1833.] - Collection of Ancient Coins. 315 
preceding kor, which may be either ©, P, or €. By assuming 
this latitude in the reading I discovered a name which would agree as 
nearly as it could be expressed in Greek, with KANH@KOrY or KANHCKOY; 
and should my conjecture prove correct, the discovery of this coin will be 
hailed as of the greatest value by all who are engaged in the newly deve- 
loped study of Bactrian antiquity. The coin was at first placed with the 
Society by Lieut. Burnzs, but seeing its value, I thought it but just, 
after taking impressions and drawings of it, to place it in the disco- 
verer’s hands, for the personal satisfaction of numismatologists in 
Kurope. I suppose it to be a coin of Kanisuxa, a Tartar or Scythic 
conqueror of Bactria. 
According to Mr. Csoma pr Ko6rés, the name of KanisKa occurs 
in the Tibetan works as a celebrated king in the north of India, who 
reigned at Kapila, which is supposed to have been in Rohilkhand, or 
near Hardwdr. His reign dates about 400 years after Saxya, when 
the followers of the Buddha religion had become divided into eighteen 
sects (the Sakya tribes, or Sace) under four principal divisions, of 
which the names both Sanscrit and Tibetan are on, record*., 
In Mr. Witson’s Chronological Table of the History of Kashmir (As. 
Res. xv. p. 81,) we find ‘‘ Hushca, Jushca, and Canishca, three Tartar 
princes, who succeeded Domopara, in the kingdom of Kashmir, either 
reigning successively or synchronously. They introduced the Buddha 
religion under a hierarch named N AGARJUNA, and were, according to. 
the Raja Taringini, of Turushca or Tatar origin. The Sanscrit MS. 
places their reign 150 years before Sacaysinha (or Saxya Sinen), but 
the learned translator in a note proves that the text was at first misun- 
B. C, 255. Turoportus I. =f. 
243. Turoportus IL. t Fixed, historically by Strabo, &c. 
220. Eurnypemus of Magnesia. 
Alluded to by Plutarch Trogus 
195. APOLLODOTUS SOTER. fan re liad oi ‘ cab 
ene rrian, their coins prevalent in 
Pa ee Baroach, A. D. 200. 
Heranceds daeaece On the authority of Visconti and 
Mionnet, from a single medal. 
DEMETRIUS. Son of Euthydemus, doubtful if 
he reigned in Bactria. 
181. Evcraripgs I. ’  Artemidorus calls him the ‘‘ Great 
King.”’ 
i ae ree ae { Murdered his father and was him- 
self slain, 
125. Destruction of the empire by the Tartars and the Scythians or Sacz. 
* Csoma’s Life of Saxya, MS, 
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