[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Greeks in Bactria and India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938) › c28.31 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c28.31 The Greeks in Bactria and India c28.31 - **Language:** English ### [c28.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c28.31) I must however first notice the name Moga of the inscription, generally supposed (as I believe myself) to be the king of the abundant coinage³ whose name is given in Greek as Maues and in Kharoshthi as Moa, though doubts have occasionally been expressed.⁴ I take it that the full form of the name sounded as Mauakes⁵ to Greek ears, just as it sounded to Chinese ears as Mu-ku’a;⁶ this would easily represent Moga. But I do not see how to equate Moga with Moa; there must therefore have been two forms of the name in Saca, a long and a short one. Greek writers record such double name-forms from other languages, \*e.g.\* Kynna-Kynane, daughter of Philip II and an Illyrian mother (? from Illyrian); Sabba-Sambethe, the ‘Chaldean Sibyl’ (presumably Anatolian); and Phraates-Phraatakes (from Parthian Pahlavi), an exact parallel in another North-Iranian tongue to Maues-Mauakes. Indeed there might be a parallel from Saca itself, if it be correct that Azes-Azilises are only short and long forms of the same name,⁷ and if the language be Saca. - [Previous: c28.30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c28.30) - [Next: c28.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c28.32) - [Up: c28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c28) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c28.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c28.31) · Pramāṇa