206 A. Cunningham— On Gold Coins from the Akin Posh Tope. [Ana. 
Wilson’s readings had been forestalled sixteen years ago, and that his pro¬ 
posed reading of 8'agdaloga-iswara, or “ sovereign of the Sogdians,” is 
quite untenable. In our readings Mr. Dowson and myself agree in all the 
titles, and more especially in that of Sarvalokiswara ; and I pointed out 
that the compound letter, which Dr. Hoernle now reads as gd was to be 
found in such words as puna and acharya as well as in Sana ; and that 
a similar compound, rt is found in the name of Artamisiyasa. My reading 
of the inscription on the coins of Wema Kadjshises, was as follows : 
Mahardjasa rdjatirdjasa Sarvalolcisurasa Mahisurasa Sima Kadphisasa 
tradata, 
and I especially noted that the two long titles were certainly intended for 
Sanalolceswara and Maheswara. The only change that I would now make 
in this reading is in the name of the king, which I think may be read as 
Kathphisa, the cross over the lower limb of the ph being probably intend¬ 
ed for the cerebral th. 
Mr. Dowson has altogether omitted the letters immediately preceding 
the name of Kadphises. I have read them as Sima or Vima, and have 
identified this name long ago with the Greek OOHMO. But I have done 
more than this, I have also suggested that Wema is the true name, and that 
Kathphisa is only a title ; and further that Wema may he identified with 
the great king Wen, from whom no less than ten royal families in Sogdiana 
and Bactriana claimed descent so late as A. D. 600. We know also that 
Yen and Wen are interchangeable pronunciations ; from which I conclude 
that Wcmo Kadphises, or Wema Kathphisa, is identical with the great 
Yue-ti Prince Yen-Kaocliing, to whom the Chinese refer the conquest of 
India. 
The inscription on the Greek side of these coins is invariably the same : 
BACIAEYC OOHMO KAA<f>ICHC. Dr. Hoernle thinks that the objects 
placed immediately under the bust are letters, and he reads them as MirAC. 
But in this view he is certainly mistaken, as I have examined numbers of 
these coins, and have now lying before me two large double stater pieces, on 
which there is no trace of any letters. I have always taken these shapeless 
objects to represent clouds, above which is seen the bust of the king. 
The figure on the reverse of these coins is certainly Siva himself, and 
not the arddhanariswara figure, half male and half female. In all the 
androgyne figures of Siva and Parvati that I have seen there is a marked 
line of difference between the two halves of the figure in the dress. But 
on these coins we have Siva alone, clad in a dhoti, and holding a trident in 
his right hand, and his water-pot in his left, with the panther’s skin thrown 
over his left arm. 
