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I have already before discussed tMe orthography of dhddhdro, 

 here it differs only in that it is placed before the word king. 



By comparing the four specimens, we observe, that the name 

 consists only of five native characters, and also that it ends 

 in 6. The first letter (p of the word cannot be but a vowel 

 in its initial form, and according to the course of the language, 

 in other instances, we should have to adopt an e for v. As, 

 however, the letter 1 in the name Eukratides was fixed for 

 this, the sense of both letters becomes doubtful ; for lp being 

 e, l would be u, and vice versa. I would rather adopt y for If, 

 keeping the signification e for 3 ; for we found above lp must be a 

 vowel, which we know cannot be e, as e is never written in the 

 line, while in the Greek the equivalent was v. The symbol 

 lp often occurs in the legends of Manikyala, and is certainly 

 genuine. No. 22. 



Between y and 6 there are merely three letters for the three 

 consonants d-ph-r, commencing the syllables, which we ought to 

 admit, if the name was Yndopherres; in this case the n, preceding 

 d, is dropped according to the rule. Also the second symbol is a 

 real d upon one specimen ; upon the second is a character, which 

 appears indeed to be corrupt, but a corruption rather of n than do 

 If Ynadpherres be considered as the name, though the language 

 of the coins would absorb d into ph, yet it would not express by 

 any legible mark the d, so absorbed. We are here also left in the 

 dark ; but as d is much more certain than n, I shall at once de- 

 cide in favour of d. Therefore yda stands for the first half. 

 Then follows V ; t being expressed by e, we must con- 

 sider it as denoting phi ; but we above found p for <j> in Phi- 

 loxenos, and shall do the same in Kadphises. The tolerably 

 distinct coin of Kadphises has, however, (As. Trans. Vol. iv. 

 PI. xxxvni. No. 3, as with Tod. PL xn. No. 10,) the form # 

 for pi ; here the little cross line is perhaps meant to give 

 the force to p as f. Our ? is entirely different from it; 

 what might be taken for the mark of a vowel, is no e, and 

 could at the most be u k , this will not advance us a step 

 further. On the other hand t has a great similarity with 

 the initial letter of Eukratides, and as e is probably written 

 in the line, according to the analogy of 6, we might read here 





