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their original names^ as Azoka styles himself Pijadasi on the 

 columns. 



The successor of Sujazas, Dazaratha, is confirmed by the 

 inscriptions in the Buddhist temples at Gaja^ in Magadha^* 

 (Behar.) 



I think it is by no means a rash attempt to connect these 

 Indian reports with our investigations. Thence would result 

 the following arrangement, viz., that Sujazas, who must have 

 died at the commencement of the second century b. c. if he 

 had reigned twenty years (on this we have no information), is 

 the very same Palibothrian king with whom Antiochus renew- 

 ed the confederacy; secondly, that the barbarians, who under 

 his reign invaded India, are the Bactrian Greeks themselves ; 

 and, thirdly, that he or his successor, despite of Indian accounts 

 to the contrary, was expelled by them from the westerly parts 

 of his empire. 



From our previous inquiry, it was evident, that Demetrios 

 undoubtedly reigned in Arachosia, and thence more westward ; 

 whether his rule extended in an easterly direction, was left un- 

 certain. We must now, however, appropriate to Agathokles 

 also a share in the first expedition of the Bactrians against India, 

 for by the beautiful execution of his coins he is coeval with De- 

 metrios; he claims a purely Indian country as his dominion, 

 and especially eastern Cabul ; lastly, by the adoption of the old 

 Indian letters he shows, that he succeeded in these provinces 

 the kings of Palibothra, who used the very same alphabet. Nor 

 do I know how Agathokles can obtain any other classification 

 either at a later or earlier period, unless immediately before 

 Eukratides and coeval with Demetrios. I shall not waste our 

 time by conjecturing in what relation they stood together, how 

 Agathokles commenced his career, and whether he belonged to 

 the family of Euthy demos, or not.f 



* This also is a discovery, made by Mr. Prinsep, As. Trans. VI. p. 677. 



t It might even be maintained, that by a confiision in the catalogues 

 of names, Agathokles had been received as Sujazas into Indian history, 

 as both words denote the same, and as both kings, according to the 

 comparison of facts, above given, would be of the same period. It is evi- 

 dent, that we have not to recognise the Indian king on the coins, because 



