84. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [ March, 1908. 
se letter or letters of the name of the chief by whom the 
n has been issued. This deduction is supported by other 
e (2) Tt of 
probably are ered . by their ok syllables eisiole occur below 
the left arm-pit of the king, such as Pu for Puskalavati and G 
for Gandhara (the porahe Na for Nagarahara, etc. In eg a 
cases where only one syllable is found, whether below the left a 
or under the feet, I think it is to oA ‘taken as the initial inttars or 
letters of the name of the mint tow 
Four coins of Kaniska TL, ieaitedl: by Vasu, have been described 
by Cunningham :-— 

N 
Mint. | issuing REMARKS. 

1. Sa Cu Vasu | I am inclined to pe a the Cw as the initial 
pier of the name Cutsa, which has wen found 
n the Taxila pn ett sos of Patika. 
oy In this coin png ots reads _ ee peed below 
the left armof the king as Sa, and says there 
is a Ga between the ‘+s Sen he plate (N.C. 
1893, pl. VIII, No. 6, p. 119) shows that the 
letter La the left is Na, aad the space between 
the feet is blank. 

We 
a) 
4 
= 
= 
4, Na a: — In this coin also Cunningham finds a Bha to the 
shows a Lager: space between the feet and a 
Na with rved base line di gong wncread 
25) t 
Pale canine, ps IIT, Col. 
left (N.C. 1893, pl. XIII, e's 


ger ae’ has ay described several other varieties of the 
coinage of Kaniska I 
5. Po sea Viru | Cunningham read the letter below the left arm of 
the king as Nya, but I cannot imagine how it 
res ; 
[ ends with Kadphises IT, but this seems to 




1 J.R.A.S. 1894, p. 557, and Epigraphia Indica, Vol. IV, p. 56. 
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