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mutual dissensions are proved by literary and numismatic evidence. The Purūnas say:
Bhavishyantīka Yavanā dharmatah kāmato’rthatałt naiva mūrdhābhishiltās te bhavishyanti narādihpāh yuga-dosha-durāchārā bhavishyanti nạpās tu testrīnām bāla-vadhenaiva hatvā chaiva parasparam.
"There will be Yavanas here by reason of religious feeling or ambition or plunder ; they will not be kings solemnly anointed but will follow evil customs by reason of the corruptions of the age, Massacring women and children and killing one another, kings will enjoy the earth at the end of the Kali age."
The Gargi Samhitā informs us : · Madhyadese na sthāsyanti Yavanā yuddha durmadāh teshām anyonya sambhāvā (?) bhavishyanti na samsayah ātma-chakrotthitain ghoram yuddham parama-dārunam.
“The fiercely fighting Greeks will not stay in the Madhyadeśa (Mid-India); there will be a cruel, dreadful war in their own kingdom, caused between themselves."3
Coins bear testimony to struggles between kings of the house of Eukratides and rulers of the family of Euthydemos. But the evidence which we possess clearly indicates that the contemporaries and rivals of Eukratides and Heliokles were Apollodotos, Agathokleia and Strato I, and not Menander. Certain square bronze coins of Eukratides have on the obverse a bust of the king and the legend “Basileus Megalou Eukratidou.” On the reverse there is the figure of Zeus and the legend "Kavisiye nagara-devatā.” They are often coins of
1 Cf. Cunn. AGI. Revised Ed. 274; Camb. Hist. Ind. 1. 376. "The Macedonians... gave away to a fury of blood-lust, sparing neither woman nor child."
2 Pargiter, Dynasties of the Kali Age, pp. 56, 74. 3 Kern, Brihat Samhiiā, p. 38.
