268 Lassen on the History traced [No. 99. 



adopted is most prevalent ; we are not yet sufficiently prepared 

 to enter into full discussion on the d-«, which denotes lo in 

 Philoxenos. 



6. \ t and % d. It is difficult to distinguish these two 

 symbols, and they are so often confounded, that we might 

 take one for the other. We might be even induced to think, 

 that the language of the coins did not distinguish between t 

 and d, that it perhaps always changed an* independent t into 

 d, as the common Pracrit does, or an independent d into t, 

 as the Paizaki dialect of the Pracrit, f assigned (as a spoken 

 tongue) to tracts immediately under the Himalaya, and in the 

 Punjab. % But let us cite some facts. 



The same symbol for t and d occurs in R. R. I. No. 7 ; 

 there is at least no essential difference, though the i with t 

 is of course represented **1. 



As. Trans. Vol. iv. PI. xxv. No. 9, the ti is almost \, while 

 the d is nearly an angle ; at the same place, No. 10, the t is effaced, 

 and indistinct ; we find again upon No. 1 1, t and d quite similar ; 

 d has only got the small cross-line we already observed with T 

 and which never denotes a difference. In t (ti) and d in Antial- 

 kides, As. Trans. Vol. iv. PI. xxvi. No. 9, and No. 10, t is in 

 both instances more crooked, while d appears quite angular ; on 

 No. 11 they are both alike, and the i in ti is effaced. The t in 

 Antimachos is likewise more curved, and serpentine. As. Trans. 

 Vol. iv. PI. xxi. No. 3 and No. 4. The t in Amyntas, As. Trans. 

 Vol. PL xlvi . No. 1 . is quite angular, as d in other cases, in Diome- 

 des. As. Trans. Vol. v. PI. xxxvi. No. 3, the upper part of d has 

 quite disappeared. Apollodotos finally puts t and d close toge- 

 ther. As. Trans. Vol. iv. PI. xxvi. No. 4. gives to t almost the 

 angular form of d, while d is entirely rounded. No. 5 represents 

 the regular d, but a much distorted t ; in the same manner, No. 

 7 ; and No. 6 is of no use as authority ; No. 8 gives t in the angu- 

 lar form with the small cross — besides, there is above at the left 



* Vide my grammar, p. 442. 



f At the same place p. 15. 



% The reference by Prof. Lassen to his grammar (which I have not) 

 would explain the expression, which I am otherwise unable to gain the force 

 of. — Trans. 



