Note on the Historical Results Deducible from Recent Discoveries in AfghanistanW. H. Allen and Company, 1844 - 124 Seiten |
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Note on the Historical Results Deducible from Recent Discoveries in Afghanistan Henry Thoby Prinsep Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2011 |
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Afghanistan Agathocles Alexander amongst ancient Antimachus Antiochus Arachotia Aria Arian Arian characters Arian inscription Arian legend Armenia Arsaces Arsacidan Artabanus Asiani Asiatic Society Asoka assigned Azilises Bactria Bardanes brother Bulkh Cæsar coinage conquest copper cotemporary Cunningham death decyphered Demetrius device discovery dominion dynasty epithets Eucratides Euthydemus Gotarzes Grecian Greek Greek coins head Heliocles Herât Hercules Hermæus Hindoo Koosh Hyrcania India Indus James Prinsep Jaxartes Jour Vol Justin Kâbool valley Kadphises Kanerki Khan king Azes king of kings language letters Maharajasa Mahatasa Manikyala Maues Menander Mithridates obverse Oxus Pakores Paropamisus Parthian Parthian king period Phrahates Plate VIII Plate XV Professor Lassen Professor Wilson Punjâb pure Greek race regions reign relics reverse Sanscrit Scythian Seleucus Soghdiana Soter Megas sovereign sovereignty Strabo successor supposed Syrian Theodotus tion Tochari topes tribes Undopherres Ventura Vologeses Vonones ΑΝΙΚΗΤΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΕΡΜΑΙΟΥ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ ΜΕΓΑΣ ΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟΥ
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Seite 5 - ... have been the battle-field of every tribe and nation that has risen to dominion in the East. The history of this tract, therefore, if we had it complete and continuous, would tell more of the history of the world, and of the great revolutions in language, religion, civilization, and government, which have been brought about by conquest, and by the admixture of races resulting from conquest, than that of any other country on the face of the earth.
Seite 55 - Eucratides , magni uterque viri , regna ineunt. Sed Parthorum fortuna felicior ad summum , hoc duce , imperii fastigium eos perduxit. Bactriani autem per varia bella jactati , non regnum tantum , verum etiam libertatem amiserunt : siquidem Sogdianorum et Drangianorum Indorumque bellis fatigati , ad postremum ab invalidioribus Parthis , velut exsangues, oppressi sunt.
Seite 55 - Eucratides, magni uterque viri, regna ineunt. Sed Parthorum fortuna felicior ad summum hoc duce imperii fastigium eos perduxit. Bactriani autem per varia bella iactati non regnum tantum, verum etiam libertatem amiserunt, siquidem Sogdianorum et Arachotorum et Drangarum et Areorum Indorumque bellis fatigati ad postremum ab invalidioribus Parthis velut exsangues oppressi sunt.
Seite 92 - Of this king, as before observed, there are coins with an Arian legend, which James Prinsep and Professor Lassen ascribed to Azes. On all we find a peculiar monogram, with three prongs, the purport of which has not been discovered. With the addition of a prong, the same monogram was continued in coins of Kadphises, and of the Kanerkis, but it is not found in those of the Hercules type, derived from Hermaeus.
Seite 20 - His empire though only of ten years' growth, was not transient. His colonies and their institutions, manners and language had...
Seite 110 - Pantalcon, the first of whom we know, from the pure Greek style of his other coins, to have been one of the earliest of the Grecian kings. After them, however, Sanscrit characters were entirely disused. Menander, the known Indian conqueror, never seems to have coined with the language of Asoka, from...