452 Continuation of Remarks on [Sept. 



common attribute of Mithra slaying the bull, which is supposed to typify 

 the power of the sun subjecting the earth to the purposes of agricul- 

 ture and vegetation, might lead to the conjecture that the figure on the 

 reverse of the Kadphises coin was also Mithra with his bull ; the dress 

 however is different : neither is there any appearance of a sacrifice ; 

 the reading of the Zend inscription can alone clear up this difficulty, 

 and I will in a future plate collate all the inscriptions which are suffi- 

 ciently legible for the examination of the Secretary of the Paris As. 

 Soc, whose researches in this language point him out as the most com- 

 petent scholar to undertake the solution of the problem. 



In Plate XXV. (figs. 12 to 24). I have engraved such of the substi- 

 tutes for HaIOC as are most distinct in my cabinet, beginning with 

 the well developed characters of fig. 10. It requires no stretch of 

 imagination to discover in the first six of these, the word MiOPA, writ- 

 ten MI0PO or miOPO, according to the Zend pronunciation, Mihira 

 being the Sanscrit and Persian name for the sun. 



Thus when the reformation of the mint nomenclature was effected, 

 by the discontinuance of Greek appellations, we perceive that the ver- 

 nacular words were simultaneously introduced on both sides of the coin ; 

 and the fortunate discovery of two coincident terms so familiar as helios 

 and mihira or mithra, adds corroboration to the identity of the titles of 

 the monarch on the obverse, and his names, Kanerki and Kanerkou. 



The number of coins on which MIOPO appears is very great : it 



always accompanies the PAO KA NHPKI form : see Colonel Tod's 



plate in the Royal Asiatic Society's Transactions, vol. i. plate xii. fig. 11, 

 in the 3rd series ; also figure 12, which belongs to the sitting-figure 

 tvpe. It is frequently found also on the elephant coin, see fig. 12, of 

 Tod : and fig. 31, of Wilson (Asiatic Researches xvii.) Figure 33, of 

 my own Plate XXV. is a small copper coin from the Manikyala tope in 

 which it is also recognizable. I find it likewise on several of the sitting- 

 figure coins, figs. 29 and 32, of Plate XXII : but what is of more con- 

 sequence in our examination of the Manikyala relics, it is discernible 

 on the reverse of the small gold coin (Plate XXII. fig. 24,) although I 

 did not recognise the individual letters when I penned the description 

 of it in page 319. 



As we proceed down lower in the list in Plate XXV. the purity of 

 expression is altogether lost, and the word MIOPO degenerates into 

 MAO or HAO, and MA or HA, for the M and H are with difficulty distin- 



la candys et pare" de la tiare, ne sait pas dire un mot de Grec au banquet de l'OIympe, 

 et n'a pas m£me l'air de comprendre que Ton boit le nectar a sa santeV' — Rel. de 

 VAnt. 738. 



