362 Lassen on the History traced [No. 100. 



We shall now pass to Spalyrios, so similar in his name, who 

 appears to oppose to us invincible difficulties. 



I do not intend to dwell upon the view according to which 

 the reading of the name has been already denned. Mr. Prinsep 

 has here also the merit of having fixed the name, and the 

 Greek legend, which is thus, 2IIAAYPI0Y AIKAIOY 

 AAEA^OY TOY BA2IAEQ2. Three specimens are publish- 

 ed, As. Trans. Vol. iv. PL xxi. No. 9, v. PL xxxv. No. 6, 

 R. R. II. No. 9. The second of them alone has completely 

 preserved the legend.* 



The native legend is the following iv. PL xxi. No. 9, 

 rj — >) - - - uOlfn.H ', upon v. PL xxxv., No. 6, the initial 

 letter of the first word does not exist ; the second is preserved, and 

 the well known word "P^huffc, only *h is mutilated to X The 

 name itself is complete [•u , ~llp r *>u The last symbol has entirely 

 disappeared on the foregoing coin ; u distinctly occurs ; the two 

 preceding letters are likewise there, though indistinct. At 



R. R. the first word has got all symbols, but 



the first appears as 1, the second is angular, and similar to 

 r and d ; the others are the same on all the specimens ; dhdmiko 

 is legible ; in the name we can unfortunately discover only the 

 o. Mr. Prinsep had three drawings before him, two by Court, 

 and one by Masson, all three of which he found in exact corres- 

 pondence ; the legend he gives after them is the following 

 T'u-ilpri^ *9u& *"lJnV(9« The two first signs of the first 

 word are taken from the drawing of Mr. Masson ; the coin cer- 

 tainly has room for one symbol more, so that the complete first 

 word would include seven letters ; but for this there is only 

 one authority. 



With regard to the name, which I presume I have discovered 

 in the last word, according to the examination of the name of 



* See page 650, of Vol. vn. of the Journal. Mr. James Prinsep 's latest 

 reading of these combined inscriptions was 



s m r f 1 B s k me dh s 1 Pu r& h 1 b 

 Balahara putasa dhamiJcasa Balafarmasa i. e. of Balafarma (or according to 

 Mr. Lassen's Svalaformes) the just, son of Balahara (Svalahara) : It is to 

 this reading that Mr. Lassen refers in his letter above quoted. — H. T. P. 



