KUSHAN . VASUDEVA I - LAST of the`GREAT KUSHANS` GOLD! Start Price USD 0.99 Current Price USD 510.00 Time Left - Bid Count 21 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, October 04, 2008 End Time Saturday, October 11, 2008 Location Vienna See more about 'KUSHAN . VASUDEVA I - LAST of the`GREAT KUSHANS` GOLD!' Description                              Kushan king of India. Vasudeva I, circa 192-225 AD. Gold Dinar ( 7.94 gm.; 20 mm.).                        Obv.: Vasudeva in tall helmet, holding a scepter, and making an offering over an altar. Legend in Kushan language and Greek script (with the Kushan letter  "sh"):  ΑΟΝΑΝΟ ΑΟ ΒΑΖΟΔΗΟ ΚΟ ΑΝΟ ("Shaonanoshao Bazodeo Koshano"): "King of kings, Vasudeva the Kushan".          Rev.: Oesho, a conflation of Zoroastrian Vayuand Hindu Shiva, holding a trisula scepter, with the bull Nandi. Monogram (tamgha) to the left.          Göbl, Kushan 509.                                                                                         The Kushan Empire. The Kushan Empire (c. 1st–3rd centuries) was a state that at its height, about 105–250, stretched from Tajikistan to the Caspian Sea to Afghanistan and down into the Ganges river valley in northern India. The empire was created by the Kushan tribe of the Yuezhi, a people from modern Xinjiang, China, possibly related to the Tocharians. They had diplomatic contacts with Rome, Sassanian Persia and China, and for several centuries were at the center of exchange between the East and the West.                                                                                                                                                                                                  Head of a Kushan prince. Vasudeva I was a Hindu emperor, last of the "Great Kushans." Named inscriptions dating from year 64 to 98 of Kanishka`s era suggest his reign extended from at least 191 to 225 CE. The last named inscription of his predecessor, Huvishka, was in the year 60 = 187 CE, and the Chinese evidence suggests he was still ruling as late as 330 CE. He was the last great Kushan emperor, and the end of his rule coincides with the invasion of the Sassanians as far as northwestern India, and the establishment of the Indo-Sassanians or Kushanshahahs from around 240 CE. His name,  Vasudeva, is that of the father of Krisna, the popular Hindu god, and he was the first Kushan king to be named after an Indian god. He converted to Hinduism during his reign.                                                                                                                 Shiva.Shiva is one of the principal deties of Hinduism. Within Shaivism  he is viewed as the Supreme deity, whereas in other branches of Hinduism such as the  Smartatradition he is worshipped as one of the six manifestations of the Divine. Followers of Hinduism who focus their worship upon Shiva are called Shaivites or Shaivas (Sanskrit Śaiva). His role as the primary deity of Shaivism is reflected in his epithets Mahādeva ("great god"; mahā = great + deva = god), Maheśhvara ("great lord"; mahā = great + īśhvara = lord), and Parameshvara ("Supreme Lord"). Shaivism, along with Vaiṣṇava traditions that focus on Vishnu, and Śākta traditions that focus on the goddess (Devī) are three of the most influential denominations in Hinduism. Shiva is one of the six primary forms of the Divine in Smartism, a denomination of Hinduism that puts particular emphasis on six deities, the other five being Vishnu, Shakti, Ganesha, Karrtikkeya and Surya. Another way of thinking about the divinities in Hinduism identifies Brahme, Vishnu, and Shiva as each representing one of the three primary aspects of the divine in Hinduism, known collectively as the Trimurti.. In the Trimurti system, Brahma is the creator, Vishnu is the maintainer or preserver, and Shiva is the destroyer or transformer.                                                                                                                                                                        Every item offered by VIVITE LAETI is unconditionally guaranteed to be genuine & authentic. Place a Bid!