Buddhist inscribed rock is an archaeological site located at Shahdaur in Mansehra District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Shahdaur Rock Inscription (A) of Mornijada– Saka year 60 Provanance Shahdaur (Shodaur of the maps), Mansehra tehsil, Hazara district, Pakistan Script: Kharoshthi This place of boulder, 13x 16′ Overlooking a small spring is firmly buried in the soil. It …
Mathura Lion-Capital Inscriptions of the time of Rajuvula (1-15 A D.) and Sodasa (10-25 A D) Provenance: Mathura, U.P Script: Kharoshthi Ianguage: Prakrit References: Bhagwanlal Indraji, J.R.A.S., N.S., XXVI, pp.542-44, F.W. Thomas, Ep.Ind. IX, pp. 141 ff. Stan Konow, C.I.I. II, Pt. I. p.48, No. XV, Plates VI to IX, D-C. Sircar, Sel.Inss, I. pp.114 …
#IndoGreekkings #Artemedorus & #Peucolaos Artemidoros was a king who ruled in the area of #Gandhara and #Pushkalavati in modern northern Pakistan and Afghanistan. Artemedorus ruled in #Pushkalavatl and the adjacent town of £Nikaea. This is indicated by the appearance on his coins of “bull and “panther’ of Pushkalavati and of Nike. He used the #monogram …
The Arya Mahameghavahana Chedis of Kalinga The Arya Mahameghavahana – Chedis of Kalinga Hathigumpha Cave Inscription of Kharavala. Provenance: Udayagiri Hills near Bhubaneshvar, Puri district, Orissa. Partly in front and partly on the roof of the Hathigumpha cave. Script : Brahmi of the period from the beginning of Second century B.C. to the end of …
ANTIALKIDAS. King of Kapisa and Gandhara. -135 to 95 B.C. AR. Attic tetradrachm. Qundus hoard, Kabul Museum. References: J.N.S.I., XVII, 1955, Pt. I, pl.VI.6, M.V.D. Mohan, Indo Greek Coins. p. 196, pl. VI, 5. Obv: Within bead-and-reel border, draped and helmeted bust of antialkidas, diad, one end floating and the other stiffly suspended. Rev: Zeus …
Eukratides II. EUKRATIDES II. Sub-king under Heliocles. AR. Attic tatradrachm.. B.M. References: E.J. Rapson, C.H.I., Pl. IV-9 M.V.D. Mohan, Indo Greek Coins, p.195, Pl.VI, 4. Obv: within bead-and-reel border, draped bust of Eukratides II r. diad. both ends stiffly suspended. Rev: Apollo standing to front, face inclined 1., looking along arrow held in r. hand, …
Heliocles was a Greco-Bactrian king, and successor of Eucratides the Great, and considered the last Greek king to reign over the Bactrian country. He was a king of the Indo-Greek dynasty which ruled Bactria & mostly the parts of the modern state of Pakistan. Eukratides, who rose in £revolt and drove the Demetrian family out …
#Eucratides 1, was an important #Greco-Bactrian kings. He had overthrown the #Euthydemid dynasty of Bactria and restored the Diodotid dynasty of Diodotus I, and had allied to the Parthian Empire. Eucratides fought against the easternmost #Hellenistic and #Indian rulers in India, holding territory in the indus and as far as #Barigaza until he was finally defeated by …