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424 POLÍTICAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA
We learn from Ptolemy, the Geographer that the city had another name Euthymedia or Euthydemia, a desgination which was probably derived from the Euthydemian line. An inscription on a steatite casket which comes from Shinkot in Bajaur territory refers to the 5th regnal year of Māhārāja Minadra (Menander). The record proves that in the 5th year of his reign the dominions of Menander probably included a considerable portion of the Trans-Indus territory. The Kāpisa and Nicaea coins indicate how some of the rulers of the Euthydemian group were gradually pushed to the Indian interior. They had to remove their capital to Sākala.
To the rival family of Eukratides belonged Heliokles and probably Antialkidas who ruled conjointly with Lysias. A common type of Antialkidas is the Pilei of the Dioscuri, which seems to connect bim with Eukratides ; his portrait according to Gardner resembles that of Heliokles. It is not improbable that he was an immediate successor of Heliokles. A Besnagar Inscription makes him a contemporary of Kāsi (Kośi=Kautsi ?) putra Bhāgabhadra of Vidišā who ruled some time after Agnimitra probably in or about the latter half of the second century B.C. The capital of Antialkidas was probably at Takshasilā or Taxila, the place from which his ambassador Heliodoros went to the kingdom of Bhāgabhadra. But his dominions seem also to have included Kāpiši or Kāpiša.? After his death the western Greek kingdom probably split up into three parts, viz.,
Nāgasena sägalam nāma nagaram, tattha Milindo nāma Rajā rajjam kāreti." The form Yonaka from which chronological conclusions have been drawn in recent time, is comparable to Madraka, Vrijika (Pāņini, IV. 2. 131).
1 Gardner, Catalogue of Indian Coins in the British Museum, p. xxxiv. 2 Camb. Hist., 558.
