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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 [1][2]
Khingila I is located in West and Central Asia
Khingila I
Approximate location of Khingila's territory
Reign440-490
SuccessorMehama
Bornc. 430
Central Asia
Diedc. 490

Khingila I (Bactrian: Khi-ṇgi-la, Bactrian: χιγγιλο Khingilo, Middle Chinese: 金吉剌 Jīnjílá, Persian: شنگل Shengil; 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).

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In response to the migration of the Wusun (who were hard-pressed by the Rouran) from Zhetysu to the Pamir region, Khingila united the Uar and the Xionites 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 his coin in the Brahmi script, Khingila uses the 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

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References

  1. ^ This coin is in the collection of the British Museum. For equivalent coin, see CNG Coins
  2. ^ Rezakhani, Khodadad (2017). ReOrienting the Sasanians: East Iran in Late Antiquity. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 105–124. ISBN 9781474400305.
  3. ^ 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.
  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
  8. ^ Bakker, Hans T. The Alkhan: A Hunnic People in South Asia. Barkhuis. pp. 43–47. ISBN 978-94-93194-00-7.
Preceded by
Anonymous
Tegin of the Alchon Huns
430-461
Succeeded by