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H. H. Wilson, while my own chronological table places it somewhat 
earlier in about 105 B.C. ‘The mean of these dates would be about 
90 B. C. which may be accepted as the approximate date of this 
event. There is, however, another date connected with the history 
of the Gushan tribe which has perhaps even a stronger claim to be 
considered as the starting point of their national era. This is the 
date on which the king of the Gushan tribe subjected the other four 
tribes of the Yuchi, an event which, according to the Chinese, took 
place about 100 years after their first settlement in Bactria, or about 
26 B.C. The king of the Gushdn tribe is then said to have con- 
quered Kabul, Gandhara and Arachosia, to which India was after- 
wards added by his successor. Now according to our present know- 
ledge, the conquest of India can be assigned only to Kanishka, and 
his brother Hushka, or Huvishka,* whose coins are still found in 
great numbers on the banks of the Ganges and Jumna. The father 
of these two Princes would therefore have been the consolidator of 
the Yuchi power by the subjection of the other four tribes. But 
who was their father? In settling this point we have little, or no- 
thing to guide us, except the inferences derivable from the coins. 
On these, however, all the authorities are unanimous in making Hima 
Kadphises the immediate predecessor of Kanishka and his brothers. 
It is probable therefore that he was also the father of these princes. 
The main objection to this assumption is the fact that Hima Kadphi- 
ses does not inscribe the name of the Gushdn tribe on his coins, as 
was done by his predecessor Kozola Kadphises, as well as by his suc- 
cessors, Kanerki, Hoverke, and Bazwano. But as Hima Kadphises 
does not inscribe the name of any tribe on his coins, there is a strong 
probability that he belonged to the same tribe as his immediate suc- 
cessors. By Professor Lassen, Hima Kadphises is assigned to 24 
B. C.; by H. H. Wilson to the beginning of the Christian era, and 
by my own chronological table to 60 B. C. In fixing this date, I was 
influenced by the opinion that the consolidation of the Yuehi power 
under the king of the Gushdn tribe, and the subsequent overthrow of 
the power of the Sw, or Sakas, were not improbably connected with 
the defeat of the Sakas by Vikramaditya in B. C.57. I think still 
* Mr. Thomas has ascribed to Babu Rajendralal Mitra the suggestion that 
Huvishka of the Mathura and Wardak inscriptions is the same as the Hushka of 
Kashmir history. The suggestion was mine, and was published by me in the 
note which first made known the name of Huvishka, 
