Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c19.3

c19.3

§ 18. Euthydemus and Demetrius. — It was during the reign of *Euthydemus* (**Plate I, 18**), and, perhaps, under the leadership of his son Demetrius, that the first Indian conquests were made (GARD. p. XXII). As evidence of this early settlement in India, there exists a coin of *Demetrius* which is, perhaps, the first to show the result of a compromise between the Greek and Indian methods of coinage (**Plate I, 10**). The regular types of the Greek system are retained, but the coin is of the square Indian form, and, on the reverse, is added an Indian translation in Kharoṣṭhī characters of the Greek legend on the obverse.