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Numismatic Supplement. 
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Numismatic Supplement. With plates VIII-IX 
Note.— The numeration of the articles below is continued from p.244 
of the Journal. 
II. Medieval India, 
18. On the Gadhaiyd Goins of Gujarat. 
Historical Summary. 
Cir. A.D. 420. The Hunas, also known as Ephthalites, a people of Tatar origin, 
settled in the Oxus territories, and soon thereafter commenced 
hostilities against the neighbouring Sassanian monarchy. Twice 
they suffered defeat in the reign of Varahran V. (A.D. 419-438). 
A.D. 443-451, Yezdegerd II. (A.D. 438-457) carried on a long war against the 
Hunas on the north-eastern frontier of his kingdom. Almost 
every year from A.D. 443-451 witnessed a campaign against 
them. 
Cir. A.D. 448. An offshoot of the Hunas invaded India, perhaps as early as A.D, 
448, and made repeated invasions during the reign of Skanda- 
gupta (A.D, 455-480). 
A.D, 456, Yezdegerd II., having repelled an invasion of the Hunas at Khu¬ 
rasan, the following year led his own forces into the country of 
the Ephthalites, where, entrapped in an ambuscade, he suffered 
a severe defeat. Encouraged by this victory, the Hunas, year by 
year made destructive inroads into the N.-E. provinces of the 
Sassanian Kingdom. 
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A.D. 457-459, On the death of Yezdegerd II., in A.D. 457, his elder son Firuz 
and younger son Hormisdas contested the succession. After a 
civil war, lasting two years, Firuz gained the throne through the 
aid rendered him by the Hunas. 
A.D, 465. Firuz invaded, the country of the Hunas but with ill-success. A 
treaty of peace being concluded, Firuz agreed to strengthen the 
compact by a matrimonial alliance between his daughter and the 
Khaqan of the Ephthalites. Firuz, however, sent not his daugh¬ 
ter, but one of his female slaves, whereupon the Khaqan killed, 
or mutilated, some 300 of the Sassanian officers. Hence the war 
was renewed. 
A.D. 470. Firuz, captured with his army in a cul-de-sac, submitted to an 
ignominious treaty with the Huna Khaqan, to whom he did hom¬ 
age by prostration and before whom he swore to a perpetual 
peace. The Sassanian provinces bordering on India now came 
under the dominion of the Hunas 
