The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c28.32

c28.32

For the next century nothing is known about Yüe-chi history; but more than a hundred years after the division of the nation into five territorial principalities, situated to the north of the Hindū Kush, the chief of the Kushān section of the horde, who is conventionally known to European writers as Kadphises I, succeeded in imposing his authority on his colleagues, and establishing himself as sole monarch of the Yüe-chi nation. His accession as such may be dated approximately in the year A.D. 40, which cannot be far wrong.¹