666 Lassen 07i the History traced [No. 103. 



liar head-dress, the left shoulder naked, otherwise clad in a 

 robe after the fashion of the Gods on the Kanerki-coins. Legend, 

 *P:inTu T^en "Pllu, mahato tadharo maharajo ; the name is 

 also here* effaced.* 



The monogram on this coin is now the very same with that 

 of the nameless Soter-megas, and we must recognise here, if 

 not himself, yet a near successor of his. The Greek characters 

 do not allow us to connect this king, or the nameless Soter, 

 with the Greeks. 



This Scythian Soter dynasty, however, prove themselves as of 

 the same period, or as directly succeeding, the Arsacides above- 

 mentioned, by the following coins, namely by those of Yndo- 

 pherres. Having the same title, the same Greek characters, 

 and, besides, the Victory of the Arsacides, he is allied to them. 

 He is a complete barbarian in comparison with Azes, and if 

 Yndopherres indeed succeeded the Parthians, Azes may claim 

 an earlier era. Yndopherres, however, endeavours to keep the 

 Greek style of the stamp, while the Kadphises, about to be 

 mentioned, has removed every trace of Grecian art, save the 

 characters, on which he also obtrudes words of his language. 



Kadphises. The king on a low seat, bearded, in a high Tartar 

 cap in the form of a cylinder, from which flowing ribbands 

 descend, in a Kaftan and Tartar boots, holding a branch in his 

 hand. In the space below, a club. Reverse, Siva in alight dress, 

 the left hand on the bull Nandi, in the right the trident. There 

 occurs the complete native legend above described ; the Greek 

 is the short one.f 



The king standing in the same dress, the left hand on his 

 hip, holding the right over a small altar, above which, a trident ; 

 in the left space a club (or a sceptre) the long Greek legend ; 

 the reverse as above described.} 



Bust of the king, in the right hand sceptre or club ; above 

 the cap, the moon-formed sickle (of Siva) ; in the left a small 



* As. Trans. IV. pi. XXIII. No. 23. 



t R. R. Journal des Sav. No. VIII. 



X Trans, of tlie R. A. S. I. No. 10. R. R. I. No. 23. p. 30. As. Trans. III. 

 pi. XXVI. No. 4. No. 5. V. p. 547. From Balkh, from Beghram and Many- 

 kvMa. 



