668 Lassen on the History traced [No. 103. 



as a proper name. But it is at variance with this supposition, 

 that Kadaphes should bear the same name. Or is this 

 perhaps a title, and the same case with the nameless Soter- 

 meg as. 



It would be also desirable to ascertain in an approximative 

 degree the relation of Kadphises to the Scythian Soter family. 

 Yndopherres, like Kadphises, appears to have reigned in Begh- 

 ram ;* but the former is allied to the Parthians, the latter to 

 the first Azes ; the first has ruder coins, though a classic style ; 

 the second, types of a better, although of entirely Indian exe- 

 cution, with an assimilation to Azes by the Siva-worship, while 

 his relation to Kadaphes places him nearer Hermaios ; he 

 appears therefore more ancient than Yndopherres. The only 

 objection would be, that the latter in this case is thrown 

 between Kadphises and Kanerki. If the equestrian coins 

 allude, as I presume, to a more westerly country than Gand- 

 hara, the solution is perhaps given by the conjecture, that 

 Yndopherres and the Soters, closely allied to him, reigned as 

 horsemen in a more westerly direction than Kadphises and 

 Kanerki ; they might therefore rather be placed near either 

 of them, than between them 5 but I vrillingly abandon this 

 uncertain base of argument. 



It will be proper to look out for firmer grounds upon which 

 we may classify the many dynasties, above enumerated. 



§15. 

 GrecO'Bactrian Kings. 

 Let us turn now to the examination of the written accounts 

 of the history of the Greeks in Bactria. Bactria continued 

 under the dominion of the Seleucides to the period of Antiochus 

 II. (262 — 247. B. c.) when Theodotus took advantage of the 

 weak government, and probably of the wars of that monarch 

 with Ptolemy II. to render himself independent. This separa- 

 tion of Bactria from the monarchy of Antiochus happened a short 

 time before the declaration of independence by the Parthians, or 

 previously to 256 b. c. as appears from the fact, that Arsaces, 



* According to the number of coins, there discovered. As. Trans. V. 

 p. 547. 



