The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c29.162
The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c29.162
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The Asiatic domination of the Huns lasted longer. The section of the horde settled in the Oxus valley, and probably different in race, became known as the Ephthalites or White Huns, and gradually overcame the resistance of Persia, which ceased when King Fīrōz was killed in A. D. 484. Swarms of these White Huns also assailed the Kushān kingdom of Kābul, and thence poured into India. The attack repelled by Skandagupta in A. D. 455 must have been delivered by a comparatively weak body, which arrived early, and failed to effect a lodgement in the interior.²