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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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[[File:Apracharajas Vijayamitra.jpg|thumb|300px|Apracaraja Vijayamitra.]] |
[[File:Apracharajas Vijayamitra.jpg|thumb|300px|Apracaraja Vijayamitra.]] |
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| Indo-Scythian king | |
 Vijayamitra riding in armour, holding a whip. Like many other Indo-Scythians, Vijayamitra did not issue portraits. | |
| Reign | c. 12 BCE - 20 CE |
Vijayamitra (ruled 12 BCE - 20 CE) was an Indo-Scythian king of the Apracas in Bajaur, western Pakistan. He is mentioned in a recently discovered inscription in Kharoshthi on a Buddhist reliquary (the "Rukhana reliquary",[1] published by Salomon in 2005), which gives a relationship between several eras of the period, and especially gives confirmation of a Yavana era in relation to the Azes era:
- "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."[2][3]
This dedication indicates that King Vijayamitra was a follower of Buddhism. His coins also bear the triratna Buddhist symbol.
Since Vijamitra is said to have ruled 27 years already, as the inscription is dated to 16 CE (Year 73 of the Azes era and 201 of the Yavana era), his reign started in 12 BCE, and ended probably a few years after the dedication took place, around 20 CE.
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References
- Senior, R.C. (2006). Indo-Scythian coins and history. Volume IV. Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. ISBN 0-9709268-6-3.
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