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KUSHÄN CONQUEST OF NORTH-WEST INDIA 459
the destruction of Hermaios' kingdom by the Parthians probably supplied him with a casus belli. He made war on the latter and eventually destroyed their power in the north-west borderland of India.
1 Before the Parthian conquest, Kāpiši apparently had to obey, for a time, the rule of Maues and Spalirises (CHI, 590 £). The Kushāns, the "barbarian" enemies of "Phraotes'', may have had a hand in the restoration of Greek rule before its final disappearance in the Kābul valley..
O.P. 90-58.
