[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) › c29.14 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c29.14 The Greeks in Bactria and India c29.14 - **Language:** English ### [c29.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c29.14) This view of the coins, which seems to me inevitable, supports and is supported by a theory which has been put forward about Kadphises I. The name is spelt, in Kharoshthi, Kaphasa or Kapasa on coins of his found at Taxila,¹ and Lévi interpreted the name Kadphises to mean ‘the Kapisa man’,² which, as Konow has pointed out, might mean that his people considered that he had a title to the throne of Kapisa.³ As we have seen, he himself did claim such a title through his relationship to Hermaeus. - [Previous: c29.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c29.13) - [Next: c29.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c29.15) - [Up: c29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c29) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c29.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c29.14) · Pramāṇa