The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c30.s2.38

v1.c30.s2.38

The lifetime of Strato witnessed not only the decline in the eastern Punjab of the royal house to which he belonged, but also the downfall of Yavana rule in Northern India; for in his reign there came still another great foreign invasion which led to the supremacy of the Çakas and Pahlavas. The debased art of his latest coins and of those in which he is associated with his grandson seems to show that the house of Euthydemus had fallen on evil days; and other coins clearly suggest the manner in which it came to an end. The familiar type of the house of Euthydemus, ‘Athene Promachos,’ continues to appear on coins; but the strikers no longer bear Greek names. Their names are either Indian like Bhadrayaçasa, or Çaka like Rañjubula (*Summary*, p. 589 and Pl. VII, 24). The former is otherwise unknown: the latter was the satrap of Mathurā c. 50 B.C.¹ It appears most probable that the kingdoms held in the eastern Punjab by the last successors of Euthydemus were conquered not by the first Çaka king, Maues, but by his successor, Azes I (58 B.C.), who was either contemporary with, or later in date than, Apollodotus II and Hippostratus whose coins he restruck².