9. Vasudeva. AV. Wt. 122·3 grs.
Obv., similar to No. 4, but king wears suit of chain-mail; also
name _Bazodēo_ in legend.
Rev., many-headed Śiva, standing in front of bull, trident in
left hand; symbol to right, to left _Oesho_.
10. Later Great Kushāṇa. AV. Wt. 121·4 grs.
Obv., as No. 4, but corrupt legend, Nāgarī letters, to left
“ha,” to right “vi.”
Rev., goddess seated on throne facing, holding noose in right,
cornucopiae in left hand; left, above symbol, below Nāgarī
“la”; to right _Ardokhsho_.
11. Yaudheya. Æ.
Obv., soldier standing, holding spear in right hand. In Brāhmī,
_Yaudheyagaṇasya iaya dvi_....
“Of the clan of Yaudheyas (?)”
Rev., standing figure, symbol on either side.
[20] Four different Kharoshṭhī forms appear on coins—Kasa, Kaphsa,
Kadapha and Kaü. It is uncertain how many persons they denote.
[21] Maheśvara (Mahesh) is a name of Śiva.
III. COINS OF THE WESTERN SATRAPS AND OTHER IMITATORS OF THE GREEK
MODELS
The coinage of the Indo-Greek kings made a deep impression upon their
successors and neighbours, just as the coinage of Bactria had impressed
the conquering Śakas, who copied it extensively in that country.
The crude coins of Miaos (or Heraos) and of Sapeleizes, two very
obscure rulers, are evidently modelled on the issues of Heliokles and
Eukratides. Śaka princes, like Maues, as we have seen, while adopting
many Greek features, employed a characteristic coinage of their own. On
the other hand, we find Rājuvula, one of the Śaka satraps who replaced
the Hindu kings of Mathurā in the first century A.D., slavishly copying
the billon hemidrachms of Strato II (Pl. I, 8). Nahapāna, a great
Śaka conqueror who founded a kingdom in the Western Ghats at about
the same period, also reproduced the Greek hemidrachm (Pl. II, 11),
as did the Andhra king, Śrī Yajña Gotamīputra (Pl. III, 1). Another
Śaka chieftain, Chashṭana, about A.D. 115, founded a kingdom in Mālwā,
striking hemidrachms like those of Nahapāna on the Greek model, and
resembling most nearly the coins of Apollodotos. The coins of both
these princes preserve the remains of Greek characters on the obverse,
and on the reverse are inscriptions in both Nāgarī[22] and Kharoshṭhī,
but after the death of Chashṭana the Kharoshṭhī inscription disappears.
His successors, known as the Western Satraps, extended his dominions
by conquests from the Andhras until they embraced all the flourishing
ports on the west coast with their valuable sea-borne trade. Their
hemidrachms are found in great abundance throughout Western India:
on the reverse of all appears the Buddhist _chaitya_ copied from the
Andhra coinage; the portraits on the obverse are distinctly Scythian in
appearance. These coins are of special historical importance; for in
the reign of the fifth satrap, Jīvadāman, dates in the so-called Śaka
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