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Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c30.3

Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c30.3

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| 427 | | Tahia is apparently different from the "Dahæ" of the classical writers which, says Macgovern, lay far to the west. According to Trogus the Asiani were the lords of the Tochari (*Reges Thocarorum Asiani*, JAOS, 61, 246ff; 65, 71ff). |
| 431 | | For the *Scythian Period*, see now a monograph by Johanna Engelberta von Lohuizen de Leeuw. |
| 439 | | Leeuw suggests that the era of the old Saka inscriptions began from the Yue-chi conquest of Bactria *c* 129 B.C. |
| 444 | | The Charsadda Inscriptions of the year 303 refers to a grāmasvāmin and satrap (of Chukhsa?) named Avakhajbāda (Konow, *Acta Orientalia* XX, p. 108ff). |
| 445 | fn 4 | Add at the end "Also Whitehead, *Numismatic Chronicle*, 1944, pp. 19-104. Apacharaja of the Bajaur inscription is taken by some to mean 'ruler of the West'. |
| 458 | | The periods of Yue-zhi migration have been discussed by several scholars. The first period of march from Kanshu to the Upper Li, *c.* 172-161 B.C. Second stage from the Upper Li to the Oxus between 133-129 B.C. The third period began with the conquest of Bactria (*c.* 129 B.C.) Leeuw, *The Scythian Period*, pp. 31-33. |
| 469 | 12 | Bachhofer, *JAOS*, 61, 242. |
| 540, 627 | | Recently Dr. D. C. Sircar has come across evidence in the Sumaṇḍala (Orissa) inscription which indicates that in 569 one Pritbivi-Vigraha held Kaliṅga apparently as a Gupta vassal. *Cf IHQ*, XXVI, March, 1950. |
| 593 | 11 | Add after 476-7 "together with the Benares Stone Pillar ins. of 159 (= A.D. 478-79)" noted by Dr. D. C. Sircar (A.S.B. 6-12-48). (JRASB, 1949, 5ff). |