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² I know only two inscriptions which may mention Bactrians. (1) *CII* no. XXVII pp. 70, 77 (Kushan period) = *ASI* 1913-14, i, p. 13, Urasaka son of Lotafria (or whatever the name is) the Bāhlika (Bactrian). His ancestor might have come with the Kushans, or with the Greeks, or he might just have been a Bhalla (p. 169). (2) *CII* no. XXIV p. 65 (c. 42 B.C., see p. 391 n. 2), Datiaputrena Thaidorena (Theodoros), which Bühler (*Ind. Ant.* 1896 p. 141) and Senart (*JA* 1899 p. 531) translated ‘son of Dati’, the Iranian name Datis (and therefore a Bactrian). But F. W. Thomas in *Festschrift Ernst Windisch* p. 364 gives it as ‘son of Datia’, while Konow in *CII ad loc.* says there is no certainty that Datia is a personal name.