A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c16.s4.14

c16.s4.14

From the point of view of the historian of art the most interesting of the four inscriptions is that which records the Greek name of Kanishka's ‘Superintending Engineer’. The words are:—‘The servant, Agiśala (Agesilaos), the overseer of works at Kanishka's *vihāra*, in the monastery (*sanghārāma*) of Mahāsena’. Indian inscriptions, apart from coin legends, present only two other Greek names. Kanishka's coin legends are in Greek characters, a fact which indicates that Greek was well known at his court.