The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c29.133

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But, about A. D. 465, a fresh swarm of nomads poured across the frontier, and occupied Gandhāra, or the north-western Panjāb, where a ‘cruel and vindictive’ chieftain usurped the throne of the Kushāns, and ‘practised the most barbarous atrocities’.² A little later, about 470, the Huns advanced into the interior, and again attacked Skandagupta in the heart of his dominions. He was unable to continue the successful resistance which he had offered in the earlier days of his rule, and was forced at last to succumb to the repeated attacks of the foreigners; who were, no doubt, constantly recruited by fresh hordes eager for the plunder of India.