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POLITICAL HISTORY OF PARTHIA

Maues,[1] offers no solution, since it hinges on the doubtful interpretation of a much discussed word in the Taxila copper-plate inscription of the satrap Patika[2] and on the uncertain dating of an era. Probably Maues should be identified with the Great King Moga of the inscription, which is dated in the year 78 of some unspecified era. The month name is Parthian. Since 169 b.c. is out of the question, this cannot be the Arsacid era, which began in 247 b.c.; even if the 78 stands for 178, the date would be 69 b.c.[3] Rapson suggested that the era may possibly mark the capture of Seistan by Mithradates I;[4] but a date

  1. ↑ V. A. Smith, Early Hist. of India (4th ed.), pp. 241 f, because of his acceptance of an Indian invasion by Mithradates I, dates Maues about 95 b.c. Rapson in CHI, I, 570, places the invasion between 88 and 72 b.c. Cf. Louis de la Vallée-Poussin, L'Inde aux temps des Mauryas (Paris, 1930), pp. 262 ff. On the Indo-Scythians see Alexander Cunningham, "Later Indo-Scythians," Num. Chron., 3d ser., XIII (1893), 93–128 and 166–202; Sylvain Lévi, "Notes sur les Indo-Scythes," JA, 9. sér., VIII (1896), 444–84, and IX (1897), 5–42 (tr. into English in Indian Antiquary, XXXII [1903], 381–89 and 417–26, and XXXIII [1904], 10–16); V. A> Smith, "The Kus̲h̲ân, or Indo-Scythian, Period of Indian History," JRAS, 1903, pp. 1–64, and "Indo-Parthian Dynasties," ZDMG, LX (1906), 49–72; J. F. Fleet, "Moga, Maues, and Vonones," JRAS, 1907, pp. 1013–40; R. D. Banerji, "The Scythian Period of Indian History," Indian Antiquary, XXXVII (1908), 25–75; Sten Konow, "Indoskythische Beiträge," SPAW, 1916, pp. 787–827.
  2. ↑ G. Bühler, "Taxila Plate of Patika," in Epigraphia Indica, IV (1896/97), No. 5, pp. 54–57; Rapson in CHI, I, 570. For a good general discussion see L. de la Vallée-Poussin, op. cit., pp. 272 f.
  3. ↑ Edward Thomas, "Bactrian Coins and Indian Dates," Academy, Dec. 26, 1874, pp. 686 f.; Archaeological Survey of Southwest India, II (1878), 31 (not available).
  4. ↑ Rapson in CHI, I, 570; cf. pp. 19 f.
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