376 Lassen on the History traced [No. 100. 



is preserved : b ' A -J A ' t Pantalavanta ; the termination is 

 wanting, and what Mr. Prinsep has supplied for it, ta, appears to 

 me unsatisfactory. Here, as with Agathokles, the hiatus in eov 

 and eo is amended by the insertions of a semivowel, in the latte r 

 j, and here v, as above, in the names Dijamidd, Lisijo. Besides, 

 the use of the Anusvara must be noticed, as representive of 

 nasal sound. Upon the Pantaleon-coins, moreover, are only ille- 

 gible fragments of the title; but two of these symbols lead 

 to rdja 9 preceded by something else, which perhaps formed 

 originally mahdrdjo, " the supreme king.'* To the historical 

 illustration of these coins, the only ones upon which Greek and 

 purely Indian characters are put together, we shall afterwards 

 return. 



§9. 

 The Kanerkes Coins. 



Lastly, come we to a very numerous class of Indo- Scythian 

 coins, having only Greek characters, which seldom represent 

 Greek words, but ordinarily give in Greek letters, either un- 

 Grecian regal titles, or names of gods. They are of very differ- 

 ent types; on the obverse, either a standing male figure 

 in the dress of a Tartar, or a bust only ; or else one mounted 

 on an elephant ; or, lastly, a figure, resting on a couch, with 

 the legs crossed one over the other, after the fashion of the 

 East, the head surrounded by a glory. The legend sometimes 

 BA2IAEY2, sometimes BA2IAEY2 BA2IAEQNKANEP 

 KOY, or PAO NANO PAO KANHPKI KOPANO or PAO- 

 KANHPKI, upon those with the bust PAONANO PAO 

 OHPKI (OOHPKI or XI) KOPANO ; upon the others the 

 same titles, with an illegible name. The reverses have various 

 figures of gods, together with their names in Greek characters, 

 but seldom in the Greek language, but commonly in a native 

 one. 



This result, which I have taken from Mr. Prinsep* s laborious 

 investigations, may suffice for the present purpose ; I also refei 

 to him for the fact, (As. Trans, iv. p. 630) that the coins nevei 

 present legends in native characters. 



I call the king Kanerki, because he so styles himself, whei 

 he assumes native titles. The form KavripKov appears to have ari- 



