The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c28.124

c28.124

Huvishka was succeeded by Vāsudeva, whose thoroughly Indian name, a synonym for Vishnu, is a proof of the rapidity with which the foreign invaders had succumbed to the influence of their environment. Testimony to the same fact is borne by his coins, almost all of which exhibit on the reverse the figure of the Indian god Siva, attended by his bull Nandi, and accompanied by the noose, trident, and other insignia of Hindu iconography. The inscriptions of Vāsudeva, mostly found at Mathurā, certainly range in date from the year 74 to the year 98 of the era used in the Kushān age, and indicate a reign of not less than twenty-five years. We may assume that his reign terminated in or about the year 220.¹