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¹ For the inscription, which was discovered in the Chir stūpa, see Marshall, *J.R.A.S.*, 1914, pp. 973 ff.; Konow, *Ep. Ind.*, xiv, pp. 284 ff., for the coins of V'ima (Ooemo) Kadphises, Gardner, *B.M. Cat., Gk. and Scyth. Kings*, pp. 124–8, Pl. xxv. Sir John Marshall (*loc. cit.*) prefers to identify the king of the inscription with the first Kushāṇa, Kujūla Kadphises, on the assumption that both the titles and the symbol occur also on his coins. But the coins to which he refers bear the name not of Kujūla Kadphises, but of Kujūla Kara Kadphises, who was probably another member of the dynasty; see Rapson, *Indian Coins*, § 68. Kujūla Kara Kadphises seems to have succeeded the satrap Zeionises in the kingdom of Pushkalāvatī (*Summary*, p. 588), and he may have been contemporary with V'ima Kadphises. The royal title, 'Son of the Gods' (*devaputra*), was no doubt brought by the Yueh-chi from their home on the borders of China. It is the usual designation of a king in the Kharoshṭhī inscriptions discovered by Sir A. M. Stein in Chinese Turkestān, see Boyer, Rapson, and Senart, *Kharoṣṭhī Inscriptions*, Part I (Oxford, 1920), p. 76, no. 195. These inscriptions, which belong to the third century a.d., preserve other traces of Kushāṇa rule, e.g. in the proper name, *Kuṣanasena* (*ibid.* p. 2, no. 5).