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Abdagases I was an Indo-Parthian king, a nephew of Gondophares
Gondophares

Gondophares was the first king of the Indo-Parthian Kingdom. He seems to have ruled from 21 Common Era for at least 26 years. He took over the Kabul valley and the Punjab region area from the Kushan king Kujula Kadphises....
 evident from his coin — a copper Tetradrachm
Tetradrachm

The tetradrachm was an Ancient Greece silver coin equivalent to four Greek drachmas. It was in wide circulation from 510 to 38 BC.Most tetradrachms were minted around the middle of the 5th century BC, when they were used in transactions....
. He continued ruling up to ca. 65 AD. The bilingual coin exhibits the kharoshti script where it can be read as "Gudaphara brathaputrasa maharajasa Abadagashasa." Brathaputra means nephew in Prakrit
Prakrit

Prakrit refers to the broad family of the Indic languages and dialects spoken in ancient India. The Prakrits became literary languages, generally patronized by kings identified with the Kshatriya caste, but were regarded as illegitimate by the Brahmin orthodoxy....
, the language in the coin. Zeus
Zeus

Zeus in Greek mythology is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky father and List of thunder gods. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull , and oak....
 is also depicted in the same face.









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Abdagases I was an Indo-Parthian king, a nephew of Gondophares
Gondophares

Gondophares was the first king of the Indo-Parthian Kingdom. He seems to have ruled from 21 Common Era for at least 26 years. He took over the Kabul valley and the Punjab region area from the Kushan king Kujula Kadphises....
 evident from his coin — a copper Tetradrachm
Tetradrachm

The tetradrachm was an Ancient Greece silver coin equivalent to four Greek drachmas. It was in wide circulation from 510 to 38 BC.Most tetradrachms were minted around the middle of the 5th century BC, when they were used in transactions....
. He continued ruling up to ca. 65 AD. The bilingual coin exhibits the kharoshti script where it can be read as "Gudaphara brathaputrasa maharajasa Abadagashasa." Brathaputra means nephew in Prakrit
Prakrit

Prakrit refers to the broad family of the Indic languages and dialects spoken in ancient India. The Prakrits became literary languages, generally patronized by kings identified with the Kshatriya caste, but were regarded as illegitimate by the Brahmin orthodoxy....
, the language in the coin. Zeus
Zeus

Zeus in Greek mythology is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky father and List of thunder gods. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull , and oak....
 is also depicted in the same face.


Preceded by:
Gondophares
Gondophares

Gondophares was the first king of the Indo-Parthian Kingdom. He seems to have ruled from 21 Common Era for at least 26 years. He took over the Kabul valley and the Punjab region area from the Kushan king Kujula Kadphises....
 Indo-Parthian Ruler
Indo-Parthian Kingdom

The Indo-Parthian Kingdom was established during the 1st century by Gondophares, and at its greatest extent extended into areas that are in present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan and Northern India....

(50-65 CE)		 Succeeded by:
Sases
Sases

Sases, Gondophares II, also Gondophares-Sases was an Indo-Parthian king who ruled in northwestern parts of India in modern Pakistan....


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