Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c18.s2.22
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c18.s2.22
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² *Ep. Ind.*, XIV, p. 294; XVIII (1926), p. 282. *Corpus*, II, i. 62. Some regard this “Kapa” as a phantom. It is interesting to recall in this connection a statement of Philostratos (*The life of Apollonius of Tyana*, Loeb Classical Library, p. 185) that in A.D. 43-44, the Parthian king of Taxila had enlisted the services of certain “barbarians” to patrol his country so that instead of invading his dominions they themselves kept off the “barbarians” that were on the other side of the frontier and were difficult people to deal with. Prince “Kapa” (if the reading and interpretation be correct) may have been at first one of these friendly barbarian chiefs. His date is indicated by his (?) imitation of a Roman emperor’s head of a style not later than about A.D. 60 (*JRAS*, 1913, 918).