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³ Antialkidas is mentioned in an inscription, which may be dated between 140 and 130 B. C., found at Besnagar near Bhilsā in Central India. The inscription was incised by direction of one Heliodorus of Taxila who was sent as an envoy to the ruler of Besnagar by Antialkidas, who ruled at Taxila. The inscription is valuable as fixing an early date for the *bhakti* cult of Vāsudeva, and as proving that people with Greek names and in the service of Greek kings had adopted the cult of Hindu gods (*Prog. Rep. A. S. W. Circle*, 1914–15, p. 59; *Ann. Rep. A. S. I.*, 1908–9 and 1913–14).