454 Lassen on the History traced [No. 101. 



whenever Nana and Okro are placed opposite each to the other, 

 Siva in this case is obviously interpreted in accordance with the 

 character of Mithra. For the Indian Siva has the goddess of 

 the moon only as attributive, usually as a moon-formed sickle 

 over his head, here however stands the goddess of the moon 

 opposite to him as his wife, as if she were understood as meta- 

 morphosed into Parvati ; moreover Parvati has a strong resem- 

 blance to Artemis Hecate. 



If this interpretation of Okro be well founded, (and so it 

 must be by reason of the bullock Nandi upon the coins, As. 

 Trans, iv. PL xxxviii. Nos. 4, 5), an Indian element appears 

 in the Indo-Scythian system, which as first annexed to it on the 

 banks of the Indus, may be easily explained by the Siva wor- 

 ship upon the Kadphises-coins. 



Okro as well as Athro point out a dialect, which allowed of 

 no literal absorptions, and therefore was different from that ex- 

 hibited in the native legends. 



VII. OAAO, As. Trans, iv. pi. li. No. 8. A youth with 

 a crown of glory, and a light dress. He holds, as he runs, with 

 both hands, a wide robe, which falling down in large circular 

 iines, surrounds the figure. (Mueller.) 



The name is as yet unexplained ; I propose vddd, that is wind, 

 (in Zend vdto, modern Persian bad.) In Sanscrit too, vdtd 

 denotes wind, the god of wind ; more frequently vdju. As the 

 wind is also worshipped in Zendavesta, and even as vdto, this 

 element of Scythian mythology perhaps belongs to Iran. The 

 running alludes to the wind. — 



VIII. (A)PAHGPO^ upon the coins of Kodes, As. Trans, 

 iv. pi. xxv. No. 11, 12, and No. 13. A standing male figure, 

 dressed in a tunic, with the left hand leaning on a spear, the 

 right resting on the hip, flames round the shoulders, and a head 

 dress, the shape of it indistinct. It stands there PAHOPOY- 

 MAKAP, which Mr. Prinsep* has acutely altered into APAH- 



* Mr. Prinsep observes, v. p. 643, that some copper coins have OPOOK- 

 PvJ, and would explain it by Arjarka. According to my supposition, 

 OPGOKPO approaches more nearly Indian orthography. The figure 

 on a very late and rough kind of coins, (see iv. PI. l.) which is called the 



