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Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c18.s3.78

Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c18.s3.78

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c18.s3.78

(This Kanishka may have been Kanishka of the Ārā Inscription of the year 41 which, if referred to the Śaka era, would give a date in the second century A.D. Po-t'iao of Sten Konow,¹ the king of the Yueh-chi who sent an ambassador to China in A.D. 230, may have been one of the successors of Vāsudeva I. "Coins bearing the name of Vāsudeva continued to be struck long after he had passed away."² Dr. Smith, Mr. R. D. Banerji and Dr. S. Konow himself clearly recognise the existence of more than one Vāsueva.)³