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Indus. The grand empire of Kadphises IJ, and Kaniska I, has 
fallen, and the Sahanosahi was ruling over the Punjab, Central India 
and the United Provinces. Assuming the duration of the reign of 
agases or Avadagasa falls in the year 185 A.D. The reigns of 
Orthagnes and Abdagases must have been very short as their coins 
are very few in number. An average reign of ten years may be as- 
signed to each of these princes. 1 think Gandhara was reconquered 
from the Parthians immediately after the accession of Pakores, the 
successor of Orthagnes. There is a good deal of probability that 
this conqueror must have been Vasu himself. In the first place 
we find that he was a subordinate chieftain under Kaniska II. 
raat some of his coins ea! his own name in Brahmi on the 
Deena or Pakores during a border war or to punish a raid. 
The general wre open much more than this; he reconquered 
the whole of Gandhara for his suzerain. The Governorship 
estowed ‘ 
successful general. The coins of Kaniska II issued by Vasu 
Sn sitet of Gandhara naturally bear the name of the 
n Greek and the initial letters of the name of the 
serathig chiara in Brahmi. Vasu pushed the border towards 
he south-west till he completed the conquest of Seistan. This, 
I think, is the only probable reason of the fact that the majority 
i m A from Seistan. 
provinces. T 
different syllables or edie of syllables on | their obverse. One 
syllable below the right hand of the king,* another between his 
feet, and the ere poaih his left hand. ites the analogy of the 
coins of Kaniska II, struck by Vasu, we can deduce that the 
syllable or seilables pase the right arm of the king are the 


1 Rawlinson, the 7th Great Oriental Monarchy, p. 
2 The standing 8 — on the obverse of later eoaktn coinage has 
generally been tak y Namismatists to be t he figure of the reigning 
sovereign. Of. Smith, L ‘M. Cat., Vol. I, p. 
