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[N.S.] 
Samvat 11, on the 28th of the (Greek) 
month of Daesius. 
Manikyala Tope .. Mahdraja ‘Kiawah, GUHANA vasu 
ka. 
‘*Increaser of the dominion of the 
Gushans ’’ (Kushans). Samvat 18. 
Wardak Vase .. Mahdrdja Rédjatiraja Huveshka. Samvat 
51, 15th Artemisius. 
48. In these inscriptions, when use is made of the Mace- 
donian months we are palpably justified in referring the date 
to the Seleucidan Era, B.C. 312; and on the other hand, when 
the Indian seasons are made use of, we may with equal confidence 
refer the date to the Vikramaditya Samvat. 
The two first of the above under the title Kanishka, 
Samvat 8 and 28, will thus correspond with the dates 48 and 32 
B.C. and will belong to the reign of Guthlaf I, as also will the 
inscription from the Manikyala Tope, Samvat 18, i.e. 89 B.C. 
Within the same reign will then fall the legend Maharaja Devapu- 
tra Huvishka, with its date of Hemanta, S. 30, i.e. 27 B.C. We 
then meet with the 2 oe Mahdraja Vasudeva, 8. 38, 1.e. 
B.C. 24; Huvishka, 8. 35, 1t.e. B.C. 2 : Maharaja Rajatiraja 
Devaputra Vasu(deva), S. 44, 7.e. B.C.13; Maharaja Rajatiraja 
Devaputra Huvishka, | 47, t.e. B.C. GO; and Maharaja Hu- 
k +8. Ds —all within the reign of Guthlaf IT. 
50. Finally we ie the legends er Re Rajatiraja 
Shahi Vasudeva, S. 87, i.e. A.D. 29; and Raja Vasudeva, 
S.98 i.e., A.D. 60, both of which may be ‘referred to the reign of 
Gundobert. 
51. Turning to the dated inscriptions with Greek months, 
we find :—Maharajaé Rajatiréja Devaputra Kanishka, dat ed 
legends on t 
52. The Kushan dominion, though undoubtedly the — 
important of the states founded at this period in north-wes 
India, was not the only one. Unlike most other Asiatic monar- 
chies it had a long life, and amid various vicissitudes continued 
to exist till about the hing 560 A.D., about which period it was 
finally extinguished by a combination of Moghur, the great 
Ilkhan of the Tughal Turks, vith his brother-in-law Anushirwan, 
the powerful Sassanide Shah of Persia. The present brochure 
is, eee only concerned with the foundation of the state, 
and its political relations at the commencement of the present 
We must, therefore, return to « our historical narrative. 
