What was the consequence of conflict between Skandagupta and the White Hunas?
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The Hephthalites (Bactrian: ηβοδαλο, Ebodalo), sometimes called the White Huns,[7][8] were a people who lived in Central Asia during the 5th to 8th centuries. They existed as an empire and were militarily important between 450 to 560.[1] They were based in Bactria and expanded east to the Tarim Basin, west to Sogdia and south through Afghanistan, but they never went beyond the Hindu-Kush, which was occupied by the Alchon Huns.[9] They were a tribal confederation and included both nomadic and settled urban communities. They were part of the four major states known collectively as Xyon (Xionites) or Huna, being preceded by the Kidarites, and the Alkhon, and succeeded by the Nezak Huns and the First Turkic Khaganate. All of these Hunnic peoples have often been linked to the Huns who invaded Eastern Europe during the same period, and/or have been referred to as "Huns", but there is no consensus among scholars about such a connection.
Hephthalites
Empire: 440s–560[1]
Principalities until 710
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Tamga of the Hephthalites
The Hephthalites c. 500.
The Hephthalites c. 500.
Status
Nomadic empire
Capital
Kunduz (Walwalij, Drapsaka, or Badian)
Balkh (Pakhlo)
Common languages
Bactrian (official)[2]
Gandhari (Gandhara)
Sogdian (Sogdiana)
Chorasmian
Sanskrit
Turkic[2]
Religion
Buddhism[3]
Manichaeism[4]
Zoroastrianism[5]
Nestorian Christianity[6]
Historical era
Late Antiquity
• Established
Empire: 440s
• Disestablished
560[1]
Principalities until 710
Preceded by Succeeded by
Kushan Empire
Sassanid Empire
Gupta Empire
Kangju
Alchon Huns
Nezak Huns
Kabul Shahi
First Turkic Khaganate
Zunbils
Principality of Chaghaniyan
The stronghold of the Hephthalites was Tokharistan on the northern slopes of the Hindu Kush, in what is present-day northeastern Afghanistan. By 479, the Hephthalites had conquered Sogdia and driven the Kidarites eastwards, and by 493 they had captured parts of present-day Dzungaria and the Tarim Basin in what is now Northwest China. The Alchon Huns, formerly confused with the Hephthalites, expanded into Pakistan as well.[10]
The sources for Hephthalite history are poor and historians' opinions differ. There is no king-list and historians are not sure how they arose or what language they spoke. The Sveta Huna who invaded Pakistan are probably the Hephthalites, but the exact relation is not clear. They seem to have called themselves Ebodalo (ηβοδαλο, hence Hephthal), often abbreviated Eb (ηβ), a name they wrote in the Bactrian script on some of their coins.[11][12][13][14] The origin of the name "Hephthalites" is unknown, possibly from either a Khotanese word *Hitala meaning "Strong" or from postulated Middle Persian *haft āl "the Seven".[15]
Explanation:
Skandagupta
The Bhitari pillar inscription states that Skandagupta defeated the Hunas: (Skandagupta), "by whose two arms the earth was shaken, when he, the creator (of a disturbance like that) of a terrible whirlpool, joined in close conflict with the Hûnas; . . . . . .
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