A Wisdom Archive on Kharoshthi

At the same time, Agathocles issued an intriguing range of bilingual coinage, displaying what seems to be Buddhist as well as Hinduist symbolism. The coins, manufactured according to the Indian standard, using either Brahmi, Greek or Kharoshthi (a first in the Greek world), and displaying symbols of the various faiths in India, tend to indicate a considerable willingness to accommodate local languages and beliefs, to an extent unseen in subsequent Indo-Greek kings. They may be indicative of the considerable efforts of the first Indo-Greek ki ...

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Lysias issued some coins which bear the name of the "Western" king Antialcidas on the reverse, in the Kharoshthi script: MAHARAJASA JAYADHARASA AMTIALIKIDASA "The victorious king Antialcidas", together with the pilei (hats) of the Dioscuri, a type typical of Antialcidas. The obverse is a bust of Herakles with the Greek legend BASILEOS ANIKITOU LUSIOU "Invicible King Lysias" (British Museum Catalogue). It has been suggested that the two kings might have forged some kind of alliance, which may have remained until the last Indo-Greek kings, as ...

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Agathocles "the Just" was an Indo-Greek king, who reigned between around 190 and 180 BCE. He might have been a son of Demetrius and one of his sub-kings in charge of the Paropamisadae between Bactria and India. In that case, he was a grandson of Euthydemus whom he qualified as "God-King" on his coins. Agathocles was contemporary with or a successor of king Pantaleon. He seems to have been attacked and killed by the usurper Eucratides, who took control of the Greco-Bactrian territory. Little is known about him, apart from his ex ... Including:

• Agathocles of Bactria - Pedigree coinage
• Agathocles of Bactria - Dynast or usurper?
• Agathocles of Bactria - Nickel coins
• Agathocles of Bactria - Bilingual coinage
• Agathocles of Bactria - Buddhist coinage
• Agathocles of Bactria - Hinduist coinage

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Bhagavan - also written Bhagawan or Bhagwan (भगवान् in devanagari script, Bhagavān in IAST) is a Sanskrit word meaning Holy or Blessed one. Historically, it has been used by many spiritual masters in India including Gautama Buddha, Ramana Maharshi and Rajneesh. A title of veneration, it is often translated as "Lord" as in "Lord Krishna" or "Lord Siva". Bhagavan - Usage. The actual word is Bhagavat (भगवत् in Devanagari script, pronounced as "bhIncluding:

• Bhagavan - Usage
• Bhagavan - Early epigraphical evidence
• Bhagavan - Devotional Hinduism
• Bhagavan - Devotional Buddhism

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Antialcidas was an Indo-Greek king, who reigned from his capital at Taxila from around 115 to 95 BCE. Antialcidas is known from an inscription left on a pillar (the Heliodorus pillar) erected by his ambassador Heliodorus at the court of the Sunga king Bhagabhadra at Vidisha. The inscriptions says: "This Garuda-standard was made by order of the Bhagavata _.Heliodoros, the son of Dion, a man of Taxila, a Greek ambassador from King Antialkidas, to King Bhagabhadra, the son of the Princess from Benares, the saviour, whil ... Including:

• Antialcidas - A relative of Eucratides?

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There are many records of the Sunga empire persecuting Buddhism, but on the contrary Buddhism flourished under the Indo-Greek kings, and it has been suggested that their invasion of India was not only intended to show their support for the philhellenic Mauryan empire, but also to protect the Buddhist faith from the religious persecutions of the Sungas. Demetrius I of Bactria - Coinage & connection with Buddhism. The coins of Demetrius are of four types. One bilingual type with Greek and Kharoshthi lege ...

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The Mathura Lion Capital Inscriptions discovered in 1896 from Saptarsi mound in the south-eastern part of Mathura city in Uttar Pradesh, India presently housed in the British Museum London, contains an epigraph in Kharoshthi characters, which refers to princess Aiyasi Kamuia as the chief queen (Agra-Mahisi) of Mahakshatrapa Rajuvula. Princess Aiyasi was the daughter of the Yuvaraja Kharaostes (Kharaosta) himself a Kamuio (Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, Vol II, part I, p 36 & xxxvi, Dr Stein Konow).

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Detail of the Indra, Buddha, Brahman trilogy. Detail of Kanishka, surrounded by the Sun-God and the Moon-God. Detail of the Buddha, surrounded by cherubs, with devotee or bodhisattava. Detail of the flight of sacred geese, or Hamsa. ...

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One overstrike is known, of a coin of Strato and Agathokleia over a coin of Diomedes, suggesting that Diomedes may have been an earlier king, about 120 BCE [1]. ...

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Lysias' coins use almost entirely the type of King Demetrius: the elephant scalp, Herakles standing, crowning himself, and holding his club, with the single addition of a palm to signify victory. On some other coins, he can be helmeted, or wearing the Greek flat hat "kausia". His "Indian type" square copper coinage show a bust of Herakles, with an "elephant god" on reverse. ...

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Zoilos II has three main types of coins: "King in profile, with Athena and trident", "Apollo, with tripod and small elephant", "Elephant and tripod". Zoilos II with Athena. Apollo holding arrow, with small elephant on the left. Tripod on reverse. Elephant and tripod. ...

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The actual word is Bhagavat (भगवत् in Devanagari script, pronounced as "bhəgəvət"), and its nominative singular form under nominal declination is Bhagavān. It literally means "possessing fortune, fortunate" (from the root "Bhaga", meaning fortune, glory) , and hence "glorious, divine, venerable, holy", etc. It is also an epithet of some devas like Vishnu, his incarnation Krishna and Shiva. Other religions like Buddhism and Jainism also use the epithet of Bhagavan before their founders Gautama Buddha and ...

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Indo-Scythians - Abiria to Surastrene. The first Indo-Scythian kingdom in the Indian subcontinent occupied the southern part of Pakistan (which they accesses from southern Afghanistan), in the areas from Abiria (Sindh) to Surastrene (Gujarat), from around 110 to 80 BCE. They progressively further moved north into Indo-Greek territory until the conquests of Maues, circa 80 BCE. The Indo-Scythians ultimately established a kingdom in the northwest, based in Taxila, with two Great Satraps, one in Mathura in the east, and one in Surastrene (Gujarat) in the southwest.

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