Kushan Definition

pronoun

(history) Conventional name of an ancient Indo-Scythian or Tocharian realm in Central Asia and Northern India.

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Alternative name for Bactrian language being used by some scholars.

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noun
(history) Conventional name of a member of the dynasty that founded and ruled the Kushan realm.
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adjective
(history) Of or pertaining to the Kushans or the Kushan realm.
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Noun

Singular:
kushan
Plural:
kushans

Origin of Kushan

  • Epigraphic (Bactrian in Greek script) ΚΟϷΑΝ košan, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Guṣāṇa, Parthian kšn, ultimately from Chinese 貴霜 guì shuāng. The conventional name Kushan and the proposed connection with the Chinese term is due to Alexander Cunningham's Coins of the Indo-Scythians, Sakas & Kushans (1899).

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Kushan Sentence Examples

  • In the 3rd century the Kushan dynasty began to decay; about A.D.

  • Another native empire, known as Gupta, rose on the ruins of the Kushan kingdom, and embraced nearly the whole peninsula, but it broke up in the 5th century, partly owing to the attacks of new northern invaders, the Huns.

  • Many of his coins bear the Nandi bull (Siva's emblem), and the king's name is preceded by the title sahi (shah), which had previously been used by the Kushan dynasty.

  • Further, it is probably in the mixture of Greek, Persian and Indian deities which characterizes the pantheon of the Kushan kings that are to be sought many of the features found in Mahayanist Buddhism and Hinduism (as distinguished from the earlier Brahmanism).

  • This Persian title became in later times the special designation of the Kushan kings and is curiously parallel to the use of Arabic and Persian titles (padishah, sultan, &c.) by the Ottoman Turks.

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Words Starting With

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NANHAN

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