146 Translation of some Greek legends of the [No. 2. 



certain Baraono, to whose coinage seems to have succeeded that of 

 Ardokro, with which the use of Greek letters died out, the language 

 as applied to numismatic legends having already all but disappeared. 

 I cannot help being of opinion that the last name is not that of a 

 reigning monarch but of a tutelar deity. The words Mioro or Mithro, 

 ' Mao, Okro, and Ardokro on the Kanerki coins with their accompany- 

 ing symbols, refer, says Professor Wilson, to the Mithraic worship 

 favoured or introduced by that prince. There can be little, if any, 

 doubt of the fact. 



This Indo-Scythian group of potentates presents to the philologist 

 matter of very peculiar interest. The earliest king (or kings) intro- 

 duces new Greek words as descriptive of regal merit and dignity in 

 conjunction, to a certain degree, with the old "king of kings" title, 

 and even appears, as I read the words, to place upon his coin a familiar 

 expression of vernacular Greek. His successor (?) alternates the Gre- 

 cian form of the title above noted with its equivalent in Hindee, Rao 

 Nana Rao ; and continues to affix, after his name, with this title current 

 in India to this day, the corrupt form of a Greek appellative ! Later 

 kings fall, as I have noticed, into total barbarism of language and 

 expression. 



This group of coins has afforded numismatologists much trouble, 

 and their difficulties are epitomised by Professor Wilson in the legends, 

 some of which I give in simple Greek characters. 



1. Kopo-o ko£ov\o Kao>£ov— PL XL f. 10, Ar. Ant. 



2. oaovqXvo— PI. XL f. 12, ditto. 



3. orjvox (jyqofjio — PI. XL f. 13, ditto. 



4. £a6ov ko^oXv Ka$a<j>es Kopavo — Journ. As. Soc. B. June, 1835, 

 PI. XXIV. and Sept. 1836, PL XXXV. 



5. pao vavo pao KavqpKi Kopavo — PI. XII. fig. 3, Ar. Ant. 



"It may," says the Professor, "furnish some clue to the origin of 

 these coins, that as far as we can conjecture the purport of their legends, 

 the title of king is wanting on the reverse of all, and also on the 

 obverse of the coins which bear the names of Kadaphes and Kadphises. 

 What may be the meaning of Zathou, Korano, or Korso in the Greek, 

 it is impossible to say, or whether either (any ?) of them be equivalent 

 to king : the latter recurs in the coins of Kanerkes in a position in 



