1. Introduction
2. History
3. Archaeology and Sources
4. Religion
5. Architecture
5.1. Buddhist Sculptures
5.2. Stone Palettes
5.3. Other known Facts
6. Gondophares I
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Topic – Indo-Parthians: Gondophernes (Notes)
Subject – History
(Ancient Indian History)
Table of Contents
Introduction
- Parthia is an ancient land corresponding roughly to the modern region of Khorāsān in Iran.
- The Parthians ruled from 247 BCE to 224 CE, creating a vast empire that stretched from the Mediterranean in the west to India and China in the east.
- East of the Caspian Sea there emerged from the steppe of Central Asia a nomadic Scythian tribe called the Parni.
- Later called the Parthians and taking over the Seleucid Empire and fending off the Romans, they established themselves as a superpower in their own right.
- The Parthian Empire was founded by Arsaces I of Parthia, when he rebelled against the Seleucid Empire
- The Parthian kingdom had its reach from Turkey to eastern Iran.
- The largest of these sub-kingdoms, the Indo Parthian kingdom, located west of the Parthian homeland, was founded in the late 1st century BC by the first of several kings named Gondophares, who was a Scythian (Saka) king
- Their first capital city was Taxila in present- day South Central Pakistan. Later they shifted their capital city between Kabul and Peshawar.
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