A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.669

c5.669

HŪNAS. According to Wilson, “the White Huns or Indo-Scythians, who were established in the Panjāb and along the Indus at the commencement of our era, as we know from Arrian, Strabo, and Ptolemy, confirmed by recent discoveries of their coins,” and since still further confirmed by inscriptions and additional coins. Dr. Fitzedward Hall says, “I am not prepared to deny that the ancient Hindus, when they spoke of the Hūnas, intended the Huns. In the Middle Ages, however, it is certain that a race called Hūna was understood by the learned of India to form a division of the Kshatriyas.”—V. P. ii. 134.