760 Lassen on the History traced [No. 104. 



name Soter of the Greek kings, maintained itself up to the pe- 

 riod of the Parthian relations with India. 



The monogram of the nameless king, and the epithet of deli- 

 verer, recurs as well on the coins of Kadphises as on those 

 above described ; it occurs last on those of the Kanerkis. Azes 

 has not this monogram ;* it seems therefore to be the mono- 

 gram of the Yuetchis. In all of them are probably to be 

 recognized successors of the nameless king of the Yuetchis, 

 but it remains doubtful, how we have to place them before and 

 after the Parthian epoch of those provinces, and whether they 

 succeeded to the same throne, or reigned at the same time 

 in neighbouring countries. 



Ptolemy^s description of Indo-Scythia, like that in the Peri- 

 plus, shows a smaller Scythian empire on the Indus, together with 

 which more than one kingdom may have subsisted in western 

 Cabulistan. The author of the Periplus mentions besides those, 

 an independent kingdom of the very warlike Bactrians (p. 27) ; 

 the Yuetchis alone can be understood by this. These intima- 

 tions point to a Scythian monarchy in a dismembered condition 

 at the period to which they refer. 



We may assign Yndopherres with more confidence to the Par- 

 thian period. On a general view we run no risk of ascribing 

 Kadphises, the Parthians, and Yndopherres, to the last half of 

 the first century (a. d. ), but to give more exact definitions 

 would be too dangerous. 



Lastly, the Kanerkis, who are allied to Kadphises, and who 

 are the last of these leaders of hordes, probably belong to the 

 commencement of the second century ; but they rather represent 

 a new horde of the Yuetchis, advanced from Bactria, than a direct 

 continuation of the former hordes, for they are distinguished 

 from them, as well as Kadphises from still earlier tribes, by his 

 position, represented as going in a carriage, while previously to 

 him the Scythian kings were represented as horsemen. The 

 Yuetchis are indeed said to have ridden in a carriage, however 

 it is added, in one drawn by oxen. 



We have already observed, that the Chinese identified the end 

 of the power of the Yuetchis in India with the beginning of the 

 * R. R. II. p. 48. 



