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and on the male side ?—Unm (atti Yarmma). 
Another good specimen of the square Satrap Horseman and Lion 
type has come to hand. I make out the legends as follows. 
H 
APTAYOY XAPATIwSTElSATPAIIEI 
APTAou YIOY XAPAAofSTHS SATPAIIHS 
JSLegadastes is a known Persian name. The native legend I read 
as follows. 
Attasa-putrasa Tsatrapasa Karada ostasa. 
The father’s name is somewhat doubtful. Perhaps Artas, or Arta- 
vas reading APTAYOY as the genitive, and omitting YIOY — which 
is not absolutely necessary — artabas occurs in Ivtesias. Have you 
any specimens with you to clear up this reading ? 
I have a new relative of Gondopliares, but unfortunately the name 
is incomplete and very much rubbed BA sileus basileon. It is not 
Orthagnes, as the head is quite different. The end of the name may 
be ATHC or APHC. The native legend is in tolerable order, but 
quite unintelligible. Beginning from the two streamers of Victory’s 
wreath it is 
Maha.disa-sa hidasa tradinasa janatinuja 
? Sahina Satadinasa janadinuja ra ? 
It is possibly a coin of Gondopliares himself. 
I still continue to puzzle over the dates of the Mathura inscrip¬ 
tions, as well as over those of the Manikyala and Kabul Topes. The 
dates of the Mathura inscriptions ought to he in the era of the Nir¬ 
vana of Buddha—those of the Manikyfda and Kabul Topes may be 
either in the era of the Nirvana of Buddha, or in that of the Seleu- 
cidse, or in some local Bactrian or Indo-Scythian era. The Parthians 
certainly established an era, but they as certainly made use of the 
Seleucidan era on their coins. The last idea that has struck me is 
that some one or more of the characters may be mere indices or 
exponents—as was the case in Europe, and also in Western India. 
Thus in Europe 1862 would have been written J862 where the let- 
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ters below show that the figures above represent thousands, hundreds, 
tens and units. In the Western Cave inscriptions the hundreds and 
thousands are written with indices — thus S3 f( l = hundreds 3 — and 
