ABDAGASES

155

Metal
No.

JB

70

71

Obverse

As on No. 67.

W. 104.
8. -85.

Reverse

As on No. 66.

-----foarahagaiasa maha

PL XV.

W. 91. -----Jiagata-----"

S. .8. y

Unrepresented types:

(i) As type (a), but title of king's nephew in Greek.

S. Jf. Cart., PL XXIII. 8.
(ii) As type (7), but bust to 1.
Cunningham, PI. XI. 4.

ORTHAGNES

(a) Type: lust of king and Nike, with names of Gondophares
and of Quda (Gad) *; copper, round

BACIA€YC BAG A.....

NHC
Bust of king to L, diademed.

Winged Nike to r. with palm
and wreath.

Kb. legend---------Gfudwpha-

rasagudana maharajasa-----

W. 124. To r. Kb. go.

S.-9. ToLKh.ja. PL XVI.

1 Oil p. 121 of his Coins of the Sakas Cunningham remarked that * as the name of Orthagnes
Is written in Arian characters as Gurdana or Gadanaf beginning with the letter G, it seems
not improbable that he is the king's brother mentioned in the Legend of St. Thomas under
the name of Gad *.

Corresponding to the Greek coin legend BAC!A€YC BAClA€(l)N M€TAC
OP6AFNHC, there is the Kharosthi Inscription Maharajasa rajatirajasa Gudupharasagudana.
The last word must signify some connexion with Gondophares, but Cunningham's alternative
suggestion of Gudupharasagarbha, i brother of Gondophares *, cannot be read on the coins. If
Guda is a name corresponding to the traditional Gad—Syriac and Latin, Gad; Greek, FaS—
then the word under discussion ought to mean * of Gondophares and of GadJ. But one word
is in the genitive singular, and the other is in the genitive plural. On the other hand the
word Gudatia may be an epithet, or monetary denomination, or again it may, as suggested by
I>r. J. F. Fleet, give us the name of the tribe of Gondophares. I am Inclined to think it Is a
name. Cunningham published one specimen of the currency of Orthagnes where the name of
Gondophares was absent from the Kharosthi legend, and its place was taken by the name-
word Gudranasa (?)—see Coins of the Salcas, p. 163, No. 13. This piece is identical with B. M. Cat.,
p. 109, No. 7. Another specimen Is No. 75 in this Collection. Neither piece Is In good
condition. I read the Kharosthi inscription as - - - - mahatasa Gudranasa. There can be no
doubt that this coin, apparently still unique, is quite different from the usual type of
Orthagnes. Seven legible specimens of the latter which I have examined, give the following
variants of the last part of the word Gudupharasagudana—Gudana, Guda, Guda, Gudanasa.
But as far as I have seen, the first part remains invariable as Gudupbarasa.

An intaglio recently acquired from the North-West Frontier Province, India, bears the
Kharosthi word Gadasa, which name may also occur on a pedestal excavated at Palatui Dheri,
Charsada, N.W. Frontier Province—see the Annual Report of the Archaeological Survey of India
for 1902-3.