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40. This it was that gave the Yuehti monarch his oppor- 
man’’ nations, whom he reckons at twenty-six, in ‘‘ one family.’’ 
Maotun’s Empire was one of the usual Turkish order, and with 
the death of its founder it commenced to decay. The pr ae 
hi ap. 
best known tribes,’’ says Strabo (XI. viii. 2), ‘‘ are those who 
deprived ats Greeks of Baktriana,—the Asii or P(V)asiani, To- 
khari, and © akarauli, who came from the vetsom hs on the other 
side of the Jaxartes.’’ Here the Asii or Vasiani a 
the Wusun; the Tahia the Tokhars; and the ¢ acaaesll the 
Hukrit ,—the Bees Jeegli Ma in subsequent centuries became 
prominent under their e name of Hweiki(t),—the Wigurs 
of history. These Sees all | belonged to the one stock of fair- 
haired Cakae ; so that it was easy when Geathlef had overcome 
the other divisions to nies te all into the one Yuehti of 
Kesh. Now tribes of similar stock had long been planted in 
the Panjab, where, as in the case of the Kathaei described by 
Arrian, they proved themselves the most patriotic of the Indians ; 
we can also begin to understand why there should have been 
of the 
practically no resistance offered to the crossing 0 Hindu 
Kush by Geathlef, and why he was at once, and seemingly wit 
the tacit good will of all, permitted t government 
single symptom ; the new monarch at once becomes a zealous 
disciple of Buddhism—a second Acoka in fact ; and Northern 
India enters on a new career of peace and prosperity , to which 
it had been long a stranger 
The accession of the Kushans was, in fact, a deliverance. 
Geathlef or Vikramaditya, had come as a deliverer and a saviour, 
57 BC., agente the shir in which he took possession of 
the beset and western Ma a, soon became the era of the 
Good-Goer from which a grateful country loved to reckon its 
rebirth. 
42. Yet a tradition of war is ed, but such a war as 
emphasizes the fact of the reigns of the two Kadphises having 
been of peace and recuperation. The hill tribes on 
the north-western frontier, then as now a perpetual source of 
trouble to settled government, had been making inroads, and the 
Kanishka, to give him his title, Kadphises (or Gedthlef, for 
then king at Magadha had been secretly urging them on, and 
accordingly made war on that state. The king could offer no 
