| 词条 | Tushaspha |
| 释义 |
| India | width = 300px | float = | border = | caption = Location of Girnar in India. | alt = | relief = yes | AlternativeMap = | overlay_image = | label = Girnar | label_size = | position = | background = | mark = | marksize = | link = | lat_deg = 21.5 | lon_deg = 70.5 }} Tushaspha was a "Yavanaraja" (Greek King or Governor) for Emperor Ashoka, in the area of Girnar, near Junagadh, in Gujarat, India.[1] He is only know from the Junagadh rock inscription of Rudradaman, in which the Western Satrap king Rudradaman, writing circa 150 CE, mentions his role in the construction of a local dam, in which he added a canal during the reign of Ashoka.[1] The part of the inscription mentioning him reads: {{quote|"(L.8) (The dam was) ordered to be made by the Vaishya Pushyagupta, the provincial governor of the Maurya king Chandragupta; adorned with conduits for Ashoka the Maurya by the Yavana king Tushaspha while governing; and by the conduit ordered to be made by him, constructed in a manner worthy of a king (and) seen in that breach, the extensive dam ..."|Junagadh rock inscription of Rudradaman[1][2]}} According to some authors, the name Tushuspha seems to be Persian rather than Greek.[3] Other authors however, consider that he was Greco-Bactrian, given his qualification as a "Yavana", the usual name for Greeks in the east.[4] Ashoka is known to have mentioned the presence of "Yavanas" in his kingdom in several of his Edicts of Ashoka: {{quote|"Here in the king's domain among the Greeks, the Kambojas, the Nabhakas, the Nabhapamkits, the Bhojas, the Pitinikas, the Andhras and the Palidas, everywhere people are following Beloved-Servant-of-the-Gods's instructions in Dhamma".|Rock Edict Nb13 (Translated by S. Dhammika)}}References1. ^Epigraphia Indica, Vol. VIII. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1905-6, 45-49 {{India-bio-stub}}2. ^"Junagadh Rock Inscription of Rudradaman", Project South Asia.{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090223182107/http://projectsouthasia.sdstate.edu/Docs/HISTORY/PRIMARYDOCS/EPIGRAPHY/JunagadhRockInscription.htm |date=23 February 2009 }} 3. ^1 2 A History of India, Hermann Kulke, Dietmar Rothermund, Routledge, 2016 [https://books.google.com/books?id=xYelDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT154 p.154] 4. ^Ashoka: The Search for India's Lost Emperor, Charles Allen, Hachette UK, 2012 [https://books.google.com/books?id=K4vHjbUtf_4C&pg=PT129 p.129] 2 : Indo-Greeks|3rd-century BC Greek people |
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