1840.] from Bactrian and Indo-Scythian coins, 367 



First, MahdrdjS is evident. In the next word the third as 

 well as the sixth character must be different. It cannot be 

 discovered from the scrawl upon the drawings. It must be 

 "Panlai, rdjddirdjd. Then we have to expect "Pnin, tddhdro 

 (deliverer) ; and this seems indeed to be the next word, though 

 in the foregoing legend it appears to be placed again at the 

 end; I has been already found used in common with £, and 

 if T drops its small line on the right hand, we have: [>]*UX 

 But the same word seems to recur at the conclusion. Then must 

 follow "pniu, great; for the second figure in Mr. Prinsep^s copy 

 occurs upon the coin, Journal des Sav. No. vn. ji ; also As. 

 Trans. Vol. iv. PL xxxviii. No. 3, it is therefore mahi or mahi; 

 this resembles an Indian title, perhaps mahipati, (lord of the 

 earth). Thus we are quite at a loss, where to look for the 

 beginning of OOHMO. 



The ma of this word, however, is distinct, and fixed by the 

 coins j the preceding sign, though indistinct itself, has the 

 mark of e upon the coin, As. Trans, iv. PI. xxxviii. No. 3, just 

 as e, was before substituted for t) ; dima accords not with 

 the Greek ; it would rather be 1, ha. But this is doubtful, 

 and for the two preceding syllables, 00 can only hereafter 

 show the proper reading, instead of the two %* 



But there is no *P attached to ma, viz., no termination, for 

 which reason ma rather appears to belong to the name, and 

 not this alone, but likewise the preceding, so that the whole 

 OOHMO perhaps was an element of the compound name. 

 My design was merely to prove this probable. 



In the name itself the copy erroneously gives *\ for the 4* 1 of 

 the coins, consequently pi, or phi. We know already n as 

 denoting s ; the next letter, however, is not a distinct T 3 upon 

 any coin, it is rather like t, and as I have above mentioned, it 

 might here be read td dhdro. We might presume, that Kadphis 



* See at page 646, vol. vii.the entire reading of the long Bactrian legend of 

 the coins of Mokadphises — " Maharajasa rajadhirajasa sabatrahca ihacha 

 Mahiharasa dhi Molcadphisasa Nandata" 



" Of the great sovereign, the king of kings, both here and every where 

 seizing the earth, &c. Mokadphises the saviour. — H. T. P. 



