646 Legends on Bactrian Coins. [Juj/v, 



but it may be doubted whether all these are not in reality the same 

 name *PTE^S > Farahetasa coupled with the title corresponding to 

 snTHPOS written in a loose manner. 



On the reverse of the coins of the second HERMiEus (or perhaps the 

 third) having a Hercules for reverse, commences another series of native 

 names,forming what we have designated theKadphises or Kadaphes group. 

 After the change fromEPMAIOr on the obverse, to KAASIZOY, we have 

 still precisely the same reverse as before, and it is preserved through a 

 numerous series ; — the title of maharajais not to be found, nor is it easy 

 to see where to commence either the Greek reading KnsnVAD Kaa*i- 

 ZDV XDPapov or the Bactrian W'lV'rXP ^^ JH S •B'U* which 

 may be transcribed dhama 4^ rata Kujulakasa sabashakha (?) Kada- 

 phasa : — in this reading if we can make out nothing else there are at 

 least the two names Kosoula (also written Kozulo and Kozola) and 

 Kadphizes (also written Kadaphse and KadphisesJ accounted for. The 

 distinctions on the small coin of KOPANOY zaoot KAA*EC I am una- 

 ble as yet to make out for want of further samples. 



Connected with the same family we then come to the long inscription 

 on the Mokadphises coins which may be read by comparison of a great 

 many examples : — 



Mahdrajasa rajadhirajasa sabatracha ihacha mahiharasa dhi ma- 

 kadphi§asa nandata. 



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

 where seizing the earth, &c. Mokadphises, the saviour ?' 



I do not insist upon any of these epithets sabatra mahidharasa, for 

 in fact they vary in every specimen. The dhi also looks in many coins 

 more like dha, quasi dhama Kadphisasa. On some the reading is ra- 

 ther sabalasa saviratasa mahichhitasa (*T^1f%7r sovereign ?) On some 

 gold coins again the name more resembles M^u^r' vavahima Kad- 

 phisasa, agreeing with the Greek OOHMO KAA*iCHC. 



It remains only to apply my theory of the Bactrian alphabet to the 

 inscriptions on the cylinders and stone slabs extracted from the topes at 

 Manikydla, &c but this is a task of much more serious difficulty and 

 one not to be done off hand as all the rest has been !— I must therefore 

 postpone the attempt until I am better prepared with my lesson ; and 

 meantime I will proceed to describe briefly the contents of 



Plate XXVIII. 



Fig. 1. is a small silver Euthydemus in Captain Burnes' collec- 

 tion : it resembles exactly the medallions already published of the same 

 prince. Weight, 62 grs. See PI. XXV. Vol. IV. fig. 1. 



