1922. ] Madra. 263 
These coins are also an evidence of the transfer of the North- 
western frontier of India from Apollodotos to the family of 
Greek princes founded in Bactria by Eukratides. Coins of 
Apollodotos bearing the figure of the Greek goddess, Athene, 
hurling the thunderbolt which is a characteristic of the Euthy- 
demean line are found inthe United Provinces and all over 
North-Western india. The wide distribution of his coins which 
suggests a rule over extensive territories finds a corroboration 
from the statement of the Periplus that the coins of Apollodotos 
were still current at the port of Barygaza (Broach).! On his 
coins Apollodotos bears the title Philopator. He must have 
been an early if not the immediate successor of Demetrius as 
the interval between the two could not have been long both 
being contemporaries of Eukratides.? His coin legend seems 
to indicate that he was a scion of the royal “ees of Euthy 
demos though the exact relationship is not certai 
The next rulers of this dynasty appear bas be Strato I 
and Agathoklen whose coins are of the Demetrian type. he- 
Heliocles*® the son of Eukratides. Agathokleia is taken by 
Gardner to be the wife of Strato I but by others she is regarded 
as his mother who was regent during his minority. In the 
later portions of his (Strato se reign he was associated in govern- 
ment with his gra andson Stra o Il+ 
All t 
region and so Men ander has no place in the long chain a 
by the four reigns from se to Strato Il. Now if De- 
metrios flourished c. 200—171 B.C., Menander possibly could 
not have flourished before oe raetoe of the Ist century B.C. 
This finds additional support from the passage of the M ilinda- 
panho already quoted which says that king Milinda flourished 
in the 5th century after the Great Decease. 
Menander seems to have been the next king in this family. 
That he was a scion of the House of Euthydemos is indicated 
by the similarity of the coin types, his close association in litera- 
ture with the Ruthydemean kings® and lastly silts the situa- 

! Edited by Schoff, 
1e assumption ore Sm Snaith ie Apollodotos was the son 4 aia 
tides and a parr rricide seems to be a gratuitous supposition. V. 
sinc a, of India, 1914, p. 224. J.R.A.S 
3 Thi 
» PP: 
inferred from the frequent restriking of the coins of Agatho- 
pve 
season and Strato Ib —— Rapson, J.R.A.S. , p. 165. 
coins m4 the two Stratos have been found. Whitehead’s 
Catalogue wi the coins in the Pom jab Museum, Lahore, p. 8 Ip. 42 
S.B Vol. XXXV, p. 6. . 42, 
6 Sisko (Faiconer’ ’s Geeta) XI, xi, 1; The Periplus. Ed. Schoff. 
