Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c18.s3.108

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**Huvishka's** dates range from 28 to 60. A Mathurā Inscription⁶ represents him as the grandson of a king who has the appellation "*Sacha dhramaṭhita*," *i.e.*, steadfast or abiding in the true Law, which occurs on the coins of Kuyula Kaphsa.⁷ Kalhaṇa's narrative leaves the impression that Huvishka ruled simultaneously with Jushka and Kanishka, *i.e.*, Vā-jheshka and **Kanishka of the Ārā inscription of the year 41.** The Wardak vase inscription possibly proves the inclusion of Kābul within his dominions. But there is no evidence that he retained his hold on the Lower Indus Valley which was probably wrested from the successors of Kanishka I by Rudradāman I. In Kaśmīra Huvishka built a town named Hushkapura.¹ Like Kanishka I, he was a patron of Buddhism and built a splendid monastery at Mathurā.² He also resembled Kanishka in his taste for a diversity of coin-types. Besides a medley of Greek, Persian and Indian deities we have, on one of his coins, the remarkable figure of Roma.³ A Mathurā inscription refers to the restoration during his reign of a delapidated *Devakula* of his grandfather.