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A successor who repeats the Mithridatic title — king of kings — was 

 Palirisus, B. C. 80, a king apparently of limited dominion and short 

 reign. 



With the coins of this prince have been found sparingly those of 

 Spalyrius, B. C. 75. The legend is interesting as it contains a complete 

 phrase in correct Greek, apart from the name which is in the nominative 

 instead of genitive case : — %ira\vpio<s Slkollov aSeX^ov rov /3a<xiA.ea)s. 

 Spalyrius (of the) just (true ?) brother of the king — instead of — ' of 

 Spalyrius, &c. The Pracrit is read Alabaraputasa Dhamiasa Spala- 

 pharamasa. 



The coins of Azilise, B. C. 60, and Azes, B. C. 50, continue the 

 same ultra-regal title. 



All the above legends of barbaric kings are tolerably well written 

 with the exception of the cr and the o, the latter of which is invariably 

 represented by a square, but we now come to a nameless monarch who 

 seems to have reigned, by the abundance in which his coins have been 

 found there, in the Punjab, — who adopts new forms for several letters : 

 he calls himself — aoyrrjp /xeyas ySacriAevs fiacnXewv — great saviour king 

 of kings — and, by his mounted effigy, seems to have been a Scythian. 

 His religion was apparently fire worship. 



The Indo-Parthian dynasty of Vonones, Undopherres, and Gondo- 

 phares also adopted for their coins Greek legends with a Pracrit 

 obverse, the titles saviour or king of kings. The name Abagases has 

 been once read — Akaja Kubhasa in the Pracrit as noted in this Journal 

 (July, 1838, PI. XXVIII. fig. 16,) and classed in connection with this 

 dynasty ; to which also Kodes or Hyrkodes must be considered to 

 belong. His coins have a Greek legend only, and are remarkable as 

 presenting us with an addition to our vocabulary — fxaKapos — blessed. 

 It is used with a word, the corrupt Greek letters of which may read 

 Ordeethro, or Ordeoro ; the root of it is evidently Zend. 



" We now come," says Professor Wilson, " to a long and important 

 series of coins, the issue of princes of well defined names and unques- 

 tioned Scythian descent," of whom " Kadphises is the earliest." The 

 dominion of these potentates seems to have been about Cabul and 

 Jullalabad, spreading occasionally along the Indus, and into the Pun- 

 jab. The dynasty consists, as far as is at present known, of Kadphises, 

 or Kadaphes,— Kanerkes or Kanerkis, — Kenorano to Ooerki, — and a 



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