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Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c9.s1.t9: V. Kushān Kings

Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c9.s1.t9

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V. Kushān Kings

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Kujūla Kadphises, c. 25 B.C. Wima Kadphises Kanishka 78 A.D.¹ Huvishka Vāsudeva

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¹ This would be Kanishka’s date if he is regarded as the founder of the Śaka era. Fleet, Barnett and others, apparently consider Kanishka as the *first* of the Kushān line, and identify his accession with the commencement of the Vikrāmāditya era, *i.e.* 58 B.C.