History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c22.8
History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Nāga–Vākāṭaka Imperial Period c22.8
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It is noteworthy that these princes are ‘all enumerated as independent princes’ (Herzfeld, p. 43). Prof. Herzfeld’s surmise that they had been subject to the Sassanian throne up to the war is not supported by the inscription. Had they been subject, they would not have been treated as independent by the victorious emperor. They had aided as mere allies their neighbour Varhrán III who had been governor and ruler of Sistán. The German scholar has been influenced by the unproved theory of Dr. Vincent Smith of a supposed ‘unrecorded’ Sassanian invasion of India [Sindh, the Punjub, etc.].