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known types. One of the two is too badly preserved, to deserve figur¬ 
ing ; very possibly its legend, after all, may be the ordinary one. But 
the legend of the other is too distinct to be mistaken; and, therefore, 
I now publish a facsimile of it, on Plate VI, No. 6. The word apratihatasa 
is quite distinctly legible on the right-hand side of the margin, where, 
in the case of the ordinary legend, the words hima-kapigasa come in. 
The Kharosthi letters of these two sets of words could not be mistaken 
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for one another. 
The full legend appears to have run as follows :— 
[Ma] ha(rai)\Ja rojadliiraja] (sa tradata)sa apra(tihatasa ). 
The aksaras, enclosed within angular brackets, are lost; those 
Within round brackets are more or less distinct ; the rest are quite clear. 
The legend commences just to the right of f iva’s head, though ma 
is lost. The ha of maharaja stands exactly over piva’s head. The tra of 
tradatasa stands under fiva’s proper right foot. The heads of some 
of the letters are worn away, thus rendering them, at first, doubtful; 
this is the case with data of tradatasa , and ti and ta of apratihatasa. 
As the head of ti is lost, the letter might have been di. The vowel- 
stroke of this letter has a rather unusual position, as it runs across the 
perpendicular stroke of the consonant t (or d) instead of through to its 
horizontal top-stroke. Moreover the horizontal bottom-stroke of ha 
touches the foot of the letter ti (or di). 
This is the first and, as yet, only coin of Kadphises II, on which 
the epithet apratihata occurs. It occurs, however, on the coins of 
Gondophares and Banjabala who must have been nearly contemporary 
with Kadphises II. It also occurs, in the form apadihata , on the earlier 
coins of Lysias, Artemidorus and Philoxenus, 
The obverse is altogether the usual, wherefore it has not been 
figured. The legend is almost entirely obliterated ; only a trace of 
MErACO ( i.e ., pc yas ooppo) is just recognizable near the proper right 
foot of the figure of Kadphises in its usual place. 
VI. Indo-Bactrian Coins (Abdagases). 
I take this opportunity of publishing facsimiles of the two Abda¬ 
gases coins, which have been noticed by me in the Proceedings for May 
1895. See Plate VI, Nos. 7 and 8. The reverses only have been figured; 
the obverses do not differ from the usual type. As stated in the 
Proceedings , these two copper coins were obtained from the Gaya bazar 
with a number of others which offered nothing of interest. 
The singularity of these two coins is that they are the first instance, 
and the only one, hitherto discovered, of the Kharosthi script,/running 
from the left to the right. 
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