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⁴ I need not consider a new theory (Konow, *JIH* XII, 1933, pp. 8–14) which makes of the five Yueh-chi princes (the Kushan chief being one) five Saca princes of Bactria conquered by the Yueh-chi. It is claimed that Pan-ku is ambiguous; on this ground the plain account in the *Hou-han-shu* is thrown overboard, though Fan-ye must have known, and, as the Chinese always call the Kushans Yueh-chi, it is said that they were mistaken. The theory is one more unhappy offshoot of the elementary blunder over Strabo which started the belief in a Saca conquest of Greek Bactria (p. 283). Another version of the same theory, open to precisely the same objections, makes the five princes Ta-hia = Tochari: P. Pelliot, *JA* 224, 1934, pp. 38 *sqq.*; on the impossible equation of Ta-hia and Tochari see p. 296.