The sixth inscription, which is described in the MSS. as being “on the stone pillar at the bridge-head at 'Phyong-rgyas”, relates to the reign of Khri Srong Lde Brtsan (755–797) and is hitherto unknown.

The Gurjara-Pratihāras were the last Hindu power of early Indian history who strove to unify the whole of Āryāvarta under one parasol, and the dynasty produced a brilliant galaxy of monarchs such as Nāgabhaṭa, Mihira-Bhoja, Mahendrapāla and Mahipāla who, apart from their military genius, were great patrons of learning and art. The archaeological remains of this dynasty have been brought to light from Pihova (Pṛthūdaka) in the north to Deogarh and Gwalior in the south, and from Kathiawar in the west to Bihar and Bengal in the east. Rājaśēkhara, the great Sanskrit poet-dramatist, was the spiritual preceptor (upādhyaya) of Mahendrapāla alias Nirbhayanarendra. He continued to grace the Pratihāra court till the reign of Mahipāla, the son and successor of Mahendrapāla, in whose presence the play Bālabhārata was staged. Besides the Bālabhārata, three other dramas, Bālarāmāyaṇa, Karpūramañjarī and Viddhaśālabhañjikā, and Kāvyamīmāṃsā, an elaborate work on poetics, were written by the same author. Being closely associated with the political life of the court, Rājaśēkhara's dramas, although based on conventional themes of love, give us glimpses of the political condition of northern India at that time.

In the pre-islamic inscriptions from South Arabia there has survived a small number of words which on contextual grounds may be seen to have reference to a monetary system, either as designating actual coins or as indicating characteristics of these coins. Likewise several different coin types are represented in the collections of Europe and there is evidence, amongst the silver, at least, for a series of denominations based on fractions of a half, a quarter, and occasionally an eighth. Since many of these types and denominations exhibit numbers of sub-classes and die varieties, there is some justification for the assumption that coined money probably played an important part in the local economy, though equally there is nothing to suggest that it was fundamental to it. By making comparisons with the styles and standards of other ancient monetary systems it has been possible to assign tentative dates to the extant South Arabian coinages, which may thus be reckoned to cover the period from approximately 250 b.c. till around a.d. 300. Unfortunately the chronological and, above all, geographical distribution of these coins is very uneven and it is no easy task to reconcile their evidence with the results of present-day studies of South Arabian history and chronology carried out on the basis of the inscriptions, so that in virtually no case is one justified in making a positive identification of a given term in any text with a particular coin.

James Mill in his efforts to belittle the achievements of the Hindus took Jones as his chief antagonist; he tried to show how the Orientalist suffered from illusions about the Hindus and tended to magnify their importance without having any idea of what the term civilization meant. He said that Jones's description of the life of the Arabs and Hindus far surpassed the “rhapsodies of Rousseau on the happiness and virtue of savage life”. To Mill, Jones was a misguided man who failed to grasp the problems of India; his reason gave way to the romantic fascination of the East and so in his judgment on India he was uncritical. Ever since the first publication of Mill's work in 1817 the history of the British policy in India had been presented as if it were a struggle between Jones and Mill, the romantic versus the rationalist. This theme was developed in a recent conference on Indian historiography. Elsewhere Jones is described as a medievalist. In fact most of these writers presented Jones as James Mill had depicted him, even though their sympathies may have been with him.