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Gondophares became the ruler of areas comprising Arachosia, Seistan, Sindh, Punjab, and the Kabul valley, but it does not seem as though he held territory beyond eastern Punjab.
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After a short reign, Sarpedones seems to have been succeeded by Orthagnes, who became Gondophares III Gadana.
After 20 AD, a king named Sases, a nephew of the Apracaraja ruler Aspavarma, took over Abdagases ’ territories and became Gondophares IV Sases.
Gondophares and ruler
Gondophares I originally seems to have been a ruler of Seistan in eastern Iran, probably a vassal or relative of the Apracarajas.
B. N. Puri, of the Department of Ancient Indian History and Archaeology, University of Lucknow, India, also identified Gondophares with the ruler said to have been converted by Saint Thomas the Apostle.
Gondophares and Seistan
The most important successor was Abdagases, Gondophares ’ nephew, who ruled in Punjab and possibly in the homeland of Seistan.
Gondophares and Sindh
Gondophares I took over the Kabul valley and the Punjab and Sindh region area from the Indo-Scythian king Azes.
Gondophares and seem
In reality, a number of vassal rulers seem to have switched allegiance from the Indo-Scythians to Gondophares I.
Gondophares and held
The Ksaharatas also held sway in Gujerat, perhaps just outside Gondophares ' dominions.
Recent research has however shown unambiguously that " Gondophares " was a title held by many kings ; none of the ancient inscriptions or sources could be specifically connected with the first Gondophares, and numismatic indications strongly suggest that Gondophares I was earlier than these events.
Gondophares and .
Following the decline of the central Parthian authority after clashes with the Roman Empire, a local Parthian leader, Gondophares established the Indo-Parthian Kingdom in the 1st century CE.
* Gondophares becomes king of the Saces.
The Indo-Parthian Kingdom was founded by Gondophares around 20 BCE when he declared his Independence from the Parthians.
As it turned out however, " Gondophares " ( Old Persian: Vindafarna ) was actually a byname of several kings, meaning " May he find glory "; According to modern chronologists, the king most likely referred to by Thomas was Gondophares IV Sases.
Christian records claim that around AD 40 Thomas the Apostle visited India and encountered the Indo-Parthian king Gondophares.
These kings have traditionally been referred to as Indo-Parthians, as their coinage was often inspired by the Arsacid dynasty, but they probably belonged to a wider groups of Iranian tribes who lived east of Parthia proper, and there is no evidence that all the kings who assumed the title Gondophares, which means ” Holder of Glory ”, were even related.
Portrait of Gondophares, founder of the Indo-Parthian kingdom.
Gondophares called himself " King of Kings ", a Parthian title that in his case correctly reflects that the Indo-Parthian empire was only a loose framework: a number of smaller dynasts certainly maintained their positions during the Indo-Parthian period, likely in exchange for their recognition of Gondophares and his successors.
After the death of Gondophares I, the empire started to fragment.
The name or title Gondophares was adapted by Sarpedones, who become Gondophares II and was possibly son of the first Gondophares.
According to Senior, this is the Gondophares referred to in the Takht-i-Bahi inscription.
But the Indo-Parthians never regained the position of Gondophares I, and from the middle of the 1st century AD the Kushans under Kujula Kadphises began absorbing the northern Indian part of the kingdom.
Some ancient writing describe the presence of the Indo-Parthians in the area, such as the story of Saint Thomas the Apostle, who was recruited as a carpenter to serve at the court of king " Gudnaphar " ( thought to be Gondophares ) in India.
As Senior points out, this Gudnaphar has usually been identified with the first Gondophares, who has thus been dated after the advent of Christianity, but there is no evidence for this assumption, and Senior ’ s research shows that Gondophares I could be dated even before 1 AD.
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