation of 
early and pure Buddhism. 
2. Indo-Bactrian (closely connected with the 
above) which show the relations of the Bactrian 
Satraps with either Buddhist, or other North-Indian 
princes. 
3. Indo-Scythian. 
4. Ancient Hindu (such as the Sati figure, repre 
senting the poetical conception of the burning of 
widows). 
(9423.) 
5. Indo-Buddhistic, as showing the gradual cor- 
ruption of Buddhism by re-absorption into Brahmi- 
nical forms. 
6. Barbaric. 
Heads 1 and 2 were ebiefly found at Takht-i- 
Bahai, in Yusufzai, on the frontier of Affghanistan 
by Dr. Leitner in 1870—-in various parts of the 
Punjab Northern districts (Taxila, Kawulpindi, etc.), 
— and in Swät by Dr. Leitner’s Swali retainer (a 
fact which shows the influence of Groeco-Buddhism 
in the mountainous districts beyond that frontier). 
Heads 3 and 4 were chiefly found in the Central 
Provinecs of India many years ago. 
Head 5 chietly collected about the Jhelum district 
in the Punjab. 
Head (i found in the Central Provinces. 
The sculptures elucidatea period of from 300 B.C. 
to 800 A.D. The study, especially of the thinly cut 
groups, will throw much light, not only on ancient 
Indian history, but also on the history of art and