The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s2.195

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c10.s2.195

² *CHI* p. 557. Certainly the humped bull had long been a wide-spread emblem, and appears on the autonomous coins of several Indian cities, including Ujjain (see Rapson’s list in Rhys Davids’ *Buddhist India* pp. 321-2, and *BMC India* pp. cxliv, 258-60) and occasionally Taxila (*ASI* 1914-15 p. 28 no. 2; *BMC India* p. 235), but the imitation of Apollodotus’ ‘humped bull and elephant’ type by Heliocles (p. 271 n. 2) shows that only Pushkalāvatī can be meant. See p. 135 n. 5.

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