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Rabatak inscription information


Rabatak Inscription
The Rabatak Inscription
Period/culture2nd century CE
Discovered36°08′58″N 68°24′15″E / 36.149434°N 68.404101°E / 36.149434; 68.404101
PlaceRabatak, Afghanistan
Present locationKabul Museum, Kabul, Afghanistan
Rabatak is located in Afghanistan
Rabatak
Rabatak

The Rabatak Inscription is a stone inscribed with text written in the Bactrian language and Greek script, found in 1993 at Rabatak, near Surkh Kotal in Afghanistan. The inscription relates to the rule of the Kushan emperor Kanishka, and gives remarkable clues on the genealogy of the Kushan dynasty. It dates to the 2nd century CE.

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Rabatak inscription

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The Rabatak Inscription is a stone inscribed with text written in the Bactrian language and Greek script, found in 1993 at Rabatak, near Surkh Kotal in...

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Kushan Empire

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閻膏珍 Yangaozhen) is mentioned in the Rabatak inscription (another son, Sadashkana, is mentioned in an inscription of Senavarman, the King of Odi). He was...

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Early Indian epigraphy

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CE), the Nasik cave inscriptions, the Rabatak inscription, the Allahabad Pillar inscription of Samudragupta, the Aihole inscription of Pulakesi II (634...

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Kanishka

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kings, known as the Rabatak inscription. The connection of Kanishka with other Kushan rulers is described in the Rabatak inscription as Kanishka makes the...

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Kujula Kadphises

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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...

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Vima Kadphises

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Kushan emperor from approximately 113 to 127 CE. According to the Rabatak inscription, he was the son of Vima Takto and the father of Kanishka. The connection...

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Bactrian language

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administrative purposes but soon began to use Bactrian. The Bactrian Rabatak inscription (discovered in 1993 and deciphered in 2000) records that the Kushan...

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Vima Takto

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legend "The King of Kings, Great Saviour", until the discovery of the Rabatak inscription helped connect his name with the title on the coins. Vima Takto's...

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Surkh Kotal

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Kotal inscription, which revealed part of the chronology of early Kushan emperors (also called Great Gara) were all found there. The Rabatak inscription which...

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Western Satraps

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Castana may have been a feudatory of the Kushans. Conversely, the Rabatak inscription also claims Kushan dominion over Western Satrap territory (by mentioning...

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Yaudheya

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the Kushans expanded into Yaudheya territory. In Kanishka's rock Rabatak inscription, he describes campaigning into "the realm of the kshatriyas" in India...

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Kundina

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ancient Indian city, named as part of Kanishka's territory in the Rabatak inscription. It is thought that is it the locality of Kaundinyapura on the Wardha...

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Robatak

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Robatak or Rabatak (Persian: رباطك) may refer to: Robatak, Afghanistan Robatak, Fars, Iran Rabatak inscription, a Bactrian inscription found in Robatak...

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National Museum of Afghanistan

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known to have survived the turbulent period in the 1990s is the Rabatak Inscription of King Kanishka. The museum has been the repository for many of...

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List of languages by first written account

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the first attestation of certain languages. It also does not include inscriptions consisting of isolated words or names from a language. In most cases...

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Aryan

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Ir (adj. Iron), spelled Irä or Erä in the Digorian dialect. The Rabatak inscription, written in the Bactrian language in the 2nd century CE, likewise...

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Afghanistan

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of Mithra. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-879253-6. The Rabatak inscription includes Miiro amongst a list of gods: Nana, Ahura Mazda, and Narasa...

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Kushan Pass

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majestic fortified dynastic temple of Surkh Kotal and Rabatak where the fascinating Rabatak inscription listing the names of the early Kushan kings, and providing...

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Rupiamma

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discovered Rabatak inscription, Kushan dominions expanded into the heartland of northern India in the early 2nd century CE. Lines 4 to 7 of the inscription describe...

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History of India

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century CE. Udayagiri and Khandagiri Caves is home to the Hathigumpha inscription, which was inscribed under Kharavela, the then Emperor of Kalinga of...

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History of Afghanistan

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including in the northern Samangan Province. Aramaic Inscription of Laghman is an inscription on a slab of natural rock in the area of Laghmân, Afghanistan...

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Joe Cribb

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early Kushan kings: new evidence for chronology – Evidence from the Rabatak inscription of Kanishka I', in M. Alram and D.E. Klimburg-Salter (eds) Coins...

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Iranian peoples

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The Bactrian (a Middle Iranian language) inscription of Kanishka (the founder of the Kushan Empire) at Rabatak, which was discovered in 1993 in an unexcavated...

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Vasudeva I

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Sims-Williams, Nicholas (1998). "Further notes on the Bactrian inscription of Rabatak, with an Appendix on the names of Kujula Kadphises and Vima Taktu...

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