Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c25.s3.1

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The Hūṇa invaders of India (called in Sk. lit. and inscrr. also Sita-, Sveta-, or Hāra-Hūṇas, v. SMITH, JBA. 1894, p. 186) whose attacks, beginning during the reign of Skandagupta, c. 452—480 A.D., led to the dismemberment of the Gupta empire, were an offshoot from the Ephthalites or White Huns, a people of Tartar origin who settled in the Oxus territories. c. 420 A.D., and, from this date until the destruction of their power by the Turks in 556 A.D., waged almost incessant war¹ on the Sassanian monarchy.