Among Zoroastrian burial items, there is a camel-shaped zoomorphic OSTADON lying there. It was found…
On the whole, the history of Kushan statehood can be divided into two important periods, with Kanishka’s reign as the dividing line between them.
In the initial early period, traces of Hellenic influence were still present in many spheres of polity and culture; while the later, or second period saw a decisive rejection of Greek traditions and a transition to new trends inspired, taken broadly, by their triumphs in Asia, that is, the Bactrian and Indian traditions.
The now famous Rabatak inscription of King Kanishka, for example, states that: “And he (King Kanishka. – E.R.) *issued a Greek *edict (and) then he put it into Aryan” (in this case, means the Bactrian language. – E.R.). The same linguistic shift from Greek to Bactrian is evident on Kushan coins from the time of Kanishka onwards, in which the Greek inscription was replaced by a Bactrian legend.
In this part of the book, along with discussions of well-known issues regarding the history of the Kushan state, I shall give an overview mainly of data dealing with the modern Surkhan Darya region of Uzbekistan, an important part of Northern Bactria, which is linked with the spread of Kushan statehood into the region.
You can learn more about the topic in the book-album "Kushan Kingdom: Dynasties, State, People, Language, Writing System, Religions" (XXXVI volume) from the series "The Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan".
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