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and \^ on the male side ? — ZT^m (atti Varmma). 



Another good specimen of the square Satrap Horseman and Lion 

 type has come to hand. I make out the legends as follows. 



H 

 APTAYOY XAPATIwSTEISATPAIIEI 

 APTAou YiOY XAPAAwSTH^ 2ATPAIIH2 



Megadastes is a known Persian name. The native legend I read 

 as follows. 



Attasa-putrasa Tsatrapasa Karada ostasa. 



The father's name is somewhat doubtful. Perhaps Artas, or Arta- 

 vas reading APTAYOY as the genitive, and omitting YIOY — which 

 is not absolutely necessary — artabas occurs in Ktesias. Have you 

 any specimens with you to clear up this reading ? 



I have a new relative of Gondophares, but unfortunately the name 

 is incomplete and very much rubbed BA sileus basileon. It is not 

 Orthagnes, as the head is quite different. The end of the name may 

 be ATHC or APHC. The native legend is in tolerable order, but 

 quite unintelligible. Beginning from the two streamers of Victory's 

 wreath it is 



Maha disa-sa hidasa tradinasa janatinuja 



? Sahina Satadinasa janadinuja ra ? 



It is possibly a coin of Gondophares himself. 



I still continue to puzzle over the dates of the Mathura inscrip- 

 tions, as well as over those of the Manil^ala and Kabul Topes. The 

 dates of the Mathura inscriptions ought to he in the era of the Nir- 

 vana of Buddha — those of the Manikyala and Kabul Topes may be 

 either in the era of the Nirvana of Buddha, or in that of the Seleu- 

 eiche, or in some local Bactrian or Indo-Scythian era. The Parthians 

 certainly established an era, but they as certainly made use of the 

 Seleucidan era on their coins. The last idea that has struck me is 

 that some one or more of the characters may be mere indices or 

 exponents — as was the case in Europe, and also in Western India. 

 Thus in Europe 1862 would have been written J 862 where the let- 



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ters below show that the figures above represent thousands, hundreds, 

 tens and units. In the Western Cave inscriptions the hundreds and 

 thousands are written with indices — thus *EJ ^ = hundreds 3 — and 



