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650 champions, .a terni nearly equivalent La ‘Satra.p.’ Now oh all the eqins of Sr*Lva1as (or Spalurmes) hitherto found, the initial.letter ha2 been unfortunately cut of but the three.next are i.’tf ... lahdra the seen. as - above, wantrng -only the final geütive inflection: the noit-letteri they be read ‘PiJ pnksa for ‘of the son.’ Putting the whole togetboii we have ‘VuSp’i’h J”.ti (‘h Ba). idharepsilasa dkkaa Bult,rassusa ‘of BALAFARAMA (either for Balaprawii, or whose strength is his armour) the just, the- son of B.LAni.’ ‘J.’her-. fore’ as he -was brother of the cotemporary of Voiowzs, ‘the tls - king’ must also have been a son of the same person: and we should expect lo find another coin of a somewhat similar type struck by .hjni. • -These conditions are satisfactorily combined in the rude square eons of. pAL1a1sOs, depicted in Plate XXI. vol. IV. and Pt. XXXV. ot’i’ol. V. fig, 7. He has the same flowing mantle frees the shoulders, the scepue of royalty, and his native name appears to be PTl’dl’h Baiirisiaasa: thus the father’s native name is Bakiséra; the eldest son’s BaIiriefw, and the second son’s, Balaviznna, and the copper money of the whole - triad is-distinguished for its exceeding rudeness no less than its conies. inability of type! The silver money Of SPAWRMZS and SPALIRESES l not yet )een found, or we might probably find that it maintained the nameof Vonois the Parthian king, or his successor, on the obverse. . The style of these three. flames commencing with Bala,—azsd the - silk. in.pertieular of the first, Bakk4ra,—call to mind the BaThd,dynasty of north-western India, of which the epoch cannot be said to be yet well defined. One of the earliest foreign authorities the historian MAsouni, who wrote in 947 A. D. says :—“ The dynasty of Pheor who was overcome by ALaxawoss (had) lasted 140 years: then ca thet of DAnackaniM, which lasted 120: that of YALI’rn Was next ani lasted 0 years, some say. 130. The next dynasty was that of Couao% It lasted 120 years. Then the Indians divided and formed sever kingdoms; there was a king in the country of Sind; one at Cwsoq..-; liotker in Cashmir; and a fourth in the city of Menkir (Minswgnra 7- called also the great Houza, and the prince who reigned there had IA. tiSl. BALYRA°.”

120 + 80 + 120 = 320 years estimated from ALBXANDER’S time. brings us to B. C. 8, or allowing a few more years to Poiws say 10 or 20 A. U. Now the reign of VouoNas I. as king of Parthia is dated by YILILLANT, from A.. D.6 to A. U. 20, so that the accordance of time is here perfect, and we need seek no other explanation of the paramount Persian sovereign’s name and effigy on one aide, while the oth&a destly bore that of his tributary, because we have witnessed the sa WIL,oaD’s Essay, Asiatic Researches, IX. 181.