Tetradrachm of Kujula Kadphises (30–80 CE) in the style of Hermaeus.
Obv: Hermaios-style diademed bust. Corrupted Greek legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΤΗΡΟΣΣΥ ΕΡΜΑΙΟΥ ("Basileos Sterossy Hermaiou"): "King Hermaeus, the Saviour". Rev: Herakles standing with club and lion skin.
Kharoṣṭhī legend: KUJULA KASASA KUSHANA YAVUGASA DHARMATHIDASA "Kujula Kadphises ruler of the Kushans, steadfast in the Law ("Dharma"). British Museum.
Reign
30 CE – 80 CE
Predecessor
Heraios
Successor
Vima Takto
Died
80 CE
Dynasty
Kushan
Kujula Kadphises (Kushan language: Κοζουλου Καδφιζου, also Κοζολα Καδαφες; Kharosthi: 𐨐𐨂𐨗𐨂𐨫 𐨐𐨯, IAST: Ku-ju-la Ka-sa, Kujula Kasa;[1] Chinese: 丘就卻; pinyin: Qiūjiùquè; r. 30–80 CE, or 40–90 CE according to Bopearachchi[2]) was a Kushan prince who united the Yuezhi confederation in Bactria during the 1st century CE, and became the first Kushan emperor. According to the Rabatak inscription, he was the great grandfather of the great Kushan king Kanishka I. He is considered the founder of the Kushan Empire.[2]
^Gardner, Percy, The Coins of the Greek and Scythic Kings of Bactria and India in the British Museum, p. 120–122
^ abOsmund Bopearachchi, 2007, Some observations on the chronology of the early Kushans
time: KujulaKadphises as his great-grandfather, Vima Taktu as his grandfather, Vima Kadphises as his father, and himself Kanishka: "... for King Kujula Kadphises...
Gansu) and settled in ancient Bactria. The founder of the dynasty, KujulaKadphises, followed Greek cultural ideas and iconography after the Greco-Bactrian...
time: KujulaKadphises as his great-grandfather, Vima Taktu as his grandfather, Vima Kadphises as his father, and himself Kanishka: "for King Kujula Kadphises...
hundred years later, the xihou of Guishuang, named Qiujiu Que (Ch: 丘就卻, KujulaKadphises) attacked and exterminated the four other xihou. He set himself up...
his nominal successor KujulaKadphises. For example, numismatist Joe Cribb points out the similarity of coins minted by Kujula to those of a Greco-Bactrian...
10 BCE, or around the beginning of our era. The Kushan ruler Kudjula Kadphises does use something similar to the three-pellets mark of Kharahostes in...
Sakas, he suggests that KujulaKadphises' use of the obverse of Hermaeus coins with his own reverse should be seen as Kadphises adapting his coinage to...
time: KujulaKadphises as his great-grandfather, Vima Takto as his grandfather, Vima Kadphises as his father, and himself Kanishka: "... for King Kujula Kadphises...
division, KujulaKadphises of the Kushan tribe emerged victorious by destroying the other four Yuezhi tribes and consolidating his reign as king. Kujula then...
time: KujulaKadphises as his great-grandfather, Vima Taktu as his grandfather, Vima Kadphises as his father, and himself Kanishka: "for King Kujula Kadphises...
Sapadbizes. However, scholars surmise that his kingdom was conquered by KujulaKadphises, during the latter's war with Parthia, and absorbed into the Kushan...
denarius of Tiberius (14–37) found in India and Indian copy of the same, 1st-century coin of Kushan king KujulaKadphises copying a coin of Augustus....
Indo-Greeks, Indo-Scythian and Indo-Parthians successively. Kushan emperor KujulaKadphises defeated the Indo-Parthians and incorporated the region under the Kushan...
Yuezhi against the Chinese general Ban Chao. Even the Kushan Empire of KujulaKadphises sent an army to the Tarim Basin to support Kucha, but they retreated...
Bactrian inscription of Rabatak, with the Appendix on the name of KujulaKadphises and VimTatku in Chinese". Proceedings of the Third European Conference...
London area. The Yuezhi tribes are united under the Kushan leader KujulaKadphises, thus creating the Kushan Empire in Afghanistan and northern India...
Sassanids the province would become part of the area known as Khorasan. KujulaKadphises, the Guishuang xihou (or prince) of the Da Yuezhi, united the region...
The whole region came under Kushan control after the conquests of KujulaKadphises during the first century CE. Alexander turned south from Aornus and...
Bactrian inscription of Rabatak, with an Appendix on the names of KujulaKadphises and Vima Taktu in Chinese." Proceedings of the Third European Conference...
3rd century CE. Vima Kadphises in full dress on his coinage in the Greek language, 1st century CE Monumental statue of Vima Kadphises, 1st century CE Kushan...
as the Devaputra (son of god), son of maharaja rayatiraya Kujula Kataphsa (KujulaKadphises): "Maharaja rayatiraya Kuyula Kataphsaputra Sadashkano devaputra"...
numismatic hoard had found coins of Sasan togethor with smaller coins of KujulaKadphises It has also been discovered that Sasan overstruck the coins of Nahapana...
written in the language of Tamil and Telugu. Officially established by KujulaKadphises, the first Kushan emperor who united the Yuezhi tribes, the Kushan...
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