1840.] from Bactrian and Indo- Scythian coins. 357 



difficult to decide any thing by the instrumentality of specimens, 

 so defective. The specimen R. R. II. No. 11, commences regu- 

 larly with mahdrdgo rdgdrdgo ma(hato). The name does 

 not occur on either side R. R. I. No. 20, when mahdrdgo is 

 scarcely to be distinguished, but evidently has over the head of 

 Minerva ^'"hwCfc,) dhdmikd ; then follows the name,* As. T. IV. 

 pi. xxi No. 5 has 1 3 ( w i1)uCP)^ probably (mahdrdgo ragdrdjgo 



* The same also upon a coin of Mr. Masson, As. T. in. pi. xi. No. 43, 

 1T1U 



2 TuH Oi 



3 TMlH % 



are read by Mr. James Prinsep, Spalaharasa, Spalafarmasa and Spalirishasa, 

 and with reference to this part of Mr. Lassen's treatise, it may be as well 

 to give from a letter of Mr. Lassen's to that gentleman, dated 30th Decem- 

 ber 1838, and which reached India after Mr. James Prinsep had left, never 

 to return, the following extract, showing the opinion of Mr. Lassen, 

 after reading the article referred to — " You will soon receive a little treatise 

 of mine in which I have endeavoured to show amongst other things, relating 

 to the Bactrian or Indo-Scythian part of Indian history, that the alphabet 

 of the Bactrian-coins was only in use in Kabulistan and the Punjab, and 

 ought therefore to be called Caboolan ; my book is unfortunately written 

 in German — I say unfortunately, because I should wish to hear your opinion 

 on this and other views of mine. Will not M. Csoma Dekoros do me the 

 favor to be my interpreter ? Your additional corrections of the alphabet 

 are very valuable, particularly the T as s. So also your Jayadharasa. j 

 suspect, that Nikatoros will turn out to be Jayavatasa, the translations 

 being so literal, and we ought to expect two terms i. e. S as different from 

 d and in my opinion £ I have in my late reading attended much to the 

 use of the different compounds of pata, and am persuaded, that only aprati- 

 hata would be used for unconquered ; Apatihata is in fact the very Prakrit 

 form. For shortness sake, let me only state as a conjecture, that G(*)rr}pog 

 is t&darasa from ^T^[ on the coins of Andapherres. Tadarasa or dadarasa 



the £ being ^ also in Minadasa. Not to be forgotten, is your Spalahara, a 

 capital reading that destroys with one blow, all our lucubrations on the 

 data of Vonones. It is evident, there was a Kabulian dynasty of Arsacidcs, 

 coeval with that of Azas. I only propose to read Oi differently, as it cannot 

 well be a compound ofs and^p. May it not be a modification ofk "r, corres- 

 ponding with the Zend 9, which takes the place of ^ in Sanscrit? Spaly- 

 rius by the Indians was called Svalyrius, which the Greek alphabet expres- 

 sed by on. The Kabulians who called the river ^qR[ Shush va Cho asp es, 

 pronounced the king's name Shvalyrius or Galyrius."---H. T. P. 



