1852.] Note on some Sculptures found in Peshawar. 617 



be, as it seems to be, rightly rendered, this objection will no longer 

 remain. 



The historical facts which I have mentioned with respect to the 

 sculptures bear with some force on the period of the edict. 



It is extremely improbable that, from Agathocles to the Scythian 

 irruption, any monarch who reigned north of the Indus should have 

 put forth such an edict as that of Kapur di Giri, for, as I have before 

 said, the tendencies of the Greek rulers were Mithraic rather than 

 Buddhist. 



That they were issued subsequent to the Scythian irruption is 

 opposed in many ways to their internal evidence, and if previous to 

 Agathocles, as we have seen, they were probably anterior to B. C. 225. 



Indeed every one of the Trans-Indus provinces which could have 

 formed part of the dominion of Agathocles are enumerated by the 

 author of the edict as in his own possession even to Kamboja or Kabul ; 

 and as the author held universal rule from Kabul to Cuttack, he can 

 scarcely have been either Agathocles himself or any subsequent 

 Scythian invader. 



The period between 271 and 225 which I have assigned to the 

 sculptures coincides well also with that deducible as the period of the 

 edicts from the name of the Greek kings mentioned in them. 



The period from B. C. 272 to B. C. 256 alone, in all the range of 

 Greek history, presents the names of five kings of the denominations 

 mentioned, as reigning contemporaneously. They have accordingly 

 been already identified by Prinsep and others as the kings alluded to. 



They are as follows : 



Ascended the throne. Died 



Alexander of Epirus, B. C. 2/2 



Magas of Cyrene, B. C. 305 256 



Ptolemy Philadelphus, 285 246 



Antigonus Gonatas, 276 243 



A f° t c ^r } 282 262 



or 



A ,. T "1 was expelled from 



An i, , , ochus 1 262 Bactria 256 or 



Theos, J 255 _ 



Professor Wilson supposes that Antiochus the Great must be the 



