Yudhishthira has been proposed as the last

Alchon Hun The Alchon Huns, ( Bactrian: αλχον(ν)ο ''Alchon(n)o'') also known as the Alchono, Alxon, Alkhon, Alkhan, Alakhana and Walxon, were a nomadic people who established states in Central Asia and South Asia during the 4th and 6th centuries CE. ...

ruler of

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, according to a reconstruction made by Atreyi Biswas. The tentative identification has been made from the lists of Huna kings given in the ''

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'' and the ''

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''. The name of Yudhishthira I is mentioned twice in the first and third book of ''Rajatarangini'', and Biswas assumes both to be the same. The ''Rajatarangini'' describes him as the son of a ruler named Narendraditya Khinkhila, who has been identified with the historically known

ruler

Narendraditya Khinkhila Toramana II (Gupta script: ''Sri, Śrī Toramāṇa'', "Lord Toramana") was a ruler of the Alchon Huns in the 6th century CE. Confrontation with the Nezaks Around the middle of the 6th century CE, the Alchon Huns, Alchons, after having extensi ...

(597-633). According to this identification, Yudhishthira I would have succeeded his father circa 633 and went on to rule for 40 years until c. 670 CE (or for 24 years until c. 657 CE), before being dethroned by Pratapaditya of the Karkota dynasty. Yudhishtira is said to have been nicknamed "Andha-Yudhishthira" because he had small eyes. According to

Kalhana Kalhana ( sa, कल्हण, translit=kalhaṇa) was the author of ''Rajatarangini'' (''River of Kings''), an account of the history of Kashmir. He wrote the work in Sanskrit between 1148 and 1149. All information regarding his life has to be d ...

, Yudhishthira was the last great Huna ruler, but he still had a line of successors who were subordinate rulers in Kashmir. With the final reign of Yudhishthira and the end of Huna independent rule, new polities arose, such as the

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in the areas of

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and

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circa 666 CE. Alternatively,

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proposes that Yudhishthira was the son of an earlier Alchon Hun king named

Khingila Khingila I ( Bactrian: χιγγιλο ''Khingilo'', Brahmi script: ''Khi-ṇgi-la'', Middle Chinese: 金吉剌 ''Jīnjílà'', Persian: شنگل ''Shengel''; c.430-490) was the founding king of the Hunnic Alkhan dynasty ( Bactrian: αλχανο ...

, which would date him after the end of the 4th century CE. There does not exist any direct historical evidence of Yudhishthira I.

References

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