142 Remarks on the Tartla Bactro-Pali Inscription. [ No. 2, 
taken place in the first half of the second century before Christ, it 
seems to me not improbable that the era in which the Taxila plate 
is dated, may refer to this particular event. As the year 163 B. C. 
is quoted by Lassen from the Chinese authorities as the actual date of 
this conquest, I think that it may be accepted for the present as the 
most probable approximation to the era used by the Indo-Scythian 
Sakas. By adopting this starting point, the date of the Taxila in- 
scription will be 163—78=85 B. C. 
In a recent number of this Journal, 1862, p. 425, mention is made 
of two small silver coins belonging to my cabinet, which are close 
imitations of the Oboli of Eukratides. The legend is in two lines 
* * OKO KOZOYAO; and as there is just sufficient room for two 
letters before OKO, I think it highly probable that the full name will 
turn out hereafter, when more perfect specimens are obtained, to be 
ALOKO, which is almost the same as that of the Satrap mentioned in 
the present inscription. These coins were found near Rawal Pindi, 
in company with a number of different types of Hyrkodes, and of a 
few of the barbarous imitations of the coins of Alexander and Seleu- 
kos. They appear to me to be about the same age as the coins of 
Kozola Kadaphes, or about 90 B. C. 
But there is another name in the Taxila inscription, if I have read 
it rightly, which will also serve to fix the date of the record in the 
early part of the century immediately preceding the Christian era. 
According to my reading the name of the Satrap’s son is Ayu-Bala- 
Varddhaka, “the strengthener of life,’ which possibly may have 
been the full name of Azas, or Aya, as he is called in the native 
legends of his coins. As Liaka was the Satrap of king Moas, there 
is no improbability in making the Satrap’s son Ayu the successor of 
Moas on the throne of Taxila. 
It now remains to fix the date which should be assigned to the 
Gushén eva. The leader of this tribe, which is called also Kushan, 
Khushan, and Koran, was certainly Kozola Kadaphes, as in the in- 
scriptions of all his coins he calls himself king of the Kushan, or 
Khushan, whilst on some of them his name is associated with that 
of Hermeus, who is allowed by all numismatists to have been the 
last of the Greek Princes. Kozola Kadphises was therefore beyond 
all doubt the subverter of the Greek power in Kabul. The date of 
this event is assigned to 85 B. C. by Professor Lassen, and also by 
