Pehlava Pahlava : people of Pārthian origin who came to India in the 1st cent. BC & established some kingdoms in northwest India in cooperation with the Śakas.
... natural than that the reciter should substitute for an old and now disused word the one which was familiar to his audience? Again much has been made of the frequent occurrence of Yavana, Vahlika, Pehlava, Saka, Huna. As to Yavana its connection 'Iάων with does not seem to me beyond doubt. It had certainly been at one time applied to the Bactrian Greeks, but so it has been and is to the present day ...
... करवालमुग्रं चीनावनौ पह्लवभूमिखण्डे ॥३६॥ Oppressing with one foot the invincible Himalaya, with the other the plains of Andhra and Paundra, he brandished a harsh sword over China and the land of the Pahlavas (Persia). खलं विशालं बलगर्वितं तं धर्मेण दृप्यन्तमधर्मबुद्धिम्। दृष्ट्वा त्वभूच्चित्तमिवाग्निकुण्डं क्रोधेन जज्वाल हि शाश्वतेन ॥३७॥ As I looked on him, huge and vile, inflated with the pride ...
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... Gautamīputra Sātakarni, who is said by his son to have been Śaka-Yavana-pahlava-nisūdana 1 "the destroyer of the Śakas, the Yavanas and the Pahlavas." What exactly is meant by the destruction of the Śakas we have already seen: "the extirpation of the Ksha-harata dynasty" to which the Śaka chief Nahapāna belonged. Who the Pahlavas were as a tribe in Gautamīputra's time we cannot say. They are not... significance and was used like Pahlava, Yavana, etc., of a body of foreign invaders of India." Allan, of course, was speaking of the Vāhlīkas against a background of the 4th century A.D. So his comparison with the Pahlavas and Yavanas cannot be pressed into our service. In our period - the 4th century B.C. - we have no proof of "a more general significance" for the names "Pahlava" and "Yavana". But his... speaks of Śaka invaders from the west of the Sindhu as "Shāhis" and their overlord as "Shāhānushāhi". 8 As for the title in another form than the Indian, Rapson 9 tells us about the Śaka and Pahlava rulers who preceded the Kushānas: "their normal style is 'Great King of Kings', a title which is distinctively Persian ; It has a long history from the Ksh ā yathiy ā n ā m Ksh ā yathiya ...
... Gautamīputra, the most famous of them, is praised in several inscriptions. 5 He is said to have totally uprooted the Kshaharāta dynasty and to have extirpated the Śakas together with the Yavanas and the Pahlavas and is also described as the lord of many countries, the unique Brāhmana, the one whose chargers drank the water of the three seas. Well might he have performed the one Rājasūya and the two Aśvamedha ...
... mention the Śakas 1. Ibid., pp. 179, 182. 2. Ibid., pp. 182, 201. 3. The Classical Age, p. 19. 4. The Age of Imperial Unity, p. 83. 5."The Śakas and the Pahlavas", ibid., p. 120. Page 22 (Scythians)..." The Kushānas, as again Sircar 1 writes, "were a branch of the famous Yuechi tribe whose early history is noticed in several Chinese historical ...
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