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200-25 B. C. , are Greek Zeus, Athene, Apollo, Herakles, the Dioscuri and other types, are with a few exceptions drawn exclusively from Greek mythology. Historically and geographically important are the represen- tations in Greek fashion of the tutelary divinities (Sanskrit, Nagaradevatah) of two Indian cities of Kapisa, the capital of the kingdom Kapisa-Gandhara, on a coin of Eukratides, and of Pushkalavati, the Peukelaotis of Alexander's historians, on a coin of both uncertain date and attrib...ution (vide Rapson, J. R. A. S. , 1905, pp. 783, 786). Distinctively Indian religious types seem to occur on the coins struck by two of the Greek princes "the tree within a railing" and the "chaitya" on certain coins of Agathocles and the "Wheel" which has been reasonably identified with "the wheel of the Law" 135 HELLENISM TN ANCIENT INDIA (Dharma-chakra) of Buddhism, on one of the numerous currencies of Menander (see Gardner, B. M. Catalogue, Plate, xii, 7; Rawlinson, Bactria, p. 121). If this identi- fication is correct, it must be supposed that the coinage in question was struck in some district of Menander's Empire in which Buddhism prevailed ; but there is also some reason to suppose that Menander was himself a Buddhist and identical with King Milinda of the Buddhist apologetic work, Milindapafiha (Dr.
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