The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c30.s3.24

v1.c30.s3.24

That Antialcidas succeeded Eucratides also in the kingdom of Kāpiça appears from his coins with the type of the city divinity of Kāpiçī with which Eucratides restruck the coins of Apollodotus (*Summary*, p. 591). Some connexion between Antialcidas and Heliocles is indicated by their common use of the types ‘Bust of king : Elephant,’ with which Heliocles restruck the coins of Agathocleia and Strato (*Summary*, p. 590). Heliocles was no doubt the elder, for no Bactrian coinage of Antialcidas is known; but, even if these two kings were father and son, their reigns in India may have been to some extent contemporary. The dominions of the house of Eucratides included a number of kingdoms, of which some, as, for instance, Kāpiça, Pushkalāvatī, and Takshaçilā, can be identified by the types of their coins; and its seems probable that the government of some of these kingdoms was entrusted to the heir apparent and other members of the royal family. It is possible, therefore, that some of the princes whose coins we possess may have been ruling at the same time in different provinces.