KANERKI. At the close of the first century of the Christian era, when the supposed Ario Parthian dynasty ceased to reign in Kabul and the Panjab, a new race of Scythian kings ap peared, who issued gold and copper money of quite a different device and style from anything before current. These bear a title of Kanerkes, at first with the title of Basileus Basileon, but afterwards with the Indian title of Rao Nano Rao. The number and variety of the Kanerki coins indicate a long dominion of kings of the race. The only characters on their coins are Greek, but these became at last so corrupt as to be quite illegible. On their obverse is the king standing, or in bust to the waist, in a Tartar or Indian dress, with the name and titles in a Greek legend round; while on the reverse are Mithraic repre sentations of the sun or moon with \11A102, NANAIA, OKPO, MIOPO, MAO, A®PO, or some other mystical name of these luminaries, also in Greek letters. And on all the Kanerki coins is the same monogram as the Kadphises dynasty used, and which was borrowed appar ently from the nameless Soter Megas. This
would seem to indicate that the Kanerki dynasty, though interrupted, as Mr. Prinsej supposes, by the intervention of Ario-Parthians was yet a continuation of the same tribe an nation as its predecessors of the name of Kad phises. The state religion seems to have bees Mithraic, whence derived, not known ; but or their coins the Siva bull device is• also found of the reverse, the bull's head being to the left,—ii the coins of the Kadphises being to the right Their power_seems to have lasted for more than two centuries. The style and device of the Greek of the gold coins especially, of the coins both o Kadphises and the kanerki, was carried on till i grew more and more corrupt, and was at las entirely lost through the deterioration of art under the princes of Hindu race, who succeeder to the more energetic Greeks and Scythians.— On the Historical Results deducible from recen Discoveries in Afghanistan, by H. T. Prinsep Prinsep's Antiquities, i. p. 134.