1835.] in Pehlevi on the Bactrian Coins. 335 



Azou, T?aO Ajo or Ayo. 



Azilisou, ,. . T^T^IAO Ajiliso. 



Eucratidou, 4 Pl + l^h^T Eukratido. 



Ermaiou, TAU^T Ermayo. 



Menandroa, T£i IL> or *P££UJ Minano or Midano. 



Philoxenou, TE^h Palatino or PalakinO. 



Lysiou, T^+i or "PHOT-H Lisato, or Litato ? 



Nonou TIH^ Ulalido ? 



Unadpherrou,. . . . *V^ll "P v K r H'^>lf Fareto nanado P 

 It must be confessed, that many of these are highly unsatisfactory, 

 especially the last three. The name of Kadphises is omitted, as being 

 still more indistinct. 



Turning now to the titles and epithets, it does not seem difficult to 

 recognize the same appellation, for " king," and " king of kings," as is 

 read on the sculptured inscriptions at Nakshi-Rustam, and on the Sassa- 

 nian coins, V^llo malako, and T*11u v PiJLTlu malakao-malako (for mala- 

 kdn-malakaj . When another epithet is introduced, such as " the great 

 king of kings," it is found interposed between the words malakao and 

 malako, as *PTlu TiJL'nliJ.^l TiLTlo. The same form of expression 

 exists in the Hebrew ")inN"T ND7D JO12*1*O70 rex maximus rex 

 Assyria. Every one will remark the close resemblance of this expression 

 with our text ; as well as of JO/EliO /£), the Pehlevi title of the Persian 

 sculptures, with TTLoTiLTlu ; the terminations only being dhTerent, 

 as might be expected in a different dialect. But, if the language of our 

 coins be Zend, the word melek, for king, should not be expected in it : 

 especially when we afterwards find it replaced by rao and rao nano rao, 

 on the Kanerkos coins. It was this \Vtrcumstance that led me to 

 imagine the reading might be mahardo ; but the combination mahardo- 

 mahard is inadmissible, and overthrows the conjecture. 



Pass we now on to the next title of most common occurrence, 

 T>*T"T"1, or *PTl*1, SfzTHPOS, the Saviour. By our system this must be 

 rendered either rakako, radako, or radado. Now the first of these three 

 forms is precisely what might be expected to be the Zend reading of 

 the Sanscrit word ^sRf, raksaka, Saviour, and that alone is a strong 

 argument in favor of its adoption as the true reading of the term. 



The title MErAAOT BASlAEns, first, we are told, assumed by Eucra- 

 tides, belongs to so many of his successors, that we have no difficulty 

 in finding the exact version of the term in the Pehlevi. There are, 

 however, decidedly two readings of it; oneTiLT-lin, the other "P^liTl, 

 with the omission of the duplicated letter in the centre. The obvious 

 rendering of these two expressions would be kdk-kuo and kdkdo. But 

 I find in M. Burnouf's Commentaire, that the Zend word for 

 " great," is maz, from the Sanscrit mahd, to which our term has no 



