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wiiom Buchanan ascribed the expulsion of the Koragas after 
the death of Hubasika. The relationship of the Kadamba 
princes is also given differently ; still these contradictions 
need not invalidate the main part of the tradition concerning 
Hubasika. 
If we could recognise in this prince a real historical 
personage, an important step would have been gained towards 
fixing the period of these events. The life of the first 
Trinetra Kadamba is placed by some at the beginning 
of the second century A.D., and this is the very period 
which the coins supply concerning the reign of Iluvi.ska 
or Hooerkes, king of the Korano, who would have been thus 
a contemporary of Hubasika, king of the Koiagas. 
The mighty Scythian king Kadphises II was succeeded 
in North- Western India by king Kaniska or Kanerkes, who 
initiated in A.D. 78 the Saka Era, as has been first sug- 
gested by the late Mr. James Fergusson. Kaniska or 
Kanerkes was followed in his reign about 110 A.D. by 
Huviska or Hooerkes. The latter forms prevail on the coins, 
while the records contain the former. The Korano or Kusan 
are identical with the Yueh-chi, the Chinese name of this 
tribe, commonly known to us as Indo-Seythians. 
The Grauda-Dravidian race, as I have repeatedly pointed 
out, was not confined to India, some of its branches having 
remained on the northern frontier of the Indian continent. 
The invasion by the Korano can thus be appropriately 
explained as an inroad into India made by a kindred 
tribe, and leads to the suggestion that Hubasika, king of 
the Koragas, may be identified with Huviska, king of the 
Korano or Kusan. As Huviska's reign falls in the first 
half of the second century A.D., the period of Hubasika's 
reported invasion will be fixed if Hubasika and Huviska are 
one and the same person. 
Moreover, there are different kings of the name Trinetra 
among the Kadambas. The first Trinetra lived according 
