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 END OF THE KUSHAN RULE 245 the fourth century one of them gave a daughter in marriage to Hormazd II, the Sasanian King of Persia, and when Sapor n besieged A mi da, in 360 A. D., his victory over the Roman garrison was won with the aid of Indian ele- phants and Kushan troops under the com- mand of their aged king, Grumbates, who occupied the place of honour and was supported by the Sakas of Sistan. It is difficult to judge how far the foreign chiefs who ruled the Pan jab during the third century and struck coins similar to those of Vasudeva, yet with a difference, were Kushans, and how far they belonged to other Asiatic tribes. The mar- ginal legends of the coins of this class, which are written in a modified Greek script, preserve the name either of Kanishka or Vasu[deva] Kushan, King of Kings, and so rec- INI>IAH PALMS.