Book Title: Political History Of Ancient India
Author(s): Hemchandra Raychaudhari
Publisher: University of Calcutta

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________________ KADPHISES I 461 kingdoms. K'icou-tsieou-k‘io died at the age of more than eighty. His son Yen-kao-tchen succeeded him as king. In his turn he conquered Tien-tchou (lit. India, on the banks of a great river, apparently the kingdom of Taxila referred to by Philostratos), and established there a chief for governing it. From this time the Yuechi became extremely powerful. All the other countries designated them Kushān after their king, but the Han retained the old name, and called them Ta-Yue-chi.” "Kieou-tsieou-kio” has been identified with Kujula? Kadphises (I),or Kozola Kadaphes, the first Kushān king who struck coins to the south of the Hindukush. Numismatic evidence suggests that he was the colleague or ally, and afterwards the successor, of Hermaios, the last Greek prince of the Kābul valley. The prevalent view that Kadphises conquered Hermaios is, in the opinion of Marshall, wrong. Sten Konow finds his name mentioned in the Takht-i-Bāhi inscription of the year 103 belonging to the reign of Gondophernes. The inscription probably belongs to a period when the Kushān and Parthian rulers were on friendly terms. But the Parthian attack on the kingdom of Hermaios apparently led to a rupture which ended in war. The result was that the Parthians were ousted by Kad phises I. 1 Cf. Kusuluka. The expression probably means 'strong' or beautiful (Konow, Corpus, 1). According to Burrow (The Language of the Kharoshthi Documents, 82, 87) Kujula=Gusura = Vazir. - Dr. Thomas possibly thinks that the word Kujula has the sense of 'Saviour'. 2 Pahlavi Kad=chief + pises or pes = form, shape, JRAS., 1913, 632 n. 3 Fleet and Thomas, JRAS, 1913, 967, 1034 ; in the opinion of some scholars Hermaios was dead at the time of the Kushān conquest. Coins bearing his name continued, according to this view, to be struck long after he had passed away. Tarn regards the Hermaios-Kadphises coins as "pedigree coins". Supporters of the 'alliance' theory may point to the gold dollars circulating in Chungking, engraved with relief portraits of Marshal Chiang Kaishek and President Roosevelt of the United States (A.B. Patrika, 29-3-1945). 4 The interpretation of Konow is not accepted by Professor Rapson, JRAS. 1930, p. 189,

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