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and this seems to throw light on what has hitherto been one of 
the most obscure points of history. Eukratidas, as we have seen, 
fol. 12, had been successful against Demetrius in the Panjab, 
and had occupied the land in force ; we have no further record 
what occurred to Datoekrisie unless, indeed, the Plato, a coin 
whose is represented by Mr. Thomas (R.AS. IX, n. 8., 5) 
shila have been his son. He x apie in all probability have been 
driven south, and not impossibly was the peace of the Caka 
line of kings. If so, the still siyeikious ** Greek ’” king Menander 
in this connection more especially interesting ; it is distinctly 
k in conception and execution, and of a far higher type of 
art than those of the other monarchs. According to Mr. Thomas, 
quoting Herodotus, the ornamentation of the helmet on the coin 
is Chabylian, and it is difficult to account for this unless it were 
that Euthydémus, though born at Magnesia, should have been 
of Chabylian ancestry, a by no means impossible, or even un- 
likely, contingency. Demetrius had been betrothed to the 
daughter of Antiochus, and Plato may have been her son, and 
so crdaahe up in ac accordance ier Grecian mesh and the die 
was doubtless obtained direct from Gree On his accession 
Eukratidas probably made a at ee aiiiok before Plato had 
had time to collect his forces. It is consonant with such a view 
that Eukratidas would have utilized the newly-made die, prob- 
ably before any coins had been regularly issued. we have 
seen, Eukratidas was himself dispossessed of these regions 
very shortly after by the Parthian attack, which would have 
forced the Greek kings further south. Menander is always 
represented in tradition as a Yonaka 
55. We can thus begin to comprehend the part taken by 
these (aka kings: When after crossing the Hindu Kush King 
Guthlaf, with his Yuehti, fell on the Parthian rulers of Ko- 
phéné and Gandhara, and so became the Saviour of Northern 
India, Menander, advancing from the south, attacked the 
Parthian satraps in Sindh. Like Guthlaf, he too became the 
Just, Arcos, Dharmika, the Sétér. If Demetrius had advanced 
to the Jumna and had annexed the entire of the Panjab, and a 
good part of Northern India, to the lot of Menander fell 
Sindhu, Malava, Ujain, an and Mathura, so that Strabo was per- 
fectly justified in his statement that both had conquered more of 
India than Alexander himself. The dynasty did not long, in 
externals at least, preserve its Greek character, and we find 
wever, to 
that we must refer a coin illustrated by Mr. Thomas (I. c.) 
and bearing the Greek legend ‘Hpiov with this same 
ing; ‘H here would be the natural representative of the 
Sanscrit C, and the Sanserit L would, apparently to make 
