Kushan histories
Subtitle: literary sources and selected papers from a symposium at Berlin, December 5 to 7, 2013
By: edited by Harry Falk
Series: Monographien zur Indischen Archäologie, Kunst und Philologie -- Band 23; Monographien zur indischen Archäologie, Kunst und Philologie -- Bd. 23.
Publisher: Hempen Verlag
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Bremen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9783944312248
Subjects: Congresses; History; Kushans; Sources
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

English; contains texts in Chinese, Greek, Latin, Bactrian, Middle Persian, and Pahlavi, with English translations and commentary.
Table of contents: title: Primary sources and translations --; title: The texts.; title: Possible prehistory of the Yuezhi --; title: The three attacks of the Xiongnu on the Yuezhi --; title: The phase of the Yabghus --; title: Events in the time of Kujūla Kadphises --; title: Events in the time of Vema Takhtu alias Sōtēr megas --; title: Events in the time of Vima Kadphises --; title: Events in the time of Kaniṣka I --; title: Events in the time of Huviṣka --; title: Events in the time of Vā̄sudeva --; title: The time of Kaniṣ̣ka II --; title: Events in the time of Vaskuṣā̄ṇ̣a I --; title: The time of Vasiṣka --; title: The time of Kaniṣka III --; title: Iranian Dominance --; title: The smaller (group of) Yuezhi and the Kidarites --; title: The aftermath.; title: Papers.; title: Kushan power and the expansion of Buddhism beyond the Soleiman mountains  -- Gé́rard Fussman; title: Zoroastrianism among the Kushans  -- Frantz Grenet; title: A Kushan military camp near Bactra  -- Étienne de la Vaissiè̀re, Philippe Marquis & Julio Bendezu Sarmiento; title: A new Bactrian inscription from the time of Kanishka  -- Nicholas Sims-Williams; title: Kushan rule granted by Nana : the background of a heavenly legitimation -- Harry Falk.