Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c23.7

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usual genitive in the Greek inscriptions, by the use of the title σωτήρ μέγας, and by the similarity in form between certain letters both in the Greek and Kharoṣṭhī inscrr. (C. NChr. 1892, p. 71). Moreover, the Nameless King uses a symbol of the kind which is characteristic of Hima Kadphises and his successors; and, on a unique coin, published by C. (NChr. 1892, Pl. V, 14) there occurs a bust with two faces, and, in front of the faces, the symbols respectively of the Nameless King and Hima Kadphises (C. NChr. 1892, p. 71). It cannot be doubted that these two were nearly related in point of time; whether they were also connected as members of the same dynasty is not so certain. C. places the Nameless King among the Sakas (NChr. 1890, p. 114), but also suggests that these coins without a name may have been issued by the satraps of one of the early Kuṣana kings, perhaps of Hima Kadphises himself. VON GUTSCHMID (Gesch. Ir. p. 136), recognising the numismatic break which occurs between Kozola Kadaphes and the later Hima Kadphises, places the Nameless King in the interval, and regards him as an Indian prince — the Āgniveśya prince, who, according to the Gārgī Saṃhitā (KERN, Bṛhat-Saṃhitā 39) ruled over India for 20 years between two Saka dynasties. C., too, saw the feasibility of some such view and suggested that the Kharoṣṭhī *Vi*, which occurs on many of these coins (e. g. C. NChr. 1890, Pl. XII, 4) might be an abbreviation of *Vikramāditya* (l. c. p. 115). It must be pointed out, however, that, if any such identification of the Nameless King with Vikramāditya is possible, the Vikrama era, which begins with 57 B.C., must, if our chronology of this period is correct, be supposed to date from his birth.