1840.] Lieut, Cunningham on Bactrian coins, 881 



and I believe also Phra ; although its native name was more likely 

 Phara (or Furrah), and in support of this being the true reading, I 

 may adduce the following quotation from Lycophron (Cass. v. 1428). 



2/cia KaXvxpH Tleppav, aju/3Xuvwv tjeXag, 



in which the word Perras, used to signify " the sun," is only a Hellenized 

 form of the Egyptian Phra or Phara ; and hence we may conclude that 

 Undopherras is only a Grecian rendering of Andophara (or Andophra) 

 the very name which is found in the Bactrian Pali legends of the re- 

 verses of his coins. 



To omit nothing that may possibly be of use to us in elucidating the 

 history of this prince, known only by our coins, I will add my con- 

 jecture that Undopherras, or Indopherras, may very probably have been 

 a descendant of Intaphernes, one of the seven conspirators against the 

 Magian Smerdis. The names do not differ nearly so much in their 

 spelling, as the names of Orientals generally do, when written by Euro- 

 peans of different ages and nations; and we have already seen that the same 

 word Phra or Phara has been rendered both by Parr a and by Perras. 

 We know besides, that the name of Darius descended in his family to 

 the time of Alexander ; and also that the name of Megabyzus, another 

 of the seven conspirators descended to his grandson ; while the name 

 of his son Zopyrus was transmitted to his great-grandson as relat- 

 ed by Herodotus. Here then we have evidence that the Persians, 

 as well as the Greeks, called their children not by the father's, but by 

 the grandfather's names, a custom which is still prevalent all over India, 

 thus transmitting a name by alternate generations ; hence if our Undo- 

 pherras was descended from Intaphernes, the conspirator, it must have 

 been about the I7th generation. Now Intaphernes was put to death 

 by Darius soon after the death of Smerdis, or about 520 b. c. ; at which 

 time the eldest son of Intaphernes, the only one of his children spared, 

 may have been ten years of age, making his birth in 530 b. c. from 

 which 15 generations of 30 years, or 450 years being deducted, leave 80 

 B. c. for the birth of Undopherras, making him about 25 years of age 

 when he assumed independence. This is indeed only a conjecture, but 

 it is one so interesting, and also so plausible, that we may wish it, 

 though we cannot prove it, to be true. 



