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[[Image:AzesIITriratna.jpg|thumb|300px|Silver coin of Vijayamitra in the name of [[Azes]]. Buddhist [[triratna]] symbol in the left field on the reverse.]] |
[[Image:AzesIITriratna.jpg|thumb|300px|Silver coin of Vijayamitra in the name of [[Azes]]. Buddhist [[triratna]] symbol in the left field on the reverse.]] |
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'''Vijayamitra''' was an [[Indo- |
'''Vijayamitra''' was an [[Indo-Scythian]] king of the [[Apraca]]s in modern [[Pakistan]]. He is mentioned in a recently discovered inscription in [[Kharoshthi]] on a [[Buddhist]] reliquary, which gives a relationship between several eras of the period: |
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:"In the twenty-seventh - 27 - year in the reign of Lord Vijayamitra, the King of the [[Apraca]]; in the seventy-third - 73 - year which is called "of Azes", in the two hundred and first - 201 - year of the Yonas (Greeks), on the eighth day of the month of Sravana; on this day was established [this] stupa by Rukhana, the wife of the King of Apraca, [and] by Vijayamitra, the king of Apraca, [and] by Indravarma (Indravasu?), the commander (stratega), [together] with their wives and sons."<ref>"Afghanistan, carrefour en l'Est et l'Ouest" p.373. Also Senior 2003</ref> |
:"In the twenty-seventh - 27 - year in the reign of Lord Vijayamitra, the King of the [[Apraca]]; in the seventy-third - 73 - year which is called "of Azes", in the two hundred and first - 201 - year of the Yonas (Greeks), on the eighth day of the month of Sravana; on this day was established [this] stupa by Rukhana, the wife of the King of Apraca, [and] by Vijayamitra, the king of Apraca, [and] by Indravarma (Indravasu?), the commander (stratega), [together] with their wives and sons."<ref>"Afghanistan, carrefour en l'Est et l'Ouest" p.373. Also Senior 2003</ref> |
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Revision as of 08:26, 28 August 2013
Vijayamitra was an Indo-Scythian king of the Apracas in modern Pakistan. He is mentioned in a recently discovered inscription in Kharoshthi on a Buddhist reliquary, which gives a relationship between several eras of the period:
- "In the twenty-seventh - 27 - year in the reign of Lord Vijayamitra, the King of the Apraca; in the seventy-third - 73 - year which is called "of Azes", in the two hundred and first - 201 - year of the Yonas (Greeks), on the eighth day of the month of Sravana; on this day was established [this] stupa by Rukhana, the wife of the King of Apraca, [and] by Vijayamitra, the king of Apraca, [and] by Indravarma (Indravasu?), the commander (stratega), [together] with their wives and sons."[1]
Notes
- ^ "Afghanistan, carrefour en l'Est et l'Ouest" p.373. Also Senior 2003