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west marches with Parthia; the chief town is Lamshi Ch’eng 
yv explained equivalent to Darapsa, i.e. Balkh), Parthia 
being distant 49 days’ journey. Eastwards to Ch’ang (Ch’angan, 
now Singan fu) the distance is 6,537 li; to Lohyang (the then 
Chinese capital) 16,370 1. There are (in the country) 100,000 
homesteads, 400,000 mouths, and some 100,000 armed sy 
28 Originally the Yuehti, having been broken up b 
Hiung Nu (Turks), emigrated to the land of the Tahia (Tokhars) 
which they divided - arate: falls sig ae (2) Shw wangmei ; 
(3) Kweishwang ; (4) eo) yf five (territories) in 
all, each under a nip chats ” (These ‘divi isions have been alrea ady 
explained). A hundred years or so afterwards (B.C. 79, quam 
prox.) the margrave of Kweishwang, K’iutsaufu ( af 2 
supra), attacked and deposed, the other four, and_ established 
himself as ruler, assuming the title of Kweishwang Wang (Kesh- 
wara Wano), i.e. King of Kushan, or the Keshwaras. Sub- 
sequently he made war on Parthia and wrested from it the terri- 
tory of Kaofu, annexing also Pu(k)ta (Peukelaotis) and Kipien 
(Kophéné, the valley of the Kophes). Having established his 
rule over these lands, K’iutsaufu died at the age of crust eighty. 
His son Ch’imkao Chantai succeeded him on the throne ; he after- 
wards annexed northern India, placing it under the rule of a single 
officer as Viceroy. From this period these newly annexed districts 
came to bear the (official) title of the Fusheng (Parashawar) 
Dependency. The entire was known as the Kushan Kingdom, 
the equivalent of what was originally called by the Chinese 
Greater Yuehti 
24. The only doubtful factor here is the name of the 
king, written in Chinese af 7% S. Here the two first charac- 
ters stand for Gi-tul; the third is more doubtful. As written 
it would have the force or etal the last letter not having 
been actually sounded in northern China at the time of the later 
Hans. Iam, however, rather disposed to think that the character 
really intended was k’ii(t) ot k’ wu(t) Aili. where the old initial 
was g or /, rather more inclined to the latter. I have rendered it 
as a —— for final f. The name, practically certainly, was 
Ga-tulf. Now Yule ger heapint “i Wood’s Journey to the 
Source of the Oxus, 2nd ed., ), speakin, 
legend (founded, however: on fait) | of ‘Shah Kataur, draws atten- 
tion to ‘‘that singularly Teutonic-looking name Katulphus 
which appears in Menander as that of an Ephthalite. >” The 
name, there is no doubt, i is hea same as that called on the coins 
Ke hises or Kadiphes. A later account of the crossing of the 
du Kush, and the annexation of North-West India (the Wei 
Shu), calls the leader Kitolo, which would likewise answer to 
Gitul, and Cunningham (Archae. Rep. ii) mentions the name as 
** Kieu-teu-fa’’ and translates it as ‘‘ Good charioteer and archer.’ 
