The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s3.129

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² C. Seltman, *Greek Coins* 1933 p. 235, says that βασιλέως μεγάλου on Eucratides’ coins is only a translation of *Maharajasa*, which cannot be right; when the two legends corresponded, the Kharoshthi translated the Greek, not *vice versa*, and *Maharajasa* had already been used before Eucratides to translate βασιλέως alone on Demetrius’ bilingual coins, both tetradrachm and bronze pieces; this became its regular use throughout the Greek period. On Saca and Kushan coins, however, a vassal or viceroy might call himself ‘Great King’; so Spalirises (p. 346) and the Nameless king (p. 354).