1840.] from Bactrian and Indo- Scythian coins. 759 



coins come from Kipin^ where the Saces, and not the Yuetchis, 

 had settled themselves. 



Now it is true we have not observed that the Saces as well as 

 the Yuetchis have made any conquests in India ; but it seems 

 to follow, first, from the fact, that the empire of Hermaios ap- 

 parently was on the eve of its destruction at the very time (120 

 B.C.) to which we may assign the inroads of the Saces in India, 

 immediately after 126 b. c. : secondly, because the capital of the 

 Scythian empire of a later time, was named Min,* and as this 

 name occurs in Sakastane itself, it must have come thence, and 

 not by means of the Yuetchis to the Indus. It would be, lastly, 

 implied in the Chinese chronology, if correctly translated, f that 

 the Yuetchis reconquered India ; and before them, vrho but the 

 Saces in Kipin could have conquered it ? However little confi- 

 dence we can put on these discussions, yet we must at once 

 adopt the supposition, that the empire of Azes existed about 

 100 b. c. 



Azilises declared himself as successor of Azes ; as the Chinese 

 mention two names of these kings of Kipin, we shall perhaps in 

 time obtain coins of theirs, by which the era of Azes may be 

 determined with greater certainty.*! The coins above described, 

 can only be hypothetically taken for the coins of such successors 

 of Azes. 



If Azes, however, be considered as the founder of an empire 

 of the Saces in India, either Kadphises or the nameless Soter- 

 Megas, must be held as the great conqueror under the Yuet- 

 chis. 



Among them the king last mentioned appears to have most 

 claims, in virtue of the remark, already made, that he seems 

 to have founded a new dynasty, which was established from 

 Bactria in Cabulistan and the Punjab, and again assuming the 



* Nagara, Sanscrit town ; Miv iroXiq in Sakastane with Isidor, p. 9. 

 De Pentap. Ind. p. 56, 



t As. T. VI. p. 63. 



X I would even conjecture, that Ontheoulao was Azilises, if I were 

 persuaded that the Chinese express a Z by th. They place him 87 b. c, 

 and this statement is indeed in a striking manner corresponding with the 

 place given by the coins to Azilises. 



