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Indravasu (Kharosthi: 𐨀𐨁𐨎𐨡𐨿𐨪𐨬𐨯𐨂) was an Apracharaja ruling in Gandhara with his capital in Bajaur of modern Pakistan. He succeeded the previous Apracharaja, Vijayamitra in 32 CE.

Rukhana reliquary

He is mentioned in a recently discovered inscription in Kharoshthi on a Buddhist reliquary (the "Rukhana reliquary", published by Salomon in 2005), which gives a relationship between several eras of the period, and especially gives confirmation of a Yavana era in relation to the Azes era. He was the son of king Vijayamitra.

In the twenty-seventh year in the reign of Lord Vijayamitra, the King of the Apraca; in the seventy-third year which is called "of Azes", in the two hundred and first year of the Yonas (Greeks), on the eighth day of the month of Sravana; on this day was established stupa by Rukhana, the wife of the King of Apraca, by Vijayamitra, the king of Apraca, by Indravarma (Indravasu?), the commander (stratega), with their wives and sons.

Silver Buddhist reliquary of Prince Indravarma

He is also mentioned as king of the Apracas on another inscription:

Prince Indravarma, son of Commander Vispavarma, together with his wife establishes these bodily relics in his own stupa. Commander Vispavarma and Sisirena, the wife of the Commander, are (hereby) honored. Indravasu, king of Apraca, and his wife Vasumitra, who is the mother of a living son, are (hereby) honored"

— Opening inscription in Gāndhārī Prakrit on the Silver Buddhist reliquary of Prince Indravarma.

Notes

1. Richard Salomon, An Inscribed Silver Buddhist Reliquary of the Time of King Kharaosta and Prince Indravarman, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 116, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1996), pp. 418-452
2. "Afghanistan, carrefour en l'Est et l'Ouest" p.373. Also Senior 2003
3. Des Indo-Grecs aux Sassanides, Rika Gyselen, Peeters Publishers, 2007, p.103
4. The World's Writing Systems, Peter T. Daniels, William Bright, Oxford University Press, 1996, p.382

References

• Baums, Stefan. 2012. “Catalog and Revised Texts and Translations of Gandharan Reliquary Inscriptions.” In: David Jongeward, Elizabeth Errington, Richard Salomon and Stefan Baums, Gandharan Buddhist Reliquaries, p. 212–213, 233–234, Seattle: Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project (Gandharan Studies, Volume 1).
• Baums, Stefan, and Andrew Glass. 2002– . Catalog of Gāndhārī Texts, nos. CKI 241 and CKI 405
• Senior, R.C. (2006). Indo-Scythian coins and history. Volume IV. Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. ISBN 978-0-9709268-6-9.

• Kings of Gandhara
• Indo-Scythian kings
• 1st-century BC Iranian monarchs
• 1st-century monarchs in Asia