400 Literary Intelligence. [No. 4, 



Acilia, Head of Venus, Juno Sospita with snake. 



JPlancia, Youthful head. Bev. Goat. 



Metella, — P. METELLVS, SCIPIO, IMP. 



Augustus, Bare head, CAES AR, COS. V. Eev. Crocodile 



AEGYPTO CAPTA. 



In a subsequent letter Col. C. adds that he has a square copper 

 coin of Demetrius with an Arian legend. ' In the Greek legend he 

 takes the title of Nikator, which is translated by Aparajita, and not 

 by the Aparahata of the later kings.' 



In another letter dated 16th December, Col. C. writes of still 

 further additions of rare and unique coins made to his cabinet. 



" The unique coins are lst, a gold diñar of Kanishka with Greek 

 legends-obverse BACIAEYC BACIAEcoN KANHPKOY— and reverse 

 HAIOC. 2nd, a similar gold diñar, with the same figure on the 

 reverse but with both legends in the native language, but Greek cha- 

 racters, respectively PAO NANO PAO KANHPKI KOPANO and 

 MIIPO — one of the rarer coins which I have obtained is the diñar of 

 Hoerke with three figures on the reverse. The specimen is in the 

 most perfect preservation — and the reverse legend is distinct, exactly 

 as I formerly read it— CKANAO KOMAPO MAACHNO BIZArO, 

 these being three of the well known ñames of the Indian god of war — 



Skanda-kumára, Maliásena, Visákha. 



" But a still more interesting and valuable discovery of this prince 

 Hoerke is the mention of a Yihár named after him in one of the 

 newly found Mathura inscriptions. The inscription records a gift 

 to the monastery of the great king of kings, the heaven descended 

 Hicveshka. Now as the ñame of Kanishka became Kanerke on the 

 coins, I infer that Huveshka would have been rendered Huverke or 

 in Greek OOHPKE, which has hitherto been looked upon as equiva- 

 lent to Hoerke. The only record of this prince's ñame is in the 

 Baja Tarangini where he is called Huslika, which may either have 

 been the usual contraction of his ñame — or the casual contraction 

 to suit the metre of Kalhan pundit's verse. 



" This discovery has further led to the true reading of the prince's 

 ñame in the Ariano Pali legend of the Wardak Vase. In Prinsep's 

 Indian Antiquities, Vol. I. p. 63, Thomas reads the ñame as Ilovesh- 



