Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c20.22

c20.22

*Miaus* or *Heraus* (**Plate II, 1**), the former reading of the name being that which was finally adopted by C. (NChr. 1888, p. 47). Formerly the Śaka nationality of this ruler was accepted, and a portion of the legend on his tetradrachms was read ΣΑΚΑ ΚΟΙΡΑΝΟΥ, 'prince of the Śakas' (GARD. p. xlvii). OLDENBERG read ΣΑΚΑ-ΚΟΡΡΑΝΟΥ, 'the Śaka-Kuṣaṇa', regarding the Kuṣaṇas as a *family* of the Śakas (cp. the title of Kaniṣka, *Guṣanavaṁśa-saṁvarddhaka*), and the Śakas and Yueh-ti as either the same people, or the Śakas as one of the tribes of the Yueh-ti (ZfN. 1881, p. 295 = Ind. Ant. 1881, p. 215). Thomas read the first part of the legend as ΣΑΝΑΒ or ΣΑΝΑΣ, and regarded the first three letters as an abbreviation of the word *saṁvatsara*, the fourth as the Greek numeral = 1, and the last as, perhaps, denoting some particular mint (JRAS. 1883, p. 75). C. read ΣΑΝΑΒ or ΣΑΝΑΟΒ, and ΚΟΡΡΑΝΟΥ or ΚΟΡΣΑΝΟΥ, comparing the legend of the oboli, which is distinctly ΜΙΑΟΥ ΚΟΡΣΑΝΟΥ, and translated 'the Kuṣaṇa prince', supposing the first word to be the equivalent of a Scythic royal title *Tsanyu* or *Chanyu* = the title *devaputra* used by the Kuṣaṇas in their inscriptions (NChr. 1888, p. 47; 1890, p. 155). He also suggested that this Miaus may be the adventurer *Yin-mo-fu*, to whom the Chinese attribute the conquest of Kipin in B.C. 49 (RÉMUSAT, Nouv. Mélanges Asiat. I, p. 207; C. NChr. 1888, p. 51). The silver coins, tetradrachms and obols, bear legends in Gk. only. It is doubtful whether the attribution of a bilingual (Greek and Kharoṣṭhī) copper coin to Miaus (C. NChr. 1888, Pl. III, 13) can be supported. If so, its evidence would prove that Miaus ruled territory to the *south* of the Hindu Kush. This view is strengthened by the fact that all the obols were found in W. Afghanistan (C. op. cit. p. 50. For the opposite view, v. GARD. p. XLVIII and inf. § 36).