The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c28.135

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Coins indicate that the Kushāns held their own in the Panjāb and Kābul for a long time. It is certain that the Kushān kings of Kābul continued to be a considerable power until the fifth century, when they were overthrown by the White Huns. At the beginning of the fourth century one of them gave a daughter in marriage to Hormazd II, the Sassanian king of Persia; and when Sapor II besieged Amida in A.D. 360, his victory over the Roman garrison was won with the aid of Indian elephants and Kushān troops under the command of their aged king Grumbates, who occupied the place of honour, and was supported by the Śakas of Sīstān.²