1840.] from Bactrian and Indo- Scythian coins. 369 



figuration, effected by barbarian ignorance ; the native charac- 

 ters appear at the first glance quite foreign to us. 



We will first compare two coins, As. Trans. Vol. v. PL 

 xxxv. No. 12, and Vol. iv. PL xxiv. No. 11. The one has the 

 Greek legend, KAA^>IZO XOPr --- KOZOYAO, and sup- 

 plies the other, where we find, KAA$ICEC NO, as 



it seems for, KAA<S>I2E2 KOZOYAOXOPANO ; for here 

 is O generally a square, and C for 2. 



The native legend has : 



upl "Wy»i$ 



U3nif| d^x-i-H- 



iv. PL xxiv. No. 13 is not certain. 



We are astonished at recognising in the first two signs after 

 the cross, which recurs often upon these coins, and scarcely has 

 the value of a letter, the last letters in the foregoing Kadphises 

 legend, represented according to Mr. Prinsep. We may read 

 them nara (man). The letters, subsequent to this, are evidently 

 in the common character of the coins ^'"h, save, that here a 

 round tail is substituted for the small cross line below, as the 

 characters are generally altered from an angular to a rounder 

 form. We find consequently Kagala, or if we read according to 

 the Greek, the inherent a by o, as it is now also read in Ben- 

 galee, Kogolo, we have therefore here the un-Grecian word, 

 which already occurred in the Greek writing. 



If we turn to the last word, the initial letter of it is y, the 

 two last syllables are vama or vomo. Though we might take 

 the second letter for \ according to one coin, yet the others, 

 belonging to this class, have always a character similar to T, and 

 the word consequently is yhovomo, which obviously is the 

 word oorjiuo upon the coins of Kadphises ; lp therefore is u, and 

 we accordingly must infer, that the name in the foregoing 

 legends had existed in the unoccupied space (of the legend) . 



Let us place these coins in comparison with all those, 

 the relics of whose Greek legends are as follows : As. Trans. 

 Vol. iv. PL xxiv. No. 9, 10, 12, v. PL xxxv. No. 10, 



- - AEQ2 2THP0ESYAQ - BA2IAE EPM - BA2I- 



AEQ2 - - EqY, - andBASIAEQS 2THP022Y EPMAIOY. 



We have here an e ntirely foreign word 2THP02. If this, 



