The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c30.s3.26

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The type ‘Pilei’ is continued by Archebius (Pl. VIII, 44) after whose reign it is no longer found on any coins issued by a Yavana king. It next appears on the small silver coins which the Çaka satrap, Liaka Kusūlaka, struck in imitation of those of Eucratides with the same type (Pl. VIII, 42, 41). The evidence of coins thus shows that after the reign of Archebius the region of Takshaçilā passed from the Yavanas to the Çakas; and the evidence of the Takshaçilā copper plate indicates that Takshaçilā was conquered by the first Çaka king, Maues, who was reigning there in the year 78 of an unspecified era, a date which, until the era can be determined, may be regarded provisionally as the equivalent of about 72 B.C.¹