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Falk, Harry (Ed.): Kushan Histories: Literary Sources and Selected Papers from a Symposium at Berlin, December 5 to 7, 2013, Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2023 (Monographs on Indian Archaeology, Art and Philology, Volume 23). https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1163

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01/09/2023
The book was originally published in 2015 by Dr. Ute Hempen Verlag, Bremen. ISBN 978-3-944312-24-8

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Harry Falk (Ed.)

Kushan Histories

Literary Sources and Selected Papers from a Symposium at Berlin, December 5 to 7, 2013

Monographs on Indian Archaeology, Art and Philology

Kushan Histories discusses new research concerning the Kushan dynasty and is based on a Symposium held from December 5-7th, 2013 in Berlin.

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Front matter
Contents
Introduction
Primary sources and translations
Possible prehistory of the Yuezhi
The three attacks of the Xiongnu on the Yuezhi
The phase of the Yabghus
Events in the time of the Kujūla Kadphises
Events in the time of Vema Takhtu alias Sōtēr megas
Events in the time of Vima Kadphises
Events in the time of Kaniṣka I
Events in the time of Huviṣka
Events in the time of Vāsudeva
The time of Kaniṣka II
Events in the time of Vaskuṣāṇa I
The time of Vasiṣka
The time of Kaniṣka III
Iranian dominance
The smaller (group of) Yuezhi and the Kidarites
The aftermath
References
Gérard Fussman
Kushan power and the expansion of Buddhism beyond the Soleiman mountains
Frantz Grenet
Zoroastrianism among the Kushans
Étienne de la Vaissière, Philippe Marquis , Julio Bendezu Sarmiento
A Kushan military camp near Bactra
Nicholas Sims-Williams
A new Bactrian inscription from the time of Kanishka
Harry Falk
Kushan rule granted by Nana
The background of a heavenly legitimation
Maps
The participants

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