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absence of all authority showing that stupas were erected over the priest- 

 hood, it is impossible to insist upon the identity of the two persons. 



In support of the values which I have given to two of the letters in 

 this inscription, I must refer to other inscriptions in which these letters 

 are found. The first of them, which I have read as ^; ng, in Goman- 

 gasa, occurs in Ventura's Manikyala cylinder inscription, in what is 

 most likely the name of the father of Kanyatratra. That inscription I 

 read as follows : 



Swati- Siri- Munipasa- Gangaphuka- Munipa-putasa. 



Swati Siri is the Sanskrit Swasti Sri, an auspicious invocation of very 

 common occurrence in the beginning of inscriptions even at the present 

 day. Muni is a holy personage, with the affix of pa, usually given to 

 holy men ; for instance Gwali, after whom Gwali awara (Gwalior) is 

 named, is invariably called Gwalipa. Gangaphuka means " the bird of 

 the Ganges ;" and the whole legend is " All hail ! (Tope) of the Muni, 

 the son of Gangaphuka Muni." This of course refers to Kanyatratra 

 Muni ; and indeed the very name of Manikiyala points to the same 

 conclusion ; Muni-ka-alaya being " the place of the Muni."* Another 

 Muni is mentioned in Court's Manikyala inscription as well as the Ma- 

 haraja Kanishka. 



The same letter occurs again in the legends of the Kozola-Kadaphes, 

 and Kozonlo-Kadphizes coins. The native legends of these coins are, 

 with one or two slight variations, identical. That of Kozola-Kadaphes 

 which has on the Greek side ZA0OY KOZOAA KAAA^EC 

 XOPANCY, reads 



Khushangasa Yatugasa Kujula Kasasa, %c. 

 that of Kozonlo-Kadphizes, which has on the Greek side KOZOYAO 

 KAA$IZOY KOPC or KOP CO, reads 



Kushangasa Yatugasa Kujula Kasasa, fyc. 

 which I interpret as " (Coin) of the king of the Kuei-shang, Kozola-Kada- 

 phes." We know that the Kuei-shang were one of the five tribes of the 

 Great Yu-chi, which tribe I identify with the Asiani, one of the people 



* Another derivation may be from Mani, a gem : Mani-ki-alaya, " the place or re- 

 ceptacle of the gem or relic." 



