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31. The coins are excessively rude, and the only variation 
from the accepted reading asked for is to read no as m, whic 
looking at the papi of the coins is quite feasible. Cun- 
ningham (l.c a title may have been taken for a proper 
name, and cots that Kadiphes is the title ; the surmise is cor- 
rect, but he has transposed name and title: Kaneshka was the 
title, and A thename. Now Kadiphes, as he tells us, rasint 
‘* Good Goer,’ ’> and here at once we have a clue : Good-goer i in 
Getic speech may be rendered as Godhlef, a near approach to 
the Chinese. More likely the word was really Geat-hlef, a charac- 
teristic personal name amongst these forerunners of the ths ; 
the Chinese author looking for a meaning easily taking it for Good- 
goer. 
32. But we get other legends in connection with this Kadi- 
phes or Kadphises ; one has been read as Kozoulo Kadphises ; 
not having a photograph it is impossible to speak with certainty, 
but it seems most probable that the form Koshano Kadphises was 
really inten ermaeus occurs on the other face, which may 
imply that Geathlef temporarily adopted that name. Another 
legend, read Hima, or Hoema Kadphises, requires, however, fur- 
ther explanation. Geathlef, as we may assume his name to have 
been, we have seen, conquered the other four margravates, and 
one of these was Hium mi, 7.e. Gharm. Nowthese coins are allowed 
to be early, before the crossing in fact of the Hindu Kush, so that 
Geathlef may have called himself of Kushan or of Gharm as he 
issued the coins in one or other principality. e fact does not 
seem of importance, and is quite reconcilable with what we 
otherwise know. 
33. One fact of importance, however, we learn from the 
Chinese story above given. Geathlef lived to old age, the Heo 
Han Shu says about eighty, the authority quoted by Cunningham 
says eighty-four. When he died he left the kingdom to his ive 
whom the Chinese author, going as close to the sound as Chin 
conga calls Ch’imkao Chantai, where the tai is in the lower ree 
series, implying that the first letter was d. We c an have no 
hesitation in identifying this with Sanscrit Jambaka Chisidiens As 
Pp efore, these sovereigns had usually at least twonames 
as addresdedd by subjects of one or other nationality ; his Getic 
name, in this case not mentioned, was probably Geathlef, the 
same as his father’s. With the assistance of the Chinese we can 
begin to form a rough chronology. If Geathlef annexed the other 
four margravates in 79 B.C. we may apy 
of Kophéné and Gandhara as having occurred in 76. If he died 
in 25, he would apparently have been born in approximately 
190 B. C.,so that at his conquest of the four margravates he would 
have been 30 years of age. His son Geathlef IT would - 
have gers in 25 B.C.—a not unlikely date, as we shall se 
34. ving cleared off the bugbear of the imaginary hres 
oe *hick has obscured the view of a most interesting period 
