^{page 376 note *} This is no longer true. In the Journ. As. Soc. of Bengal for 1881, p. 171, Gen. Cunningham proposes a different reading. He writes, “I think that the second letter may be r, and accordingly I read the name as Pharaspa or Pharnaspes.” However, he gives no authority for his reading, which seems quite inadmissible. The letter r in this alphabet has an entirely different form.

page 376 note † Brandis's Münz Mass und Gewichtswesen, &c. p. 242. Num. Chron. vol. xvii. p. 196.

^{page 377 note *} Op. cit. p. 219.