The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c30.s3.4
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c30.s3.4
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But these restruck coins not only show that the two monarchs represent the two rival houses: they also give the name of the kingdom which had been lost and won. The reverse type is ‘Zeus enthroned,’ and it is accompanied by two symbols, a mountain and the head of an elephant; and the Kharoshṭhī legend describes the type as ‘the divinity of the city of Kāpiçī’ (Pl. VII, 36).