The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c28.114

c28.114

Very little is known about the successors of Kanishka. Inscriptions prove that Vāsishka was reigning at Mathurā in the year 24, and Huvishka between the years 33 and 60, while a prince of the name of Kanishka was reigning at Āra in the Panjāb² in the year 41. The best way to reconcile the apparent contradiction is to assume that Vāsishka and Huvishka were sons of Kanishka, who both acted in succession as Viceroys of Upper India while their father was warring beyond the mountains. Vāsishka, of whom no coins are known, seems to have predeceased his father, who was succeeded in his whole empire by Huvishka.³ The extensive coinage of Huvishka may have been all issued after his succession to the imperial throne. Vāsishka, presumably, was not empowered to coin in his own name. If he had issued coins, it is hardly possible that some specimens should not have been discovered by this time.