Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c18.12

c18.12

§ 13. Parthian influence. — Parthian characteristics, due no doubt to the contact between Parthians and Śakas in Bactria, are found in the Saka coinages of India, the earliest of which — those of Maues — belong to the latter half of the 2nd cent. b.c. (v. inf. § 29). The dynasty of Vonones, which seems to have exercised a sort of suzerainty over the successors of Maues in the 1st cent. b.c., is very probably Parthian in origin (v. inf. § 30). The later dynasty of Gondophares in the 1st cent. a.d. is certainly Parthian (v. inf. § 61).