Sadashkana Explained

Within Buddhist mythology, Sadashkana (Kharosthi: ‎ , ^[1]) according to the gold plate inscription of Senavarman, mentions Sadashkana as the Devaputra (son of god), son of maharaja rayatiraya Kujula Kataphsa (Kujula Kadphises):

"Maharaja rayatiraya Kuyula Kataphsaputra Sadashkano devaputra"

"The son of god Sadashkano, son of the Great king and king of kings, Kujula Kaphises"

He was the son of the founder of Kushan empire and his brother was Sadaṣkaṇa, their next generation was Kanishka. The Chinese Book of Later Han 後漢書 chronicles gives an account of the formation of the Kushan empire based on a report made by the Chinese general Ban Yong to the Chinese Emperor c. 125 AD:

The Kushans were one of five branches of the Yuezhi confederation,^{[2] [3]} a possibly Iranian^[4] or Tocharian,^[5] Indo-European^{[6] [7]} nomadic people who migrated from Gansu and settled in ancient Bactria.^[3] Ban Gu's Book of Han tells us the Kushans (Kuei-shuang) divided up Bactria in 128 BC. Fan Ye's Book of Later Han "relates how the chief of the Kushans, Ch'iu-shiu-ch'ueh (the Kujula Kadphises of coins), founded by means of the submission of the other Yueh-chih clans the Kushan Empire, known to the Greeks and Romans under the name of Empire of the Indo-Scythians."^[8]

See also

• • Indo-Greek kingdom Kushan empire

Sources

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Notes and References

1. [Harold Walter Bailey]
2. Book: Runion, Meredith L. . The history of Afghanistan . limited . 2007 . Greenwood Press . Westport . 978-0-313-33798-7 . 46 . The Yuezhi people conquered Bactria in the second century BCE. and divided the country into five chiefdoms, one of which would become the Kushan Empire. Recognizing the importance of unification, these five tribes combined under the one dominate Kushan tribe, and the primary rulers descended from the Yuezhi..
3. Book: Liu, Xinrui . Agricultural and pastoral societies in ancient and classical history . 2001 . Temple University Press . Philadelphia . 978-1-56639-832-9 . 156 . Adas, Michael.
4. Web site: Ancient Iran: The movement of Iranian peoples . Girshman . Roman . Roman Ghirshman . . . 29 May 2015 . At the end of the 3rd century, there began in Chinese Turkistan a long migration of the Yuezhi, an Iranian people who invaded Bactria about 130 bc, putting an end to the Greco-Bactrian kingdom there. (In the 1st century bc they created the Kushān dynasty, whose rule extended from Afghanistan to the Ganges River and from Russian Turkistan to the estuary of the Indus.).
5. Benjamin . Craig . Craig Benjamin . October 2003 . The Yuezhi Migration and Sogdia . Transoxiana Webfestschrift . Transoxiana . 1 . Ēran ud Anērān . 29 May 2015.
6. Web site: Zhang Qian . . . 29 May 2015 .
7. "They are, by almost unanimous opinion, Indo-Europeans, probably the most oriental of those who occupied the steppes." Roux, p.90
8. Book: Grousset, Rene . The Empire of the Steppes . registration . Rutgers University Press . 1970 . 0-8135-1304-9 . 32.