1838.] Numismatology, Plate XXVIII. 651 



in the Satrap coins of Surdshtra. The native kings were apparently 

 allowed to have the copper coin to themselves. The religion here how- 

 ever is polytheistic, the effigy that of Hercules or Baladeva. 



Without insisting upon their being the same person, I cannot help 

 mentioning that the name of Balarishi is found as one of four brothers 

 by different mothers who cut a conspicuous figure in Indian fable. 

 Balarishi, Vicramarka, Bali, and Bhartrihari ; the second of these is 

 the celebrated Vicramdditya, whose reign falls 56 years before Christ, 

 and he was the son of one Glindha-rupa or, as the fable has it, of a 

 gandharva in the mortal disguise of an ass : Wilford interprets the 

 tale by making Vicramdditya the son of Bahram Gor of Persia by 

 an Indian princess, and, to account for the anachronism of 400 years, 

 is forced to imagine there were several kings of the same name, — • 

 which would be likely enough if he admitted (as seems certain from 

 our coins) that Vicramdditya is a mere title. We shall presently 

 allude again to this circumstance. 



Fig. 11. From General Ventura's collection. A more perfect 

 specimen of a hitherto illegible coin. It is now seen to belong to Mayes. 



Obverse. BA2IAEH2 BASlAEflN MErAAOT MATOY. Front figure 

 of the king seated on a chair or throne, a shawl (?) on his should- 

 ers, and a club or knotted sceptre in his right hand like that given 

 to Mokadphises. 



Reverse . Much worn and indistinct, a female holding some object 

 like a scarf with both hands, and having a flowing robe behind, like that 

 of the Vonones group. Bactrian legend T9-^ *P"11u "PH^iTl rdjadhi 

 rajasa mahatasa maasa, and on the field uA used numerically (?). 



The discovery of this rare specimen, only the third known of the 

 prince whose name it bears*, will be highly gratifying to the numisma- 

 tists of Paris. It will in the first place remove the doubt entertained 

 by M. Raoul De Rochette himself whether the un-Greek appellation 

 Mayes might not be used for Mao, the moon, as a divinity and not 

 as a king ; or whether united to the title BA2IAET2 the compound 

 may not be equivalent to the name of Apollodotus ; " ce n'est la, du 

 reste, qu'une conjecture que je soumets avec beaucoup de defiance aux 

 lumieres de nos philologues indianistes, desquels seuls il est permis d'es- 

 perer la solution de ce curieux probleme." 



The problem is now solved so far that we find him an earthly sove- 

 reign with similar titles to those of Azes, — and that he is not Apollo- 

 dotus ! The native name composed of three letters, I should have for- 



* I have just received another Mayes of different type from Capt. Burnes, too 

 late for insertion here. — J. P. 



