690 Coins of Indian Buddhist Satraps. [No. 7. 



Obverse. Diademed bust of the king in bold but rude style. 

 Greek legend in late characters, incomplete on all. 



BACIAEI BACIAECC CCTHPoC PAZ 

 which may be corrected and completed thus : 



BA2IAED2 BA2IAEQN 2QTHP02 VAZto/SaXov. 



Reverse. Eude figure of Minerva Promachos. In the field two 

 letters forming Aga. Ariano Pali legend quite perfect. 

 Chatrapasa apratihatachahrasa Mdjabdlasa. 



" (Coin) of the Satrap Rajabala, invincible with the discus."* 



Fig. 6. One of four billon hemidrachmas in my own possession, 

 weighing 36 grains. These specimens differ from fig. 5 chiefly in 

 being of ruder execution : but one of them has the Greek name 

 extended to PAZIOBA ; and all of them have the native title short- 

 ened to Apratichahrasa, which has exactly the same meaning as the 

 other. In the field of the reverse are the letters Hasti which I 

 refer to Hastinapura, the old lunar capital on the Ganges. 



Fig. 7. — This is one of several billon specimens in my own pos- 

 session, weighing 36 grains. The head is of still ruder workman- 

 ship and is quite flat at top. The native legend and monogram are 

 the same ; but the Greek legend differs entirely. Prom a com- 

 parison of eleven specimens it appears to be 



ASIA or 2YIA nOH2 IYIPO PI2IO 2TPATIY2 

 from which I make out conjecturally, 



BASlAews SOTHPos Pl2lO/3aAov 2TPATON02. 



This connection of the names of the Hindu princes Kajabal, " the 

 invincible with the discus," and of the Greek king Strato, might 

 justly have been disputed if these corrupt legends had been the 



* In Hindu mythology the discus, or quoit, is the favorite weapon of Vishnu ; 

 hut it is now used only by the ATcdlis, or Sikh fanatics of the Punjab. Philos- 

 tratus, Life of Apollonius, c. 27, relates that the king of Taxila in A. D. 45, 

 " sometimes exercised himself with the disc and Javelin, after the Greek fashion.'' 

 In ancient times it would seem to have been in common use amongst the Greeks, 

 as Homer relates that while Achilles sulked in his tent, 



On ocean's shore his soldiers hurled the quoit, 



Or twanged the bow, or sped the quivering lance. 



■ ■■ Kaol 5e irapa prjy/xlvi 8a\da<rr]s 



MffKOHTiv T€pirovro Koi alyaverjaiv Uures, 



r6^oiaiue y ' Iliad. II. 773. 



