Khingila I

Khingila I
Khingila I
Ruler of the Alchon Huns
	Portrait of king Khingila c. 440 - 490 CE on one of his silver drachms. Bactrian script legend: χιγγιλο αλχοννο "Khiggilo Alchono", with Alchon tamgha symbol class=notpageimage\| Approximate location of Khingila's territory
Reign	440-490
Successor	Mehama
Born	c. 430; Central Asia
Died	c. 490

Khingila I (Persian: شنگل Shengil, Bactrian: χιγγιλο Khingilo, Middle Chinese: 金吉剌 Jinjila; c.430-490) was the founding king of the Hunnic Alkhan dynasty (Bactrian: αλχανο, Middle Chinese: 嚈噠). He was a contemporary of Khushnavaz (fl. 484).

Rule

In response to the migration of the Wusun (who were hard-pressed by the Rouran) from Zhetysu to the Pamir region (Chinese: 葱嶺), Khingila united the Uar (Chinese: 滑) and the Xionites (Chinese: 狁) in 460AD, establishing the Hepthalite dynasty.

According to the Syrian compilation of Church Historian Zacharias Rhetor (c. 465, Gaza – after 536), bishop of Mytilene, the need for new grazing land to replace that lost to the Wusun led Khingila's "Uar-Chionites" to displace the Sabirs to the west, who in turn displaced the Saragur, Ugor and Onogur, who then asked for an alliance and land from Byzantium.

In one of his coin types, Khingila uses the Brahmi script legend "Deva Shahi Khingila" ("God-King Khingila").^[3]

A Narendraditya Khinkhila, of the same ethnicity, is dated to the early 7th century CE.^[3]

Artifacts

Coin of younger Khingila, circa 440-490 CE.^[4]
Khingila with the word "Alchono" in Bactrian script (αλχονο) and the Tamgha symbol on his coins.^[5]^[6]
Later coinage, with name "Khingila" in the Brahmi script.
A coin of Khingila with the title Deva Shahi Khinghila "God-King Khingila", 440-490 CE.^[3]
The word "Alchono" (αλχοννο) in the Greco-Bactrian cursive script, on a coin of Khingila.^[7]
Alchon horseman, possibly Khingila, on the Hephthalite silver bowl.^[8]
"Khingila" in Brahmi script on his later coinage

References

^ This coin is in the collection of the British Museum. For equivalent coin, see CNG Coins
^ Rezakhani, Khodadad (2017). ReOrienting the Sasanians: East Iran in Late Antiquity. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 105–124. ISBN 9781474400305.
^ ^a ^b ^c Dhavalikar, M. K. (1971). "A Note on Two Gaṇeśa Statues from Afghanistan" (PDF). East and West. 21 (3/4): 331–336. ISSN 0012-8376.
^ CNG coins [1]
^ Rezakhani, Khodadad (2017). ReOrienting the Sasanians: East Iran in Late Antiquity. Edinburgh University Press. p. 199. ISBN 9781474400312.
^ CNG Coins
^ CNG Coins
^ Bakker, Hans T. The Alkhan: A Hunnic People in South Asia. Barkhuis. pp. 43–47. ISBN 978-94-93194-00-7.

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Preceded by Anonymous	Tegin of the Alchon Huns 430-461	Succeeded by Mehama

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[1] This coin is in the collection of the British Museum. For equivalent coin, see CNG Coins

[ROTS-2] Rezakhani, Khodadad (2017). ReOrienting the Sasanians: East Iran in Late Antiquity. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 105–124. ISBN 9781474400305.

[MKD-3] Dhavalikar, M. K. (1971). "A Note on Two Gaṇeśa Statues from Afghanistan" (PDF). East and West. 21 (3/4): 331–336. ISSN 0012-8376.

[4] CNG coins [1]

[5] Rezakhani, Khodadad (2017). ReOrienting the Sasanians: East Iran in Late Antiquity. Edinburgh University Press. p. 199. ISBN 9781474400312.

[6] CNG Coins

[7] CNG Coins

[HTB43-8] Bakker, Hans T. The Alkhan: A Hunnic People in South Asia. Barkhuis. pp. 43–47. ISBN 978-94-93194-00-7.

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