654 Additions to Bactrian [July, 



Fig. 15. Another novelty from General Ventura's store, of which 

 a duplicate has been sent to France by M. Court. 



In all respects but the name the obverse corresponds with the fore- 

 going. The name in the two coins yet brought to light of this species is 

 quite distinctly rCNAC*APCY, which is either another member of the 

 family or a corruption of the last. 



The erect front-faced figure on the reverse is dressed in the Hindu 

 dhoti — and extends his hands over a new symbol of gridiron fashion — 

 in his left hand is the trident. This figure has been conventionally styl- 

 ed * Siva when he appears with his bull on the Indo-Scythic coins. The 

 native name is as before TTtfS 3 Farahetasa with the addition ofV^I^' 

 netadharasa i the bearer' of something not very intelligible unless we 

 make the first syllable A3, jay a, victory. 



Referring to the observations in a preceding page about the brothers 

 of Vicramaditya, I cannot forbear mentioning that in Gondophares 

 we might almost recognize the father of Vikramaditya himself; for in 

 the word Gondo-phares we have a signification not very remote from 

 Gandha-rupa ; <papos being pallium, vestis exterior, — the compound may 

 mean ' having a cloak made of the skin of the gandha, gonda, gor, or 

 wild ass.' Whence may have originated the fable of the Parthian king 

 doomed to assume the guise of an ass during the day. 



These are speculations certainly much in the Wilford strain, but the 

 curious coincidence in so many names is enough to lead even a matter 

 of fact man aside from the justifiable deductions of sober reason. 



Fig. 16, like the last adds a new name to the Bactrian list. The 

 coin, a thick copper piece in tolerable preservation was sent down to me 

 by General Allard a short time ago : it is as yet I believe unique. 



Obverse. (Qcuritew fraviAwv fxeyaAov) ABArASD V — ' of the great king 

 of kings Abagases :' there may perhaps be another letter before the A. 

 The king, known by the flowing fillets of his diadem, seems dressed in a 

 petticoat, raja fashion — and he sits sideways on a richly caparisoned 

 horse, looking to the right. Monogram y as before, but with the 

 Bactrian letter 9 beneath it. 



Reverse. The same royal personage (by the fillets) as if performing 

 the functions of high priest. The dress is so precisely Indian that I 

 feel disappointed in not finding a regular Sanskrit name below; nor 

 can I produce much of accordance between the Bactrian and Greek 

 names — the letters are 'PTl^l 1 ! or TPWSV) abakkafasa. On the 

 field are various insulated alphabetic symbols, — Bactrian and Greek, 

 and under the latter, one which looks like a modern Nagari n, ?T, but 

 is more probably the Bactrian 71. 



