458 Lassen on the History traced [No. 101. 



Crtvdsudfoa. Beside these legends, others in Pehlvi characters 

 are met with. A Vdsudeva is related by Muhammedan history 

 to have been king of Kanoja about the year 330 a. d * As. 

 Trans, iv. p. 348. He is perhaps the same, the coin of whom 

 is extant. 



The first of the classes, above mentioned, of the Sassanian 

 coins from Kabulistan, proves, that a separate (independent) 

 dynasty of Sassan's descendants have reigned there ; the second 

 class proves, that a dynasty, related to it, or the very same, 

 ruled in India itself, perhaps in the Punjaub, (to this conclusion 

 we are led by the Indian characters), and that it gradually gave 

 way to purely Indian kings ; for Vdsudeva is certainly an Indian 

 name. 



Mirkhond indeed mentions the name of the king of Cabul, as 

 of an independent king, the daughter of whom the Sassanian 

 Hurmuz, the son of Narsis, married. f 



I think I still can point out a new kind of coins, referring 

 to this division. 



Swinton has already published a coin, which he calls Parthi- 

 an J. The head of a king is there surrounded by the following 

 Greek legend : BACI-AEQN MErAC-MO— , while the 

 reverse has a Roman Victoria, and a legend in a character, which 

 Swinton proposed to read, (upon the pretended similarity with 

 Palmyrian letters), Padeshane mo(nesh), Emperor Monneses. 



On this Monneses as on Adinnigaus of which affinitive coins 

 exist, Ekhel arrived at the result, that they were not Parthian, 



* This Vasudeva perhaps belonged to the dynasty of the Guptas' which 

 we find in India at the same period with the Sassanides, of whose names 

 Mr. Prinsep has already restored a long series according to coins, As. 

 Trans, v. p. 536. One of them, Kandragupta, boasts in the second inscrip- 

 tion of the column at Allahabad, not long ago authentically published, of 

 having received tributes from the kings of Persia and Saka. The expres- 

 sions, are very remarkable : ^f T^"mf%^fT^T*T 1E rTf% ^ e ^ah, ^orn 

 of God, the Shah of Shahs, " which exactly is the title of the Sassanides 

 upon coins and in inscriptions. The proper name is unfortunately not 

 mentioned. As. Trans. VI. p. 977. 



f De Sacy Antiquit6s de la Perse, p. 304. 



X Philosophical Transactions— vol. l. PL i. p. 115. PL iv. No. 1, another 

 coin, which Swinton ascribes to Balogases in. (vol. xlix. p. 593) has also 

 relics of native writing, which however is not distinctly Cabulian. 



