272 Lassen on the History traced [No. 99. 



substituted for £ . Now the name (R. R. I No. 13) distinctly 

 commences with X ; likewise (As. Trans. Vol. iv. PL xxiv. No. 

 3) at the same place No. 1 has i quite distinctly, with the 

 reservation, that the lower curve of the h is lost, and if the 

 coin be not put in proper position, the last letter appears 

 too erect, while the real position of h would appear to 

 incline to a slope. Upon No. 2 the h is effaced, upon 

 No. 4 distorted, and the i has disappeared. The coin (As. Trans. 

 Vol. v. PI. xxxv. No. 11) is distinct, but h here also is in a 

 more erect position than it occurs in usually. 



The 1 often recurs in the title of king, and the beautiful 

 Azes coins define the character, while the native word for great 

 will sufficiently confirm us in reading it h ; X as hi is equally 

 evident. 



1 1 . The symbol, subsequent to hi, and placed before m upon 

 the above named coins of Hermaios, is more or less similar 

 to a t ; but since it must be an r, the great similarity of both, 

 before already alluded to, is evinced by it. Both my predeces- 

 sors also acknowledge the r in the figure 1; Mr. Grotefend only 

 adds from the name Eukratides, as it appears, a figure (In) not 

 appertaining to r. Mr. Prinsep gives another, which he has 

 adopted from the Hermaios coins, before mentioned ; a more 

 accurate examination, and the comparison of the different copies, 

 however, proves it to be but a form of r on a more extended 

 scale. I have adopted the more angular form from the Azes 

 coins, and also kept the sketchy approach to the cross-line 

 below, viz. *"l, to distinguish it from d. 



12. I can now take another more decisive step. The word for 

 fiacnXtvQ so often met with, which Mr. Prinsep read malakdo, 

 and Mr. Grotefend maharao, undoubtedly consists in accordance 

 with so many copies, of the following letters, "Pil^lu. We are 

 already acquainted with maharao. The character H. which often 

 has two oblique lines, as upon the Menandros coins, (As. Trans. 

 v. PI. xlvi. No. 6. No. 8.), but which in others, is defective in 

 the lower cross-line, is read a by both my predecessors. Neither 

 of them seem to have been aware, that if a be taken in this case 

 as written after r, it also must occur wherever a long a follows 

 a consonant \ so that if the first half of the title be maha } the ^ 



